DETUROPE - The Central European Journal of Regional Development and Tourism 2023, 15(2):9-27 | DOI: 10.32725/det.2023.010

From the “West of the East” to the “East of the West”: The post-socialist economic and structural transition of Central and South-Eastern Europe

Szilárd Rácz, Ildikó Egyed
CERS Institute for Regional Studies, Papnövelde u. 22., 7621 Pécs, Hungary

Despite its normative goals of deepening interstate integration, ‘de-bordering’ European societies and promoting a greater degree of territorial cohesion, the European Union remains a highly and intricately bordered space. Economic bordering within the EU involves the investigation of the geoeconomic relationships that have emerged as a result of global market re-integration and EU membership of post-socialist states during the economic transition of Central and South-Eastern Europe. The objective of this paper is to provide a comprehensive review of the transformation processes of the Central and South-Eastern European region.

Keywords: Integration, transition, economic development, geoeconomics, core-periphery relations, urban development

Published: December 31, 2023  Show citation

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