CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2010
| Author | Izsák, Dániel |
|---|---|
| Title | A Region in Transit: The Role of Exogenous Forces in the Resurgence of the Visegrad Group |
| Summary | The Visegrad Group (V4) is a fairly permanent feature of European politics even though it was principally founded to assist and speed up the accession of its members to the European Union (EU). However, the V4 has often been buried by scholars and policy makers during its two decades of existence. It is puzzling then that the V4 has not only survived EU enlargement but both regionalism and regionalisation processes intensified ex post. Examining incentives and their effects on state-level and sub-state level cooperation, the interaction of interests and ideas favourable to regional cooperation can be observed, suggesting that the Visegrad Group can be considered a case study of Katzenstein’s ‘porous regions’ concept of new regionalism. While not claiming their salience, this thesis argues that exogenous forces, most notably the EU, are conducive to further cooperation by creating possibilities and pressures on already existing structures, which play an increasing role in regional identity formation in state-level regionalism and sub-state level regionalisation in the Visegrad Group. |
| Supervisor | Greskovits, Béla |
| Department | International Relations MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2010/izsak_daniel.pdf |
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