Slovakia on the Road to Independence: An American Diplomat’s Eyewitness Account

Series: Diplomats and Diplomacy Author: Hacker, Paul Category: Diplomats and Diplomacy, Slovakia -- Politics and government -- 1945-1992 Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press ISBN: 978-0271036236 Pages: 240

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In Slovakia on the Road, Paul Hacker tells of volatile political changes and intrigues; administrative challenges of operating a small diplomatic outpost in Bratislava and its dependence on the embassy in Prague; Slovak-Czech and Slovak-Hungarian minority tensions; the legacy of the Holocaust; the final move to independence; and post independence Slovakian political history.

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Editorial Reviews

“Drawing on his experiences as the senior U.S. diplomat stationed in Bratislava before and immediately after Slovak independence, Paul Hacker provides a fascinating account of Slovakia’s ‘velvet divorce’ from its Czech partner and its challenging early development as a newly independent democracy seeking to integrate into the trans-Atlantic community.”

THEODORE E. RUSSELL, first U.S. Ambassador to Slovakia (1993-1996)

About the author

Hacker, Paul

Dr. Paul Hacker’s Foreign Service career extended from 1973 to 2003. In 1990–92 he was principal officer of the U.S. Consulate General in Bratislava, then chargé d’affaires of the U.S. Embassy in Slovakia when that country gained its independence in...

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