Reading Week

Introductory session – the concept of Central Europe

Transition to democracy and emerging political pluralisms

Transformation to a market economy in the 1990s

Fragmentation of multinational states – Czechoslovakia, the Soviet Union, and Yugoslavia

Reading week

The building of political institutions: political systems of Central and Eastern European countries

The Eastern Enlargement of the EU and its political implications in Central and Eastern European countries

“New Europeans” between stability and change

SEMINAR on Central and Eastern European societies

SEMINAR on Democratic Backsliding in Central Europe

SEMINAR on the problems of de-communization