Central Europe Thirty Years After the Fall of Communism - A Return to the Margin?

This book examines politics and international relations in Central Europe three decades after the fall of communism. It analyzes some of the most recent trends, including the European disagreements on migration and multiculturalism, and the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on political discourses in the region.

List of contents

Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1: Central Europe as a Counter-Hegemonic Concept
Chapter 2: "The End of Central Europe?" The European Migration Crisis and the Contestation of Identities in the Visegrád Four
Chapter 3: An ad hoc Region: On Central Europe's Embedded Revisionism
Chapter 4: Czech Republic and Slovakia: The Post-Crisis Core-Periphery Debate
Chapter 5: Poland: Heroic Failures and Tragic Resistance
Chapter 6: Hungary: The Freedom Fight of an Ideological Entrepreneur
Chapter 7: The Pandemic is What the Populists make of it? The Virus Signifier and Identity Politics in the Visegrád Four
Conclusion: Did the Return to Europe Become a Return to the Margin?
References
About the Author

About the author

Aliaksei Kazharski is researcher and lecturer at Charles University in Prague and Comenius University in Bratislava.

Product details

• Authors: Aliaksei Kazharski
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2022
• EAN: 9781498599610
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-9961-0
• No. of pages: 226
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Europe, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Geopolitics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, Geopolitics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, International Relations, Politics & government