This course offers a comparative analysis of political regimes in Central and Eastern Europe, with particular emphasis on the interaction between domestic dynamics and international constraints. It examines authoritarian, hybrid, and democratic forms of governance, as well as the conditions underpinning their stability, adaptation, and transformation. The course is premised on the argument that regime trajectories cannot be explained solely through domestic variables. They are also shaped by external factors, including economic dependencies, sanctions, international institutions, security alliances, resource structures, and great-power competition. The European Union, the United States, China, and the BRICS are examined as major poles of influence that contribute to reshaping the scope for political autonomy available to states across the region.
The course integrates theoretical and analytical perspectives from comparative politics and international relations. It aims to provide students with the conceptual and methodological tools necessary to analyse regime trajectories within a regional environment characterised by the fragmentation of the international order, asymmetric interdependence, and multiple forms of external constraint.
- Docente: Pauline Julie Dummermuth
- Docente: Maksym Filatov