Foreign and Security Policy of East Central Europe

Dr. Fanny Schardey

doi:10.5771/9783748960577

Summary

The study examines diverging preferences of Eastern European EU member states towards a more closely integrated CFSP/CSDP despite similar threats from Russia and declining trust in the U.S. within NATO. The author demonstrates that party-political competition over societal value conflicts (GAL/TAN) are decisive in explaining foreign policy preferences. Through a comparative analysis, the study explains how the consequences of globalisation and Europeanisation have led to the formation of specific representation mechanisms that continue to shape the states' integration preferences to this day.

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Bibliographic data

Publication year: 2025
Publication date: 21.07.2025
ISBN-Print: 978-3-7560-3173-3
ISBN-Online: 978-3-7489-6057-7
Publisher: Nomos, Baden-Baden
Series: Außenpolitik und Internationale Ordnung
Language: English
Pages: 362
Product type: Book Titles

1. Acknowledgment No access
2. Abstract No access
3. List of abbreviations No access
1. 1. 1.1 On European insecurities No access
  2. 1.2 Conceptual remarks: Allies doing security No access
  3. 1.3 Politics does not stop at the water’s edge No access
  4. 1.4 Small state foreign policy No access
  5. 1. 1.5.1 NATO alliance No access
    2. 1.5.2 EU alliance No access
  6. 1.6 Outline of this study No access
1. 1. 2.1 New liberalism’s basic rationale No access
  2. 1. 2.2.1 Ideational and commercial liberalism No access
    2. 2.2.2 The neoliberal Zeitgeist and its consequences No access
    3. 2.2.3 Divided societies: The rise of a new cleavage No access
    4. 2.2.4 The nature of salience and foreign politics No access
  3. 1. 2.3.1 Republican liberalism No access
    2. 2.3.2 Executive aggrandizement No access
    3. 2.3.3 The promise of (constitutional) hollowness No access
    4. 2.3.4 Genuine party competition and foreign politics No access
  4. 1. 2.4.1 What is power? No access
    2. 2.4.2 The Russian approach to cultivate ties No access
  5. 1. 2.5.1 Ruling ‘the people’ No access
    2. 2.5.2 Ruling ‘the void’ No access
  6. 1. 2.6.1 Democracy is not, it becomes No access
    2. 2.6.2 Reflections on progressiveness No access
1. 1. 3.1 Mixed method design and case selection No access
  2. 3.2 Pragmatist epistemology No access
  3. 1. 3.3.1 Preference formation: GAL/TAN cleavage No access
    2. 3.3.2 Foreign policy preferences: EU integration No access
  4. 1. 3.4.1 Preference representation: Hollowness and populism No access
    2. 3.4.2 Alliance preferences: EU and NATO alliance No access
1. 1. 4.1 Subtly rejecting Estonia and Latvia No access
  2. 4.2 Enthusiastic Lithuania and Poland No access
  3. 4.3 Ambivalent Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic No access
  4. 4.4 Interim conclusion No access
2. 1. 5.1 Russification under Tsarist rule No access
  2. 5.2 Pathways of Sovietization No access
  3. 5.3 Hollow birth of the Republic of Estonia No access
  4. 1. Domestic politics No access
  5. 1. 1. Domestic politics No access
      2. Foreign politics No access
    2. 1. Domestic politics No access
      2. Foreign politics No access
    3. 1. Domestic politics No access
      2. Foreign politics No access
    4. 1. Domestic politics No access
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  6. 5.6 Interim conclusion No access
3. 1. 6.1 Nominal independence under Soviet influence No access
  2. 6.2 Hollow birth of the Republic of Poland No access
  3. 6.3 Return to Europe: Early socialization through Euro-Atlantic integration No access
  4. 1. 1. Domestic politics No access
      2. Foreign politics No access
    2. 1. Domestic politics No access
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    3. 1. Domestic politics No access
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    4. 1. Domestic politics No access
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  5. 6.5 Interim conclusion No access
4. 7. Synthesis: Findings of cross-case and comparative case analyses No access
1. 1. 8.1 Summary, limitations and future research No access
  2. 8.2 Global failure of representation No access
  3. 8.3 Ever further EU integration? No access
Bibliography No access Pages 327 - 362