Politics of Transition and Integration in Central and Eastern Europe., - JMMZ048

• Title: Politics of Transition and Integration in Central and Eastern Europe.
• Guaranteed by: Department of Russian and East European Studies (23-KRVS)
• Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences
• Actual: from 2013 to 2018
• Semester: summer
• E-Credits: 6
• Examination process: summer s.:combined
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:2/2, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Explanation: The ciourse is taught at UCL!
• Additional information: http://www.ssees.ucl.ac.uk/prospect/MACourseGuide.pdf
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment; priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
• Guarantor: Seán Hanley, PhD.

Annotation

This course surveys the politics of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) from early-mid
1990 to the present by exploring the twin processes of domestic transition to democracy
and a market economy and European integration into the EU and NATO. Students will
be familiarized with comparative and theoretical frameworks for explaining radical
change, patterns of post-communist political development and European integration.
The countries principally covered by the course are Bulgaria, the Czech Republic,
Estonia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia.

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Aim of the course

This course aims to give students a broad theoretical and empirical knowledge and

understanding of the politics of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) from 1989 to the

present by exploring the twin processes of domestic transition to democracy and a

market economy and integration into the EU and NATO. It also aims to familiarize with

comparative and theoretical frameworks for explaining patterns of post-communist

political development and European integration.

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Literature

PRELIMINARY READING
Desmond Dinan, Europe Recast: A History of European Union

Stephen White, Judy Batt and Paul Lewis (eds.), Developments in Central and East European

Politics 4 (Palgrave, 2007).

Milada Anna Vachudova, Europe Undivided: Democracy, Leverage and Integration After 1989,

Oxford University Press, 2005

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Teaching methods

Teaching and learning methods
Number of hours
Seminars 20 (10 X 2 hour seminar)
Private reading 120
Preparation of required written work 30
Revision 30

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Requirements to the exam

Assessment
One 2500 word essay (weighting 50%)

1 unseen two-hour examination (weighting 50%

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Syllabus

• Institutional, political and socio-economic reforms in post-1989 Central and Eastern

Europe (CEE)

• forms of political competition and representation in post-1989 CEE

• process of European integration as they relate to CEE

links between CEE domestic politics and European integration

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