The present study explores discursive constructions of us-and them-groups within the
context of the debates on the placement of the US anti-ballistic missile defence system in …

A systematic critical survey of American strategic thinking and the strategic culture in which it
is formed. In particular, this book seeks to interrogate the theory and strategy of nuclear …

One of the central debates in contemporary international relations scholarship concerns the
issue of whether balancing has occurred in response to US-based unipolarity, and if it has …

How do smaller member states promote their interests in EU foreign policy and external
relations? EU membership can be seen to affect member states' foreign policy in two ways …

This volume in the Weapons of Mass Destruction series makes the case that the United
States' expansive missile defence policy has eroded both its own security and that of its …

Studies on foreign policy think tanks have too often remained disconnected from the
analysis of foreign policy outcomes. Yet, investigating the development, functions and …

The article presents sketches of a systemic assessment of the foreign policies of the four
Visegrad countries. Its ambition is to move beyond the superficiality of merely recounting …

This chapter focuses on the conditions of possibility that enabled the rise of the 'hybrid
warfare'(HW) discourse in Czechia after 2014. We show that it emerged following a series of …

In 2015, the Government coalition of Česká strana sociálně-demokratická (ČSDD),
Křesťanská a demokratická unie–Československá strana lidová (KDU-ČSL) and the …

This article attempts to explain the Czech Republic's geopolitical vacillation between the
West and East over the past three and half decades. We tie this behavior, where one …