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The Brandt's Ostpolitik
Soběhart, Radek ; Stellner, František (advisor) ; Moravcová, Dagmar (referee) ; Vaněk, Miroslav (referee)
The dissertation "Brandt's Ostpolitik" deals with the concept of Brand's foreign politics towards Eastern Europe. The concept was not only a short-term plan after Brandt gained government functions after 1966, but it is concerned with the essence of understanding of Willy Brand's policy. The paper views the topic from three different points. The first area consists of an ideological-theoretical level that focuses especially on the analysis of long-term trends of Brandt's Eastern Policy. Therefore, it distinguishes from existing approaches, which apply the concept only to the period of 1969-1974, when Brandt ruled the Federal Republic of Germany, but also from academic papers that consider the second Berlin crisis and the Berlin wall construction to be the beginning of the Eastern politics. One of the conclusions of the dissertation shows the necessity to search for the roots of Brandt's policy already in his stay in exile in Norway and Sweden, due to the fact that Brandt obtained basic idea about the way parliamentarian democracy works there, and about the importance of European cooperation for the after-war recovery of Europe and Germany. Thanks to the fact that he did not spend the period of the World War II in the German area, he became a symbol of "different, better" democratic Germany after...
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