Külpolitika - A Magyar Külügyi Intézet elméleti-politikai folyóirata - 1990 (17. évfolyam)
1990 / 1. szám - A tanulmányok angol nyelvű tartalmi kivonata
Béla Kádár Reflections about the economic meaning of the rebirth of the Central Europe notion The economic rebirth of the Central Europe concept is explained by many kinds of interlinked processes; the 1992 west European response to the challegens of the technology-intensive world economic growth and the relative world economic loss of ground by Europe, the comprehensive economic, political, institutional and civilisation crisis unfolding in the^Comecon countries, as well as global detente and the changing Soviet social-economic reality, strategic mentality, and capability to act, as a result the process of renewal unfolding Central Europe and the social-political qualities. The community of fate of the central European countries in their history of development, their particular transition to a market economy, state of law, Western Europe which proceeds a- long a path of integral historic development of pluralism and the East European model of a belated economic development guided by social- power mechnism. At present the accelerating erosion of the Comecon economic system and regional system of power, and the low and dwindling level of economic cooperation between the countries of Central Europe, and a particular transitional economy forming as a consequence of the time-exacting nature of the more powerful socio-economic transformation require new Central European dimensions in the all-European cooperation system. Although the individual central European countries, through their particular features and scope of action, seek individually to improve their positions in the Western Europe-centred Europe of circles, progress from being on the outside, from the most external circle to the inside circles — similarly to the Central European social transformation will unfold gradually as part of a longer process. The success chances of a violencefree transformation in Central Europe could be improved in the period of transition by a subregional system of cooperation ranging form the Baltic region to the Adriatic Sea, and a free trade zone which on the one hand and with differing intensity would link the interested Central European countries, and on the other, link the Central Europe- centred circle into the west European concentric circles as well as to the Eastern Europe-centred system of cooperation. The earliest possible organi- sable hardcore of central European cooperation could be meant by Austrian—Hungarian—Yugoslav subregional relations. These, on the basis of success and interest by the transformation process of the other member countries can be continually extended at various levels of intensity. The national interests linked to central European economic cooperation vary today but can be harmonised to European stability and along common interests related to a reassuring settling of the German issue, without endangering the foundations of the European home and the Europe of the circles. Péter Deák After Yalta (crisis of the military blocs) In connection with the summit meeting at Malta the author surveys the 45- year old history of European security and draws the final conclusion that one can witness a process of crisis and disintegration of the military blocs. His point of departure is that the division of Europe at Yalta was based on political and military-strategic realities and logically led to a point where between 1949 and 1955 a system of coalition of the continent irradiating to the whole world was formed which constituted also a particular structure of multilateral security forcefully guaranteed by the military blocs for the small and medium-size countries affected in the individual spheres of interest. He states that this system has fulfilled its functions of creating and maintaining security but its inner contradictions and political consequences had appeared from the outset. According to the author, the known or imagined forms of the system of guaranteed security are as follows: V
