Politics of Transition and Integration in Central and Eastern Europe.,

Syllabus

• Institutional, political and socio-economic reforms in post-1989 Central and Eastern

Europe (CEE)

• forms of political competition and representation in post-1989 CEE

• process of European integration as they relate to CEE links between CEE domestic politics and European integration

Annotation

This course surveys the politics of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) from early-mid 1990 to the present by exploring the twin processes of domestic transition to democracy and a market economy and European integration into the EU and NATO. Students will be familiarized with comparative and theoretical frameworks for explaining radical change, patterns of post-communist political development and European integration.

The countries principally covered by the course are Bulgaria, the Czech Republic,

Estonia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia.