The Czech Republic in the European Defence Agency: the question of effectiveness
The Czech Republic in the European Defence Agency: the question of effectiveness

Summary/Abstract: At a general level, the article focuses on the relation between states andinternational organizations. In current era, states and international organizations coexist ininternational system. Their relation has been researched many times, but the question whichis still rather unanswered relates to the management of membership of states in internationalorganizations. The states nowadays participate in hundreds of different organizations. Thetricky part that remains to be examined more in details is how to analyse the effectiveness ofthe engagement of a country in a concrete international organization. The article investigatesfurther the case of the Czech Republic and it analyses its performance and relevance inthe European Defence Agency (EDA) applying the research design which was proposedin 20122. The team of researchers proposed four criteria: objective pursued, personalrepresentation, cost/performance ratio and activities implemented. The analysis is basedon the examination of the Czech policy goals and priorities in the EDA. It also explor esthe area in more details conducting semi-structured interviews with the representatives ofdifferent Czech state bodies and employees of the Agency.

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