The Light and Ancillary Regionalism in Central Europe

This chapter will approach regionalism in Central Europe with the aim of highlighting its features and set-up. For Central European countries (CECs) regionalism was mainly intended as the possibility to join the European Community (EC), a powerful regional organization, rather than as the opportunity to engage in the process of regionalization, understood as an active process of change towards increased cooperation, integration, convergence, coherence, and identityPost-communist CECs were not willing to participate in a regional process of cooperation/integration among themselves, as they believed that only through membership in the EC they could achieve at once economic recovery, democratization, and security