The End of a “Beautiful Friendship?” U.S. Relations with the Visegrad Countries under Barack Obama (2009–2013)
Journal: The Polish Quarterly of International Affairs
Year: 2012

IntroductionCentral Europe suffered when United States succumbed to 'realism' Yalta Conference.1 This statement was made in 2009, in an open letter to President Barack Obama, whose neo-realistic foreign was very often perceived as wiping region from U.S. agenda. For many distinguished Central European intellectuals and politicians, including Vaclav Havel, Michal Kovae, Janos Martonyi and Lech Wa3esa, who signed up letter, Obama's moderate interest in developments in region, coupled with United S