Interdisciplinary Studies on Central and Eastern Europe – serie

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16 produkter

Del 11 - Interdisciplinary Studies on Central and Eastern Europe
Informality in Eastern Europe
Structures, Political Cultures and Social Practices
AvNicolas Hayoz,Christian Giordano
Inbunden, Engelska, 2013
1 431 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
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 be observed in the politics and societies of Western Europe. The authors of this volume – most of them are from the region – have been invited to discuss the scientific relevance of the distinction informal / formal in their respective field of research or discipline. This points to the second objective of this volume which is to encourage a more fruitful interaction between disciplines that often disregard each other and which, despite inevitable and essential epistemological differences, have significant shared interests such as the comparative analysis of political phenomena in terms of elementary forms of social organization. The relation between informality and formality in a more methodologically pluralist and ultimately holistic way can be analysed via regards croisés between the disciplines anthropology, political science and sociology. This allows the extension of this comparative and multidisciplinary approach to other themes and phenomena of mutual interests.
Del 19 - Interdisciplinary Studies on Central and Eastern Europe
Illiberal and authoritarian tendencies in Central, Southeastern and Eastern Europe
AvFlorian Bieber,Magdalena Solskam. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2018
759 kr
Skickas
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 the gap and examines the causes and nature of the deteriorating quality of democracy in Central Europe as well as the reversal or stagnation of democratization processes in Southeastern and Eastern Europe. The political elite plays a key role in initiating legislative changes that may lead to democratic backsliding. Its constant commitment to the rule of law and to the practice of selfrestraint in securing the independence of judiciary and the rights of political opposition appears hence indispensable for sustainable liberal democracy.
Del 21 - Interdisciplinary Studies on Central and Eastern Europe
Centres and Peripheries in the Post-Soviet Space
Relevance and Meanings of a Classical Distinction
AvAlexander Filippov,Nicolas Hayozm. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2020
979 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
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 political, economic, and cultural realities in the post-Soviet space. Case studies provided by scholars from different countries of the former Soviet Union explore the potential of the distinction in historical as well as in economic and political perspectives
Del 17 - Interdisciplinary Studies on Central and Eastern Europe
Crisis Governance in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia
The Study of Floods in 2014
AvVedran Džihić,Magdalena Solska
Häftad, Engelska, 2018
1 042 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
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 aspects of the crisis governance and its ramifications. This publication’s goals are twofold. Firstly, it pins down the characteristics of the crisis responses during the floods of 2014 in three affected countries, preconditioned by the existing institutions, crisis leadership, the role of media and the social capital as well as the foreign financial aid. On the other hand, through the lenses of the crisis governance we conclude on the state capacities and the nature of political regime of the cases under study. The flood megacrisis did not constitute a "window of opportunity" for individual or institutional learning. On the contrary, it did unveil some authoritarian tendencies in Serbia and Bosnia, and thus stalled the hitherto ongoing democratization process.
Del 18 - Interdisciplinary Studies on Central and Eastern Europe
Modernization in Georgia
Theories, Discourses and Realities
AvGiga Zedania
Häftad, Engelska, 2018
891 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
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 and multifaceted picture: theories of modernization, history of modernization and Europeanization efforts in Georgia from the 19th century to the present day, Soviet past and its influence on the present socio-political processes, interrelation between foreign policy and modernization project, social capital and civil society, state and nation in the Caucasus. The book takes into account both theoretical and historical dimensions of the topic, presents various interpretations of the concept of modernization and discusses how distinct processes and projects of modernizing society existed in different historical epochs in Georgia.
Del 22 - Interdisciplinary Studies on Central and Eastern Europe
Meaningful reform in the Western Balkans
Between formal institutions and informal practices
AvEric Gordy,Adnan Efendic
Häftad, Engelska, 2019
842 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
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 in adopting legal reforms that make up a part of EU conditionality, many laws remain unenforced, amounting to "empty shells." In the space between law, as it is written, and practices as they are engaged in everyday life, exists a gap, characterized by informality, clientelism, and exchange often based on strong tie relationships. Some instances of informality undermine the goal of establishing rule law and contribute to corruption. Others offer valuable solutions to persistent social problems or represent traditional vehicles of social cohesion that should be promoted. The recommendations in this book seek to address both constructive and damaging instances of informality, and to identify policy measures that can help to harmonise not only legislation, but existing informal practices on the ground.
Del 24 - Interdisciplinary Studies on Central and Eastern Europe
Armenia after 2018
Social and Political Transformations
AvValentina Gevorgyan,Yulia Antonyan
Inbunden, Engelska, 2024
561 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
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, security, and political foundations. The book provides both factual insights and theoretical underpinnings that help readers understand the country's transformation and the resulting challenges. In its immediate neighbourhood, Armenia is one of the few countries with a clear commitment to democratic governance. However, the country, with its democratic potential in Europe’s eastern neighbourhood, is currently undergoing complex dynamics in security and social spheres. The main goal of this volume is to shed light on Armenia's complicated reality, bring it into the research spotlight, and foster discussions about the country's core challenges.
Del 2 - Interdisciplinary Studies on Central and Eastern Europe
Enlarged EU – Enlarged Neighbourhood
Perspectives of the European Neighbourhood Policy
AvNicolas Hayoz,Leszek Jesienm. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2005
1 055 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
