This chapter focuses on the forms and formations of publicly articulated civilisational discourse in the recent Czech context. Civilisational discourse is seen as a composite part of Czech society’s contested affiliation to the two imaginary and meta-geographical notions of “West” and “East”, and as a direct product of crypto-colonial regimes, which are the result of the historical and contemporary political economy and global (European) division of labour within which the Czech Republic has been assigned a (semi)-peripheral position. Both structural and cultural conditions of the articulation of the Czech civilisational discourse are considered. The text aims to explain the extent to which recent civilisational discourse is related to the shifting dynamics of Czech national identity in its modern interpretation, focusing on the issues of stigma and ontological insecurity, both produced by the crypto-colonial situation.