Understanding Central Europe

ISBN-13: 9780367885809 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 580 str.

Marcin Moskalewicz; Wojciech Przybylski

Opis

“Central Europe” is a vague and ambiguous term, more to do with outlook and a state of mind than with a firmly defined geographical region. This book explores the concept of “Central Europe” and the meaning of the term. It considers a wide range of issues including politics, nationalism, democracy, and the impact of culture, art and history.

Spis treści

Acknowledgments

Making sense of Central Europe: political concepts of the region (Marcin Moskalewicz, Wojciech Przybylski)

Part I: Positioning Central Europe

1) Positioning in global hierarchies: the case of Central Europe  (Attila Mellegh)
2) Centers of Europe (Mate Zombory)
3) Creating Central Europe in Polish and Czech Samizdat  (Weronika Parafinowicz-Wertun )
4) Transition/transformation, state capture or varieties of capitalism? (Marcel Tomasek)
5) Europeanization (Michal Wenzel)

Part II: Orientalism

6) Which way east?  A conceptual misunderstanding (Adam Reichardt)
7) Problem of “Western” approach to the “East” – a need for more careful listening and better understanding (Igor Lyubashenko)
8) Poland and the East (Tomasz Zarycki)
9) The East in the Czech perspective (Radomír Sztwiertni)
10) On "East", "Central" and "Eastern" Europe: Belarus and Central European politics of identity (Aliaksei Kazharski)

Part III: Geopolitics

11) Regional geopolitics perspective of contemporary Poland: same or different with other V4 Countries? (Wojciech Kazanecki)
12) Geopolitics in the Polish national strategies  (Łukasz Medeksza)
13) Towards a sustainable Visegrad: some reflections on the future role of Central Europe in the EU (Tomáš Strážay)
14) Popular geopolitics: understanding the Central European space in the Czech Republic (Matus Halas)
15) Regional geopolitics: the case of Hungary (Attila Jakab)

Part IV: Nationalism

16) Nation: Central European context (Radoslaw Zenderowski)
17) The normative isomorphism of language, nation and state (Thomas Kamusella)
18) Nation and region in Central Europe (Bálint Varga)
19) My hero, your enemy: competing national memory cultures and symbolic politics in Central Europe (Bálint Varga)
20) The concept of "nation" in Polish educational books (Daniel Ciunajcis)
21) Narra

O autorze

Marcin Moskalewicz is a Fellow at the Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH) and Assistant Professor at the Department of Social Sciences, Poznań University of Medical Sciences, Poland.

Wojciech Przybylski is the Editor-in-Chief of Visegrad Insight – a magazine on Central Europe – and Chairman of Res Publica Foundation in Warsaw.