Foreign and Security Policy Institutions in Central and Eastern Europe

Abstract

The studies of this book follow a three-fold structure. First, a historical overview of how the dominant security/ threat perceptions have evolved since 1989 is provided, with reference to how official documents reflected these changes. This is then followed by a consideration of the key stakeholders in foreign policy decision-making, also introducing readers to the major foreign policy decisions taken and institutional transformations carried out during the period in question, with special regard to the ministries of foreign affairs and defence, reforms in the field of defence and the military, and in the field of intelligence. The third and final parts of the studies then offer the readers two illustrative case studies each. The authors were requested to present one case of a major foreign policy decision and another, lesser known case, to thus illustrate the role of key actors and factors examined in the first two sections of their studies.