Regionálna spolupráca v strednej Európe na začiatku 21. storočia - nové podoby a nové výzvy
Regional Co-operation in Central Europe at the Beginning of the 21st Century- New Forms and New Challenges

Author(s): Pavol Lukáč
Subject(s): Politics, Geography, Regional studies, Diplomatic history, International relations/trade, Transformation Period (1990 - 2010)
Published by: Research Center of the Slovak Foreign Policy Association (RC SFPA)
Keywords: Slovakia; 2001; foreign policy;regional cooperation; Central Europe; Visegrad;
Summary/Abstract: In the modern history the area of Central Europe has been traditionally not only the area of clashes and conflicts resulting from its multiethnic and multicultural character, but also the place that gave origin to many plans of supra-national co-operation of the nations living in this sub-region of the European continent. Not all of them were predetermined to succeed and many projects of Central-European federations and con-federations made by prominent political thinkers of the individual Central-European nations ended up only on paper. Despite this, they had their importance at least as inspiration for their descendents creating new political projects of co-operation of the Central European nations. Typical of this region seems to be as well the fact that in its hectic history it has been, so to say, oscillating between short seasons, in which the nations living in this area tried to co-operate with one another with the aim of reaching major goals, and those seasons of rivalry and animosity, automatically pre-venting them from reaching these major goals.

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