Publication details
Security Environment: Sectoral Analysis and Implications for the Armed Forces of the Czech Republic 2023
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| Year of publication | 2024 |
| Type | Book |
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| Description | The objective of this collective monograph is primarily to assess the development of the broader strategic security environment of the Czech Republic in 2023 based on an analysis of individual sectors. An expert publication with this focus has been produced annually over the past decade, thus facilitating some long-term monitoring and identification of the principal development trends. The ambition of the Centre for Security and Military Strategic Studies (CBVSS, Centrum bezpečnostních a vojenskostrategických studií) of the University of Defence is to provide an alternative insight and to contribute to the ongoing discussion on the consequences of security development for the formulation and implementation of an effective defence policy of the Czech Republic. The text is primarily based on materials compiled by the CBVSS and presents the results of a comparative analysis of available open source materials. In its individual chapters, it also includes an assessment of the selected state, non-state, and transnational actors. A sectoral analysis, based on the approach of the Copenhagen School, was used for this book similar to the previous publications. Thus, the political, societal, environmental, military, and economic sectors are described here. Beyond this traditional definition, the technology sector is also included in this analysis because, given the focus of the CBVSS, it appropriately complements the traditional sectors, while dynamic developments in the technology sector have a major impact on the traditional sectors examined here, and in some places this connection is more pronounced than it has been in the relatively recent past. The monograph analyses the period of the year 2023 and the authors seek to capture major events and trends with implications for the security environment in individual sectors and further to identify implications for the defence policy and armed forces. Verification of the outputs was carried out within the framework of expert meetings with the participation of members of the Ministry of Defence of the Czech Republic, Army of the Czech Republic, and representatives of the community of security experts from the Czech Republic. |