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 stlichen 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