Seán Hanley

My new Substack on revisiting the pessimistic early “breakdown prophecies“ made about Eastern Europe im early 1990s.

Wrong then, but look more prescient today

https://open.substack.com/pub/drseanhanley/p/the-uses-of-pessimism-what-early?r=1m1g4u&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

What the early pessimists on Eastern Europe got right

After 1989, a few scholars warned Eastern Europe’s new democracies would rapidly fail. They were wrong — but 30 years on, their “breakdown prophecies” look prescient.

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Aug 11, 2025 at 2:46pmMastodon for iOS