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The book addresses the dynamics of the post-Communist transition and identity building in Central Eastern Europe. It scrutinizes the formation of geopolitical affiliations and discourses of belonging. It also traces the dynamics of national decision-making, institution-building and changing perceptions of the region by global actors.
List of contents
Part I: "Ideas of Europe" and the Post-Communist Space
Chapter 1: Shifting the Wall Further East. What Has Left of the "Eastern Europe" Thirty Years Later? by Mykola Riabchuk
Chapter 2: The Transition of "Transition": Assessing the Post-Communist Experience and Its Research by Mikhail Minakov
Chapter 3: Has the Post-Communist Transition Been Completed? Economic Perspective by Assen Slim
Part II: Post-Communist Transition and Identity-Building: View From "Within"
Chapter 4: Societies in Post-Communist Transition: Polish and Hungarian Experience by Adrian Chojan
Chapter 5: Exceptional but Different: Navigating Transition in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania by Li Bennich-Björkman
Chapter 6: Czech Republic and Slovakia - Changing Perception of the European Integration Since 1989 by Juraj Marušiak
Chapter 7: Thirty Years of Post-Communist Nation-Building in Belarus, Moldova, and Ukraine by Yevhen Mahda and Margaryta Khvostova
Chapter 8: Thirty Years After Communism - Bulgaria and Romania's Experience by Spasimir Domaradzki and Robert Rajczyk
Part III. Post-Communist Transition From "Outside": Neighbors' View
Chapter 9: Democratic Transition, Europeanization, and Other Metamorphoses of Central Eastern Europe: An EU Member State-Building Perspective by Andriy Tyushka
Chapter 10: From "Well-Understood Self-Interest" to Conflicts of Competence: German Consulting Assistance in Central Eastern Europe by Eva Schäffler
Chapter 11: From High Hopes to Mundane Reality: Swedish Perspectives on Post-Communist Europe Thirty Years On by Bo Petersson
Chapter 12: Institutionally Embedded: Italy's Response to Transformations in Central Eastern Europe by Serena Giusti and Fabio Parola
Chapter 13: "A Successful Partnership Marred by Brexit?" Britain and Central Eastern Europe Post-1989 by Christopher Lash
Chapter 14: Russia and Central Eastern Europe Since 1992 by Rasmus Nilsson
Part IV: Post-Communist Transition From "Outside": Global View
Chapter 15: Post-Communist Transition from Japan: How Beneficiaries Became Partners by Manabu Sengoku
Chapter 16: China's View on the Post-Communist Transition of the Central Eastern European Countries by Anna Rudakowska and Emilian Kavalski
Chapter 17: Middle East, North Africa, and Post-Communist Transition: From Soviet Clientelism to Restoration of Russia's Power by Nedim Useinow
About the author
Ostap Kushnir is assistant professor at Lazarski University (Poland) and a lecturer with Coventry University programmes (UK)
Oleksandr Pankieiev is research coordinator and Editor-in-Chief of the Forum for Ukrainian Studies at the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta.
Summary
The book addresses the dynamics of the post-Communist transition and identity building in Central Eastern Europe. It scrutinizes the formation of geopolitical affiliations and discourses of belonging. It also traces the dynamics of national decision-making, institution-building and changing perceptions of the region by global actors.
