LECTURE 12
Regionalism, competition and geopolitics: European
integration in Central Europe
The debate around the
definitions of what equality/inequality means dominated the problem-centred discussion
during this class. Referring to the effects of contemporary economic policies,
several students expressed a rather pessimistic viewpoint concerning the
ability and political will of the key “global society” actors to overcome the
huge gap, which today separates the rich and the poor countries of the world.
Almost all students agreed that supportive policies to the benefit of the
poorer must be integrated into the concept of promoting equality, but they were
divided in assessing just how far such supportive policies should go.