The chronic instability in the Balkan States of South East Europe has prevented the end of the Cold War becoming an era of genuine peace in Europe. Against a background of competing nationalisms, economic decline, the resilience of authoritarianism, it is easy to forget that there have been experiments with democracy have taken place since 1990 with relative success. Now, for the first time, the region is genuinely engaging with open politics; its outcome will determine whether the Balkans can cease being a byword for instability, and an area whose shock-waves have disturbed the peace of...
The chronic instability in the Balkan States of South East Europe has prevented the end of the Cold War becoming an era of genuine peace in Europe. Ag...
Recent transitional developments in the former communist countries have aroused considerable interest among economists and political scientists alike. Yet relatively little attention has been focused upon the ways in which these significant changes have impacted the micro realities of life within the transforming state-owned enterprises. This text provides a detailed examination of the complex processes of transformation in former state-owned enterprises in the Czech Republic. Drawing on case studies of organizational transformation, this book adopts a social-institutionalist approach to the...
Recent transitional developments in the former communist countries have aroused considerable interest among economists and political scientists alike....
This text examines issues relating to the measurement and experience of poverty, and responses to it, in transition economies. As a whole, the peoples of Central and Eastern Europe have experienced the shock of declining living standards and increased poverty and destitution. The responses of governments and the peoples themselves to these problems, however, have varied considerably across the region. This book attempts to quantify and give meaning to the problem of poverty of economies in transition, and it considers some of the responses that the problem has generated. The contributors are...
This text examines issues relating to the measurement and experience of poverty, and responses to it, in transition economies. As a whole, the peoples...
This authoritative volume assesses how the recently democratized political system in Poland is adapting to the challenges posed by the country's desire to rejoin Europe. Its panel of Polish academics considers various issues not generally well-known to the English-speaking world, but of great importance in the light of Poland's impending entry into the European Union. Its authors demonstrate that the evolution of political forms and life in Poland is related to, and sometimes governed by, Poland's desire to join the EU. Subjects covered include; the changing nature of Poland's foreign policy;...
This authoritative volume assesses how the recently democratized political system in Poland is adapting to the challenges posed by the country's desir...
Since the late 1980s the experiences of work and employment in the former communist world have been profoundly transformed. Work, Employment and Transition brings together a series of essays by leading international scholars which highlights the varied and complex forms that work and employment restructuring are taking in the post-soviet world, and makes important theoretical contributions to our understanding of these transformations.
Since the late 1980s the experiences of work and employment in the former communist world have been profoundly transformed. Work, Employment and T...
The concept of social capital has been used by political scientists to explain both the transition to democracy in Eastern Europe and the decline of social cohesion in Western societies. This collection presents quantitative research on how post-communist countries are adapting to Western models of society.
The concept of social capital has been used by political scientists to explain both the transition to democracy in Eastern Europe and the decline of s...
Following the highly successful Economies in Transition: A Guide to China, Cuba, Mongolia, North Korea and Vietnam at the turn of the twenty-first century (published in the Routledge Studies in Development Economics series), Eastern Europe at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century: A guide to the economies in transition and The Former Yugoslavia at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century: A guide to the economies in transition, this book is the first of two which focuses on economic and political events in the countries of the former Soviet Union. The author presents a clear, detailed and...
Following the highly successful Economies in Transition: A Guide to China, Cuba, Mongolia, North Korea and Vietnam at the turn of the twenty-first cen...
Following the highly successful Economies in Transition: A guide to China, Cuba, Mongolia, North Korea and Vietnam at the turn of the twenty-first century (published in the Routledge Studies in Development Economics series), Eastern Europe at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century: A guide to the economies in transition and The Former Yugoslavia at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century: A guide to the economies in transition, this book is the second of two (following The Caucasus and Central Asian Republics at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century: A guide to the economies in transition) which...
Following the highly successful Economies in Transition: A guide to China, Cuba, Mongolia, North Korea and Vietnam at the turn of the twenty-first cen...
