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Political Science

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Beyond International Intervention

Politics of Improvement in Serbia

By Katarina Kušic
Subjects: Political Science, Conflict Resolution & Peace Studies, International Relations, European Studies, Eastern European Studies
Series: Configurations: Critical Studies of World Politics

What do peacebuilding interventions look like to the people involved?

The Dilemma of Compliance

Political Parties and Post-Election Disputes

By Svitlana Chernykh
Subjects: Political Science, Political Theory, Comparative Politics, European Studies, Eastern European Studies

Exploring the causes and consequences of post-election disputes

First Nationalism Then Identity

On Bosnian Muslims and Their Bosniak Identity

By Mirsad Kriještorac
Subjects: Political Science, Conflict Resolution & Peace Studies, European Studies, Eastern European Studies
Series: Ethnic Conflict: Studies in Nationality, Race, and Culture

Understanding the relationship between nationalism and identity, through a native European Muslim group

The Philosophy of Parochialism

Originally published as Filosofija Palanke

By Radomir Konstantinovic
Volume editor Branislav Jakovljevic
Translated by Ljiljana Nikolic & Branislav Jakovljevic
Subjects: Literary Studies, European Literature, European Studies, Balkans, Eastern European Studies, Political Science, Political Theory

Available for the first time in English—an essay with important insights on the sources of totalitarianism, intolerance, and racism

The Distinction of Peace

A Social Analysis of Peacebuilding

By Catherine Goetze
Subjects: Political Science, Conflict Resolution & Peace Studies, International Relations, European Studies, Eastern European Studies
Series: Configurations: Critical Studies of World Politics

Investigates both the creation of the peacebuilding field and what the field reveals about global relations

Transnational Capitalism in East Central Europe's Heavy Industry

From Flagship Enterprises to Subsidiaries

By Aleksandra Sznajder Lee
Subjects: Political Science, Political Economy, European Studies, Eastern European Studies

An examination of the post-communism reform of state enterprises that reveals the political dynamics of privatization

Tax Politics in Eastern Europe

Globalization, Regional Integration, and the Democratic Compromise

By Hilary Appel
Subjects: Political Science, Political Economy, Economics, European Studies, Eastern European Studies

Fundamental shifts in Eastern European tax policy

Embedded Politics

Industrial Networks and Institutional Change in Postcommunism

By Gerald Andrew McDermott
Subjects: Economics, International Economics, Sociology, European Studies, Eastern European Studies, Political Science, Comparative Politics

An empirical analysis of changing industrial processes in the postcommunist Czech Republic

Rebellious Civil Society

Popular Protest and Democratic Consolidation in Poland, 1989-1993

By Grzegorz Ekiert & Jan Kubik
Subjects: Political Science, Comparative Politics, European Studies, Eastern European Studies

An analysis of the role of protest movements in Poland after the fall of communism

Marx Went Away--But Karl Stayed Behind

By Caroline Humphrey
Subjects: Anthropology, History, European Studies, Eastern European Studies, Political Science, Comparative Politics

Updates a classic work on rural society in Siberia

Market Dreams

Gender, Class, and Capitalism in the Czech Republic

By Elaine Susan Weiner
Subjects: Sociology, Political Science, Political Behavior and Public Opinion, European Studies, Eastern European Studies, History, Russian History, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Economics, Labor, Health, and Educational Economics, Public Policy, Class Studies

How have women experienced the transition from socialism to market economy in Eastern Europe?

After Independence

Making and Protecting the Nation in Postcolonial and Postcommunist States

Edited by Lowell Barrington
Subjects: Political Science, Political History, African Studies, History, Russian History, Asian Studies, Comparative Politics, European Studies, Eastern European Studies

What happens to nationalism after independence is achieved?

Neither German nor Pole

Catholicism and National Indifference in a Central European Borderland

By James Bjork
Subjects: German Studies, History, European History, European Studies, Eastern European Studies, Political Science
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

A unique study of the importance of religious identification in a multi-national region

Protest and the Politics of Blame

The Russian Response to Unpaid Wages

By Debra Lynn Javeline
Subjects: Political Science, Comparative Politics, European Studies, Eastern European Studies, Political Economy, Economics, System -- Development
Series: Interests, Identities, and Institutions in Comparative Politics

Explains the absence of wide-scale protest over unpaid wages in Russia

The Evolution of Agrarian Institutions

A Comparative Study of Post-Socialist Hungary and Bulgaria

By Mieke E. Meurs
Subjects: Economics, System -- Development, International Economics, Political Science, Political Economy, European Studies, Eastern European Studies

An examination of why private farming in the transition economies of East-Central Europe has not grown as quickly as expected

Politics of Language in the Ex-Soviet Muslim States

Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan and Tajikistan

By C. Hurst & Co. (Publishers) Ltd. & Barbara Kellner-Heinkele
Subjects: Political Science, Comparative Politics, Asian Studies, European Studies, Eastern European Studies

A unique analysis of language policies in the central Asian states of the former Soviet Union

After the Deluge

Regional Crises and Political Consolidation in Russia

By Daniel Simon Treisman
Subjects: Political Science, Comparative Politics, European Studies, Eastern European Studies

Explains why Russia does not dissolve into independent countries

Out of the Red

Building Capitalism and Democracy in Postcommunist Europe

By Mitchell Alexander Orenstein
Subjects: Economics, System -- Development, Political Science, Comparative Politics, Political Economy, European Studies, Eastern European Studies
Series: Development and Inequality in the Market Economy

A comprehensive parallel study of two critical East-Central European transition economies

Intellectuals and the Articulation of the Nation

Edited by Ronald Grigor Suny & Michael D. Kennedy
Subjects: European Studies, Eastern European Studies, Political Science, Comparative Politics, Sociology, History

An interdisciplinary look at the role of intellectuals in the making of nations

Blueprints for a House Divided

The Constitutional Logic of the Yugoslav Conflicts

By Robert McBeth Hayden
Subjects: Anthropology, European Studies, Eastern European Studies, Law, Political Science, Comparative Politics

Argues that international diplomatic activities to resolve the Yugoslav conflicts have been misconceived

Altering States

Ethnographies of Transition in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union

Edited by Daphne Berdahl, Matti Bunzl, and Martha Lampland
Subjects: Anthropology, European Studies, Eastern European Studies, Cultural Studies, Political Science, Comparative Politics

Analyzes the social and cultural aspects of transition

Brokers and Bureaucrats

Building Market Institutions in Russia

By Timothy M. Frye
Subjects: Economics, System -- Development, Sociology, European Studies, Eastern European Studies, Political Science, Political Economy

Offers a new political explanation for the creation of market institutions as it investigates Russia's transition from a command economy

Unbroken Ties

The State, Interest Associations, and Corporatism in Post-Soviet Ukraine

By Paul James Kubicek
Subjects: European Studies, Eastern European Studies, Political Science, Political Economy

Considers the relationship between weak civil society and the failure of the democratic and market transition in Ukraine

Thoughts from a Bridge

A Retrospective of Writings on New Europe and American Federalism

By Eric Stein
Subjects: Law, European Studies, Eastern European Studies, Political Science, Comparative Politics

Explores a variety of issues surrounding integration in Europe

Democratizing Communist Militaries

The Cases of the Czech and Russian Armed Forces

By Marybeth Peterson Ulrich
Subjects: Political Science, International Relations, European Studies, Eastern European Studies

Discusses how we can help make formerly communist armies supporters of democracy

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