This open access book provides an in-depth look into the background of rule of law problems and the open defiance of EU law in East Central European countries.

Moving from the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 to the present day, this book traces the trajectory of the six East Central European former satellites of the So

This edited volume addresses the set of politically challenging issues that the advent of populist movements raised for individual nation states and the whole E

This book explores the emergence, and in Poland, Hungary, and Russia the coming to power, of politicians and political parties rejecting the consensus around ma

The world is increasingly becoming less democratic and this trend has not left Southeast Europe untouched. But instead of democratic breakdown what we are witne