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Nemecký multilateralismus a vztahy k státům visegrádské skupiny
German Multilateralism and Realations among the Visegrad Group Countries

Author(s): Vladimír Handl
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Ústav mezinárodních vztahů
Keywords: German international relations; the Visegrad group; the Visehrad group;

Summary/Abstract: German policy has experienced dynamic development and significant elements of change since the country’s unification, mainly in the area of security and integration policy. However, German policy has been still defined to a great extent by its internal “institutional pluralism”(Bulmer, Paterson, Jeffery). The “pragmatization” of German integration policy (Schmalz) does not mean rejection of principal orientation on multilateralism. German policy towards the Visegrad group countries (the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia) has focused mainly on normalisation of mutual relations and their gradual multilateralisation.

  • Issue Year: 38/2003
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 05-27
  • Page Count: 23
  • Language: Czech