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098363
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2010.
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This article focuses on relations between army and politics in the Czech Republic after the 1989 Velvet Revolution. This article concludes that these relations in the Czech Republic achieved the parameters typical of consolidated democracies. The many problems that continue to exist in this area in the Czech Republic do not in any significant way deviate from what is typical of consolidated democracies. Therefore, the transformation of civil -military relations can be regarded as successful.
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167782
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This article focuses on the evolution of the narrative of the Munich Myth, which interprets the Munich Conference and the capitulation of Czechoslovakia in 1938, as it was constructed and distributed by state authorities in Czechoslovakia, and later the Czech Republic, between 1945 and 2015. The article frames the evolution of the narrative in the context of political and social changes to examine how deeply such changes affected the narrative. The results demonstrate that changes in external conditions projected remarkably into the evolution of the narrative. However, the key message of the Munich Myth — the message of Czech smallness, which determined not only defeatism in this particular case but also general passivity in IR — endured, basically intact, for 70 years.
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138568
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On November 19th, Washington commemorated the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia by unveiling a bust of Vaclav Havel in the US Capitol. Two days later, there was another post-communist milestone that was just as important but much less noticed: the first anniversary of the Maidan uprising in Ukraine, which occurred on November 21st. Remembering Havel was a way to reaffirm core democratic values. Recognizing the importance of what started in Ukraine a year earlier was a much more urgent and contemporary exercise focusing attention on issues that affect our core national security.
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ID:
101805
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2011.
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This article examines the emergence of a mobilisational authoritarian regime during Putin's second term. It argues that this development was shaped by the repercussions within Russia of 'velvet revolutions' in former Soviet republics. On the one hand, it traces the growth of the perception that Russia faced an imminent revolutionary threat. On the other, it shows how the Kremlin's counter-measures-the creation of the youth movement Nashi, the imposition of controls on the NGO sector, and the elaboration of 'sovereign democracy' as an unofficial state ideology-were directed against a domestic threat.
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108016
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