The Influence of the Iraqi Crisis on the Foreign and Security Policy of the Slovak Republic and on Relations with the United States of America
The Influence of the Iraqi Crisis on the Foreign and Security Policy of the Slovak Republic and on Relations with the United States of America

Summary/Abstract: The Iraqi crisis was the most important factor essentially determining the shape of the global security environment, international relations, relations between key players in the global securi-ty environment as well as their relations with further state and non-state players in 2003. At the same time, this crisis significantly contributed to the discourse on foreign and security policy in individual states. The Iraqi crisis can also be considered as an impulse initiating certain changes in the development of the European Security and Defense Policy (ESDP) on one hand, and Trans-Atlantic relations on the other. Moreover, it can be stated that some key breakthroughs of these processes were initiated de facto by issues related to the Iraqi crisis. For example, the Meeting of the Heads of State and Government of Germany, France, Luxembourg and Belgium on 29 April 2003 in Brussels can be judged as a response to the so-called ESDP crisis or transatlantic relations crisis.

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