Abstract

DIMITROV, Vesselin. Political Transitions in Central and Eastern Europe: Domestic and External Dimensions. Relações Internacionais [online]. 2009, n.23, pp.05-19. ISSN 1645-9199.

This article aims to examine some of the most important challenges that the countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) have had to confront in the two decades since the fall of communism in 1989. While most CEE countries have been quite successful in setting up and consolidating representative democratic institutions, they have encountered serious problems in another area, that of creating effective governments. This article, therefore, focuses on this area and assesses the progress that the CEE countries have made, concentrating on Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic and Bulgaria.

Keywords : Central and Eastern Europe; communism; democracy; domestic and foreign policies.

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