The Political Economy of State Capture in Central <scp>E</scp>urope

Innes, Abby

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“…This was followed in some cases by foreign political passivity, reactionarism, nationalism, and populism, and/or by the state being captured by economic elites (Handl -Hynek eds. 2013;Innes 2014). Yet, obviously, the ongoing crisis in Ukraine seems to have contributed a major input into this consideration of regional countries and has affected the approach of Western Europe and the US toward this region, symbolized at the most visible level by the introduction of sanctions and a stepping-up of the military presence.…”

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Challenges of Central European Security: Critical Insights

Daniel¹,

Turcsányi²,

Potjomkina³

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A former security bureaucrat who has fled the world of security professionals in order to make sense of it, his research focuses on two interconnected issues -first, security discourses and everyday, as well as ceremonial practices of Central European security professionals under post-socialism; and second, urban marginality and the relationships of marginalization, ethno-racial stigmatization and class reproduction to the spread of frames of insecurity and practices of surveillance, repression, and punishment in Central Europe. Contact: lubomir.luptak@gmail.com. Diāna Potjomkina is a Research ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSFrom the position of authors responsible for the editorial work on this volume, we would like to thank several people who commented on its drafts at various stages. Dagmar Rychnovská, Tomáš Karásek, and Marian Majer contributed with their valuable reflections and helped to improve the quality of individual chapters as well as the whole publication as such. We also appreciate the contribution of Mirka Pavlíková, who helped us with the finishing touches of the text and Matt Rees, who was responsible for the proofreading and copyediting. This publication is the second one in the Global Politics Special Series and in this regard we would like to thank Aleš Karmazin for his work on the previous publication in the Special Series, which paved the way for this one. Our thanks go also to the rest of editorial board of Global Politics. Furthermore, we would like to express our gratitude to the director of the International Institute of Political Science (IIPS) Prof. Vít Hloušek, and the head of the Department of the International Relations and European Studies at Masaryk University, Dr. Petr Suchý -as well as other staff at these institutions -for their long-standing support of Global Politics in general and the Special Series in particular. Especially the help of Lucie Mořkovská from the IIPS was essential and the books of Special Series would perhaps never been published without her.Obviously, the authors of this volume declare that they are wholly responsible for any possible inaccuracies or mistakes. Jan Daniel and Richard Turcsányi V VI SUMMARYThis book employs various theories of contemporary security studies to explore some of the most important and most common security issues in Central Europe at this time. Individual chapters of the book adhere mainly to European branches of critical and constructivist security studies, through which they look at some of the salient topics of Central European security politics.The distinction between internal and external security issues is employed throughout the book for analytical purposes. Under this framework, alliance building, security guarantees, "special relationships," the relational politics of identity, and relations with major powers -documented in the book on the case of Latvia's relations with United States -are examples of external security issues. Various pressing domestic security challenges, illustrated on the case of Hungarian far-right movements and the...

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Section: Approaching Central Europe's Security Concernsmentioning

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Challenges of Central European Security: Critical Insights

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“…This is particularly important with respect to Europeanization in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) as recent literature (Epstein and Jacoby, 2014;Mueller, 2014) tends to see the progress of these countries as mixed at best, especially in terms of their political developments. In literature on CEE, the concept of state capture becomes recurrent (Innes, 2014) and corruption is recognized as an eminent problem throughout the region (Mungiu-Pippidi, 2013).…”

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“…There were attempts to complement Europeanization with broader theories such as: political economy in general, and types of capitalisms in particular (Featherstone and Papadimitriou, 2008); economic and historical theories, and long-term political economic approaches to the region's development (Bohle and Greskovits, 2012;Epstein and Jacoby, 2014); and political development and party politics approaches, including notions of state capture (Gzymala-Busse, 2007;Innes, 2014). Complementing Europeanization with widerreaching concepts seems to be a correct approach and this paper will explore and apply further extensions of the Europeanization approach to post-accession Lithuania.…”

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“…The emergence of new types of political parties in Lithuania is closely related to this phenomenon. Though new populist parties began to emerge before the provision of structural funding and is a feature seen throughout the CEE region (Innes, 2014), structural funds increased the state's available resources, thus motivating some of these parties to resemble business organizations with the sole aim of appropriating newly available resources 40 .…”

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“…Why should analysts integrate state capture into a Europeanization approach? State capture and corruption are increasingly associated with the development of Central and Eastern Europe after the region's countries joined the EU (Mungiu-Pippidi, 2013;Innes, 2014;Mueller, 2014 Why should analysts integrate development into a Europeanization approach? Development literature provides post-accession change with both an extended temporal and a wider theoretical context.…”

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The perils of succor: The European Union's financial role in the Western Balkans during COVID‐19

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The Western Balkans' response to the first wave of COVID‐19 was efficient and swift. The countries’ capacity to mitigate the crisis has been vastly facilitated by EU fiscal disbursements. The funds have enabled governments to implement health and economic policies that counteract the crisis' socioeconomic repercussions. In this article, I examine the temporal effects of EU conditionality on the health outcomes and democratic governance of Balkan states. Identifying three features of the domestic political context—government accountability, the strength of opposition parties, and judicial system effectiveness—I assess the likelihood of divergent effects of the funds on health and democratic outcomes. I argue that while beneficial in the short term, in the long run, the EU funds risk enabling state capture and inadvertently jeopardizing the Western Balkans' post‐pandemic democratic prospects. I empirically substantiate my argument by examining the relationship between prior EU allocations (Instrument for Pre‐Accession Assistance) and clientelism in WB states during 2007–2017.

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The Political Economy of State Capture in Central Europe

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Cited by 183 publications

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Challenges of Central European Security: Critical Insights

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