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  • Transition, Cohesion and Regional Policy in Central and Eastern Europe

    by Ruth Downes ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This title was first published in 2000. One of the most comprehensive overviews of regional development and policy emergence in the Central and East European countries to date, this book focuses on economic and social cohesion, bringing together a wide range of empirical research and discussion material. ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

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  • Contemporary Housing Struggles

    A Structural Field of Contention Approach

    by Ioana Florea, Agnes Gagyi, Kerstin Jacobsson ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This OA book provides a comparative study of housing contention in Budapest and Bucharest in 2008-2021. The financialization of housing and the resulting inequalities, expulsions and social contention are a central characteristic of today’s capitalist crisis. These two East European cities that fall outside the usual focus of urban movements research provide an illuminating case of similar ... Read more

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  • Collision and Collusion

    The Strange Case of Western Aid to Eastern Europe 1989–1998

    by Janine R. Wedel ...
    When the Soviet Union's communist empire collapsed in 1989, a mood of euphoria took hold in the West and in Eastern Europe. The West had won the ultimate victory--it had driven a silver stake through the heart of Communism. Its next planned step was to help the nations of Eastern Europe to reconstruct themselves as democratic, free-market states, and full partners in the First World Order. But ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Ukraine and the Empire of Capital

    From Marketisation to Armed Conflict

    by Yuliya Yurchenko ...
    Since 1991, nominally independent Ukraine has been in turmoil, with the Orange Revolution and the Maidan protests marking its most critical moments. Now, its borders are threatened and the civil unrest and armed conflict continue to destabilise the country. In order to understand these dramatic events, Yuliya Yurchenko looks to the country’s post-Soviet past in this ambitious analysis of ... Read more

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  • Relations between Immigration and Integration Policies in Europe

    Challenges, Opportunities and Perspectives in Selected EU Member States

    Edited by Maciej Duszczyk, Marta Pachocka, Dominika Pszczółkowska ...
    Written from a pan-European perspective, this book examines the decision-making processes in immigration and integration policies in Europe across decades, focusing on several key moments of Europe’s postwar history.The analysis of factors taken into consideration by states in key moments of immigration policy (re)formulation shows that Europe is moving away from rational, economic arguments ... Read more

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  • China-Europe Relations

    Perceptions, Policies and Prospects

    Edited by David Shambaugh, Eberhard Sandschneider, Zhou Hong ...
    The fast-developing relationship between China and Europe has become one of the most important in international affairs. China-Europe Relations takes an innovative and insightful look at this phenomenon, examining:the state of Chinese studies in Europe and European studies in Chinathe decision-making behind the EU’s China policy, and what the Chinese perceptions and assessments are of Europe that ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Transition Economics

    Two Decades On

    by Peter Luke, Gerard Turley ...
    Celebrating twenty years of transition from socialism to capitalism, this book is designed to be the core textbook for undergraduate courses in transition economics and comparative economic systems. Given the passage of time, Transition Economics: Two Decades On reviews and accounts for the outcomes in the so-called transition economies and, from an academic perspective, takes the reader through ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Goh Keng Swee On China: Selected Essays

    by John Wong, Yongnian Zheng ...
    Touted as one of the main engineers of Singapore's economic growth, Dr Goh's collection of writings and speeches seek to shed light on the various challenges that China faced in the early 90s. His arguments and analyses were presented clearly and concisely while being firmly established upon economic principles. Covering a broad range of topics from the growth of industries and enterprises to ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • University Autonomy in Russian Federation Since Perestroika

    by Olga Bain ...
    Series series RoutledgeFalmer Studies in Higher Education
    This study focuses on the national higher education policies and institutional strategies that foster or hinder individual Russian universities in applying newfound principles of autonomy. This new autonomy has become more dramatic with the decentralization of power, transition to the market economy, and severe state austerity since Perestroika. This book suggests a model of a university that ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • The Borders of the European Union in a Conflictual World

    Interdisciplinary European Studies

    Edited by Antonina Bakardjieva Engelbrekt, Per Ekman, Anna Michalski, Lars Oxelheim ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This open access book examines the implications for the EU of a radically changed international context characterized by systemic rivalry, competition over norms and regulations, and growing strategic tension. Globalization that once tied national economies together and internationalized social phenomena, such as education, research and innovation, and tourism, has gone in reverse. An opposite ... Read more

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  • Authoritarian Modernization in Russia

    Ideas, Institutions, and Policies

    Edited by Vladimir Gel'man ...
    Series series Studies in Contemporary Russia
    Post-Communist Russia is an instance of the phenomenon of authoritarian modernization project, which is perceived as a set of policies intended to achieve a high level of economic development, while political freedoms remain beyond the current modernization agenda or are postponed to a distant future. Why did Russia (unlike many countries of post-Communist Europe) pursue authoritarian ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Postcommunist Welfare States

    Reform Politics in Russia and Eastern Europe

    by Linda J. Cook ...
    In the early 1990s, the countries of the former Soviet Bloc faced an urgent need to reform the systems by which they delivered broad, basic social welfare to their citizens. Inherited systems were inefficient and financially unsustainable. Linda J. Cook here explores the politics and policy of social welfare from 1990 to 2004 in the Russian Federation, Poland, Hungary, Belarus, and Kazakhstan. ... Read more

    $14.29 USD