Transformation of the Czech armed forces under the auspices of NATO
Journal: Studium Europy Środkowej i Wschodniej
Year: 2014

The authors argue that the Czech Republic’s integration into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization has become an important factor in shaping the security system of Central and Eastern Europe and is a part of the vital interests of NATO candidate states and Washington’s policy on the European continent. The asymmetry of potentials and the lack of formation of the Czech security sector, as well as the other CEE states, allowed Washington to fill the niche of the so-called “security guarantor” and