Meandering in Transition Thirty Years of Reforms and Identity in Post-Communist Europe
Produktdetaljer
Om bidragsyterne
Ostap Kushnir is assistant professor at Lazarski University (Poland) and a lecturer with Coventry University programmes (UK)
Oleksandr Pankieiev is research coordinator and Editor-in-Chief of the Forum for Ukrainian Studies at the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta.
<p>A comprehensive, well-structured, and thoughtful approach to the institutional, social, economic, and cultural transformations of Europe in recent times. The contributors realize the amplitude of these changes and help the readers grasp the short and long term implications of the unfinished European project. This collection of intellectually compelling and analytically insightful chapters is both timely and inspiring.</p>
- Vladimir Tismaneanu, Professor of Politics, University of Maryland (College Park),
This edited collection addresses the dynamics of the post-Communist transition in Central Eastern Europe. Its contributors present a detailed analysis of the events unfolding during the last three decades in the region, focusing in particular on identity-building processes and reforms in Belarus, Bulgaria, Czechia, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, and Ukraine.
The contributors outline reasons why some of these states accomplished a decisive break with the Communist past and became members of European and transatlantic structures, while some opted for pseudo-transition and fostered hybrid political regimes, jeopardizing their genuine integration with the West. A group of states which decided to preserve their Communist legacy is also explained.
The collection describes and scrutinizes the formation of geopolitical affiliations and the evolution of discourses of belonging. It also traces the fluctuating dynamics of national decision-making and institution-building, as many of the post-Communist states reconsider and re-elaborate their initial ideas and visions of Europe today.
Finally, the collection brings to light the rapidly changing perceptions of the region by the major global actors—the European Union, People’s Republic of China, Russian Federation, and others.
The book addresses the dynamics of the post-Communist transition and identity building in Central Eastern Europe. It scrutinizes the formation of geopolitical affiliations and discourses of belonging. It also traces the dynamics of national decision-making, institution-building and changing perceptions of the region by global actors.
Part I: “Ideas of Europe” and the Post-Communist Space
Chapter 1: Shifting the Wall Further East. What Has Left of the “Eastern Europe” Thirty Years Later? by Mykola Riabchuk
Chapter 2: The Transition of “Transition”: Assessing the Post-Communist Experience and Its Research by Mikhail Minakov
Chapter 3: Has the Post-Communist Transition Been Completed? Economic Perspective by Assen Slim
Part II: Post-Communist Transition and Identity-Building: View From “Within”
Chapter 4: Societies in Post-Communist Transition: Polish and Hungarian Experience by Adrian Chojan
Chapter 5: Exceptional but Different: Navigating Transition in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania by Li Bennich-Björkman
Chapter 6: Czech Republic and Slovakia – Changing Perception of the European Integration Since 1989 by Juraj Marušiak
Chapter 7: Thirty Years of Post-Communist Nation-Building in Belarus, Moldova, and Ukraine by Yevhen Mahda and Margaryta Khvostova
Chapter 8: Thirty Years After Communism – Bulgaria and Romania’s Experience by Spasimir Domaradzki and Robert Rajczyk
Part III. Post-Communist Transition From “Outside”: Neighbors’ View
Chapter 9: Democratic Transition, Europeanization, and Other Metamorphoses of Central Eastern Europe: An EU Member State-Building Perspective by Andriy Tyushka
Chapter 10: From “Well-Understood Self-Interest” to Conflicts of Competence: German Consulting Assistance in Central Eastern Europe by Eva Schäffler
Chapter 11: From High Hopes to Mundane Reality: Swedish Perspectives on Post-Communist Europe Thirty Years On by Bo Petersson
Chapter 12: Institutionally Embedded: Italy’s Response to Transformations in Central Eastern Europe by Serena Giusti and Fabio Parola
Chapter 13: “A Successful Partnership Marred by Brexit?” Britain and Central Eastern Europe Post-1989 by Christopher Lash
Chapter 14: Russia and Central Eastern Europe Since 1992 by Rasmus Nilsson
Part IV: Post-Communist Transition From “Outside”: Global View
Chapter 15: Post-Communist Transition from Japan: How Beneficiaries Became Partners by Manabu Sengoku
Chapter 16: China’s View on the Post-Communist Transition of the Central Eastern European Countries by Anna Rudakowska and Emilian Kavalski
Chapter 17: Middle East, North Africa, and Post-Communist Transition: From Soviet Clientelism to Restoration of Russia’s Power by Nedim Useinow
Produktdetaljer
Om bidragsyterne
Ostap Kushnir is assistant professor at Lazarski University (Poland) and a lecturer with Coventry University programmes (UK)
Oleksandr Pankieiev is research coordinator and Editor-in-Chief of the Forum for Ukrainian Studies at the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta.