ABSTRACT

Miklosˇ’s view is representative of the new spirit that drove policy-making throughout the V4 region at the end of the nineties. While strategies aimed at promoting national accumulation dominated the region until the mid-1990s, in 1999 the V4 states found themselves competing for the favour of foreign investors. Inward-oriented regimes had been transformed into states that were fine-tuned to compete for mobile transnational capital. Why did this transformation happen? What pushed state strategies in the competition direction? What are the carriers and mechanisms for internationalization? In order to answer these questions, this chapter analyses the political and structural underpinning of the competition state in the V4 region.