Europe has changed radically since 1989 and continues to change at great speed. This book deals with the principle problems and challenges confronting Europe in the aftermath of the Cold War and the collapse of European communism. Whilst endeavouring to strike a balance between East, West, North and South, the volume is more concerned with the changing political, economic and cultural morphology of Europe, and of the relations within it, than with the formal institutional arrangements of the European Community and its successor, the European Union. There are already numerous books on the...
Europe has changed radically since 1989 and continues to change at great speed. This book deals with the principle problems and challenges confronting...
This text deals with the principal problems and challenges confronting Europe in the aftermath of the Cold War and the collapse of European communism. Striking a balance between East, West, North and South, the volume is chiefly concerned with the changing political, economic and cultural morphology of Europe, and of the relations within it, than with the formal institutional arrangements of the European Community and its successor, the European Union. It demonstrates that integration should be seen as neither an inexorable predetermined process, nor as an automatic consequence of high levels...
This text deals with the principal problems and challenges confronting Europe in the aftermath of the Cold War and the collapse of European communism....
An excellent companion volume to the successful A History of Eastern Europe, this is a country-by-country treatment of the contemporary history of each of the Balkan states: Albania, Bulgaria, Romania, Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Montenegro and Kosova.
With a distinctive conceptual framework for explaining divergent patterns of historical change, the book shifts the emphasis away from traditional cultural explanations and concentrates on the pervasive influence of strongly entrenched vertical power-structures and power-relations.
Focusing on political...
An excellent companion volume to the successful A History of Eastern Europe, this is a country-by-country treatment of the contemporary history of ...
An excellent companion volume to the successful A History of Eastern Europe, this is a country-by-country treatment of the contemporary history of each of the Balkan states: Albania, Bulgaria, Romania, Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Montenegro and Kosova.
With a distinctive conceptual framework for explaining divergent patterns of historical change, the book shifts the emphasis away from traditional cultural explanations and concentrates on the pervasive influence of strongly entrenched vertical power-structures and power-relations.
Focusing on...
An excellent companion volume to the successful A History of Eastern Europe, this is a country-by-country treatment of the contemporary hi...
First published in 1985, this book provides a comprehensive reappraisal of the diverse Communist development strategies that shaped the twentieth century. Robert Bideleux emphasises the appalling human and economic costs of the most widely adopted Stalinist strategies of forced industrialisation and rural collectivisation. He also reconsiders the powerful arguments in favour of the most feasible and cost-effective alternatives to Stalinism, including village communisms and market socialisms . A highly readable and challenging study, this reissue will be of particular value to students with...
First published in 1985, this book provides a comprehensive reappraisal of the diverse Communist development strategies that shaped the twentieth c...
First published in 1985, this book provides a comprehensive reappraisal of the diverse Communist development strategies that shaped the twentieth century. Robert Bideleux emphasises the appalling human and economic costs of the most widely adopted Stalinist strategies of forced industrialisation and rural collectivisation. He also reconsiders the powerful arguments in favour of the most feasible and cost-effective alternatives to Stalinism, including village communisms and market socialisms . A highly readable and challenging study, this reissue will be of particular value to students with...
First published in 1985, this book provides a comprehensive reappraisal of the diverse Communist development strategies that shaped the twentieth c...
