Workshop: Beyond Transition? Long-Term Political Development in Eastern Europe (1989–2025)

More than three decades after the transformative years of 1989/1991, Eastern Europe presents a striking diversity of political trajectories. This workshop revisits foundational questions of post-communist political development, moving beyond early transition paradigms and examining long-term processes shaped by external conditionality, historical path dependencies, domestic agency, and political creativity.

The workshop is based on the recent volume: Die politischen Systeme im östlichen Europa: Institutionen, Akteure und Prozesse (Springer, 2025), edited by Sonja Priebus and Timm Beichelt.

Speakers:

Prof. Dr. Sonja Priebus

Democracies in Retreat? Post-Socialist Regime Dynamics

Prof. Dr. Timm Beichelt

Between Conditionality, Path-Dependence and Agency – Patterns of Post-Socialist Political Development

Prof. Dr. Mykhailo Minakov

Beyond Transition: Political Creativity and the Plural Institutionalizations of States in Eastern

Europe, 1989–2025