Democracy after communism
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Democracy after communism
(A journal of democracy book)
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002
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  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
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  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The last quarter of the twentieth century was marked by two dramatic political trends that altered many of the world's regimes: the global resurgence of democracy and the collapse of communism. Was the process that brought down communism in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union fundamentally different from the process that gave birth to new democracies in other regions of the world? Were the transitions away from communism mostly like or mostly unlike the transitions away from authoritarianism that took place elsewhere? Is the challenge of building and consolidating democracy under postcommunist conditions unique, or can one apply lessons learned from other new democracies? The essays collected in this volume explore these questions, while tracing how the countries of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union have fared in the decade following the fall of communism. Contributors: Anders Aslund, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, D.C.; Leszek Balcerowicz, Warsaw School of Economics; Archie Brown, Oxford University and St. Antony's College; Zbigniew Brzezinski, Johns Hopkins University, a former U.S. national security advisor; Valerie Bunce, Cornell University; Nadia Diuk, National Endowment for Democracy in Washington, D.
C.; M. Steven Fish, University of California-Berkeley; Charles H. Fairbanks Jr., the Johns Hopkins University; Bronislaw Geremek, former foreign minister of Poland; John Higley, University of Texas at Austin; Judith Kullberg, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor; Mart Laar, prime minister of Estonia; Michael McFaul, Stanford University; Ghia Nodia, Tbilisi State University; Jan Pakulski, University of Tasmania in Australia; Richard Rose, University of Strathclyde in Glasgow; Jacques Rupnik, College of Europe in Bruges; Lilia Shevtsova, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, D.C.; Aleksander Smolar, Stefan Batory Foundation in Warsaw and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris; G.M. Tamas formerly of Georgetown University; Vladimir Tismaneanu, University of Maryland at College Park; Grigory Yavlinsky, member of the Russian State Duma (parliament).
Table of Contents
Contents: I. The Exit from Communism 1. How Different Are Postcommunist Transitions: Ghia Nodia 2. Comparing East and South: Valerie Bunce 3. The Persistence of Postcommunist Elites: John Higley, Judith Kullberg, and Jan Pakulsk i4. Civil Society after Communism: Aleksander Smolar 5. Understanding Postcommunist Transitions: Leszek Balcerowicz 6. Estonia's Success Story: Mart Laar 7. The Postcommunist Wars: Charles H. Fairbanks, Jr. II. The East European Experience 8. The Postcommunist Divide: Jacques Rupnik 9. Europe Transformed: Richard Rose 10. Reassessing the Revolutions of 1989: Vladimir Tismaneanu 11. The Transformation of Central Europe: Bronislaw Gereme k12. Victory Defeated: G.M. Tamas 13. The International Context: Jacques Rupnik 14. A Diverging Europe: Richard Rose 15. History and Memory: The Revolutions of 1989-91: Aleksander Smolar III. The Post-Soviet Experience 16. One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: Michael McFaul 17. The Primacy of History and Culture: Zbigniew Brzezinski 18. The Impact of Nationalism: Ghia Nodia 19. From Democratization to "Guided Democracy": Archie Brown 20. The Advantages of Radical Reform: Anders Aslund 21. Disillusionment in the Caucasus and Central Asia: Charles H. Fairbanks, Jr. 22. Sovereignty and Uncertainty in Ukraine: Nadia Diuk 23. Russia's Hybrid Regime: Lilia Shevtsova 24. Putin's Path: M. Steven Fish 25. Going Backwards: Grigory Yavlinsky 26. A Mixed Record, an Uncertain Future: Michael McFaul
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