ABSTRACT
To the best of our knowledge, there is no study that maps out and analyzes the state of the discipline of International Relations (IR) in the Central and Eastern European region (CEE) as a whole.2 Yet there are at least two reasons for which IR in the CEE represents a topic that is worth exploring. First, IR has become more self-reflective in recent years. Whereas Stanley Hoffmann’s path-breaking contribution defining IR as “an American Social Science” remained isolated in the 1970s (Hoffmann 1977), the 1990s was witness to a host of articles fueled by a new wave of sociological reflexivity, reviewing the discipline as such, or national IR traditions (see e.g. Wæver 1998). Second, like the CEE societies, IR in the region has also presumably undergone some transformation.
