Security challenges to Central European bordering territories: view from the Transcarpatian region of Ukraine
Security challenges to Central European bordering territories: view from the Transcarpatian region of Ukraine
Author(s): Myrosława LendelSubject(s): Regional Geography, Security and defense, Peace and Conflict Studies
Published by: Collegium Civitas
Keywords: Central Europe; Ukraine; security; stability
Summary/Abstract: The factor of integral Central European space determines the formation of common challenges to the region's security. One part of them is not visualized or not perceived in the capital cities. These threats may be most vividly traced in the Transcarpathian region of Ukraine, taking into consideration the fact that it borders with the abovementioned countries. These are ethnopolitical threats, caused by the multiethnic population of the region, energy dependence, threats of social economic peripherization of Central European bordering territories, informational influence on the population, different attitudes to Ukraine-Russia conflict.
Journal: Securitologia
- Issue Year: 1/2015
- Issue No: 21
- Page Range: 61-73
- Page Count: 13
- Language: English