TY  - BOOK
AU  - Petr Drulák
AU  - Mats Braun
PY  - 2021
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
TI  - The Quest for the National Interest
T2  - A Methodological Reflection on Czech Foreign Policy
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1136229
N2  - The concept of national interest belongs among the most widely used and abused concepts in the foreign policy debate. This volume illustrates how the term can be used as a meaningful analytical tool. It introduces three criteria (relevance, domestic consensus, and external acceptance) which serve to identify national interest. The authors apply these criteria to Czech foreign policy making and provide some interesting findings concerning a country’s possibilities to define and pursue its national interest. Since the authors use four different methodologies (case studies, discourse analysis, grounded theory, and ethnography), the volume also shows the variety of possible ways to analyse national interests.
KW  - National interest, Foreign policy analysis, European intergration, Methodology
LA  - English
ER  -