REGIONNESS IN POLITICAL REGIONALIZATION OF VISEGRAD COUNTRIES

The principal system conflict within the European Union (EU) is imbalance between the level of economic integration and political integration. This imbalance is reflected in the EU's foreign policy unsure position in the situation, when Europe's borders touching armed conflicts and hybrid war. From that reasons, there are two main effective ways, how can small state promote their national interest in international environment. The first effective way is membership in big international organizations of rather integrative character (EU, North Atlantic Treaty Organization NATO) or cooperative character (United Nations UN, Council of Europe CE), where their voice promotes equality of member states or a similar mechanism. However, interests of Member States used to be fragmented, thus, ultimately, interests of large power states prevail. The second effective way is create smaller operative groups, type of Visegrad Group (V4) without fixed institutional structure. Guarantee for their functionality is mutual benefit and ability for rapid operational decisions. The source of the functionality of regional groupings both internally and externally is the extent of their internal ability to act. For this ability offers theory of regionalism term of regionness, which refer to internal capacity to create regions. High regionness refers to strong tendency to regionalization, when low regionness causes weak tendency to regionness. The potential of regionness has it sources in geopolitical position, history and political culture. Study offer comparison main factors of regionness among Visegrad Group countries for better understanding