Newsletter - Social Science in Eastern Europe 2001- special issue
The Countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the EU: Attitudes and Perceptions
Preface
The publication at hand is the result of the Workshop "The EU and the Countries of Central and Eastern Europe: Attitudes and Perceptions" held on December 13, 1999 and organised by the Social Science Information Centre, Department Information Transfer Eastern Europe. 30 participants, among them 12 representatives from a range of CEE countries were brought together to review attitudes to, opinions about and perceptions of Europe. Some of the participants submitted papers, which we decided to publish as a special edition of the Newsletter.
The Workshop was aimed to give an inside-view of the perceptions of Europe in the post-socialist countries: social researchers from Central and Eastern Europe presented a differentiated picture giving many impulses and incentives for an intergovernmental European policy. The main subject of country contributions was the development of discourses (political, social, economic) on Europe, European integration, and the attitude of the population in CEE countries to those processes
There are numerous research works, dealing with the opening of the EU to the East European states and focusing on economic, political and legal issues. The sociological aspects of accession have been somehow neglected. For this reason socio-psychological studies with reference to perceptions on and attitudes to Europe in the potential member countries are of particular interest for social scientists in Western Europe.
Due to some editional problems concerning the final preparation of the publication we were not able to publish the contributions earlier. But we are still of the firm conviction that the overviews delivered are of a great relevance for scholarly as well as for practical purposes.
1. Introduction
1.1. Pál Tamás
Public Perceptions of the Europeization and Sovereignty Debates in the Enlargement countries. The theoretical framework
1.2. Pál Tamás
The European Welfare State and Welfare Expectations in the Central European Enlargement Countries
1.3. Csaba
Dupcsik
The West, the East, and the Border-lining
2. COUNTRY REPORTS
2.1. Bulgaria
Nikolai Genov
The Southeastern European Path Towards Globalization: the Role of the European Union
2.2. Czech Republic
Lenka Rovna
Images of Europe: the Czech Perspectiv
2.3. Estonia
Aksel Kirch, Iris Brökling, Mart Kivimäe
Images of Europe - The Country Study Estonia
2.4. Hungary
Pál Tamás
Selling Europe to the Enlargement Countries: the Hungarian Approach
2.5. Romania
Zoltan A. Biro, Zoltan Rostas
Images of Europe in Romania: The EU Discourse
2.6. Russian Federation
Nikolai Kaveshnikov
Europe and the European Union: the Russian View
2.7. Slovak Republic
Ján Bunčák, Magdaléna Piscová
Modern National Identity of Slovaks and Their Attitude Towards Europe
2.8. Slovenia
Frane Adam, Mitja Hafner-Fink, Samo Uhan
Slovenia and the European Union: Attitudes and Perceptions
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