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 policy that explicitly excludes the possibility of accession. However, possible future membership is the strongest implicit argument for pushing the new neighbours towards reform. How does the European Union deal with its new neighbours and how do they deal with the European Union? What plans and programs of cooperation exist? What prospects and risks does the new neighbourhood imply? Are there further attempts of cooperation and European integration besides these at the EU-level? The authors try to answer these questions by providing a critical perspective of the EU policy, regional overviews, and country reports from Eastern and South Eastern Europe.
Del 3 - Interdisciplinary Studies on Central and Eastern Europe
Tax Evasion, Trust, and State Capacities
AvNicolas Hayoz,Simon Hug
Häftad, Engelska, 2007
1 584 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
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. This raises a series of questions: What are the conditions under which people agree to pay taxes? Why do people avoid taxes? To what extent do the reasons for tax evasion vary from one region to another?The authors of this volume address these questions and try to assess the progress which has been made in Central and Eastern Europe with regard to improving tax morale through tax reforms and strengthening of extractive state capacities. A main insight is the complex causal relationship between the quality of fiscal institutions and tax morale. In addition, huge differences between countries of the former Soviet Union and central European countries, which are now members of the EU, can be observed not only at the level of democratic governance, of state capacities and the structures of trust, but also with regard to tax morale.
Del 4 - Interdisciplinary Studies on Central and Eastern Europe
Ukraine on its Meandering Path Between East and West
AvAndrej N. Lushnycky,Mykola Riabchuk
Häftad, Engelska, 2009
903 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
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 that duly embraced the democratic values of the west. However, disappointment soon replaced the euphoria of the victory. This volume attempts to show the elements of change and conflict that have arisen since the Orange Revolution and to explain some of Ukraine’s challenges today on its meandering path between East and West.
Del 6 - Interdisciplinary Studies on Central and Eastern Europe
Media, Democracy and Freedom
The Post-Communist Experience
AvMarta Dyczok,Oxana Gaman-Golutvina
Häftad, Engelska, 2009
718 kr
Tillfälligt slut
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 state in this region over the past twenty years, and present theoretical arguments that challenge dominant views. They scrutinize changes in the public sphere as well as the media itself, its role, format, agenda and quality in the context of changing values and shifting power relationships.
Del 9 - Interdisciplinary Studies on Central and Eastern Europe
20 Years after the Collapse of Communism
Expectations, achievements and disillusions of 1989
AvNicolas Hayoz,Leszek Jesienm. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2011
712 kr
Tillfälligt slut
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 prove incompatible with local cultures? Was their implementation too fast to correspond to a genuine development of democratic culture? Whatever the reasons, the road to democracy has turned out to be steeper and the communist legacy heavier than expected.The authors of this volume seek to comprehend the intricacies of various aspects of the post-communist transition; looking at a broad array of countries that have followed different paths. The studies combine methods of different disciplines. ‘Insider’ perspectives are juxtaposed with external assessments. This comparative and problem based approach brings into focus the ambiguities of the unfinished transformations as well as their broader cultural contexts: the politics of history and the battles for new memory, the re-signification of past and present, and the problematic transformation of homo sovieticus into an autonomous and responsive subject.
Del 14 - Interdisciplinary Studies on Central and Eastern Europe
Security, Democracy and Development
In the Southern Caucasus and the Black Sea Region
AvGhia Nodia,Christoph H. Stefes
Inbunden, Engelska, 2015
905 kr
Tillfälligt slut
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 attracted growing attention from social scientists. In this volume, authors from universities in Europe, the United States and the southern Caucasus focus on several of the most topical problems of the region, particularly how nascent states and societies grapple with the results of unresolved ethno-territorial conflicts and how they try to construct new civil societies from the cultural mosaic that they inherited from their Soviet past. How do elements of democracy and autocracy combine in the political regimes of the new states? Can the West have an effect on their internal development and, if so, how? How do the rich mineral resources of the Caspian region influence the development of the region’s economies and define the geopolitical standing of these countries?
Del 12 - Interdisciplinary Studies on Central and Eastern Europe
Models of Personal Conversion in Russian cultural history of the 19th and 20th centuries
AvJens Herlth,Christian Zehnder
Inbunden, Engelska, 2015
814 kr
Tillfälligt slut
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 the sacred. However, the essays presented go beyond the original meaning of conversion as a change of religious beliefs. They address shifts in style, aesthetic outlooks, and mindsets, political and ideological transfigurations as well as religious conversions in the true sense of the term.Whether at the level of culture, society or biography, the study of conversions opens the way to profound reflections about questions of identity, cultural ruptures, and continuity. The awareness of former conversions and the possible «convertibility» of one’s own ideological, spiritual or social stance has been among the central traits of Russian intellectual culture during the last two centuries.
Del 13 - Interdisciplinary Studies on Central and Eastern Europe
Ukraine after the Euromaidan
Challenges and Hopes
AvViktor Stepanenko,Yaroslav Pylynskyi
Inbunden, Engelska, 2014
786 kr
Tillfälligt slut
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 dramatic dynamics of the country’s ongoing transformation are still far from predictable. This book examines the manifold aspects of Ukraine’s current crisis and its political upheaval. The contributors to the book, Ukrainian experts in a variety of disciplinary fields, explore social, political and cultural reasons and factors behind the country’s transformation in its national and regional dimensions, the impact of Ukraine’s revolution on European and global politics, and also the new challenges of tough reforms with which the country is faced. The contributors share the view that the Euromaidan brought new opportunities for Ukraine’s modern development and the greatest historical chance for the country’s European future since independence in 1991.
Del 25 - Interdisciplinary Studies on Central and Eastern Europe
Fighting for Self-Determination, Participation and Control
Statebuilding and the Role of Historical Memories in Chechnya (1986 – 2023)
AvCécile Druey,Murat Shogenovm. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2024
895 kr
Tillfälligt slut
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 to the period of increasing authoritarianism, repression and militarisation in the run-up to the Russian-Ukrainian war in the early 2020s. The book’s eleven contributions are divided into five sub-periods and are illustrated by a rich selection of primary materials..

