Interdisciplinary Studies on Central and Eastern Europe – serie
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Stagnation and Drift in the Western Balkans
The Challenges of Political, Economic and Social Change
Av Claire Gordon, Marko Kmezic m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
911 kr
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This volume allows a new generation of scholars, from the Balkans and beyond, to shed light on some of the struggles the region faces. The combination of post-communist and post-conflict transition, together with the current economic and financial crisis, pose difficult challenges for the Western …
Security, Democracy and Development
In the Southern Caucasus and the Black Sea Region
Av Ghia Nodia, Christoph H. Stefes
Inbunden, 2015
931 kr
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Since the early 1990s, the southern Caucasus and its larger neighbourhood, the Black Sea region, have experienced deep and sometimes painful transformations, including bloody conflicts. They have also become an arena of geopolitical and geoeconomic competition between great powers. This has …
Informality in Eastern Europe
Structures, Political Cultures and Social Practices
Av Nicolas Hayoz, Christian Giordano
Inbunden, 2013
1431 kr
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This volume deals with different aspects of informal structures and practices in Eastern Europe. Its objectives are twofold. It aims at discovering whether or to what extent informal structures and practices in Eastern Europe have meanings, functions, forms and effects different from those that can …
Models of Personal Conversion in Russian cultural history of the 19th and 20th centuries
Av Jens Herlth, Christian Zehnder
Inbunden, 2015
814 kr
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This volume offers a view of modern Russian intellectual culture as shaped by the dynamic of conversions. The individual contributions examine a rich variety of personal conversions occurring in a culture in which the written word enjoyed a privileged status and, historically, was closely linked to …
Ukraine after the Euromaidan
Challenges and Hopes
Av Viktor Stepanenko, Yaroslav Pylynskyi
Inbunden, 2014
803 kr
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Ukraine’s protest movement of 2013–14, known as the Euromaidan, and its culmination, the people’s uprising in late 2013–early 2014 became one of the most dramatic world events in recent years. The accession of Crimea to the Russian Federation and military conflict in the Donbas demonstrate that the …
Agricultural Knowledge and Knowledge Systems in Post-Soviet Societies
Av Anastasiya Shtaltovna, Conrad Schetter m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
1034 kr
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This volume addresses the crucial role of knowledge and innovation in coping with and adapting to socio-economic and political transformation processes in post-Soviet societies. Unique are the bottom up or micro-sociological and ethnographic perspectives offered by the book on the processes of …
Diversity of Migration in South-East Europe
Av Mirjam Zbinden, Janine Dahinden m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
1043 kr
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This interdisciplinary volume gathers recent work related to the diverse migratory movements in South-East Europe. The contributions address current aspects of emigration, immigration, transit migration and return from different disciplinary vantage points. They impressively demonstrate that …
Illiberal and authoritarian tendencies in Central, Southeastern and Eastern Europe
Av Florian Bieber, Magdalena Solska m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
759 kr
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Even though the democratic decline has been deemed a global phenomenon, the question of how it manifests itself in the postcommunist world and how it varies across different regions with divergent levels of democratic consolidation has not been sufficiently addressed yet. This book tries to fill …
Centres and Peripheries in the Post-Soviet Space
Relevance and Meanings of a Classical Distinction
Av Alexander Filippov, Nicolas Hayoz m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
1000 kr
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Like all empires, the Soviet Empire was also based on the distinction centre–periphery. Although the Soviet Empire no longer exists, relationships between centres and peripheries still shape realities in the region. The book analyses the relevance of this distinction for the understanding of …
Crisis Governance in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia
The Study of Floods in 2014
Av Vedran Džihić, Magdalena Solska
Häftad, 2018
1065 kr
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This comparative study at hand has been the result of a two-year research project on floods in 2014 in the Western Balkans engaging eight research teams from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Croatia. Representing quite different disciplines, the authors of this volume have analysed diverse …
Modernization in Georgia
Theories, Discourses and Realities
Av Giga Zedania
Häftad, 2018
891 kr
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The book is a collection of articles treating the question of modernization in Georgia. It is an interdisciplinary volume, comprising the studies from disciplines of history, political science, sociology and international relations. The texts deal with the topic from various angles, creating a rich …
Meaningful reform in the Western Balkans
Between formal institutions and informal practices
Häftad, 2019
860 kr
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This book contains collection of articles which provide policy implications related to the problem of achieving substantive reform on the basis of harmonising legislation in Western Balkan (WB) countries with the standards of the European Union (EU). While WB states have generally been successful …
Armenia after 2018
Social and Political Transformations
Av Valentina Gevorgyan, Yulia Antonyan
Inbunden, 2024
573 kr
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This book focuses on social and political developments in Armenia during a turbulent post-2018 period. Between 2018 and 2020, the country experienced three significant waves of upheaval: a revolution, a pandemic, and a war. These events had far-reaching implications for Armenia's social, cultural, …
Enlarged EU – Enlarged Neighbourhood
Perspectives of the European Neighbourhood Policy
Av Nicolas Hayoz, Leszek Jesien m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
1055 kr
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Since May 2004 the European Union borders countries that have not yet accomplished their transformation process or are still struggling for stability.These countries are now the neighbours of the European Union, but are they also candidates for accession? The European Neighbourhood policy is a …
Tax Evasion, Trust, and State Capacities
Häftad, 2007
1618 kr
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Many recently democratized countries in Central and Eastern Europe, having escaped from communist rule and planned economies, face pressing problems related to the notions of tax evasion, trust and state capacities. Tax morale in changing political and economic contexts is of crucial importance. …
Ukraine on its Meandering Path Between East and West
Av Andrej N. Lushnycky, Mykola Riabchuk
Häftad, 2009
903 kr
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The last five years have proven to be quite tumultuous for Ukraine. The Orange Revolution, as witnessed around the world, sought to overthrow the ancien régime and to replace it with younger, more democratic leaders. At the same time it was a declaration that Ukraine was truly a European nation …
Media, Democracy and Freedom
The Post-Communist Experience
Av Marta Dyczok, Oxana Gaman-Golutvina
Häftad, 2009
718 kr
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This book does what few other works have done: it examines the role media have played in the larger political, economic and social transformations in the post communist space. An international group of scholars from various disciplines explore the complex relations between media, society, and the …
20 Years after the Collapse of Communism
Expectations, achievements and disillusions of 1989
Av Nicolas Hayoz, Leszek Jesien m. fl.
Inbunden, 2011
734 kr
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The volume is an attempt to assess the meanings of 1989, in particular the multiple transformation processes and their effects in Eastern Europe. Obviously, the realities of the post-communist transformations have not met the expectations. Were the expectations too high? Did democratic institutions …
Fighting for Self-Determination, Participation and Control
Statebuilding and the Role of Historical Memories in Chechnya (1986 – 2023)
Av Cécile Druey, Murat Shogenov m. fl.
Inbunden, 2024
915 kr
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This edited volume traces the tragic history of state collapse and statebuilding, radicalisation and conflict in Chechnya, focusing on the contested and contesting role of historical memory. The time frame covered ranges from the beginning of civil mobilisation during Perestroika in the mid-1980s …
