Size matters : a comparison of French strategic partnerships with Poland and Slovakia

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41253-022-00202-z" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41253-022-00202-z</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41253-022-00202-z" target="_blank" >10.1057/s41253-022-00202-z</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Size matters : a comparison of French strategic partnerships with Poland and Slovakia

Original language description

Slovakia (beforehand Czechoslovakia) and Poland have had historically outstanding relations with France, mainly in the interwar period. The relations deteriorated and had suffered from political supervision of Kremlin due to the communist regimes loyal to Moscow established after the WW2. A visible renaissance of both dyads can be observed in 90s as soon as democratic institutions were established in Slovakia and Poland. Moreover, another turning point came in 2008, when France has developed closer strategic partnerships with countries in the Central and Eastern Europe. The historical bonds it shared with Slovakia and Poland, the establishment of formal partnerships brought a significant new impetus in a range of areas of bilateral cooperation. In this paper, we attempt to compare two dyads that share the same partner and formal connection—action plans of partnership with France. We use comparison of contrasts since Poland and Slovakia differ in size, economic output and geopolitical ambitions. The former is considered a middle power, the latter a small state. Both share a similar topics of cooperation with France based on the action plans’ framework. We compared these plans with foreign policy strategic documents. For Slovakia, the action plans represent a unique opportunity to have a closer tie with one of European powers. As expected, we concluded that Poland nurtures a more balanced and ambitious partnership. Warsaw apparently uses its political and economic power to pursue geopolitical goals even above the EU level and teams with France even though action plans do not address the strategic issues in detail.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50601 - Political science

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

French Politics

ISSN

1476-3419

e-ISSN

1476-3427

Volume of the periodical

21

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

22

Pages from-to

25-46

UT code for WoS article

000909435000002

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85145743329