Interdisciplinary Studies on Central and Eastern Europe – serie

Visar alla böcker i serien Interdisciplinary Studies on Central and Eastern Europe. Handla med fri frakt och snabb leverans.

16 produkter

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16 produkter

Del 11 - Interdisciplinary Studies on Central and Eastern Europe
Informality in Eastern Europe
Structures, Political Cultures and Social Practices
AvNicolas Hayoz,Christian Giordano
Inbunden, Engelska, 2013
1 431 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
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 be observed in the politics and societies of Western Europe. The authors of this volume – most of them are from the region – have been invited to discuss the scientific relevance of the distinction informal / formal in their respective field of research or discipline. This points to the second objective of this volume which is to encourage a more fruitful interaction between disciplines that often disregard each other and which, despite inevitable and essential epistemological differences, have significant shared interests such as the comparative analysis of political phenomena in terms of elementary forms of social organization. The relation between informality and formality in a more methodologically pluralist and ultimately holistic way can be analysed via regards croisés between the disciplines anthropology, political science and sociology. This allows the extension of this comparative and multidisciplinary approach to other themes and phenomena of mutual interests.
Del 19 - Interdisciplinary Studies on Central and Eastern Europe
Illiberal and authoritarian tendencies in Central, Southeastern and Eastern Europe
AvFlorian Bieber,Magdalena Solskam. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2018
759 kr
Skickas
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 the gap and examines the causes and nature of the deteriorating quality of democracy in Central Europe as well as the reversal or stagnation of democratization processes in Southeastern and Eastern Europe. The political elite plays a key role in initiating legislative changes that may lead to democratic backsliding. Its constant commitment to the rule of law and to the practice of selfrestraint in securing the independence of judiciary and the rights of political opposition appears hence indispensable for sustainable liberal democracy.
Del 21 - Interdisciplinary Studies on Central and Eastern Europe
Centres and Peripheries in the Post-Soviet Space
Relevance and Meanings of a Classical Distinction
AvAlexander Filippov,Nicolas Hayozm. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2020
979 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
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 political, economic, and cultural realities in the post-Soviet space. Case studies provided by scholars from different countries of the former Soviet Union explore the potential of the distinction in historical as well as in economic and political perspectives
Del 17 - Interdisciplinary Studies on Central and Eastern Europe
Crisis Governance in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia
The Study of Floods in 2014
AvVedran Džihić,Magdalena Solska
Häftad, Engelska, 2018
1 042 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
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 aspects of the crisis governance and its ramifications. This publication’s goals are twofold. Firstly, it pins down the characteristics of the crisis responses during the floods of 2014 in three affected countries, preconditioned by the existing institutions, crisis leadership, the role of media and the social capital as well as the foreign financial aid. On the other hand, through the lenses of the crisis governance we conclude on the state capacities and the nature of political regime of the cases under study. The flood megacrisis did not constitute a "window of opportunity" for individual or institutional learning. On the contrary, it did unveil some authoritarian tendencies in Serbia and Bosnia, and thus stalled the hitherto ongoing democratization process.
Del 18 - Interdisciplinary Studies on Central and Eastern Europe
Modernization in Georgia
Theories, Discourses and Realities
AvGiga Zedania
Häftad, Engelska, 2018
891 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
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 and multifaceted picture: theories of modernization, history of modernization and Europeanization efforts in Georgia from the 19th century to the present day, Soviet past and its influence on the present socio-political processes, interrelation between foreign policy and modernization project, social capital and civil society, state and nation in the Caucasus. The book takes into account both theoretical and historical dimensions of the topic, presents various interpretations of the concept of modernization and discusses how distinct processes and projects of modernizing society existed in different historical epochs in Georgia.
Del 22 - Interdisciplinary Studies on Central and Eastern Europe
