CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2022
| Author | Blaskova, Barbora |
|---|---|
| Title | Uncovering Challenges of Euroscepticism: Sputnik V in the European Union |
| Summary | The post-Maastricht era in the European integration has brought a “boom” in the Eurosceptic literature. The literature has been, however, unable to explain the relationship between the Eurosceptic policies by non-Eurosceptic actors in practice. This thesis investigates in what ways the discourse framing and political party diverge and how the divergence matters to the latter. To do this, I look at the use of the Sputnik V vaccine in the European Union (EU) as a case when two political parties decided to pursue a unilateral solution despite the approved common COVID-19 vaccine management after the national solutions had failed to be efficient to tackle the pandemic. Whilst the Hungarian governing party, Fidesz, has been studied by the Eurosceptic scholarship as Eurosceptic, this has not been the case of the Slovak OĽANO which followed Hungary’s suit. To investigate this, I conduct an analysis of the overall COVID-19 vaccine management both on the EU and national level, including the Hungarian and Slovak unilateral acquisitions of the Russian vaccine and the discourse on it. I argue that the emphasis on the party-based Euroscepticism has impeded the field to unpack the micro-level dynamics of their policy choices. |
| Supervisor | Izsak Daniel |
| Department | International Relations MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2022/blaskova_barbora.pdf |
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