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Central Europe Thirty Years after the Fall of Communism: A Return to the Margin?

Central Europe Thirty Years after the Fall of Communism: A Return to the Margin?

Kazharski, Aliaksei

Hardcover

General Political ScienceInternational Relations

ISBN10: 1498599613
ISBN13: 9781498599610
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: Jun 21 2022
Pages: 226
Weight: 1.11
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This book examines the politics and international relations of Central Europe (the Visegrád Four) three decades after the fall of communism. Once bound together by a common geopolitical vision of returning to the West, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia now find themselves in a more ambiguous position. The 2015 European migration crisis exposed serious normative differences with Western Europe, leading to a collective V4 rebellion against the European Union's migration policies. At the same time, as this book demonstrates--despite this normative rift with Western Europe and despite the democratic backsliding in some of the V4 states--they remain deeply dependent on the West in both symbolic and material terms. Furthermore, ways in which individual Central European states position themselves vis-a-vis the West exhibit notable differences, informed by their specific political and cultural legacies. The author examines these in separate country chapters. This book also contains a chapter that analyzes the effect of the COVID-19 crisis on political discourses in the V4.

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