The idea of Central Europe was combined with the political project to build a regional integration around the corner of the Visegrad Four. Taken together, this Central European project could accelerate the process of regionalizing security within NATO, predicting a change in Central Europe’s fundamental relationship with Germany, in the West, and Russia from the East. Central and Eastern Europe have been a playground for great powers for centuries, and the chances of survival relied heavily on the ability of states to work together. Several geopolitical initiatives served as a reference point throughout the twentieth century and even today. Our approach focuses on the political impulses that are affected by internal and external layers, local, national, and European context that is a consequence of the geographic location of these two countries. We use the “postmodern” geopolitical imagination that would be the ability to think in terms of space in a world where borders and distance lose their meaning. We would like to investigate the problems of postcolonial structures, the effects, and the threats of so-called “white colonialism” in the question of how to understand this phenomenon in the next world order after the collapse of the bipolar system. The erosion of borders, and the approaches of new regionalisms, or the new forms of regional integration, the reinvention of national spaces, the new spaces of identity and imagined communities, and the restless formation and reformation of geographical landscapes in the Central and Eastern European region determine the region’s ability to balance between East and West. Apart from greater constructions, like TSI, we put other constructed regions in our investigation; among others the V4, the L3, the Eastern Partnership, and the Western Balkan from the V4 dimension, and the wider concepts, such as the Three Seas Initiative, the Intermarium concept, and their role in the current European and the global context.
Mots clés : subregional concepts|regional integration|security|Europeanisation
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