Post Soviet East European Report

Author : Michael Kraus,Ron Liebowitz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000310559

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Russia And Eastern Europe After Communism by Michael Kraus,Ron Liebowitz Pdf

The conference on "Russia and East Europe in Transition," held at Middlebury College in May 1994 under the auspices of the Center for Russian and East European Studies, provided the impetus for this volume. The two-day gathering was made possible by a Title VI grant from the U.S. Department of Education and the Jessica Swift Endowed Lecture Fund of Middlebury College, for which we are most grateful. Apart from the contributors to this volume, the conference participants included: George Bellerose, Raymond E. Benson, Valery Chalidze, Michael Claudon, David Colander, Guntram H. Herb, Lars Lib, Tamar Mayer, Noah M.J. Pickus, Sunder Ramaswamy, David A. Rosenberg, and Mitchell Smith. Acting as discussants, panel chairs, or interested participants, their efforts, individually and collectively, have made this a better book and their contribution to this project is gratefully acknowledged.

Author : Michael Bradshaw,Alison Stenning
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781317905028

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East Central Europe and the former Soviet Union by Michael Bradshaw,Alison Stenning Pdf

A comprehensive introduction to the important economic, social and political processes and development issues in this increasingly popular area of study. Employing a groundbreaking thematic approach the book centres its discussion on the interrelation between contemporary development theories and continuing transition issues in this huge and complex region.

Author : Aleksandr V. Gevorkyan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317567943

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Transition Economies by Aleksandr V. Gevorkyan Pdf

This interdisciplinary study offers a comprehensive analysis of the transition economies of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Providing full historical context and drawing on a wide range of literature, this book explores the continuous economic and social transformation of the post-socialist world. While the future is yet to be determined, understanding the present phase of transformation is critical. The book’s core exploration evolves along three pivots of competitive economic structure, institutional change, and social welfare. The main elements include analysis of the emergence of the socialist economic model; its adaptations through the twentieth century; discussion of the 1990s market transition reforms; post-2008 crisis development; and the social and economic diversity in the region today. With an appreciation for country specifics, the book also considers the urgent problems of social policy, poverty, income inequality, and labor migration. Transition Economies will aid students, researchers and policy makers working on the problems of comparative economics, economic development, economic history, economic systems transition, international political economy, as well as specialists in post-Soviet and Central and Eastern European regional studies.

Author : Robert Snyder
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781351307345

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Reporting the Post-communist Revolution by Robert Snyder Pdf

The events of 1989 were the material of great reporting. They also revealed the power of journalism. Long before people in Central and Eastern Europe liberated themselves, they discovered democratic freedom, putting to print their own ideas and chronicling events of the day. Indeed, long before they had democracies in law, they had imagined them on paper.In the Solidarity network that produced books and leaflets and news bulletins, in the essays of Václav Havel, in the samizdat publishing house in Budapest that used a portable printing machine, Eastern Europeans demonstrated the organic link between journalism and self-government. They showed how journalism nurtures the imagination, dialogue, and honesty that are basic to democratic life.If history had ended in 1989, there would be cause for easy optimism. The changes that swept Central and Eastern Europe passed with relatively little bloodshed. But agonies of the former Yugoslavia, convulsions of the former Soviet Union, and enduring battles with censors and would-be censors bedevil emerging democracies. Not only does much remain for journalists to cover in Central and Eastern Europe, in some places there the fate of journalism is still an open question. For all these reasons, Reporting the Fall of European Communism explores, not only the events of 1989, but new stories that have emerged in Central and Eastern Europe over the past decade. This volume will be of interest to media professionals, academics and others with an interest in the power of journalism.

