Slovakia on the road to independence : an American diplomat's eyewitness account

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    • Hacker, Paul

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Slovakia on the road to independence : an American diplomat's eyewitness account

Paul Hacker

（ADST-DACOR diplomats and diplomacy series）

Pennsylvania State University Press, c2010

  • : cloth
  • : pbk

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Bibliography: p. [227]-233

Includes index

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During the breakup of the Soviet Union, the countries of Eastern Europe underwent transitions to democracy that involved varying degrees of struggle and turmoil. Czechoslovakia eventually split in two with the establishment of separate Czech and Slovak republics in 1993. Paul Hacker witnessed this transition firsthand from his vantage point as head of the U.S. Consulate in Bratislava. This is his story of U.S. diplomacy during this period, from the time the consulate was reestablished there in 1990 (after a forty-year hiatus during the Cold War) through the opening of the U.S. Embassy in 1993 after Slovakia had gained its independence. The memoir covers the volatile political intrigues and changes of the era, the administrative challenges of operating a small diplomatic outpost that was dependent on the embassy based in Prague (headed for much of this period by the high-profile U.S. ambassador Shirley Temple Black), tensions between Slovaks and Czechs and between the Slovak majority and its ethnic Hungarian minority population, the legacy of the Holocaust, and the developments that finally led to independence for Slovakia. In a final chapter, Hacker brings the story of Slovak postindependence political history up to the present, including Slovakia's accession to both NATO and the European Union.

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Contents List of Illustrations Foreword Claiborne de Borda Pell Political Party and Organizational Acronyms Introduction 1. By Way of Prelude 2. Getting Organized in Slovakia 3. Na Slovensku Po Slovensky: Crisis over the Language Law 4. The Gulf War and Slovakia 5. The VPN Implodes 6. Ambassador Shirley Temple Black: The Person and the Flower 7. More Hungarian Problems: Gabcikovo, the Constitution, and the Road Signs 8. Czech-Slovak Relations 9. Countdown to the 1992 Elections 10. Slovakia's Second Revolution: Meciar's Triumphant Return 11. Aftermath of the 1992 Elections: The Breakup of the Federation 12. Human Rights in Slovakia 13. The Slovak State and the Jewish Question 14. Trnava University: Assault on Academic Freedom or Dialogue of the Deaf? 15. The Microphone Episode 16. Vladimir Meciar 17. Other Slovak Personalities 18. U.S. Policy and Czechoslovakia 19. Independence and Its Aftermath: The Domestic Angle 20. Independence and Its Aftermath: The Foreign Angle 21. Do Videnia, Slovensko Postscript: Sixteen Years of Independence Glossary of Slovak Political Organizations Glossary of Czech and Slovak Personalities Appendixes Notes Bibliography Index

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