Structural Aspects of Sovereignty and the Slovak Foreign Policy After Parliament Elections 2023

The article examines the reasons for setting a sovereign foreign policy as a strategic goal of the coalition government of Smer – Social Democracy, Hlas – Social Democracy and Slovak National Party. It is focusing on those structural conditions that affect the political choice of these actors and determine the real possibilities for implementation sovereign foreign policy in international relations characterized by power asymmetries and economic dependence. There is also analysed constellation of social and political forces in Slovak society which, under certain external situation, creates the prerequisites for an effort to pursue an independent policy.