Author : Ryhor Nizhnikau
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351337175

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EU Induced Institutional Change in Post-Soviet Space by Ryhor Nizhnikau Pdf

This book analyses the role of the European Union in the process of institutional change in its Eastern neighbourhood and explains why EU policies arrive at contradictory outcomes at the sectoral level. Combining EU studies approaches with insights from the fields of new institutionalism, international development studies and transnationalisation, it explains how the EU policies contribute to rule persistence or lead to institutional change. Highlighting the importance of investigating how the policies of external intervention interact with domestic institutions, the book also provides a coherent presentation of the political and economic problems of Ukraine and Moldova and a comparative analysis in key areas at critical junctures of their development. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of European Union politics and more broadly to International Relations, post-Soviet and Russian studies.

Author : Esther Ademmer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317371854

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Russia's Impact on EU Policy Transfer to the Post-Soviet Space by Esther Ademmer Pdf

Russia's impact on EU policy transfer to the post-Soviet space has not been as negative as often perceived. EU policies have traveled to countries and issue areas, in which the dependence on Russia is high and Russian foreign policy is increasingly assertive. This book explores Russia's impact on the transfer of EU policies in the area of Justice, Liberty, and Security and energy policy - two policy areas in which countries in the EU's Eastern neighborhood are traditionally strongly bound to Russia. Focusing especially on Armenia and Georgia, it examines whether it is the structural condition of interdependence, the various institutional ties and similarities of neighboring countries with the EU and Russia, or their concrete foreign policy actions that have the greatest impact on domestic policy change in the region. The book also investigates how important these factors are in relation to domestic ones. It identifies conditions under which different degrees of EU policy transfer occur and the circumstances under which Russia exerts either supportive or constraining effects on this process. This book will be of key interest to students and scholars of EU and European politics, international relations and comparative politics.

Author : Roman Petrov,Peter Van Elsuwege
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-22
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317326267

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Post-Soviet Constitutions and Challenges of Regional Integration by Roman Petrov,Peter Van Elsuwege Pdf

This book explores the implications of European and Eurasian integration projects for the constitutional orders of post-Soviet countries. On the one hand, the process of Eurasian integration, culminating in the establishment of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), led to the creation of new institutions and mechanisms influencing the domestic legal order of the participating countries. On the other hand, the process of European integration, epitomised through the European Union (EU), constitutes an important source of reference for domestic constitutional developments in the countries which recently concluded a new generation of Association Agreements with the EU. This book analyses the implications of both processes. The book addresses the relevant experience of the countries from Central and Eastern Europe with transitional constitutionalism, mapping out the significance of European and Eurasian integration for protecting the rule of law in the post-Soviet space and identifying the constitutional implications and challenges of the EAEU and the new generation of Association Agreements. It also provides detailed country reports on national constitutional orders in the post-Soviet space and their adaptability to regional integration projects, authored by leading academics from the countries concerned, providing a number of general reflections about the evolution of post-Soviet constitutions in light of European and Eurasian integration projects.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Europe, Eastern
ISBN : UOM:39015026780802

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The United States and Eastern Europe by Anonim Pdf

Author : Pradeep Mitra,Marcelo Selowsky
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0821350382

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Transition, the First Ten Years by Pradeep Mitra,Marcelo Selowsky Pdf

The wide variation in transition economies raises questions about differences in economic growth, the applicability of transition policies, and the advantages of economic reform. This report seeks to answer these questions.

Author : Gerald Sussman
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Communication in politics
ISBN : 1433105314

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Branding Democracy by Gerald Sussman Pdf

Branding Democracy: U.S. Regime Change in Post-Soviet Eastern Europe is a study of the uses of systemic propaganda in U.S. foreign policy. Moving beyond traditional understandings of propaganda, Branding Democracy analyzes the expanding and ubiquitous uses of domestic public persuasion under a neoliberal regime and an informational mode of development and its migration to the arena of foreign policy. A highly mobile and flexible corporate-dominated new informational economy is the foundation of intensified Western marketing and promotional culture across spatial and temporal divides, enabling transnational interests to integrate territories previously beyond their reach. U.S. «democracy promotion» and interventions in the Eastern European «color revolutions» in the early twenty-first century serve as studies of neoliberal state interests in action. Branding Democracy will be of interest to students of U.S. and European politics, political economy, foreign policy, political communication, American studies, and culture studies.

