Очевидно, что сегодня реальный политический вес этих государств серьезно разнится, несмотря на формальное юридическое равенство в границах ЕС. Дело не только в разных темпоритмах экономических процессов: идентичность стран Центральной Европы также формировалась и формируется разными путями, с учетом хотя бы того факта, что Венгрия, Польша, Словакия и Чехия пережили «бархатные революции» и демократический транзит, а Австрия и Швейцария остались вне этого процесса. Есть ли смысл заглядывать в прошлое более отдаленное, нежели период рубежа 1990-х гг.?
На наш взгляд, интересно проанализировать, какую роль сыграл общий опыт сосуществования этих стран в границах (или подле, если говорить о Швейцарии) империи Габсбургов, которая стала пусть и не очень удачным, но все же заслуживающим пристального внимания опытом интеграции центральноевропейского пространства. В случае Польши стоит рассмотреть и особенности ее пребывания в пределах Российской империи. Мы ставим перед собой задачу проанализировать, насколько чувство империи жизнеспособно в качестве политического инструмента в условиях современного политического процесса в Центральной Европе.
IS THE MEMORY OF THE EMPIRE THE FACTOR OF THE INTEGRATION OF THE MODERN CENTRAL EUROPE?
In the time when European Union has become an impressive example of supranational integration and has united heterogeneous states, it is worth considering the factors except for pragmatic which unite this area and the way integration opportunities can overweigh disintegration risks in contemporary conditions of geopolitical instability and permanently occurring economic turbulence. It is also worth referring to previously realized scenarios to think which options of organising political-geographical space, which have stood the test of
time, can be used nowadays.
The aim of this paper is to reveal some aspects of the integration process in the contemporary Central Europe (Austria, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, Czech Republic and sometimes Switzerland). For instance, the specificity of Central Europe lies in the fact that it is within political rather than geographical borders since its geographical centre is in the utmost West of Ukraine (village Delovoe of Rakhovskij district, Zakarpattia obsast) but from the political-cultural viewpoint the centre of gravity is situated in the Western direction. It is evident that political heft of these states differs despite formal judicial equality within the European Union. The crux of the matter is not in the rhythms of economic processes but in the fact that the idenity of these countires has been formed or is being formed in different ways, concerning the fact that some of them (Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and Czech Republic) have passed the period of Socialism and the so called «velvet revolutions», the others (Austria and Switzerland) have not. Does it make sense to analyze the past earlier than 1990-s?
From the author’s perspective it is worth analysing the role of shared experience of coexistence within the borders of Hapsburg Empire or close to them (as far as Switzerland is concerned). Hapsburg Empire had become noteworthy experience of integration of Central European region even though it was not so successful. In the case of Poland it is also worth examining its features during the periods of its existence within the Russian Empire. The aim of the author is to analyse the extent of viability of the imperial feeling as a political instrument in the context of contemporary political process in Central Europe.
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