Presentations:

7/ The international arena: What happened to the “third wave”? 

Compulsory reading:

Janos, Andrew C.: From Eastern Empire to Western Hegemony: East Central Europe Under Two International Regimes. East European Politics and Societies: and Cultures. Vol 15, Issue 2, 2001

Recommended readings:

Mounk, Yascha. The End of History Revisited. Journal of Democracy, Volume 31, Number 1, January 2020, pp. 22-35

Przeworski, Adam: The "East" Becomes the "South"? The "Autumn of the People" and the Future of Eastern Europe. Political Science and Politics, Vol. 24, No. 1 (Mar., 1991), pp. 20-24

8/ The hacking of democracy: political polarization, populism, social media…

Compulsory reading:

Krekó, Péter and Zsolt Enyedi. Explaining Eastern Europe: Orbán’s Laboratory of Illiberalism. Journal of Democracy, July, 2018, https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/article/explaining-eastern-europe-orb%C3%A1n%E2%80%99s-laboratory-illiberalism

Recommended reading:

Schudel, Matt. Arthur Finkelstein, quietly influential GOP campaign mastermind, dies at 72. The Washington Post. August 19, 2017. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/arthur-finkelstein-shadowy-campaign-mastermind-and-gop-operative-dies-at-72/2017/08/19/0bd638c6-84e8-11e7-902a-2a9f2d808496_story.html