CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2013
| Author | Benishev, Varban M. |
|---|---|
| Title | Cooperation, No Cooperation, Theoretical Insights from Post Communist Europe |
| Summary | The Visegrád group was launched on February 15, 1991. A similar grouping was created between the Baltic States in 1994. No such grouping emerged between Bulgaria and Romania. Using the lenses of neorealism and neoliberalism, this thesis seeks to understand why the Visegrád group came to be and why such a group did not emerge between Bulgaria and Romania, despite the similarities between the two groups. The thesis argues that the threat perception from the Soviet Union was much stronger in the original three Visegrád countries than it was in Bulgaria, while nevertheless present in Romania. With regards to neoliberalism, the thesis tries to argue that the common desire for absolute economic gains from a possible EU accession pushed the countries to cooperate. The thesis reaches the conclusion that it was the original threat perception against the Soviet Union that was the main factor for cooperation and that neoliberalism has only minor explanatory power in this situation. |
| Supervisor | Merlingen, Michael |
| Department | International Relations MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2013/benishev_varban.pdf |
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