Alternative Futures for Eastern Europe: The Case of Hungary
Alternative Futures for Eastern Europe: The Case of Hungary

Summary/Abstract: In this article I try to achieve three tasks. First: I describe the current state of socio-economic transformation in Eastern Europe, with particular attention to Hungary. Second: I assess alternative scenarios for future development in this part of the world. Third: I pay close attention to what I regard as the least risky or costly-though not necessarily the most likely or even most desirable---way of the future in Eastern Europe. This future, I shall argue, may not be so very different from what progressive social theorists during the interwar years in Hungary and elsewhere (e. g. , Bulgaria, Romania, and Poland) called the "Third Way." [...]

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