Two kinds of small? The 'EU core' in Slovak and Czech geopolitical imagination
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14782804.2019.1598340" target="_blank" >10.1080/14782804.2019.1598340</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Two kinds of small? The 'EU core' in Slovak and Czech geopolitical imagination
Original language description
The article critically examines Czech and Slovak discourses on the so-called 'core' of the European Union. It argues that despite their similarities as small Central European states, Slovakia and the Czech Republic exhibit significant differences in how the geopolitical imagination of their political establishments re-presents the countries' position in the center-periphery relations. The article does a two-step analysis. First, it discusses the cultural roots of the contemporary geopolitical imaginaries, tracing them back to formative periods of national history. Then, it analyzes present day establishment discourses on the 'EU core', concluding that the Czech foreign policy debate demonstrates a much stronger tendency towards deliberate self-marginalization and is characterized by competing securitization discourses, one of which warns of the danger of marginalization outside of the 'core' while the other attempts to securitize European and German 'hegemony'. The Slovak discourse, on the other hand, is characterized by an underlying constitutive fear of the Self, related to past experiences of anti-Western authoritarianism. This stimulates a much more Euroenthusiast Slovak attitude towards the 'core'. The article contributes to the social constructivist debate by arguing that small states can display different attitudes towards European integration based on their identities and historical experiences.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50601 - Political science
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2019
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Journal of Contemporary European Studies
ISSN
1478-2804
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
27
Issue of the periodical within the volume
4
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
15
Pages from-to
424-438
UT code for WoS article
000498066000004
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85063873284