Abstract
This paper focuses on Central Eastern Europe (CEE) as an example of an integrated periphery in the automotive industry. In addition to a comparative analysis of foreign direct investment in the automotive industry of CEE, the author provides a detailed description of the sector's developments country by country.
The paper argues that the 2008-2009 global economic crisis coincided with the end of the period of rapid expansion of the CEE automotive industry that was related to the opening up of CEE to foreign trade and FDI in the 1990s and European Union membership in the 2000s.