Külpolitika - A Magyar Külügyi Intézet elméleti-politikai folyóirata - 1988 (15. évfolyam)
1988 / 1. szám - A tanulmáynok orosz és angol nyelvű tartalmi kivonata
the danger of West-Europeanizing the Eastern part of Central Europe. A narrower version of the conceptions about Central Europe is concerned with pragmatic cooperation among Austria, Yugoslavia, Hungary and Czechoslovakia on the basis of socio-political and military realities and, in general, with the upgrading of the dynamizing and stabilizing role of small countries as set in the perspective of a new dimension of cooperation. In its widespread and specifically Western usage, Europeanization denotes efforts at bringing about a more independent structure of West-European security policy, at the West-Europeanization of NATO. The genuine all-Eudopean substance of Europeanization lies in the CSCE process and as such is indicative of the historical path from the small Europe of the cold-war years to All Europe, being likely to be conducive to the creation of an all-European conflict structure demilitarized and attaining a growing political weight of its own. A specific all-European dimension of „Europeanization” is postulated by Gorbachev’s idea of a European „common house”, which is also an expression of the Soviet Union’s new policy towards Western Europe. Within the context of the problems of substance and structure, the study deals with the multiplephase concepts of Europe’s „Europeanization” which equate this term with the process of Europe’s emancipation from the world powers, claiming that the ideological communities of cold-war times see their role diminishing and that normal conflicts of Europeanized interests are emerging, the ultimate goal being a blockless „European peace structure” or a „Eurocollective security system” in which the two world powers will lose their central role in Europe they came to play after World War Two or will be able to maintain that role only in changed form. The different versions of these concepts proceed from the well-known „world power symmetry” approach, mistakenly regarding the Soviet Union as a non-European or a semi-European country and the ultimate goal, that of dismantling the blocks, as an immediate task or a means, thus giving rise to more problems than they are thought to solve. The peculiar concepts of Europeanization may also serve as a means of concealing or affirming national interests, as is illustrated both by de Gaulle’s multidimensional European policy and by the treaty-form. Ostpolitik fitted into Brandt’s European policy. Finally, the „Europeanization” of the foreign policies of small countries — first and foremost their interest in the continuity of East-West political, economic and other relations — is similarly expressive of national interests or is likely to be a means of affirming them. From the Hungarian viewpoint, the real agent of Europeanization is, over and above any concept of partial Europeanization, the CSCE process, which provides a framework also for a legitimate affirmation of all-European interests in addition to or beyond allied, national and even block interests. Owing to the specifics of Hungary’s history of development, the European content or Eurosensitivity of its foreign policy is of an extremely high degree, even in a world other than Euro- centred. All-Europeanization as expressed in the CSCE process may facilitate the historically determined dual adaptation of Hungary’s development within the socialist community to the fast-changing requirementg-of the world economy. Zoltán Siidy: Efforts at the Institutionalization of Economic Cooperation in the Pacific Region The Pacific basin is the region of the world where most of the great powers are in geographical contact, and hence their political, military and, last but not least, economic interests, often conflicting as they are, naturally manifest themselves in direct form. In that basin the Soviet Union and the United States, the Soviet Union and China border on each other and, moreover, there is Japan, which, as a neighbour of all the three great powers, is being regarded increasingly as a power not only economic, but also political and, in a limited sense, military. XII
