With Margarita Balmaceda (Seton Hall University), Juliane Fürst (ZZF Potsdam), Tatjana The-len (Universität Wien) and Gwendolyn Sasse (ZOiS)

Margarita Balmaceda, Ph.D., Professor of Diplomacy and International Relations, School of Diplomacy and International Relations, Seton Hall University

Prof. Dr. Tatjana Thelen, Institut für Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie, Universität Wien

Dr. Juliane Fürst, Leibniz-Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam (ZZF)

Prof. Dr. Gwendolyn Sasse, ZOiS and University of Oxford

Ivan Krastev: Explaining Eastern Europe: Imitation and Its Discontents

Thomas Carothers: The End of the Transition Paradigm