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Zusatztext This book isshortlistedfor the 2013 BISA IPEG Book Prize "This book is a must read for all those people interested to know why Poland is such a success story - a 'rising star' according to international financial media - in the current! crisis-ridden European Union. And why Poland! and other East Central European member states! may very well become next in line in the ongoing sovereign debt crisis." -Otto Holman! University of Amsterdam! The Netherlands."With his careful historical-structural research! Shields responds in the best of possible ways to stylized transitology and IPE canons. Changing the world may be hard! but neo-Gramscians can most certainly interpret it." - Magnus Ryner!King's College London! UK."Stuart Shields' new book provides an exemplary model of how to formulate and use a critical IPE approach to understanding significant contemporary developments.? Although the subject of his book is the political economy of post-communist transition in central and eastern Europe! the context is the deep-seated transformations currently underway in the global political economy. His book is empirically rich and theoretically insightful. It takes the debate over the future of neoliberal forms of capitalism to a new level! and will be mandatory reading for all scholars interested in advancing a critical understanding of IPE." - Randall Gemain! Carleton University! Canada. Informationen zum Autor Stuart Shields teaches International Political Economy at the University of Manchester Klappentext Analyzes the restructuring of the Polish state since 1989 by connecting concrete instances of policy to broader historical processes! social structures and political economy. Zusammenfassung This book explores how Eastern Europe’s post-communist transition can only be understood as part of a broader interrogation of neoliberal hegemony in the global political economy, and provides a detailed historical account of the emergence of neoliberalism in Eastern Central Europe. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: Contextualizing post-communist transition. 2. Theorizing the international political economy of post-communist transition. 3. Towards passive revolution: The making of modern Eastern Central Europe. 4. The emergence of neoliberal social forces in the struggle for hegemony. 5. From shock therapy to Europeanization: Neoliberalization through depoliticization 6. Counter hegemonic social forces in post communist transition 7. Conclusion: Beyond transition? Beyond the transnational? ...
