The article presents a brief survey of selected trends observable within political science in the Czech Republic and offers a tentative interpretation of some major features that can be seen as typical for current state of the field. However, the article is not intended as a comprehensive analysis; rather, it is meant to open up a discussion related to self-perceptions in the Czech political science, and their relation to reality. Issues like methodological, research and teaching foci, while all of them are elaborated here, serve to highlight possible weaknesses and benefits of the Czech political science, thus claiming out a space for further, much more substantial research. In this sense, the article should be understood as an attempt to make Czech political science launch a process of its own self-definition and self-identification.