94463 - THE REGIONAL COOPERATION IN EAST CENTRAL EUROPE AND THE DANUBE-BALKAN BASIN

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 In the lectures and seminars of the Course, macro-regional cooperation in Central and South Eastern Europe will be broadly covered with particular attention to the role and activities of regional and sub-regional networks e.g. Central European Initiative, Regional Cooperation Council, Baltic See Economic Cooperation as well as various forms of cross-border cooperation (CBC) initiatives. Within the Course, special attention will be devoted to Visegrad Cooperation (Visegrad Group, Visegrad Four, V4). The lectures will offer a detailed description and analysis of the first 25 year history of the Group covering the achievements and challenges alike with special regard to the role of „Višegrad diplomacy” in the process of the member countries’ Euro-Atlantic integration, their adjustement and collective representation of interest within EU structures and also the development of „Višegrad +” formats. Historical circumstances, socio-economic and cultural factors of regional cohesion between the founding countries will be highlighted along with changes of external environment effecting the origins and development of the cooperation. Due attention will be paid to the evaluation of security, energy and other areas of sectoral cooperation as well as the first decade of International Višegrad Fund, and its contribution to the member states’ cultural development  The objective of the module is to offer complex, descriptive and analytical knowledge about the historical conditions under which the new democracies of East-Central Europe (ECE) have been adjusting to the global world order in the first almost three decades after the change of regimes, while developing their new foreign policies. Due attention will be devoted to the inter-relation between historical heritage, geo-political and socio-economic endowments of ECE region on the one hand and the new options of foreign policies, on the other. The new attitudes and roles of ECE countries in international institutions as e.g. UN, OECD, WTO, IMF/IBRD, EU, OSCE and NATO will also be highlighted. Students are expected to acquire a sound knowledge of history of policies of regional development in Central and Eastern Europe, with a specific focus on the Visegrad Group, CEI and Black Sea Cooperation Initiative as well as on Euroregions and cross-border cooperation in the framework of the EU integration processes. Moreover, students will learn about the most recent EU policies that have launched the Baltic Sea Region and the Danube initiative.

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