Meaningful reform in the Western Balkans
Between formal institutions and informal practices
AvEric Gordy,Adnan Efendic
Häftad, Engelska, 2019
842 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
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 in adopting legal reforms that make up a part of EU conditionality, many laws remain unenforced, amounting to "empty shells." In the space between law, as it is written, and practices as they are engaged in everyday life, exists a gap, characterized by informality, clientelism, and exchange often based on strong tie relationships. Some instances of informality undermine the goal of establishing rule law and contribute to corruption. Others offer valuable solutions to persistent social problems or represent traditional vehicles of social cohesion that should be promoted. The recommendations in this book seek to address both constructive and damaging instances of informality, and to identify policy measures that can help to harmonise not only legislation, but existing informal practices on the ground.
Del 24 - Interdisciplinary Studies on Central and Eastern Europe
Armenia after 2018
Social and Political Transformations
AvValentina Gevorgyan,Yulia Antonyan
Inbunden, Engelska, 2024
561 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
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, security, and political foundations. The book provides both factual insights and theoretical underpinnings that help readers understand the country's transformation and the resulting challenges. In its immediate neighbourhood, Armenia is one of the few countries with a clear commitment to democratic governance. However, the country, with its democratic potential in Europe’s eastern neighbourhood, is currently undergoing complex dynamics in security and social spheres. The main goal of this volume is to shed light on Armenia's complicated reality, bring it into the research spotlight, and foster discussions about the country's core challenges.
Del 2 - Interdisciplinary Studies on Central and Eastern Europe
Enlarged EU – Enlarged Neighbourhood
Perspectives of the European Neighbourhood Policy
AvNicolas Hayoz,Leszek Jesienm. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2005
1 055 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
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 policy that explicitly excludes the possibility of accession. However, possible future membership is the strongest implicit argument for pushing the new neighbours towards reform. How does the European Union deal with its new neighbours and how do they deal with the European Union? What plans and programs of cooperation exist? What prospects and risks does the new neighbourhood imply? Are there further attempts of cooperation and European integration besides these at the EU-level? The authors try to answer these questions by providing a critical perspective of the EU policy, regional overviews, and country reports from Eastern and South Eastern Europe.
Del 3 - Interdisciplinary Studies on Central and Eastern Europe
Tax Evasion, Trust, and State Capacities
AvNicolas Hayoz,Simon Hug
Häftad, Engelska, 2007
1 584 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
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. This raises a series of questions: What are the conditions under which people agree to pay taxes? Why do people avoid taxes? To what extent do the reasons for tax evasion vary from one region to another?The authors of this volume address these questions and try to assess the progress which has been made in Central and Eastern Europe with regard to improving tax morale through tax reforms and strengthening of extractive state capacities. A main insight is the complex causal relationship between the quality of fiscal institutions and tax morale. In addition, huge differences between countries of the former Soviet Union and central European countries, which are now members of the EU, can be observed not only at the level of democratic governance, of state capacities and the structures of trust, but also with regard to tax morale.
Del 4 - Interdisciplinary Studies on Central and Eastern Europe
Ukraine on its Meandering Path Between East and West
AvAndrej N. Lushnycky,Mykola Riabchuk
Häftad, Engelska, 2009
903 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
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 that duly embraced the democratic values of the west. However, disappointment soon replaced the euphoria of the victory. This volume attempts to show the elements of change and conflict that have arisen since the Orange Revolution and to explain some of Ukraine’s challenges today on its meandering path between East and West.
Del 6 - Interdisciplinary Studies on Central and Eastern Europe
Media, Democracy and Freedom
The Post-Communist Experience
AvMarta Dyczok,Oxana Gaman-Golutvina
Häftad, Engelska, 2009
718 kr
Tillfälligt slut
