Tom Junes is a historian and a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence. He focuses on protest movements and the history of the Left in eastern Europe. He is the author of Student Politics in Communist Poland: Generations of Consent and Dissent."
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Illiberalism in eastern Europe is a legacy of 1989
Liberal democracy in eastern Europe is not succumbing to a new challenge. It is confronted with a recurrent...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Poland’s political predicament
PiS is a radical right party professing a nationalist-conservative ideology, but implementing social-economic...
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Published in: oDRWhat went wrong in eastern Europe?
A new book sheds light on the early warning signs of illiberalism – and gives some modest hope for the future.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?How Montenegro could start World War III
The Balkans did not start World War I. It was started in Vienna, Berlin, St Petersburg, Paris and London…
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Published in: oDRRussian interference in the virtual world is not the problem
If there were no Russian "influence operations" in the virtual world, no disinformation campaign spearheaded by...
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Published in: oDRWhat is Russian influence, anyway?
A new book on Russia’s role in the Balkans demonstrates not just the extent of Moscow’s influence — but also its limits.