Transformations of Post-Communist States - by W Kostecki & K Zukrowska & B Goralczyk (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

Post-communist transformation differs from any previous experience of societies in transition by its scope, speed, international framework and complicity. It contains elements of democratization, marketization, nation building, and the creation of a new international environment in the framework of globalization. The contributors give an 'internal' perspective of these highly complicated processes in a comparative form and using a multidisciplinary approach.

About the Author

ATTILA AGH Professor of Political Science, University of Economic Sciences, Budapest LESZEK BALCEROWICZ is the leader of Union of Freedom in Poland JOZSEF BAYER Head of Department of Political Science, University ELTE, Budapest SERGEI BOLSHAKOV Senior Research Fellow, Institute of US and Canadian Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow EVGENII DAINOV Director, Centre for Social Practices, New Bulgarian University, Sofia TERENCE DUFFY Division of Politics and International Studies, University of Ulster IVAN GABAL Private consultant and part-time lecturer at Charles University, Prague TOM GALLAGHER Professor of Ethnic Conflict and Peace, University of Bradford, Great Britain EUGENIJUS MALDEIKIS Chairman of the Board of the Property Bank, Partner at the Economic Research Centre, Vilnius GEDIMINAS RAINYS Director of the Economic Research Centre, Vilnius JANUSZ STAFANOWICZ Head of the Research Unit of European Political Relations, Institute for Political Studies, Warsaw HÅKAN WIBERG Director of the Copenhagen Peace Research Institute