This chapter will approach regionalism in Central Europe with the aim of highlighting its features and set-up. For Central European countries (CECs) regionalism was mainly intended as the possibility to join the European Community (EC), a powerful regional organization, rather than as the opportunity to engage in the process of regionalization, understood as an active process of change towards increased cooperation, integration, convergence, coherence, and identityPost-communist CECs were not willing to participate in a regional process of cooperation/integration among themselves, as they believed that only through membership in the EC they could achieve at once economic recovery, democratization, and security.
The Light and Ancillary Regionalism in Central Europe
Serena Giusti
2018-01-01
Abstract
This chapter will approach regionalism in Central Europe with the aim of highlighting its features and set-up. For Central European countries (CECs) regionalism was mainly intended as the possibility to join the European Community (EC), a powerful regional organization, rather than as the opportunity to engage in the process of regionalization, understood as an active process of change towards increased cooperation, integration, convergence, coherence, and identityPost-communist CECs were not willing to participate in a regional process of cooperation/integration among themselves, as they believed that only through membership in the EC they could achieve at once economic recovery, democratization, and security.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
