Czech Hard and Soft Power: Is Czech Participation in Afghanistan "European" or "American"?

This bachelor thesis deals with Joseph Nye's hard and soft power concepts and applies them to Czech Republic's participation in Afghanistan. The initial point of this text is represented, besides hard soft power's conceptual discussion, also by the debate on American and European approach to foreign affairs. In Afghanistan, the Czech Republic embarks upon within wider international community and as for the reconstruction process, commenced after fall of the Taliban at the end of 2001, it engages both the army and civilian personnel. Development co-operation is pursued by Czech non-governmental organizations. Behavior of the mentioned Czech subjects is studied from the hard and soft power perspective