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Post-communist states of East Central Europe face the authoritarian challenge to their young democracies, the sources of which are both historical and contemporary. Economic underdevelopment, the retarded process of nati...

The implementation of the functioning of fractals and fractality for open and holistic systems of physical and mathematical education is substantiated. It is shown that it is thanks to fractality that the synergy of the ...

Recenze: Roman Zaoral (ed.): Money and Finance in Central Europe during the Later Middle Ages. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, 269 s.

Traditionally, the social effect of banking activity is associated with microfinance. This stream line is started from the 70th of the XX century, when microfinance became the tool of the private entrepreneurship develop...

The best of contemporary theatre in Western Canada presents stories of the historical, cultural, and ethnic diversity of the region while taking a critical stand against the traditional stereotypes of “prairie realism ...

This article aims to reconstruct the functioning of political parties that was present during the establishment of the foundations of the democratic system and political practice, from the “Velvet Revolution” to the ...

The CEE countries are celebrating the 15th anniversary of joining the European Union. The ‘feast’ is also of note because the EP elections are just in front of us. Instead of weighing up the expected results, we can ...

The essay discusses Central Eastern Europe as a ‘laboratory’ of existing, emerging as well as contained elements of illiberal backlash. The Central European countries show both challenges and resilience mechanisms in...

Political representation and democracy in several European countries have faced considerable challenges in recent decades. Especially worrying are the decline in electoral turnout and party membership, along with the dec...

This paper investigates whether the 2008–2009 global financial crisis influenced the trend in technology adoption among manufacturing and service sector firms in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. The analysis focuses ...

This paper examines the impact of the 2008–2009 global financial crisis on water service quality challenges experienced by firms in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Using data from the World Bank’s BEEPS IV and V s...

Abstract Why do foreign investors exit Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) despite formal alignment with EU institutional standards? We argue that divestment reflects not cyclical volatility but strategic responses to insti...

Materias / palabras clave: behavioral insights; behavioral public policy; Central and Eastern Europe (CEE); Innovative governance; WEIRD

ABSTRACT: Background: Lip and oral cavity cancer (LOCC) remains a significant issue in Europe, with an uneven public health burden. While trends have shifted, regional and sex-specific disparities persist due to modifia...

Book review on Elzbieta Halas – Nicolas Maslowski (eds.): Politics of Symbolization Across Central and Eastern Europe (Studies in Sociology: Symbols, Theory and Society Book 11). Berlín: Peter Lang, 2021, 304 s.

Objectives: This study examines the convergence of smuggling and trafficking in persons along the Central Mediterranean Route (CMR) to Europe. We explore where and how these phenomena blur, impacting states’ obligation...

Book review on Nicolas Maslowski – Kinga Torbicka (eds.). Contested Legacies of 1989. Geopolitics, Memories and Societies in Central and Eastern Europe. Berlin: Peter Lang, 2022, 228 pp.

This paper aims to examine how the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement resonated in Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe (CESE) through a race-conscious approach. Although BLM protests were staged in many CESE capital...

While much discussion centres on China’s engagement with Central and Eastern European countries, few studies investigate the role of subnational actors in the relations between the two sides. This paper brings China’...

efficiently in CEE countries. Nowadays, innovativeness is one of the most crucial factors accelerating economic growth. Increasing innovativeness is particularly important for developing countries, where policymakers a...

In the third wave of democratic changes in the early 1990s when the Central and Eastern European (CEE) political landscape changed radically and the democratisation processes started in the eastern part of the continent,...

Review of Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

This article explores whether a new east‑west divide exists in the enlarged European Union by analysing national discourses on European integration in the Visegrad Four (V4) states. Two V4 foreign policy legacies form ...

The recent financial crisis and the way it was handled by European Union (EU) received a great deal of media coverage, and since the media has a tendency to alter public opinion, it is safe to assume that it has affected...