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Does the eurozone crisis threaten liberal reforms in Eastern Europe?
Uncertainties about the EU’s future are undermining mainstream parties throughout Europe. In Central and Castern Europe politicians can no longer sell the European model of liberal reforms when that...
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Where do London’s New Europeans live?
Newly released data from the 2011 Census reveals some interesting patterns about London’s Central and East Europeans, finds Allan Sikk I’ve been waiting for some time for the UK 2011 census data to...
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How Poland came to be a major EU power
Photo: Michal Osmenda via Wikimedia Commons Poland has emerged as a major player in EU politics. The question now is what it wants to do with its new found clout, writes guest contributor Roderick...
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Will the West become the East?
Photo: MPBecker BY-NC-ND 2.0 Politically speaking Western Europe is a far more anomalous region than Eastern Europe argues Seán Hanley. However, the ‘advanced democracies’ of the West may, soon...
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What will the Euro elections tell us about Eastern Europe?
Photo: Lukasz2 via Wikicommons Seán Hanley looks ahead to the upcoming European elections and assesses what they may tell us about the enduring differences between voters and parties in Western and...
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All tomorrow’s parties? The future (and past) of politics in Eastern Europe
Photo ŠJů (cs:ŠJů) (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0] In this post we present a discussion between Kevin Deegan-Krause, Tim Haughton, Stephen Whitefield and Jan Rovný on the current state of knowledge on...
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Something rotten in the state of Czechia?
By Dr Sean Hanley This post originally appeared on Sean’s blog, reproduced with kind permission of the author The Czech Republic has been in the news recently because of its politicians’ somewhat...
View ArticleLiberals against nationalism in Eastern Europe? It would have been a nice idea
Some commentators say East Central Europe’s liberals made the fatal mistake of cutting themselves off from traditional nationalism. Seán Hanley and James Dawson disagree. Ivan Krastev recently argued...
View ArticleEast European liberals’ accommodation of ethnic nationalism has left the...
East Central Europe’s democratic deterioration is as much about the limitations of mainstream liberal forces as the rise of illiberal populists argue James Dawson and Sean Hanley. Less than a decade...
View ArticleEastern Europe: how to be a pessoptimist
Three decades after the fall of communism, Eastern Europe’s democratic development is seen in increasingly gloomy terms. However, we may need to find a more pragmatic, middle way in assessing the...
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