This book examines the politics and international relations of
Central Europe (the Visegrad Four) three decades after the fall of
communism. Once bound together by a common geopolitical vision of
"returning to the West," the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and
Slovakia now find themselves in a more ambiguous position. The 2015
European migration crisis exposed serious normative differences
with Western Europe, leading to a collective V4 rebellion against
the European Union's migration policies. At the same time, as this
book demonstrates-despite this normative rift with Western Europe
and despite the democratic backsliding in some of the V4
states-they remain deeply dependent on the West in both symbolic
and material terms. Furthermore, ways in which individual Central
European states position themselves vis-a-vis the West exhibit
notable differences, informed by their specific political and
cultural legacies. The author examines these in separate country
chapters. This book also contains a chapter that analyzes the
effect of the COVID-19 crisis on political discourses in the V4.
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