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Democratic Consolidation in Eastern Europe

Volume 2: International and Transnational Factors

Jan Zielonka, Alex Pravda

$326 AUD

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9780199241682
Published:
1 Apr 2000
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  • 'A powerful insight into the process of institution building in the new democracies of Eastern Europe… Democratic Consolidation in Eastern Europe is going to be a very helpful repository for anyone who is studying the period of transition and who is looking for critical and well-informed perspectives on Eastern Europe's experience of democratization.' -Acta Politica: International Journal of Political Science
  • 'A grand, lucid and extremely perceptive collection of essays detailing the East European experience. The two volumes provide a unique examination of the particular experience of the 'transition to democracy'… Democratic Consolidation in Eastern Europe is an extremely valuable contribution to the study of post-1989 Eastern Europe (and, in fact, Europe as a whole).' -Acta Politica: International Journal of Political Science
  • 'There is little to fault in this welcome dual publication.' -Democratization
  • 'The Zielonka/Pravda volume makes a sizeable contribution to our knowledge of and debate about the interface between international pressures and domestic innovation.' -Democratization

This book provides an unprecedented country-by-country examination of the specific experience of the democratic transitions experienced by the states of Eastern Europe. It concentrates on the influence of the international environment on these fledgling democracies.

Alex Pravda: Introduction
PART 1 COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES
1: Karen E. Smith: Western Actors and the Promotion of Democracy
2: Iver Neumann: Regionalization and Democratic Consolidation
3: Susan Senior Nello: The Impact of External Economic Factors: The Role of the IMF
4: Reimund Seidelmann: International Security and Democracy-Building
5: S. Neil MacFarlane: The Internationalization of Ethnic Strife
6: Ewa Morawska: International Migration and the Consolidation of Democracy
7: Leslie Holmes: Crime, Corruption and Politics: Transnational Factors
8: Stephen Whitefield and Geoffrey Evans: Attitudes towards the West, Democracy and the Market
PART 2 NATIONAL PERSPECTIVES
9: Vello Pettai: Estonia and Latvia: International Influences on Citizenship and Minority Intergration
10: László Valki: The Case of Hungary
11: Antoni Kaminski: Poland: Compatibility of External and Internal Democratic Designs
12: Milada Anna Vachudová: The Czech Republic: The Unexpected Force of Institutional Constraints
13: Ivo Samson: Slovakia: Misreading the Western Message
14: Tom Gallagher: Building Democracy in Romania: Internal Shortcomings and External Neglect
15: Kyril Drezov: Bulgaria and Macedonia: Voluntary Dependence on External Actors
16: Radovan Vukadinovic: Yugoslavia: International Efforts to Link Peace, Stability and Democracy
17: Taras Kuzio: Belarus and Ukraine: Democracy-Building in a Grey Security Zone
18: Marie Mendras: Russia and the West: To Belong or Not to Belong? b
19: Jan Zielonka: Foreign Made Democracy

Jan Zielonka , Professor of Politics, European University Institute

Edited by Alex Pravda , Fellow, St Antony's College, Oxford