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Democratic Consolidation in Eastern Europe
Volume 2: International and Transnational Factors
Jan Zielonka and Edited by Alex Pravda
568 pages
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234x156mm
978-0-19-924168-2
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Hardback
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14 June 2001
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- Unique insight into the influence of external processes and actors on democracy-building in Eastern Europe
- In-depth empirical analysis of thirteen individual post-communist countries
- Examines transnational factors such as cross-border ethnic strife, migration, and crime
This is the second volume in a two-volume series of books on democratic consolidation in Eastern Europe. The first volume focused on the issue of institutional engineering. This second volume analyses the external parameters of democratic consolidation in thirteen Eastern European countries: how different international actors and various economic, cultural and security types of transnational pressures have shaped democratic politics in the region.
The aim is to contrast a set of democracy theories with empirical evidence accumulated in Eastern Europe over the last ten years. The volume tries to avoid
complex debates about definitions, methods and the uses and misuses of comparative research. Instead it seeks to establish what has really happened in the region, and which of the existing theories are helpful in explaining these developments.
The volume is divided into two parts. The first part presents a conceptual and comparative frame of analysis. The second consists of detailed studies of individual countries undergoing democratic consolidation. Case study chapters deal with the following countries: Estonia and Latvia, Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania, Bulgaria and Macedonia, the states of formar Yugoslavia, Belarus and Ukraine, and fianlly Russia. The concluding chapter identifies a set of variables responsible for the enormous
impact of external factors on democratic consolidation in Eastern Europe. It conceptualises the interplay of internal and external factors impinging upon democracy, and shows the interplay of different positive and negative types of external pressures. It also evaluates the conscious Western effort to craft or engineer democracy in Eastern Europe.
Readership: Scholars and Students of Democratization, Eastern European Politics, Comparative Politics, and Constitutional Law
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Jan Zielonka, Professor of Politics, European University Institute, and Edited by Alex Pravda, Fellow, St Antony's College, Oxford Contributors:
Alex Pravda
Karen E. Smith
Iver Neumann
Susan Senior Nello
Reimund Seidelmann
S. Neil MacFarlane
Ewa Morawska
Leslie Holmes
Stephen Whitefield and Geoffrey Evans
Vello Pettai
László Valki
Antoni Kaminski
Milada Anna Vachudová
Ivo Samson
Tom Gallagher
Kyril Drezov
Radovan Vukadinovic
Taras Kuzio
Marie Mendras
Jan Zielonka
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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
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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
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