Keywords
defense
infrastructure
evaluation
initiatives
Neorealism
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The article explores new developments in the Central Eastern Europe, concentrating on regional and global initiatives and alliances, role of infrastructure in times of increased risk of new conflicts, and how the European Union’s policies and institutions are adjusting and responding to that. The Article seeks to explain through the lens of neorealism how the individual interest of the CEE member states influences changes of Cohesion Policy towards dual use infrastructure investment. The article also examine impact on evaluation methods and how to adjust and assess the EU’s policies towards budling defense capabilities using the European Union’s instruments.
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