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 state in this region over the past twenty years, and present theoretical arguments that challenge dominant views. They scrutinize changes in the public sphere as well as the media itself, its role, format, agenda and quality in the context of changing values and shifting power relationships.
Del 9 - Interdisciplinary Studies on Central and Eastern Europe
20 Years after the Collapse of Communism
Expectations, achievements and disillusions of 1989
AvNicolas Hayoz,Leszek Jesienm. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2011
712 kr
Tillfälligt slut
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 prove incompatible with local cultures? Was their implementation too fast to correspond to a genuine development of democratic culture? Whatever the reasons, the road to democracy has turned out to be steeper and the communist legacy heavier than expected.The authors of this volume seek to comprehend the intricacies of various aspects of the post-communist transition; looking at a broad array of countries that have followed different paths. The studies combine methods of different disciplines. ‘Insider’ perspectives are juxtaposed with external assessments. This comparative and problem based approach brings into focus the ambiguities of the unfinished transformations as well as their broader cultural contexts: the politics of history and the battles for new memory, the re-signification of past and present, and the problematic transformation of homo sovieticus into an autonomous and responsive subject.
Del 14 - Interdisciplinary Studies on Central and Eastern Europe
Security, Democracy and Development
In the Southern Caucasus and the Black Sea Region
AvGhia Nodia,Christoph H. Stefes
Inbunden, Engelska, 2015
905 kr
Tillfälligt slut
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 attracted growing attention from social scientists. In this volume, authors from universities in Europe, the United States and the southern Caucasus focus on several of the most topical problems of the region, particularly how nascent states and societies grapple with the results of unresolved ethno-territorial conflicts and how they try to construct new civil societies from the cultural mosaic that they inherited from their Soviet past. How do elements of democracy and autocracy combine in the political regimes of the new states? Can the West have an effect on their internal development and, if so, how? How do the rich mineral resources of the Caspian region influence the development of the region’s economies and define the geopolitical standing of these countries?
Del 12 - Interdisciplinary Studies on Central and Eastern Europe
Models of Personal Conversion in Russian cultural history of the 19th and 20th centuries
AvJens Herlth,Christian Zehnder
Inbunden, Engelska, 2015
814 kr
Tillfälligt slut
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 the sacred. However, the essays presented go beyond the original meaning of conversion as a change of religious beliefs. They address shifts in style, aesthetic outlooks, and mindsets, political and ideological transfigurations as well as religious conversions in the true sense of the term.Whether at the level of culture, society or biography, the study of conversions opens the way to profound reflections about questions of identity, cultural ruptures, and continuity. The awareness of former conversions and the possible «convertibility» of one’s own ideological, spiritual or social stance has been among the central traits of Russian intellectual culture during the last two centuries.
Del 13 - Interdisciplinary Studies on Central and Eastern Europe
Ukraine after the Euromaidan
Challenges and Hopes
AvViktor Stepanenko,Yaroslav Pylynskyi
Inbunden, Engelska, 2014
786 kr
Tillfälligt slut
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 dramatic dynamics of the country’s ongoing transformation are still far from predictable. This book examines the manifold aspects of Ukraine’s current crisis and its political upheaval. The contributors to the book, Ukrainian experts in a variety of disciplinary fields, explore social, political and cultural reasons and factors behind the country’s transformation in its national and regional dimensions, the impact of Ukraine’s revolution on European and global politics, and also the new challenges of tough reforms with which the country is faced. The contributors share the view that the Euromaidan brought new opportunities for Ukraine’s modern development and the greatest historical chance for the country’s European future since independence in 1991.
Del 25 - Interdisciplinary Studies on Central and Eastern Europe
Fighting for Self-Determination, Participation and Control
Statebuilding and the Role of Historical Memories in Chechnya (1986 – 2023)
AvCécile Druey,Murat Shogenovm. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2024
895 kr
Tillfälligt slut
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 to the period of increasing authoritarianism, repression and militarisation in the run-up to the Russian-Ukrainian war in the early 2020s. The book’s eleven contributions are divided into five sub-periods and are illustrated by a rich selection of primary materials..

