Political Science

The concept of concurrences is a blanket term for challenging dominating statements of the past and present. Concurrent stories have varying claims to reality and fiction, as well as different, diverging, and at times competing claims to society, culture, identity, and historical past. Dominant...

This is a book about the crisis of the European integration project as seen from the vantage point of people’s movements across and to the European continent. But why should the issue of refugees or of migration have anything to do with the dynamics of the integration or disintegration of the...

The book dissects the peculiar challenges, contexts, and stalemates that post-Soviet societies face during their transition to new political and cultural orders.

To this day, almost all narratives on Bosnia focus on the 1990s, the war, and the labyrinth that Dayton’s institutional system represents. They also tend to be imbued with a perspective that often overdoes the ethnic and religious element. The truth is that, beyond the causes of war and its...

Anton Oleinik argues that Ukraine is currently going through a revolutionary period aimed at building a nation-state and its aftermath.

The three countries’ diverging attitudes towards Washington led to very different policy approaches from a U.S. vantage point.

Momentaufnahmen, Kommentare sowie Analysen zu Politik, Gesellschaft und Kultur, in der sich das Jahr 2016 in seinen großen Umwälzungen widerspiegelt.

Shagina outlines the set of motivations that trigger cooperation between Europarties and non-EU parties and analyses the impact of cooperation on party ideology.

This timely book examines far-right politics in Hungary—but its relevance points much beyond Hungary.

Baer’s biography of the former Czechoslovak Foreign Minister Vladimír Clementis (1902–1952) is the first historical study on the Communist politician who was executed with Rudolf Slánský and other top Communist Party members after the show trial of 1952. Born in Tisovec, Central Slovakia,...