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The West’s new approach to Russia – bar it from international organizations, restrict international trade, prevent further military moves – looks just like how it treated Russia in the 20th century.
A memorial took place on April 27, 2022 for former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, who died in March at age 84. Many of the foreign policy concepts she helped bring to the post-Cold War world remain.
The Pentagon has announced that as many as 8,500 troops have been put on standby to be deployed in Europe as a counter to the threat of the Russian military buildup on Ukraine’s eastern border.
Historians and scientists discovered how colonisation in eastern Europe changed ecosystems – and the societies embedded in them.
The Czech Republic, Hungary and Bulgaria all showed early signs of success but have since seen their COVID-19 cases rise.
After a decade of cooperation, central and eastern Europe increasingly sees China as a threat.
Death rates are low in the region but this has largely gone ignored.
The government now has the power to do whatever it deems necessary to manage the crisis, effectively for an unlimited period of time.
A third landslide victory leaves the right-wing leader on a collision course with Europe.
This Sunday Hungarians vote whether to return prime minister Viktor Orbán to office. The choice they make will affect the future of their country, and Europe.
The story began when police discovered the bodies of Slovak journalist Ján Kuciak and his fiancé – both had been shot dead.
Miloš Zeman, who has been re-elected for a second five year term at the Czech president, is not a run of the mill national populist.
Poland and Hungary have recently clashed with Brussels over democratic freedoms, but economic drivers are at play, too.
A lurch to the right in central Europe runs into a familiar obstacle: the tricky maths of coalition.
He’s been charged with fraud and is under investigation by the EU, so how did this former finance minister become the most likely candidate for prime minister?
Politicians are promising to advance their countries’ international positions through nationalist militarisation and celebration of virile men.
European countries are competing against Brussels and each other for China’s affections. And that is undermining the EU.
The Central European University will challenge a law just passed by the Hungarian parliament that could force the closure of the school founded by billionaire philanthropist George Soros.
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Senior Lecturer in Czech Studies, University of Glasgow
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Professor of Governance, University of Canberra
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Professor in International Politics, Glasgow Caledonian University
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Professor of International Management & Political Economy, Loughborough University
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Lecturer, School of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Glasgow
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Géopoliticien, Sciences Po
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Senior Lecturer, Central and East European Studies, University of Glasgow
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Associate Professor of Political Science, Colorado State University
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Assistant Professor, Institute of Political Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences
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Wiener-Anspach Postdoctoral research fellow, Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge
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Lecturer in Russian and East European Studies, University of Oxford
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Lecturer in Chinese Politics, School of East Asian Studies, University of Sheffield
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Professor of History, Clarkson University
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Assistant professorial lecturer, London School of Economics and Political Science
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Lecturer in International Politics and Security Studies, Aberystwyth University
