Kapitalista átalakulás és változó geopolitikai erőtér: Kelet-Közép-Európa három évtizede
Capitalist Transformation and Changing Geopolitical Context: Three Decades of Central and Eastern Europe

Summary/Abstract: The content of the term “Central Europe” usually means the idea of “in-betweenness”, the region between East and West. Nowadays the 11 Central and Eastern European countries which belong to the European Union represent this idea. The study summarizes the essential features of capitalist economic transformation that resulted in substantial convergence to the EU average in GDP. Currently the region faces not only new economic difficulties but the consequences of a changing and unstable world order. The EU is in a difficult position due to the tensions between China and the USA. The author argues that the influence of the EU depends on not only economic and political issues but the insistence on the universal norms of human rights attacked by non-democratic regimes. Social scientists from Central and Eastern Europe could play a proactive role in intercultural dialogues to reformulate the content of human rights which may be the guidance on managing global challenges.

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