Between expert knowledge and ideology: the stance of Czechoslovak diplomacy towards violations of Czechoslovak airspace betweem 1948-1968

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=sv63sbcOm2" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=sv63sbcOm2</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.31577/histcaso.2025.73.5.8" target="_blank" >10.31577/histcaso.2025.73.5.8</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Between expert knowledge and ideology: the stance of Czechoslovak diplomacy towards violations of Czechoslovak airspace betweem 1948-1968

Original language description

The present study analyzes the diplomatic activity of the Czechoslovak Communist Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the 1950s and 1960s in cases of military aviation incidents in which the airspace of Czechoslovakia was violated, respectively, in which Czechoslovak military aircraft themselves violated the airspace of other states. The author has collected a set of 85 aviation incidents, of which there are more extensive records in the funds of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The main diplomatic adversaries of the Czechoslovak Ministry of Foreign Affairs during these incidents were the diplomacy of the USA, marginally also of the Federal Republic of Germany. The study primarily examines the position of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the process of responding to airspace violations within the communist power system, and the degree of decision-making powers it possessed. And further, what was the nature of these decisions? Was she more influenced by political realism or ideology? What was the quality of those involved in these diplomatic cases? How did the ministry&apos;s diplomatic and press strategies differ? The study is therefore methodologically based on the concept of &quot;new diplomatic history&quot; and on the concept of the expert knowledge and technocratic management in communist Czechoslovakia. The study analyzes the most serious &quot;profile&quot; incidents, examines the question of cooperation between individual actors of the power-political system in solving them, and in the final part focuses on the factors that influenced the severity and way of solving individual incidents. The author comes to the conclusion that when it comes to solving cases of air military incidents, Czechoslovak communist diplomacy showed a considerable degree of political realism, given, among other things, by the professional quality of the top officials of the ministry.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Historický časopis

ISSN

0018-2575

e-ISSN

2585-9099

Volume of the periodical

73

Issue of the periodical within the volume

5

Country of publishing house

SK - SLOVAKIA

Number of pages

24

Pages from-to

1055-1078

UT code for WoS article

001669085800008

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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