title: Cross-National Analysis in the EU: North-South Cleavages as a Conceptual Map of the European Union
abstract: Despite seventy years of continued integration, membership of the European Union is still highly differentiated. The asymmetry of economic development concerns several areas. The aim of this analysis was to identify frequent disproportions in performance, as well as differences in the perception of these countries. The method was a comparison of selected EU member states according to Rokkan’s approach of binary entities and Wallerstein's center- periphery model. However, objectively verifiable f
journal: Slovak Journal of International Relations