... Union Eastern Europe democracy populism authoritarianism illiberalism postcommunist Viktor Orbán Hungary Poland Czech Republic 90 What keeps European states committed to the EU project has not changed: it is economically much better to be inside the bloc than outside. The EU s Eastward...

...Yuson Jung What do consumer rights actually mean in a context in which citizens are unsure whether there is even a functioning judicial system …? © 2019 Current History. All rights reserved. 2019 The Regents of the University of California Yuson Jung Bulgaria Eastern Europe consumer...

... reserved. 2019 The Regents of the University of California Tomasz Inglot Eastern Europe social mobility middle class inequality communism employment labor inequality populism labor migration welfare family policy Poland Hungary 96 The region has seen a radical shift from...

...Serhiy Kudelia The increasing vibrancy of civil society had become a serious political threat to the authorities. © 2018 Current History. All rights reserved. 2018 The Regents of the University of California Serhiy Kudelia Ukraine Euromaidan Revolution Russia Crimea eastern Ukraine...

... , 2017 Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe , by Kapka Kassabova Graywolf Press , 2017 © 2018 Current History. All rights reserved. 2018 The Regents of the University of California Maria Todorova book review Bulgaria Eastern Europe Kristen Ghodsee Red Hangover...

... organized labor strikes communism trade unions unemployment capitalism Eastern Europe Soviet Union Bulgaria Croatia Czech Republic Hungary Poland Romania Slovakia Slovenia 88 After the fall of communism, the restructuring of labor became an integral part of the larger project...

... Holly Case Hungary Viktor Orbán Young Democrats Poland Jarosław Kaczyński Law and Justice party Fidesz populism refugee crisis immigration Islam authoritarianism Eastern Europe illiberalism communism PERSPECTIVE There s a lot we re getting wrong if we see the illiberal...

.... 2016 The Regents of the University of California Oxana Shevel Ukraine Crimea decommunization laws national identity Soviet Union legacy pro-Russia sentiment eastern Ukraine Donbas Maidan Euromaidan protests Viktor Yanukovych 258 The fundamental dilemma in Ukraine s...

...Anna Grzymala-Busse Eastern Europe remains poorer and less democratically experienced than Western Europe, but there are as many differences within the regions as between them. © 2020 Current History. All rights reserved. 2020 The Regents of the University of California Anna Grzymala...

... reserved. 2015 The Regents of the University of California Mark Kramer Russia Russian Baltic Lithuania Latvia Estonia Poland Crimean Putin eastern security Nato EU strategy eagle guardian grybauskaite Georgian border exercise military reset Obama belligerent medvedev...

... Saudi Arabian kingdom sharia counterrevolution thermidorian thermidor shia sunni Islamism islamist salafi eastern province military gulf cooperation leadership regional 344 Saudi Arabia has emerged as the most vigorous stalwart of what can best be described as the reactionary...

...William W. Finan, Jr. A new book by Anne Applebaum offers a heavily detailed, ground-level history of the arrival of communist rule in postwar Eastern Europe. The author aims, she says, to understand “totalitarianism in practice.” Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944–1956...

...Andrew Wilson The Eastern European states are best understood as balancers rather than joiners. Freedom of maneuver is their priority—not hitching their fate to either the EU and NATO or Russia. © 2010 Current History. All rights reserved. 2010 The Regents of the University of California...

... the rebel Tamil Tigers. They voted for him because, in ethnically and religiously divided Sri Lanka, the former general had become the nominal leader of the opposition, and was supported by the Tamil National Alliance, the main Tamil party in parliament. Moreover, in the Eastern Province where paramilitary...

...Janusz Bugajski Predictions of massive social unrest, political breakdown, or reformist reversals have, to date anyway, proved misplaced. © 2010 Current History. All rights reserved. 2010 The Regents of the University of California Eastern Europe Central Poland Czech Republic...

... eastern Angela Merkel Free Democrats Soviet bloc Stasi Kurt Hager Erich Honecker 112 The roots of the east s continuing alienation lie in the enforced, prolonged isola- tion that its society endured during most of the cold war. Eastern Germany in Search of Itself e. wAyne Merry This year...

... History. All rights reserved. 2001 The Regents of the University of California accession Central Eastern European Countries development enlargement Europe European Monetary Union European Union member states migration trade The European Union is preparing to take aquantum leap...