...David Ost Poland’s ruling Law and Justice Party has drawn international attention with its hard-line right-wing rhetoric and policies on a range of issues, from immigration to LGBT rights to attempts to gain control over formerly independent institutions such as the judiciary and the media. Some...

... reinforced an existing post-1989 liberal democratic trajectory. This was broadly the case for the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and Slovenia, which all joined the EU in 2004. In other cases, EU leverage was critical in helping to move a state away from illiberal...

... Poland and Hungary, have recent-ly returned to international news headlines as leading examples of a worldwide trend of rising populism and reviving authoritarianism. Unlike the early 1990s, when memories of communist col- lapse and democratic break- through were still fresh, and popular mobilization...

.... Such metamorphoses reflect the psychological and social components of the postcommunist im- broglio. But things were not simple in Poland and Hungary in 1956, in Czechoslovakia in 1968 or for that matter, in 1989, either. On the contrary, they were maddeningly contradictory, nonlinear, and often discombobulating...

...Anna Grzymala-Busse The one bright light in this darkening landscape is that Poles remain committed to democracy. © 2018 Current History. All rights reserved. 2018 The Regents of the University of California Anna Grzymala-Busse Poland democracy populism judiciary Law Justice Party...

... Travails in Postcommunist Eastern Europe RUDRA SIL The role played by the Solidarity union in weakening the communist regime in Poland, together with scenes of work- ers across Eastern Europe celebrating the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, fueled hopes that labor would play a vital role in postcommunist...

...Holly Case In Hungary and Poland, populist leaders with authoritarian tendencies have drawn on the cynical power-holding playbooks of the old communist regimes whose traces they vowed to erase. PERSPECTIVE There s a lot we re getting wrong if we see the illiberal politics of countries like...

...Mark Kramer Nearly every senior official in Poland and the Baltic countries expressed great unease. Political leaders and military commanders in the region increasingly warned that Putin was intent on undermining NATO's resolve to protect their countries. © 2015 Current History. All rights...

... nationalism climate change environment Baltic Lithuania Poland bloc power grid Kyoto protocol United Nations Framework Convention UNFCCC CEE WWF Bulgaria Romania Kazakh Kazakhstan exception 278 Achieving relatively easy terms under the Kyoto Protocol did not necessarily inspire post...

... , by Anne Applebaum . Doubleday , 2012 . © 2013 Current History. All rights reserved. 2013 The Regents of the University of California William Finan Anne Applebaum communism totalitarianism Eastern Europe cold war Germany Hungary Poland Soviet Union 118 Books Tito. The Warsaw...

... Janusz Bugajski Poland Lech Kaczynski Jaroslaw Kaczynski Bronislaw Komorowski Civic Platform Catholic Church Tadeusz Rydzyk Donald Tusk Law Justice 103 Warsaw s aspirations to become a major EU player and to develop closer ties with Moscow could create the appearance of detachment...

...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...

...Alina Mungiu-Pippidi Although the publics in Poland and Romania believe there are more similarities than differences in the quality of their lives after communism, external observers argue that Poland's democracy is qualitatively better than Romania's. The challenge is to explain why...

... Current History. All rights reserved. 2001 The Regents of the University of California European Union Euro United Kingdom Sweden fluctuation band Hungary ERM-II European Central Bank CEE4 Poland Now that the decision has been made to admitto the European Union eight of what...

...Joshua B. Spero What today stands as a shining moment for Poland in nato and Iraq may ultimately harm its far more vital role as a bridge between an increasingly independent Germany and an uncertain Russia. America's global-led war on terrorism might, paradoxically, unravel the key stabilizing...

... effectively and maintain public support. © 2001 Current History. All rights reserved. 2001 The Regents of the University of California European Union Balkans acquis Czech Republic Poland Hungary Slovenia Cyprus Malta Eurobarometer 119 As considerable as the challenges of enlargement...

...Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom Has the Chinese body politic finally been infected by what Beijing officials have sometimes dubbed the ‘Polish disease’…? Could China's 2002 turn out to be like Poland's 1981, a turning-point year when cleansing fevers (to invert the medical metaphor) began to take effect...