East Central European Foreign Policy Identity in Perspective

Tulmets, Elsa

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“…With the two basic concepts to be laid out below, we follow Elsa Tulmets' book East Central European Foreign Policy Identity in Perspective (Tulmets 2014). Here she observes two legacies.…”

Section: East Central Europe: Two Legacies Since 1989mentioning

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An East‑West Divide in the European Union? The Visegrad Four States in Search of the Historical Self in National Discourses on European Integration

Walsch

2018

Politics in Central Europe

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This article explores whether a new east‑west divide exists in the enlarged European Union by analysing national discourses on European integration in the Visegrad Four (V4) states. Two V4 foreign policy legacies form the basis of analysis: the “Return to Europe” discourse and the discourses around the reconstruction of the historical self. The article gives evidence that the V4 countries share sovereignty in external policies and thus have a distinct European orientation. V4 national‑conservative governments hold sovereigntist positions, however, in policy areas that they consider falling exclusively within the realm of the member state. Comparison with Western European member states gives evidence that the post-1945 paradigm changes were more profound than those of post-1989 ones of Eastern Europe. This historic legacy can explain the more integrationist orientations in Western Europe. The article concludes that behaviour of the individual V4 state seems to be of greater importance for each member than collective V4 group action. Finally, the article gives an outlook on ways in which solidarity between the Western and Eastern halves of the EU can be exercised in an ideologically diverging Union.

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“…With the two basic concepts to be laid out below, we follow Elsa Tulmets' book East Central European Foreign Policy Identity in Perspective (Tulmets 2014). Here she observes two legacies.…”

Section: East Central Europe: Two Legacies Since 1989mentioning

confidence: 99%

An East‑West Divide in the European Union? The Visegrad Four States in Search of the Historical Self in National Discourses on European Integration

Walsch

2018

Politics in Central Europe

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“…These different approaches to defining small states are all useful when thinking specifically of a small donor like Hungary. Hungary clearly fits most of the traditional definitions of a small state (see Tulmets 2014). As a small donor, Hungarian can be characterised by 1 Within a UN context, the importance of raw power decreases as all countries are formally equal and have a single vote each, which in turn strengthens small states (Neumann and Gstöhl 2004).…”

Section: Small States and The Diplomacy Of International Developmentmentioning

confidence: 81%

Branding for business? Hungary and the sustainable development goals

2018

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“…Logo and slogan are the quintessence of brand identity (Kottler, Bowen and Makens, 1998) and key to understanding nation branding of particular country (Anholt, 2007(Anholt, , 2008Pike, 2008). Given the O'Shaughnessy and O'Shaughnessy (2000) insight that nations try to protect certain images or set of values to help exports or tourism while using solidarity appeals to their nationals, the observation of Slovenian brand identity evolution was coupled with desk analysis focused on political events relevant for Slovenian recent history (Tulmets, 2014). Key visual and verbal messages released by STB over the period of twenty years were compared in the context relevant for recent Slovenian political history.…”

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“…The comparative analysis looked at a logo and slogan level of campaigns at different stages of nation building (Brubaker, 1996) and the process of the accession to the European Union. Therefore, a number of secondary sources such as books, articles, policy documents and news reports were consulted in order to understand the socio-political factors (Offe, 1991;Lindstrom, 2003;Tulmets, 2014) that impacted on the nation branding process in Slovenia and to establish the links between those socio-political factors and nation branding practices. integration into EU structures and the extension of EU jurisdiction to nine new members at once was a spectacular political success, it sent, at the same time, an underlying message to small European nations with a socialist past.…”

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“…Even though links of tourism and democracy are not self-understanding (Richter, 2007), the specific timing of Slovenian active engagement with nation branding through tourism allows us to hypothesize that destination branding in Slovenia had distinctive political roots embedded in a pro-democratic social dynamics (Tulmets, 2014). As this very fact is a rather unusual political circumstance, an informed insight into this topic should be of wider interest.…”

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Destination Brand Management for the Support of Political Identity: The Case of Slovenia

Poljanec-Borić

2016

SIP

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This article examines the development of Slovenian competitive identity over the past twenty years through marketing and political perspective. An inception and evolution of a destination brand is considered. The coincidence between the release of Slovenian new brand identities and decisive political steps Slovenia undertook between 1990 and 2007 is analysed in order to show a mutual interdependence between destination branding and political marketing. Since Slovenia started to develop a competitive identity of the country while still in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, it is argued that this was done in order to promote its independence from Yugoslavia. Furthermore, changing of the brand identity occurred whenever a process of the accession to the European Union would reach a decisive point. Therefore, the development of the Slovenian competitive identity after independence was closely coordinated with political aspirations of the country to integrate into the European Union. The conclusive stage of competitive identity development coincides with inclusion of Slovenia into the Schengen and Euro zones. Such a coincidence strongly corroborates a hypothesis that there has been close interdependence of touristic and political marketing during past two decades. Finally, it is suggested that the Slovenian case of destination brand management is unique in new Europe and that it should be evaluated with regard to other relevant destination branding practices in the new Europe and the world.

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East Central European Foreign Policy Identity in Perspective

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An East‑West Divide in the European Union? The Visegrad Four States in Search of the Historical Self in National Discourses on European Integration

An East‑West Divide in the European Union? The Visegrad Four States in Search of the Historical Self in National Discourses on European Integration

Branding for business? Hungary and the sustainable development goals

Destination Brand Management for the Support of Political Identity: The Case of Slovenia

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