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Rhetorical Strategies, Institutional Dilemmas: the Visegrád Group and the Baltic Cooperation Facing the EU and NATO Accession Process
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Abstract Academic and policy literature frequently supports the idea that the process of accession to the European Union and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization might have triggered the emergence and development of functional regional cooperation in the former communist space. In this article, using the c... view more
Academic and policy literature frequently supports the idea that the process of accession to the European Union and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization might have triggered the emergence and development of functional regional cooperation in the former communist space. In this article, using the cases of the Baltic Cooperation and Visegrád Group, I argue that, far from being enhanced by the EU and NATO enlargement processes, the regional dimension rarely found itself at ease with the institutional requisites for accession to these two Western organizations.... view less
Keywords
EU; NATO; CEFTA; eastwards expansion; EU expansion; international cooperation; political development; Baltic States; security policy; foreign policy; Lithuania; Latvia; Estonia; institutional factors
Classification
International Relations, International Politics, Foreign Affairs, Development Policy
Document language
English
Publication Year
2008
Page/Pages
p. 75-86
Journal
Annals of the University of Bucharest / Political science series, 10 (2008)
ISSN
1582-2486
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works