Europeizacja czy transformacja – ewolucje systemów politycznych Europy Środkowej i Wschodniej
Europeanization or transformation – the evolution of political systems in Central and Eastern Europe

Summary/Abstract: The analysis embraces the transformation processes Central and Eastern Europe embarked upon twenty five years ago. They occurred in different fields – politics, society, economy, culture, and international relations. Despite initial optimism in political science research, the prolonged analysis of the transformations reveals a number of scenarios implemented in different countries. The notion of ‘transition’ (tranzycja in Polish), defined as the transformation of non-democracy into a system of liberal democracy, turns out to be of little value in a more detailed analysis in political science. A portion of Balkan or post-Soviet states has gone for a ‘hybrid’ model, lying somewhere between democratic and market solutions on the one hand, and the routine of a socialist state at the end of the 1980s on the other. This background of events and processes is completed by ‘Europeanization’, treated as the promulgation of West European solutions to the whole continent and the unification of political, socio-economic and cultural systems.

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