Dilemmas of Transition in Post-Soviet Countries

Dilemmas of Transition in Post-Soviet Countries
Author: Joel C. Moses
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2003
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780830415908

Exploring the tensions inherent in transition, this perceptive book offers a wide-ranging overview of the impact of democracy and capitalism on the former Soviet republics. Leading scholars assess the region's daunting problems in the key realms of privatization, democratization, foreign investment, agrarian reform, local governance, and market economics. The contributors argue that the central dilemma facing all these fledgling countries is the inherent contradiction between the immediate pursuit of privatization and foreign investment and the long-term policy goal of democratization. Offering both theoretical and comparative perspectives on the far-reaching implications of nation-building and democratic transition, this valuable study will enable both students and scholars to comprehend the unique difficulties of transition.

Central and Eastern Europe

Central and Eastern Europe
Author: Regina Cowen Karp
Publisher: Sipri Monograph
Total Pages: 348
Release: 1993
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780198291695

V. The return of history.

Dilemmas of Transition

Dilemmas of Transition
Author: Aurel Braun
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 366
Release: 1999
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780847690053

Exploring the controversies and problems surrounding post-communist transitions, this innovative volume brings together a distinguished group of political scientists, economists, historians, and sociologists. Within a strong theoretical framework, the book moves between general issues of transitology and specific analyses. Hungary, a state that has weathered political and economic transition more successfully than most, is used as the volume's case study for illuminating both comparative and regional issues. By bridging the divide between area studies and comparative politics, this book will be a key resource for advanced students and for scholars in East-European/post-communist studies, comparative politics, and international relations.

Dilemmas of Justice in Eastern Europe's Democratic Transitions

Dilemmas of Justice in Eastern Europe's Democratic Transitions
Author: N. Calhoun
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2016-04-30
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1137074531

Calhoun innovatively examines how the ideology of liberal democracy influences one of the most contentious and potentially traumatic and divisive issues facing countries transitioning from authoritarian regimes to democracy: how to confront the past violations of human rights. Competing views of liberal democracy frame debates about how to confront the past and in particular how to deal with the truth of systematic human rights violations. Democratic values may not determine the precise method of dealing with the past - whether through truth commissions, lustration, or tribunals - but the very process of debate inherent in democratic theory and practice has important implications for the perceived fairness of the result. These implications are examined through a comparison of transitional justice in East Germany, Poland and Russia. The result is a provocative integration of democratic theory and comparative politics.

The Dilemmas of Dissidence in East-Central Europe

The Dilemmas of Dissidence in East-Central Europe
Author: Barbara J. Falk
Publisher: Central European University Press
Total Pages: 520
Release: 2003-01-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9789639241398

"In addition to the huge list of written sources from samizdat works to recent essays, Falk's sources include interviews with many personalities of those events as well as videos and films."--Jacket.

Altering States

Altering States
Author: Daphne Berdahl
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2000
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780472086177

Analyzes the social and cultural aspects of transition

Ukraine and Russia

Ukraine and Russia
Author: Paul D'Anieri
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 387
Release: 2023-03-23
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1009315528

In this fully revised and updated in-depth analysis of the war in Ukraine, Paul D'Anieri explores the dynamics within Ukraine, between Ukraine and Russia, and between Russia and the West that emerged with the collapse of the Soviet Union and eventually resulted in Russia's invasion in 2022. Proceeding chronologically, this book shows how Ukraine's separation from Russia in 1991, at the time called a 'civilized divorce,' led to Europe's most violent conflict since WWII. It argues the conflict came about because of three underlying factors-the security dilemma, the impact of democratization on geopolitics, and the incompatible goals of a post-Cold War Europe. Rather than a peaceful situation that was squandered, D'Anieri argues that these were deep-seated pre-existing disagreements that could not be bridged, with concerning implications for the prospects of resolution of the Ukraine conflict.

Getting it Wrong

Getting it Wrong
Author: Martha Brill Olcott
Publisher:
Total Pages: 296
Release: 1999
Genre: History
ISBN:

In the void left by the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) was created as a structure that would coordinate the foreign and security policies of member states, develop a common economic space, and provide for an orderly transition from the Soviet Union to the

Central Asia in Transition: Dilemmas of Political and Economic Development

Central Asia in Transition: Dilemmas of Political and Economic Development
Author: Boris Z. Rumer
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2024-11-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1040278256

The economic, political and geopolitical future of Central Asia has been subject to speculation since the region emerged from under the Soviet banner. With contributions from Central Asian, Russian, US and Japanese experts, this book gives an analysis of the issues and choices facing the region.