Thoughts on the Visegrád Group: A View from the Potomac
In the past two decades, the states of Central Europe have entered the American consciousness in a remarkable way. “Not so very long ago, one of these states was famously described by then-British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain as “a far away country” populated by “people of whom we know nothing.” In the early 1990s, even the present author (a Czech expatriate living in the United States) remembers fielding questions from curious American classmates on what surely must have been the difficult realities of a childhood living in mud huts and hunting for daily sustenance—cheeky perhaps, but demonstrative.