Interdisciplinary Studies on Central and Eastern Europe – serie

Informality in Eastern Europe

Illiberal and authoritarian tendencies in Central, Southeastern and Eastern Europe

Centres and Peripheries in the Post-Soviet Space

Crisis Governance in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia

Modernization in Georgia

Meaningful reform in the Western Balkans

Armenia after 2018

Enlarged EU – Enlarged Neighbourhood

Tax Evasion, Trust, and State Capacities

Ukraine on its Meandering Path Between East and West

Media, Democracy and Freedom

20 Years after the Collapse of Communism

Security, Democracy and Development

Models of Personal Conversion in Russian cultural history of the 19th and 20th centuries

Ukraine after the Euromaidan

Fighting for Self-Determination, Participation and Control

Interdisciplinary Studies on Central and Eastern Europe – serie

Informality in Eastern Europe

Illiberal and authoritarian tendencies in Central, Southeastern and Eastern Europe

Centres and Peripheries in the Post-Soviet Space

Crisis Governance in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia

Modernization in Georgia

Meaningful reform in the Western Balkans

Armenia after 2018

Enlarged EU – Enlarged Neighbourhood

Tax Evasion, Trust, and State Capacities

Ukraine on its Meandering Path Between East and West

Media, Democracy and Freedom

20 Years after the Collapse of Communism

Security, Democracy and Development

Models of Personal Conversion in Russian cultural history of the 19th and 20th centuries

Ukraine after the Euromaidan

Fighting for Self-Determination, Participation and Control

Interdisciplinary Studies on Central and Eastern Europe – serie

Informality in Eastern Europe

Illiberal and authoritarian tendencies in Central, Southeastern and Eastern Europe

Centres and Peripheries in the Post-Soviet Space

Crisis Governance in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia

Modernization in Georgia

Meaningful reform in the Western Balkans

Armenia after 2018

Enlarged EU – Enlarged Neighbourhood

Tax Evasion, Trust, and State Capacities

Ukraine on its Meandering Path Between East and West

Media, Democracy and Freedom

20 Years after the Collapse of Communism

Security, Democracy and Development

Models of Personal Conversion in Russian cultural history of the 19th and 20th centuries

Ukraine after the Euromaidan

Fighting for Self-Determination, Participation and Control

Interdisciplinary Studies on Central and Eastern Europe – serie

Informality in Eastern Europe

Illiberal and authoritarian tendencies in Central, Southeastern and Eastern Europe

Centres and Peripheries in the Post-Soviet Space

Crisis Governance in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia

Modernization in Georgia

Meaningful reform in the Western Balkans

Armenia after 2018

Enlarged EU – Enlarged Neighbourhood

Tax Evasion, Trust, and State Capacities

Ukraine on its Meandering Path Between East and West

Media, Democracy and Freedom

20 Years after the Collapse of Communism

Security, Democracy and Development

Models of Personal Conversion in Russian cultural history of the 19th and 20th centuries

Ukraine after the Euromaidan

Fighting for Self-Determination, Participation and Control