20.500.12556/RUL-138332 The stigmatisation of Central Europe via (failed) socialisation narrative This article builds on the criticism of the international socialisation narrative which mistakenly represents compliance as socialisation and recognises agency only to the extent it fails to comply. It pertains to the argument that such a narrative can lead to stigmatisation which reinforces social orders characterised by specific hierarchies of power and spatial relations. The example of EU member states from Central Europe (CE) that went from "star pupils of norm adoption" to "misbehaving children of Europe" serves as a case study. The research of literature treating CE countries as socialisees and international organisations (OSCE, NATO and EU) as socialisers shows two things. Firstly, it demonstrates that CE countries internalised norms even before they complied with norm-based rules, which challenges views that (under) socialisation was (is) an issue with these states. Secondly, it shows that non-compliance of the CE countries did not have much to do with non-acceptance of norms as such. It was rather related to hypersensitivity towards specific norms and rules in a context of multiple crises with asymmetric effects for the CE countries. In this process, the EU and CE used (non)compliance to reinforce their identities, thus creating stigma (the EU) and the attempt to resist it or even wear it as the source of pride (CE). Evropska unija Mednarodni odnosi Geopolitika Norme Socializacija Stigmatizacija Srednja Evropa European Union International Relations Geopolitics Norms Socialization Stigmatization Central Europe true false true Angleški jezik Angleški jezik Srednja Evropa; Central Europe; Članek v reviji 2022-07-15 16:06:44 2022-07-15 16:06:50 2022-09-15 04:16:34 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2021 0 0 Str. 890-909 no. 4 Vol. 24 Dec. 2021 0000-00-00 PostprintKoncna NiDoloceno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 2021-12-01 2022-07-07 341.217:327(4-191.2) 1408-6980 10.1057/s41268-021-00229-9 75124739 Lovec_et_al-2021-Journal_of_International_Relations_and_Development.pdf Lovec_et_al-2021-Journal_of_International_Relations_and_Development.pdf 1 D6B08AB327A1663C006AEB359DF7B501 8abde51931513fda9c6e99747ab11da3cbea6380519ee79cecd17bbd24bae73d 197dbb5c-0e54-11ed-8aca-00155dcfd717 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=158938 Fakulteta za družbene vede 0 0 0