Die Visegrád-Staaten auf der Suche nach ihrem eigenen Weg : Analyse der Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik Polens, Tschechiens, Ungarns und der Slowakei
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description: The following study examines the foreign and security policy of the countries of the Visegrád Group that was established in 1991. The Group consists of four central European countries: Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary. As a collaborative group, these countries drafted three fundamental foreign and security policy priorities, to be attained both individually and jointly: the primacy of security, the primacy of co-determination and the primacy of solidarity. There assumed striking similarity between the Visegrád countries regarding the political identity, has been understood as one of the most important aspect any of closer and promising successful political cooperation. Given this formation, this study seeks to determine whether there has been a convergence among the individual states’ interests and priorities and how or to what extent this transformation in foreign and security policy priorities has occurred. The analysis builds upon the presumption that identity as well as foreign and security policy culture represent a reference of orientation for individual state action and conduct. It further seeks to identify exogenous and endogenous factors for state actions in the area of foreign and security policy as well as analyze potential cooperation and how such cooperation has actually come to fruition. The analysis is constructed chronologically (1999-2009). The study has a dually constructed methodological basis: a systematic and empirical-analytical approach. This approach is particularly necessary given the thematic variance and complexity of the issues at hand. An actor-centred approach has been chosen, which is grounded in the functional logic of the respective political systems and the analysis is embedded in the theoretical framework basis of the theories of the International Relations (neorealism, neoliberalism and social constructivism). Analysis of the identity of the each country of the Visegrád Group as well as an examination of foreign and se…
abstract: The following study examines the foreign and security policy of the countries of the Visegrád Group that was established in 1991. The Group consists of four central European countries: Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary. As a collaborative group, these countries drafted three fundamental foreign and security policy priorities, to be attained both individually and jointly: the primacy of security, the primacy of co-determination and the primacy of solidarity. There assumed striking similarity between the Visegrád countries regarding the political identity, has been understood as one of the most important aspect any of closer and promising successful political cooperation. Given this formation, this study seeks to determine whether there has been a convergence among the individual states’ interests and priorities and how or to what extent this transformation in foreign and security policy priorities has occurred. The analysis builds upon the presumption that identity as well as foreign and security policy culture represent a reference of orientation for individual state action and conduct. It further seeks to identify exogenous and endogenous factors for state actions in the area of foreign and security policy as well as analyze potential cooperation and how such cooperation has actually come to fruition. The analysis is constructed chronologically (1999-2009). The study has a dually constructed methodological basis: a systematic and empirical-analytical approach. This approach is particularly necessary given the thematic variance and complexity of the issues at hand. An actor-centred approach has been chosen, which is grounded in the functional logic of the respective political systems and the analysis is embedded in the theoretical framework basis of the theories of the International Relations (neorealism, neoliberalism and social constructivism). Analysis of the identity of the each country of the Visegrád Group as well as an examination of foreign and se…
author: Marek, Norbert
language: ger
keywords: info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/320, Außenpolitik, Sicherheitspolitik, Gemeinsame Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik, Visegrád-Staaten, Europäische Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik, NATO, Politik, foreign policy, security policy, Visegrád Group
date published: 2011
date modified: 2026-07-30T19:43:35Z
provider: RWTH Aachen University
publisher: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
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source organization: Publikationsserver der RWTH Aachen University