5. Concluding Reflections
5.2. Further Research
This project analyses the importance of transitional justice in the democratisation of the Czech Republic and Slovakia and concludes that transitional justice assists democratisations in situations where a regular regime shift has happened. However, in cases where such a discontinuity of the political elite did not take place, transitional justice does little difference and Europeanisation is crucial for democratisation. Nevertheless, the analysis of
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Europeanisation is focused on policies from the 1990s and early 2000. In contrary to the time before the fifth enlargement15 in 2004 and the sixth enlargement16 in 2007, the nationalistic parties within the EU Member States have become an important determining factor of the EU development. These parties demand a limit and decrease of the influence of the EU in the individual Member State, and question the foundation of the EU as the free movement of goods, services and people (DF 2009, Euro News 2014). An eighth enlargement towards the West Balkans, Eastern Europe or the Mediterranean South therefore seems many years into the future. Given the fact that the EU does not offer the prospect of membership to these countries, the diffusion of norms through institutionalising the relationship with associated countries is the more and more difficult.
Therefore, a further analysis of the normative power Europe and the diffusion of norms to the neighbourhood would add important perspectives about democratisation in Europe as well as in its neighbouring countries today.
Furthermore, the project focuses on the democratisation of the Czech Republic and Slovakia in the transitional years of the 1990s. However, this excludes the long-term aspect of transitional justice. Even though only 25 years have passed and additional 25 years would improve the long-term aspects of transitional justice measures, it would still be possible to conduct a more thorough analysis of the democracy in the Czech Republic and Slovakia today, in order to elaborate implemented transitional justice measures in consolidated democracies.
15 The fifth enlargement was the accession of Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia,
Hungary, Slovenia, Cyprus, and Malta (European Commission 2013b).
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Annex 1: Presentation of the interviewees Annex 2: Interview-guide Jasek, P.
Annex 3: Interview-guide Just, P. Annex 4: Interview-guide Matejka, O. Annex 5: Interview-guide Mihalikova, S. Annex 6: Interview-guide Ripka, V.
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