Author : Constantine Christopher Menges
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015053374750

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Transitions from Communism in Russia and Eastern Europe by Constantine Christopher Menges Pdf

Brings together selected works produced by the Program on Transitions to Democracy at George Washington U., combining analysis with essays offering the views and judgments of participants in the transitions. All of the contributors, American and European alike, offer paeans to democracy and the marketplace. Surprisingly, the Europeans are more critically analytical, the Americans more self-righteously ideological. Paper edition (unseen), $24.50. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Anders Uhlin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2006-03-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134208074

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Post-Soviet Civil Society by Anders Uhlin Pdf

The development of civil society has varied greatly across the former Soviet Union. The Baltic states have achieved a high level of integration with the West and European Union membership, while some regions in Russia lag far behind. Now for the first time there is a comparative study of civil society and democratization across post-Soviet national borders. Acknowledging the enormous variation throughout the region, the book offers unique data on developments in Russia, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Applying an innovative analytical framework derived from theories of democratization, civil society, social movements and transnational relations, the researchers have formulated broader comparisons and generalisations without neglecting the specific post-Soviet context. The book provides a systematic comparison across sectors as well as nations, and includes chapters on NGOs, the state and conflict, and transnationalisation. Quantitative survey data is combined with qualitative interviews and case study research to both confirm previous findings about the weakness of post-communist civil society and to qualify previous research.

Author : Olivier J. Blanchard,Maxim Boycko,Marek Dabrowski,Rudiger Dornbusch,Richard Layard,Andrei Shleifer
Publisher : Mit Press
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1993-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0262519798

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Post-Communist Reform by Olivier J. Blanchard,Maxim Boycko,Marek Dabrowski,Rudiger Dornbusch,Richard Layard,Andrei Shleifer Pdf

In their earlier report, Reform in Eastern Europe, the WIDER group assessed the main building blocks of a successful transition in Eastern Europe: stabilization, price liberalization, privatization, and restructuring. For the last three years this group of leading economists has been heavily involved in the reform process. In this new report, they take stock, returning to the original themes and assessing progress and prospects, particularly in Russia.Stabilization in the major Central European countries was done very much by the book. Russia, in contrast, is following a path of restructuring without stabilization. The authors discuss how far this alternative strategy is likely to get. Turning to privatization, they note that initial plans started from the assumption that the state owned the assets. As slow progress of those plans has painfully shown, this was the wrong assumption. They point out that assets have in fact many de facto claimants, from managers to workers to local authorities to ministries, and discuss how the current Russian privatization program starts and builds up from this more realistic assessment.In the face of a collapse of trade in Eastern Europe, triggered by reform in Central Europe and a similar collapse between republics following the breakup of the Soviet Union, the authors show how simple measures such as a payments union can be used to increase trade and output.Post-Communist Reform concludes with a look at restructuring in Poland. The authors focus on the behavior of the state, the growth of the private sector, the role of financial systems, and the coherence of overall government policy, ending on a note of cautious optimism.

Author : Rod Tyers
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780896291027

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Economic Reform in Europe and the Former Soviet Union by Rod Tyers Pdf

The prereform economicies. The transition in the postsocialist economies. Analyiss of food policy reforms. Implications for other development countries.

Author : Ali M. Mansoor,Bryce Quillin
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780821362341

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Migration and Remittances by Ali M. Mansoor,Bryce Quillin Pdf

Migration in Eastern Europe and Central Asia is relatively large by international standards, driven both by political factors (the 1990 collapse of the Soviet system, ensuing emergence of conflicts and new states, and opening of borders with Europe) and economic factors (abrupt economic deterioration and corresponding search for better employment and living conditions). The report anlayzes the different kinds of migration as well as the policies on both sides of the equation to limit negative side effects (like emargination, criminal activities, and brain drain) and maximize positive ones (increased labor pool for services, remittances, return migration with improved human and financial capital).