Not Your Father’s Eastern Europe
Sun, May 04
|Webinar By Donation
What if the 'East' is the new engine of Europe?
Time & Location
May 04, 2025, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EDT
Webinar By Donation
Guests
About the event
For decades, Central and Eastern Europe was dismissed as Europe’s “backwater”—overlooked, underestimated, and misunderstood. But the story has changed. Today, countries like Czechia, Slovakia, Hungary, and Poland are outpacing even Western European powers in key metrics of progress.
In this thought-provoking webinar, we’ll challenge outdated narratives and explore how the former “East” is redefining its place on the European stage—economically, culturally, and politically.
Join us to discover why Central Europe is not your father’s Eastern Europe anymore.
About our speaker:
Kevin J. McNamara is a Non-Resident Fellow of the Foreign Policy Research Institute and former Managing Director of the Botstiber Institute for Austrian- American Studies. He is the author of Dreams of a Great Small Nation: The Mutinous Army that Threatened a Revolution, Destroyed an Empire, Founded a Republic, and Remade the Map of Europe, (New York: Public Affairs, 2016) a history of the Czecho-Slovak Legion, the Russian Revolution, and…