"Liberal Democracies in Central and Eastern European Countries (CEECs)" Working Group

Currently, Central and Eastern European Countries (CEECs) are undergoing a major turning point due to external factors such as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and internal developments such as transformations in their democratic regimes. This working group will closely monitor and study trends in the foreign policies and domestic regimes of the Central and Eastern Europe including the Balkans.

Activity records

2025.04.20 (Sun.)

Event

Symposium

Workshop with UTartu “Frontlines of Cognition and Memory in Eurasia: Russia, China and Greater Central Asia in History and Present”

2025.02.19 (Wed.)

News

Announcements

Roundtable Discussion with Dr. Kristi Raik (ICDS) on the Security of Undersea Infrastructure and other Outstanding Issues

2025.02.19 (Wed.)

Event

Seminar

ROLES-ICDS Roundtable on the Security of Undersea Infrastructure and the other Outstanding Issues

2024.07.29 (Mon.)

Event

Seminar

RCAST Security Seminar on Women and Revolutions in Ukraine and Belarus

2023.11.08 (Wed.)

Event

Symposium

Symposium “Russian invasion of Ukraine and Eastern Europe/East of Europe”

Members

Head

HIGASHINO, Atsuko

Professor, Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences
Specialised in international relations theory, European international politics, EU Eastern enlargement and external relations.

NAKAI, Ryo

Professor
(Division of Global Security & Energy Transition / Comparative Political Dynamics).
Specialised in comparative politics (party politics and elections, nationalism and ethnopolitics).
Obtained PhD in 2012. He worked as an assistant at Waseda University, a JSPS Research Fellow, an assistant professor at Rikkyo University and associate professor at the Department of Policy Studies, The University of Kitakyushu before assuming his current position on April 1, 2024.

GOROKU, Tsuyoshi

Associate Professor, Faculty of International Politics and Economics, Department of International Politics and Economics, Nishogakusha University
Specialised in the history of US-European relations and European security.

Assistant Professor at Keio University Graduate School of Law (research fellowship), researcher at EU Studies Institute in Tokyo (EUSI) (stay in Ukraine), part-time lecturer at the Maritime Self-Defence Force Staff College, before becoming a full-time lecturer at the Faculty of International Politics and Economics, Nishimatsu Gakusha University (2017-2022), current position from April 2022. . He is also a visiting researcher at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) (2017-) and a research member of the Japan Institute of International Affairs (JIIA) (2017-).

HATTORI, Michitaka

Professor of Laboratory of Slavic-Eurasian Studies, Hokkaido University
Specialises in the economic and political situation in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and other countries of the former Soviet Union.
After working as an expert researcher at the Embassy of Japan in the Republic of Belarus and as the director of the Russian NIS Trade Association and the Russian NIS Institute, he has been in his current position since October 2022.

IMAI, Kohei

Research Fellow, Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization

KUNISUE, Norito

Project Professor

KOBAYASHI, Hiroyuki

Project Researcher of RCAST, University of Tokyo

Publications

2024.05.28 (Tue.)

Commentary

Nakai, Ryo "Lithuania presidential election in 2024 and its implication on East Asia" (ROLES Commentary No.24)

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