Overview
- Analyzes political and security challenges in Central and Eastern Europe
- Highlights the persistence of authoritarian and illiberal politics in the region
- Reports on the dangerous militarization of international relations in the CEE region
Part of the book series: Contributions to Political Science (CPS)
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This book analyzes major contemporary political and security problems in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). Presenting case studies on various CEE countries, it highlights the persistence of non-democratic political trends in the region, with particular emphasis on authoritarianism in Belarus and the illiberal shift in the politics of Hungary and Poland. Also, the book examines the growing geopolitical and military rivalry between the West and Russia in the CEE region, which led to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. After addressing the increasing involvement of external entities such as NATO, the EU, the USA, Germany, France, and China, it highlights serious internal and external challenges to the democratic institutions and international security of CEE that call for new formats of multilateral cooperation to be established by the region’s countries.
This book is intended for scholars and students of European politics, international relations and security studies, and for anyone interested in the political and security challenges facing the CEE region.Similar content being viewed by others
Keywords
- Central and East European Politics
- Russian and Post-Soviets Politics
- International Security Studies
- Geopolitical rivalry between the West and Russia
- Authoritarian and illiberal politics
- Regional cooperation
- Militarization of international relations
- Anti-democratic processes
- Neo-Totalitarianism
- US foreign policy
- French foreign policy
- Authoritarianism in Belarus
- War in Ukraine
- China's policy towards CEE
- German foreign policy
Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
Reviews
“The book represents a valuable contribution to our knowledge of foreign and security politics in (and of) Central Eastern Europe. All the entries are up-to-date and empirically rich, and most fit into the neorealist approach. This fact increases the coherence of the entire volume. ... Given the increasing importance of Central and Eastern European affairs for general European international relations, even readers interested primarily in Western Europe will benefit a lot from getting rich contextualization the volume offers.” (Vít Hloušek, French Politics, Vol 21 (4), December2023)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Prof. Ryszard Zięba is a full professor emeritus of international relations and security studies at the University of Warsaw, Poland. He has been a member of the Commission of National Security Strategic Review established by the President of the Republic of Poland, an expert of the Polish Parliament, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Regional Development, the National Security Bureau, and was awarded a Jean Monnet Chair by the European Commission. He is author of over 400 other research studies on: international security, Poland’s and EU’s foreign and security policy, the theory of international relations and security studies. The last two books he published in Springer are: The Euro-Atlantic Security System in the 21st Century: From Cooperation to Crisis (2018) and Poland’s Foreign and Security Policy: Problems of Compatibility with the Changing International Order (2020).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Politics and Security of Central and Eastern Europe
Book Subtitle: Contemporary Challenges
Editors: Ryszard Zięba
Series Title: Contributions to Political Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-16419-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-16418-7Published: 15 February 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-16421-7Published: 15 February 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-16419-4Published: 14 February 2023
Series ISSN: 2198-7289
Series E-ISSN: 2198-7297
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 353
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour
Topics: European Politics, International Security Studies, Comparative Politics