European Integration Studies and the European Union’s Eastern Gaze

Klinke, Ian

doi:10.1177/0305829814552833

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“…In similar fashion, Ivan Krastev and Stephen Holmes (2018) have argued that Central and Eastern Europe's illiberal turn is in large part a "humiliationdriven" repudiation of western standards and a reaction to unilateral Europeanization. Read somewhat differently, illiberalism bears that mark of a counter-hegemonic movement inspired by a rejection of neo-liberalism not only as an economic order but as a system that has sought to modernize and "colonize" the societies of Central and Eastern Europe (Klinke 2015).…”

Section: Conceptualizing Illiberal Regionalism In European Union and V4 Contextsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Visegrád four political regionalism as a critical reflection of Europeanization: deciphering the “Illiberal Turn”

Scott

2021

Eurasian Geography and Economics

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This paper discusses the significance and potential consequences of illiberal politics for the Visegrád Group's (Czechia, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia) role as a regional integration platform. Moreover, links between Europeanizationand V4 geopolitical identity will be explored as part of investigating discursive framings of Central Europe's "illiberalism." I suggest that illiberal regionalism is a useful concept in that it problematizes political and popular narrations of East-West difference as competing projects of Europeanization. I will also argue that instead of a fundamental regional illiberalism what we find is an unstable, temporally limited and contingent constellation of political and social agendas. Illiberal regionalism can thus be read as strategic, aguably opportunistic, contestations of EU policies that reflect economic, political, and social uncertainties. Tensions involved in this regionalist shift are exemplified by "revolutionary" Hungarian and Polish national conservative agendas and their interaction with the more measured pragmatism of the Czech Republic and Slovakia. It is also clear that illiberal regionalism reflects the reciprocal and interdependent nature of the V4's political relations within the EU. Benefits of EU membership, such as leveraging and enhancing national status, continue to act as powerful counter-currents to more radical projects that would, for example, contest Euro-Atlantic alignments.

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Section: Conceptualizing Illiberal Regionalism In European Union and V4 Contextsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Visegrád four political regionalism as a critical reflection of Europeanization: deciphering the “Illiberal Turn”

Scott

2021

Eurasian Geography and Economics

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“…In such positive views of EU integration as the vanguard and protector of internationalism, social progress and (suitably reformed) social democracy have many British intellectuals found their leitmotif , the guide to their approach to the Brexit debate and a platform for their analysis, and ideological rebuttal, of counter-hegemonic challenges to EU domination (Cafruny and Ryner, 2007b: Chapter 1; Callinicos, 2015; Klinke, 2015). Among contemporary left-wing politicians the expression of this perspective provides a stark contrast with their colleagues of 1975.…”

Section: Intellectuals and The Eu Hegemonymentioning

confidence: 99%

When intellectuals fail? Brexit and hegemonic challenge

Salter

2018

Competition & Change

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Drawing on a Gramscian understanding of hegemony and the role of intellectuals, the paper examines the contribution of British academics to the politics of Brexit. Why and how did they fail to predict the scale of the challenge to the European Union manifest in the Leave vote of the referendum? Mainly supportive of the hegemony of the European Union and its vision of social progress, social scientists have propagated a view of normality which legitimizes that hegemony through the interpretation of its cultural opposition as irrational, emotional and populist. While the cultural tensions driving the Leave victory have been extensively documented, the implications of this long-standing divide for the UK state, the party system and democratic citizenship have received only limited attention from university intellectuals. In their commitment to the European Union hegemony, they have interpreted the cultural challenge in ways likely only to increase its strength.

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“…Studying the West or the East has to recognise their inter-and intra-relations, as well as the academic context from which this scholarship emerges (Klinke, 2015b). Second, while there is a need to decouple post-socialism from the grand transitional narratives originated in the West, its reconstruction must not neglect the impacts of major institutional forces, especially the EU (Clark and Jones, 2008).…”

Section: Towards Dialogic Post-socialismmentioning

confidence: 99%