The development dimension of Czech foreign policy
The development dimension of Czech foreign policy

Author(s): Ondřej Horký-Hlucháň
Subject(s): Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Political history, Government/Political systems, International relations/trade, Political behavior, Present Times (2010 - today), Asylum, Refugees, Migration as Policy-fields
Published by: Ústav mezinárodních vztahů
Keywords: Development dimension of Czech foreign policy; development cooperation; development goals;
Summary/Abstract: For the first time since 1983, when the European Community established the tradition of thematic years, this year was committed to the external operations of the European Union. The choice of the European Year for Development 2015 was related to the symbolic milestone of the end of validity of the development objectives of the millennium. At the same time, it foreshadowed gradual interconnection of the separate agendas of the global and sustainable developments within the United Nations as a unified framework of the social and economic development within the planetary boundaries. Their merger culminated in September in New York, where the General Assembly of the UN approved the Agenda 2030 and its seventeen Objectives of sustainable development representing a huge challenge for the development and other policies of the countries of the global North and South. In this spirit, the European Year for Development was also initiated with the slogan “Our World, Our Dignity, Our Future”. It stood in a peculiar contrast to the closer and rather technical nature of the covering national topic of the “interconnection of activities of non-governmental, private and public sectors in the official foreign development co-operation”.

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