by Megan Palmer and Mădălina Mocan The Ratiu Forum is partnered with the Central and South-East Europe Programme (CSEEP) at LSE IDEAS, but that is not the only connection the…
by Sarah Coolican, Research Associate, LSE IDEAS pixabay.com The type of conflicts the world has been witnessing since the fall of the Soviet Union, is different in nature to the European wars…
In our ongoing series exploring the impact of the COVID-19 crisis in the CSEE region, Garry Robson and Maciej Smółka examine a pattern of declining transparency by the governments of…
Megan Palmer - Programme Manager, LSE IDEAS Central and East-Europe Programme The Rațiu Dialogues on Democracy continue a long tradition of events dedicated to Ion Rațiu's lifelong commitment to promoting democracy…
In the next contribution to our LSE IDEAS and Ratiu Forum blog series on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic across the CEE region, Mădălina Mocan and Kinga Sata, from…
This article is part of our ongoing series by LSE IDEAS and the Ratiu Forum analysing the Covid-19 pandemic within a regional context. Here, Artur Gruszczak, Chair of National Security…
In our ongoing series exploring the impact of the COVID-19 crisis in the CSEE region, Vuk Vuksanovic argues that the COVID-19 crisis provided a perfectly-timed opportunity for Serbia’s parliamentary elections.…
by Pawel Laidler Photo: unsplash.com In our ongoing series exploring the impact of the COVID-19 crisis in the CSEE region, Pawel Laidler analyses how the Polish government’s response to the crisis…
by Lyubomir Kyuchukov, Director of the Economics and International Relations Institute, Sofia Photo: unsplash.com Is an apocalypse inevitable in order to reach a catharsis? The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted once again how…
by Tomas Ries, Associate Professor of Security and Strategy at the Swedish National Defence University in Stockholm The world currently faces two distinct crises. One is the direct danger from…