Pandemic-Era Civil Disorder in Post-Communist EU Member States

Joanna Rak is Associate Professor of Political Sciences at the Faculty of Political Science and Journalism of Adam Mickiewicz University (Poznań, Poland). She is the principal investigator of the research project “Civil Disorder in Pandemic-ridden European Union,” financed by the National Science Centre, Poland. The laureate of the Barbara Skarga Scholarship, the START Scholarship by the Foundation for Polish Science, and the POLITYKA Scientific Awards.

• Part 1: Introduction 1. Towards Understanding of Civil Disorder during the Pandemic2. Exploring Conditions of Civil Disorder Development: Theoretical FoundationsPart 2: Case Studies 3. Estonian Proactive Policing: Negotiated Management and Neutrality to Service of Civil Disorder Prevention4. Unintended Consequences of Hybrid Protest Policing in Latvia5. Lithuania Leveraging Negotiated Management and Non-Partisan Policing6. Poland: Application of Partisan Policing and Negotiated Management in the Face of Civil Disorder7. Czech Law Enforcement and the Benefits of Neutrality and Limited Intervention8. Slovakia: Detentions, Force, and the Shift from Peaceful Protest to Civil Disorder9. The Role of Hungarian Predictable Negotiated Management and Non-Partisan Policing in Maintaining Peaceful Protests10. Inconsistent Law Enforcement in Romania: Civil Disorder Under Force-, Management-Based Hybrid, and Escalated Force Protest Policing11. The Impact of Hidden Partisanship and Countermovement Violence Policing on the Dynamics of Civil Disorder in Bulgaria12. Civil Disorder Dynamics in Slovenia: Protest Policing Resistant to Political Influences13. Cohesive Law Enforcement: Sustaining Peaceful Protests through Negotiated Management and Apolitical Policing in CroatiaPart 3: Conclusions 14. Causal Relationships between Protest Policing and Civil Disorder in Post-communist European Union Member States during the Pandemic