Central Europe between the West and East
Independent Region, the Bridge, Buffer Zone or ‘eternal’ Semi-Periphery
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12940249 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ladislav Cabada (0000-0001-9604-0987, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 419-432 |
| Publication date | 2020-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Politics in Central Europe (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1801-3422 • E-ISSN: 2787-9038 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.2478/pce-2020-0018 |
| OpenAlex | W3096395050 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 21 |
The development of new East-Central European (ECE) democracies after 1989 might be separated into two different parts regarding the external, but in many ways also the internal evaluation. While the first fifteen years, crowned the ‘big bang’ EU-enlargement in 2004, might be evaluated generally as a successful story of socialisation into the Western structures, i.e. democratisation and Europeanisation, the next fifteen years are often evaluated as the period of getting sober. Paradoxically, instead of a continuation of the Europeanisation of values, memory and identity in many ECE nations we can observe the strengthening of anti-EU and anti-European attitudes. As Ágh stressed in his latest works, as early as the 2008 financial crisis outbreak we have had to deal with the polycrisis situation accompanied with de-Europeanisation, failure in the catching up process, the strengthening of the Core-Periphery divide in the EU/ Europe and the decline of democracy in East-Central Europe. Even the migration crisis in 2015 and beyond strengthened the mental gaps between so-called ‘old’ and ‘new’ Europe. In the article I focus on reasons for the semi-peripheral position of ECE, long durée processes in the creation of European macro-regions, and specific features of ECE nations’ identity. I reject the black-and-white division of Europe into two regions, stressing the positive examples from ECE as well as many problems of democratic governance the EU – including the ‘West’ – faces
Democracy · Democratization · Development economics · East-Central Europe · Economics · European union · Europeanisation · International trade · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Resizing · Sociology · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · European Union Policy and Governance · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics · Law
Vergeltende Gerechtigkeit – Populismus und Vergangenheitspolitik nach 1989
Language and Solitude
Rethinking ‘Democratic Backsliding’ in Central and Eastern Europe
Informal Politics in Post-Communist Europe
Liquid Nationalism and State Partitions in Europe
Declining Democracy in East-Central Europe
Rethinking the historical trajectory of ECE
The Crisis of Democracy
Years later – Austria’s shift to the populist right
The Rise of Person-Based Politics in the New Democracies
The neoliberal hybrid in East-Central Europe. The ‘treason of intellectuals’ and its current re-assessment
Civilizational Incompetence
Nordic nostalgia
Populist Radical Right Parties in Central and Eastern Europe
Volatile Counter-Cosmopolitans
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,83 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2025 (6) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |