Czech Security Dilemma: Russia as a Friend or Enemy?

ISBN-13: 9783030205485 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 235 str.

Jan Holzer; Miroslav Mares

Spis treści

1. Chapter 1 Russia as a Czech Security Enigma: Introductory Remarks

Jan Holzer and Miroslav Mareš

2. Chapter 2 The Hybrid Campaign Concept and Contemporary Czech-Russian Relations 

Miroslav Mareš, Jan Holzer and Tomáš Šmíd

3. Chapter 3: Russia as Viewed by the Main Czech Political Actors

Jan Holzer, Martin Jirušek and Petra Kuchyňková

4. Chapter 4: The Big Partner with a Small Turnover: Czech-Russian Economic Relations and their Dynamics

Lucie Coufalová and Libor Žídek

5. Chapter 5: Business as usual or geopolitical games? Russian activities in energy sector of the Czech Republic

Martin Jirušek, Petra Kuchyňková, Tomáš Vlček

6. Chapter 6: The Russian and North Caucasus Diaspora in the Czech Republic:

Between Loyalty, Crime and Extremism

Miroslav Mareš and Tomáš Šmíd

7. Chapter 7: Slavonic Brothers? Current Language, Literature and Cultural Interaction between Russia and the Czech Republic in Light of the Security Issue

Jiří Gazda and Josef Šaur

8. Chapter 8: Czech Images of Russian History as a Societal Security Issue

Pavel Boček, Jan Holzer and Radomír Vlček

9. Chapter 9: In the shadow of Russia: the Czech Republic as a small Central European state

Jan Holzer and Miroslav Mareš 

O autorze

Jan Holzer is Professor of Political Science and Principal Researcher in the International Institute of Political Science at Masaryk University, Czech Republic.

Miroslav Mareš is Professor of Political Science and Principal Researcher in the International Institute of Political Science at Masaryk University, Czech Republic.

Blurb

This volume examines the future directions of Czech international policy through an interdisciplinary analysis of both historical and current Russian-Czech relations. It analyses Czech relations with Russia based on their historical heritage underpinned by the superpower’s behaviour and interests in the Central European region. The book’s central theme is the current Czech security dilemma in which the Czech political community perceives Russia as a security threat, but also would prefer to cooperate with Russia to ensure its security. The authors give a full overview and explanation of Czech-Russian relations, while also explaining the current dilemmas within the Czech Republic’s political, cultural and economic community.

Jan Holzer is Professor of Political Science and Principal Researcher in the International Institute of Political Science at Masaryk University, Czech Republic.

Miroslav Mareš is Professor of Political Science and Principal Researcher in the International Institute of Political Science at Masaryk University, Czech Republic.