Cross-national analysis in the EU: North-South cleavages as a conceptual map of the European Union

Irah KUČEROVÁ ^[1]

https://doi.org/10.53465/SJIR.1339-2751.2023.1.5-28

 

Abstract: Despite seventy years of continued integration, membership of the European Union is still highly differentiated. The asymmetry of economic development concerns several areas. The aim of this analysis was to identify frequent disproportions in performance, as well as differences in the perception of these countries. The method was a comparison of selected EU member states according to Rokkan's approach of binary entities and Wallerstein's center-periphery model. However, objectively verifiable facts within the conceptual mapping of reality tend to be distorted by the creation of a mental map, when we automatically consider the original EU-15 to be more advanced than EU-13. The analysis carried out does not confirm this assumption.

Keywords: cross-national analysis, North–South cleavages, developmental asymmetry, economic performance, technologies, centre-periphery model, conceptual map of the EU, mental map

JEL: F15, O10, P51

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Submitted: 6. 12. 2022 | Accepted: 7. 2. 2023 | Published 15. 3. 2023

 

To cite this article (APA style):

Kučerová, I. (2023). Cross-national analysis in the EU: Notrh–South cleavages as a conceptual map of the European Union. Medzinárodné vzťahy – Slovak Journal of International Relations, 21(1), 5 – 28. https://doi.org/10.53465/SJIR.1339-2751.2023.1.5-28

 

Publisher: University of Economics in Bratislava

ISSN online: 1339-2751

 

^[1] PhDr. Irah Kučerová, PhD., Department of International Relations, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University Prague, Pekařská 16, 158 00 Praha 5, e-mail: . https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7256-6204