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Patriotic Education and Constitutional Patriotism in Central Europe: Comparative Perspectives on Modern State Resilience
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This paper examines patriotic education as a tool for strengthening state resilience in Central Europe, drawing on the region’ s shared republican tradition and its transition from communist rule. By comparing five global models (Japan, the United States, the United Kingdom, South Korea, and Italy), this research offers a framework for building public allegiance to constitutional values as a foundation for institutional trust, free from ideological extremes. These models were compared with the methods employed within the Visegrád Group (Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Slovakia), where the focus of patriotic education has traditionally been on national history, solidarity, the rule of law, and, currently, on their relationship with the European Union. Based on these experiences, the author proposes a regional concept called “constitutional patriotism based on identity,” which unifies regional memory of events with international norms (such as the UN Charter, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the 1974 UNESCO Recommendation). The research demonstrates that patriotic education grounded in experience and context can increase state legitimacy, national security, and the level of interstate cooperation.
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patriotic education, constitutional patriotism, international law, Central Europe, Visegrád Group, democratic resilience, rule of law, national identity, civic educationMost read articles by the same author(s)
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