نوع مقاله : مقاله علمی- پژوهشی مستقل
نویسندگان
1 استادیار گروه مطالعات منطقه ای دانشکده حقوق و علوم سیاسی دانشگاه تهران
2 دانشکده حقوق و علوم سیاسی دانشگاه تهران
چکیده
کلیدواژهها
موضوعات
عنوان مقاله [English]
نویسندگان [English]
Central and Eastern European country (CEECs) from 1989 onward took a neoliberal turn despite having experienced decades of communist rule. At the same time, the European Union (EU) enjoyed a particularly attractive image—evoking the return to Europe—among the people and governments of the region. While CEECs’ security concerns were mostly of a military threat during communist rule, post-communism CEECs’ security concerns have undergone transformation and changed in nature. This study sets to answer the following research question: what role does the EU play with regard to security concerns of post-communist CEECs? To answer this question, the main hypothesis is that the EU—in the form of a neoliberal historical bloc—has brought about special security concerns for the CEECs. Regarding the research methodology, we adopted a qualitative method under the neo-Gramscian theoretical framework and carried through statistical analysis to examine the research question. The research findings indicate that under the workings of diverse mechanisms of EU neoliberal block, Central and Eastern European countries today deal with the issue of security from the economic dimension (the weakening of domestic industries, the housing crisis and the dependent capitalist economy) to political (political dependence), human (alienation and otherness), and socio-cultural one (elite recruitment in the neoliberal project and weakening of the higher education system).
کلیدواژهها [English]
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