Provides a highly innovative internationally comparative causal analysis of the variation in political and economic outcomes in 29 countries in Europe and Asia, ranging from Estonia to Vietnam, after the first decade of post-communist transformations, using multi-value Qualitative Comparative Analysis and Tosmana software.

An Unproclaimed Empire the Grand Duchy of Lithuania is an interdisciplinary study of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (GDL) that is historical in subject but social scientific in approach. It is also the first study to apply this comparative and social scientific method to the GDL.

In this book, Zenonas Norkus draws on national historiographies as well as applying theories from comparative empire studies involving historians, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists and scholars in the theory of international relations, allowing it to transcend differences in...