Geopolitical discourse, Anti-geopolitics, Czech geopolitical culture, Resistance, Ballistic Missiles Defence System

In our paper we examine how the new US hegemonic geopolitical discourse of world order and international security colonizes and is appropriated within the transitional societies of Central and Eastern Europe (Fairclough, 2007, s. 51) and how it has been challenged from the positions of civil society. On the example of the negotiations over building X-band radar in the Czech Republic, which is to become a part of Ballistic Missiles Defence System of the USA (BMDS), we want to show how the hegemonic geopolitical discourse is recontextualized within the specific geopolitical discourse of the Czech government. Furthermore, because there is always resistance against the dominant interpretations of the world and the dominant forms of life (Fairclough, 2001, s. 128; Foucault, 1980; Routledge, 2006) we want to show how the dominant geopolitical discourse has been resisted in the Czech civil society.