Presentations:

9/ The universal decline of liberalism: traditionalism, nationalism, anti-elitism

Compulsory reading:

Hanley, Seán. Intro and The right in post-communist Europe. of Ch. 1. (Getting the right right in post-communist Europe) In: The New Right in the New Europe: Czech Transformation and Right-Wing Politics, 1989-2006. London; New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015. pp. 1-8.

Recommended readings:

Stanley, Bill and Ben Stanley. 2020. Whose Poland is it to be? PiS and the struggle between monism and pluralism. East European Politics. Volume 36, Issue 3. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21599165.2020.1787161

Rupnik, Jacques. Evolving or revolving? Central Europe since 1989. Eurozine. 15th December 2017 https://www.eurozine.com/evolving-or-revolving-central-europe-since-1989/

Rupnik, Jacques. Populism in Eastern Central Europe. Eurozine. 10th September 2007. https://www.eurozine.com/populism-in-eastern-central-europe/

10/ Path dependency? The cultural heritage of the longue durée past

Compulsory readings:

Kapor, Momo. A Guide to the Serbian Mentality. Belgrade: Dereta, 2014. pp. 22-26, 243-246, 302-306.

Berka, Petr, Aleš Palán, and Petr Stastny. Xenophobe’s® Guide to the Czechs. London: Xenophobe’s guides, 2013. pp. 1-28.

Recommended reading:

Kiss, Csaba G. Common fate of the Visegrád peoples. Resemblances of tradition and mentality. Scientia et Securitas. 2021. pp. 400-