Oskar Krejčí

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Oskar Krejčí (born 13 July 1948 in Prague) is Czech political scientist, the author of seventeen books and approximately thousand articles in the area of political science.

Krejčí is a protector of the University College of International and Public Relations Prague, a researcher in the Institute of Political Sciences of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava and is teaching at the Faculty of Political Sciences and International Relations at Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica.

In 1967 he was convicted for a an attempt illegal crossing Czechoslak-Austrian border to a suspended sentence of 14 months. In 1968 Krejčí entered the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. Since 1975 until the end of communist regime he was secret agent of the StB, the Czechoslovak secret service. In this position he also supervised other agents. ^[1]

Before and during the Velvet Revolution he was an adviser to two last Communist Prime Ministers of Czechoslovakia – Ladislav Adamec and Marián Čalfa. He is author of the address of the Prime Minister in whereby was in the Federal Assembly of ČSSR designed on president Václav Havel and author of the program of the federal government of the national understanding.

He is vocal critic of the plans of the Bush administration to install a national missile defense system on the territory of the Czech Republic and Poland.^[2]

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International Politics (Mezinárodní politika.) Prague: Ekopress, 2007. 744 pp.
New Book about Elections. (Nová kniha o volbách.) Prague: Professional Publishing, 2006. 484 pp.
Geopolitics of the Central European Region. The view from Prague and Bratislava Bratislava: Veda, 2005. 494 pp. (Free download, in English)
Political Psychology (Politická psychologie.) Prague: Ekopress, 2004. 320 pp.
International Politics (Mezinárodní politika.) Prague: Ekopress, 2001. 712 pp.
The Geopolitics of Central Europe (Geopolitika středoevropského prostoru. Horizonty zahraniční politiky České republiky a Slovenské republiky.) Prague: Ekopress, 2000. 320 pp.
The Nature of Today’s Crisis. (Povaha dnešní krize.) Prague: East Publishing, 1998. 224 pp.
International Politics (Mezinárodní politika.) Prague: Victoria Publishing, 1997. 512 pp.
Czechoslovak National Interest. Boulder: East European Monographs, 1996, 362 pp.
History of Election in Bohemia and Moravia. Boulder: East European Monographs, 1995, 472 pp.
Book about Elections (Kniha o volbách.) Prague: Victoria Publishing ,1994. 354 pp.
Czech National Interest and Geopolitics. (Český národní zájem a geopolitika.) Prague: Universe, 1993. 180 pp.
Who Will Win Elections '92 (Kdo vyhraje volby '92.) Prague: Ucho, 1992. 144 pp.
Why This Crack: About Democracy And Velvet Revolution. (Hovory o demokracii a „sametové revoluci“.) Prague: Trio, 1991. 144 pp.
USA and Balance of Power. (USA a mocenská rovnováha.) Prague: Svoboda, 1989. 352 pp.
American Conservatism. (Americký konservatismus.) Prague: Svoboda – Pravda, 1987. 262 pp.
Technological Illusions. (Technologické iluze. Ke kritice teorií stadií růstu.) Prague: Academia, 1986. 184 pp.