The double postsocialist State- and Nation-Building : Foreign Policy Identity of Czechoslovakia (1989-1992) and their successor states Czech/Slovak Republic
Abstract
The study deals with the question of how, in the case of Czechoslovakia and its successor states, the Czech/Slovak Republic, the constructions of national or nation-state identity (and a domestic policy based on this) are connected with concrete foreign policy ideas, concepts and practices. The author examines the effects of the democratic upheaval of 1989 on the foreign policy identity of the "new" democratic Czechoslovakia, which, however, was peacefully divided into two successor states after only three years (on January 1, 1993).
His analysis focuses on the foreign policy concepts and practices of the Czech Republic and Slovakia that have been adapted to the new situation, but above all their difficult self-positioning in the process of European integration.