Państwa Grupy Wyszehradzkiej: pomiędzy przeszłością a teraźniejszością. Wybrane aspekty polityki wewnętrznej i zagranicznej
Visegrad Group States: Between The Past And The Present Selected Issues of Internal and Foreign Policy

Author(s): Anna Czyż, Sebastian Kubas
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Political Theory
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: foreign policy; Visegrad Group States
Summary/Abstract: The book is an attempt to systematize the understanding of processes, which have been occurring inthe past decades in four Central European states – Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary.The monograph has been divided into four chapters, encompassing selected issues related to thefunctioning of political systems of Visegrad Group states from the onset of political, economical andsocial transformations, which transpired after 1989.Chapter one examines theoretical, historical, and methodological problems related to circumstancesof transformation processes in the selected Central European states and their further evolution.It also indicates at common and distinctive characteristics of Central European states, takinginto account political-scientific and historical perspectives. The second chapter is devoted to theissue of the functioning of government entities within governmental systems of selected states. Thepolitical analysis has been divided into periods of functioning as socialist and democratic states. Thenext chapter indicates the changes that occurred on political scenes of the designated states in theperiod from before the democratic transformation until the present day. The analysis is conductedthrough the prism of maturing of political parties and their influence on public affairs. The fourthchapter analyzes the issues of foreign policy of Central European states, describing the creation ofthe Visegrad Triangle (and later – the Visegrad Group) as a forum of political and economical cooperationof three (and later – four) states in the context of integration with NATO and EuropeanCommunities (and later – European Union).This publication exhibits Central Europe in terms of political science, regime, and history. Thecomparative property of the book, resulting from such perspective, can constitute a source for ageneral European

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