Horizontální evropeizace: teoretická úvaha nad horizontální formou konceptu evropeizace
Kristina Špottová
HORIZONTAL EUROPEANIZATION: THE THEORETICAL CONSIDERATION ON THE HORIZNTAL FORM OF THE CONCEPTThis article aims at the underdevelopment of the concept of Europeanization in general and its horizontal form in specific. Although the concept of Europeanization is the subject of number of researches, its horizontal form is still rather underdeveloped, despite the rather frequent usage of the name. The goal of this article is to provide the definition of the used but not adequately explained concept of horizontal Europeanization, based on the examination and analysis of its key aspects (i.e. process, change and subjects). The definition is in the further part of this article specified by distinguishing between the horizontal Europeanization and the cyclic Europeanization or false horizontal Europeanization, using the characteristics of the process and the activity of the EU institutions, respectively as the distinction. The definition of the concept of horizontal Europeanization serves as a theoreticalexplanation of the name used in current research and also as a background for better empirical understanding of the horizontal processes. The description and even discovery of such processes should be clearer and easier if based on this definition rather than on currently available general definitions or particular descriptions of selected processes.
