Globalization and Regionalization in Central Europe: Positive and Negative Responses to the Global Challenge

  • Attila Ágh
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Abstract

Globalization has become a magic word in the last decades, first of all after the collapse of the bipolar world order. It has been understood in many ways and in many fields as if the so called ‘Global Challenge’ had acted as an omnipotent and omnipresent force - inevitably and with the same consequences everywhere (see, Waterman 1996 and Power 1997). When we discuss, however, the transformation of East Central Europe (ECE - Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia and Croatia) in an inter-regional comparison, we can identify both its ambiguous, dual (positive and negative) effects and indirect consequences or side-effects. It must also be emphasized that globalization has increased the parallel and counterbalancing processes of regionalization. Thus, an inter-regional comparison clearly suggests that all regions have met the global challenge in their own specific way, that is with a particular mixture of positive and negative responses, and with some characteristic side effects.1

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Global Challenge Balkan Country East Central Reverse Wave Snowball Effect 
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