ABSTRACT
The end of the Cold War presented a major watershed in international relations, especially on the European continent. The formalization of German–Czech relations took a somewhat different route – via the 1992 Treaty on Friendship and Co-operation and the 1997 and 2003 German–Czech Declarations. From the end of the nineteenth century onwards, Roman Dmowski had portrayed German–Polish relations as little more than a perpetual struggle between good and evil, and in the nineteenth century, Frantisek Palacky had similarly distorted the historic pattern of Czech-German relations. During the 2+4 negotiations, whose resultant treaties act in lieu of a peace treaty ending the Second World War, the Polish negotiating team sought to achieve a number of objectives. Despite the signing of the Treaty on Good Neighbourly and Friendly Relations in 1992, a variety of issues remained unresolved and continued to complicate bilateral relations.
