Geografski i geopolitički aspekti suvremenih problema Čehoslovačke
Geographical and Geopolitical Aspects of the Contemporary Problems of the Czecho-Slovakian Republic

Summary/Abstract: In his essay the author considers some internal questions of the Czecho-Slovakian Republic as well as some aspects of relations towards the East and the West. To understand these questions one has to know many economic-geographical and geopolitical and geopolitical factors among which of greater importance arc as follows: 1) Territorial formation and characteristics of the CSSR, stability of the border lines and regions of the core, as one of essential territorial aspects of the Czecho-Slovakian stateness; there has been also emphasized the importance of territorial changes after World War I., i. e. the formation and disintegration of the Czecho-Slovakian state space; then some natural characteristics and typology of the Czccho-Slovakian boundaries have been also mentioned. 2) Special attention has been paid to the knot geographical position of the Czecho-Slovakian Republic in Europe and to corresponding geopolitical and geostrategic aspects in relation to the bloc separation of Europe between the NATO pact and the Warsaw Treaty. Beside contemporary aspects there have been also taken into consideration some historical aspects of the importance of geographical anti geopolitical position its peripheral character, the formation of surroundings, of the middle and concentrated Moravian corridor, the role of direct boundary contacts, ate. In the contemporary situation there have been taken into consideration: the importance of the CSSR in relation to the depth of the war field, possible territorial separation in the bloc system, central position which out of the space of the Czech fortress controls also southern operatic directions, the p The author pays definite attention also to those ethnical characteristics of the former and contemporary CSSR, which also contain geopolitical aspects - they are: ethnical differences of population, the border distribution of minorities, newer emigrations, etc. 3) There have been specially emphasized inherited differences of the Czech countries and Slovakians as well as reasons for new affirmation of Slovakians which reasons have finally brought them into the position of equality of rights problem of the continental isolation, the form of the state territory, and the like.

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