Abstract
The study analyzes Beneš's foreign policy concepts, which pursued a double goal: securing peaceful cooperation between states in Central Europe and ensuring Czechoslovakia's position among them. Beneš based his vision of a new political, social and economic order in Central Europe on the functionality of the League of Nations.
These were weakened after Germany started a struggle for hegemony in the Central European area in the years of the economic crisis. Beneš saw defence in the transformation of the allied block, the Little Entente, into a new type of community through political and economic integration, open to the access of other Central European states.
This vision of Beneš failed due to the conflicting interests of states in Central Europe and the failure of European democracy - Western European democracies ceased to be a pillar of security.