Cultural diplomacy of the Czech Republic on the forum of the Visegrad Group

Abstract

Cultural diplomacy is an activity of many organisations which build an image of the country. The Czechs who create with the Poles, Hungarians and Slovaks the Visegrad Group conduct cultural diplomacy on this regional forum. The aim of this kind of diplomacy is to increase the interest of the state, its problems and activities. This article was written to examine what the Czechs want to show about themselves to the regional nations. This work consists of four parts. In the first part there is some information about historic, economic and law determinants of this cooperation. Because of the fact that cultural diplomacy is a kind of public diplomacy, Czech cultural initiatives are divided as government-to-government, government-to-people and people-to-people communications. In the next three parts the author describes these three kinds of communications.