REFLECTION OF GLOBALIZATION IN THE KEY FOREIGN-POLICY DOCUMENTS OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC

Despite contestations of the origins, meaning, and consequences of globalization, it is certainly happening, and it influences especially small countries such as the Czech Republic. The aim of the paper is to analyse if and how globalization is reflected in the key foreign-policy documents of the Czech Republic. First, the paper identifies the key signifiers - ideas, themes, keywords, or other categories associated with globalization in academic literature, namely in the peer-reviewed journal articles published since the 1990s written by selected highly cited authors in the field. Second, it searches for these signifiers in the current key foreign-policy documents of the Czech Republic, for example in the policy statement of the Czech government, the concept of the Czech foreign policy, the Czech security strategy, etc. The method used in the paper is qualitative content and discourse analysis of the selected texts/documents. Finally, the paper presents the results of analysis, discusses and interprets them. The procedure and methods enable to answer for example the following questions: Is globalization reflected in the key foreign-policy documents of the Czech Republic? What are the main themes, which are reflected? Which dimensions of globalization (economic, security, cultural, institutional, etc.) are reflected most? Is globalization reflected as an opportunity or a threat?