Prague Economic Papers 2007, 16(4):358-377 | DOI: 10.18267/j.pep.314

New Regionalism as a Part of the Transformation Strategy - Cases in Central and Eastern Europe and Asia (Czech Republic, Russia and China)

Pavel Hnát, Eva Cihelková
University of Economics, Faculty of International Relations, Prague (hnatp@vse.cz, cihelka@vse.cz).

New Regionalism differs markedly from previous development of regional integration. These changes are connected mainly to the necessity of regionalism to react to changing global conditions, new world political order and entrance of new actors into regional integration (i.e. states and superpowers that did not take part in previous waves at all or on a limited scale, i.e. China). This applies also for the transforming countries, at which the regionalism can be observed as late as in its third wave during the 1990s (which applies for the Central and Eastern Europe as well as for the Commonwealth of Independent States' countries) or even later (which applies for China). The aim of this paper is to compare the role of the New Regionalism in most eminent cases in the three parts of the transforming region: in Central and Eastern Europe, in the Commonwealth of Independent States' region and in East Asia. As cases, the Czech Republic, Russia and China were selected, which should enable the study of not only regional aspects, but also selected global impacts of regionalism.

Keywords: Czech Republic, new regionalism, transformation strategy, Russia, China
JEL classification: F02, F13, F15, F55

Published: January 1, 2007  Show citation

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Hnát, P., & Cihelková, E. (2007). New Regionalism as a Part of the Transformation Strategy - Cases in Central and Eastern Europe and Asia (Czech Republic, Russia and China). Prague Economic Papers, 16(4), 358-377. doi: 10.18267/j.pep.314
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