Consistency of Czech Foreign Policy and Export Tendencies towards States with Ongoing Conflict – Case Study Comparison
Consistency of Czech Foreign Policy and Export Tendencies towards States with Ongoing Conflict – Case Study Comparison

Author(s): Tadeáš PALA
Subject(s): International relations/trade, Military policy, Political behavior, Peace and Conflict Studies
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: the Czech export tendencies; foreign policy; Ukraine; Syria; an armed conflict;
Summary/Abstract: In democratic countries, the relationships between the procedures in both foreign policy and economic exchange should resonate with each other. The opportunity to analyze this hypothesis is used in the case of the Czech Republic’s export to two countries. Although both of them find themselves in an armed conflict, the premise of the Czech Republic’s political approach towards each of them is extremely different. Ukraine is considered the state, which is supported by both the Czech Republic and the European Union, whereas the Al-Assad regime in Syria is often politically condemned and political sanctions are imposed on it. The analysis of the data carried out by The Czech Statistical Office on the statistical value of export confirms the following essential premise: the worsened political relationships have a strong impact on the reduction of exports. This trend is less visible in the case of Ukraine, which is politically supported. In the case of both countries, the factor expressing the development of the internal situation is visible. In the case of Syria, a certain minimum value of cooperative willingness has been identified which is not affected by political proclamations, but rather by an actual possibility to physically export.

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