Crises that Shaped European Politics 2: Europe after the Fall of the Berlin Wall - With Lee Savage

As part of our series exploring turning points that shaped European politics, we've been joined by Lee Savage to explore the impact the collapse of Communism in 1989 had on societies across Central and Eastern Europe. With Lee's help, in this episode we will take a closer look at how the years after the Fall of the Berlin Wall witnessed economic and political upheavals whose legacies still shape the politics of the European Union. As a Reader in European Politics at KCL, Lee Savage has ...

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Breaking Britain is a podcast produced by the Europe's Borderlands Research Group at the European and International Studies Department in King's College London. Hosted by Russell Foster and Alex Clarkson, it will explore the pressures unravelling the unity of Britain and reopening the future of the island of Ireland in a European context. In each episode we will discuss the challenges reshaping a disunited kingdom as well as a wary republic with scholars and commentators who can provide expert insight into political faultlines within the nations of Britain and the island of Ireland.