Eastern European Studies

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Bribes, People, and Politics

How Everyday Corruption Shapes Governance in Eurasia

By William M. Reisinger & Marina Zaloznaya
Subjects: Political Science, International Relations, European Studies, Eastern European Studies
Series: Emerging Democracies

Identifying the political consequences when citizens with connections benefit from the “corruption advantage”

Politicized Property

Network Ties and Renationalization in Serbia

By Miloš Resimić
Subjects: Political Science, Political Economy, Economics, Business, European Studies, Eastern European Studies

How ownership shapes the trajectory of capitalism on Europe’s periphery

Envisioning Eastern Europe

Postcommunist Cultural Studies

Edited by Michael D. Kennedy
Subjects: European Studies, Eastern European Studies, Cultural Studies, Political Science, Comparative Politics, Sociology

A Fly in the Soup

Memoirs

By Charles Simic
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, American Literature, Biography, European Studies, Eastern European Studies
Series: Poets on Poetry

Rehabilitative Postsocialism

Disability, Sex, and Race in Eastern Europe

By Katerina Kolárová
Subjects: Disability Studies, European Studies, Eastern European Studies, Sexuality Studies
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

The intersection of disability, race, and sexuality and the formation of social in/equalities in the postsocialist Czech Republic

Beyond International Intervention

Politics of Improvement in Serbia

By Katarina Kušic
Subjects: Political Science, Peace and Conflict Studies, International Relations, European Studies, Eastern European Studies
Series: Configurations: Critical Studies of World Politics

What do peacebuilding interventions look like to the people involved?

The Dilemma of Compliance

Political Parties and Post-Election Disputes

By Svitlana Chernykh
Subjects: Political Science, Political Theory, Comparative Politics, European Studies, Eastern European Studies

Exploring the causes and consequences of post-election disputes

Archaeological Investigations in a Northern Albanian Province: Results of the Projekti Arkeologjik i Shkodrës (PASH)

Volume Two: Artifacts and Artifact Analysis

Edited by Michael L. Galaty & Lorenc Bejko
Subjects: Archaeology, History, European History, European Studies, Eastern European Studies, Balkans
Series: Memoirs

Archaeological Investigations in a Northern Albanian Province: Results of the Projekti Arkeologjik i Shkodrës (PASH)

Volume One: Survey and Excavation Results

Edited by Michael L. Galaty & Lorenc Bejko
Subjects: Archaeology, History, European History, European Studies, Eastern European Studies, Balkans
Series: Memoirs

First Nationalism Then Identity

On Bosnian Muslims and Their Bosniak Identity

By Mirsad Kriještorac
Subjects: Political Science, Peace and Conflict Studies, European Studies, Eastern European Studies
Series: Ethnic Conflict: Studies in Nationality, Race, and Culture

Understanding the relationship between nationalism and identity, through a native European Muslim group

The Philosophy of Parochialism

Originally published as Filosofija Palanke

By Radomir Konstantinovic
Volume editor Branislav Jakovljevic
Translated by Ljiljana Nikolic & Branislav Jakovljevic
Subjects: Literary Studies, European Literature, European Studies, Balkans, Eastern European Studies, Political Science, Political Theory

Available for the first time in English—an essay with important insights on the sources of totalitarianism, intolerance, and racism

The Distinction of Peace

A Social Analysis of Peacebuilding

By Catherine Goetze
Subjects: Political Science, Peace and Conflict Studies, International Relations, European Studies, Eastern European Studies
Series: Configurations: Critical Studies of World Politics

Investigates both the creation of the peacebuilding field and what the field reveals about global relations

Transnational Capitalism in East Central Europe's Heavy Industry

From Flagship Enterprises to Subsidiaries

By Aleksandra Sznajder Lee
Subjects: Political Science, Political Economy, European Studies, Eastern European Studies

An examination of the post-communism reform of state enterprises that reveals the political dynamics of privatization

Envisioning Socialism

Television and the Cold War in the German Democratic Republic

By Heather Gumbert
Subjects: German Studies, Media Studies, T.V. & Radio, European Studies, Eastern European Studies
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

The first examination in English of East German television during the early Cold War

Africa in Translation

A History of Colonial Linguistics in Germany and Beyond, 1814-1945

By Sara Pugach
Subjects: German Studies, European Studies, Eastern European Studies
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

A strong and thoughtful study of Afrikanistik's role in the construction of racialist knowledge in Germany

Tax Politics in Eastern Europe

Globalization, Regional Integration, and the Democratic Compromise

By Hilary Appel
Subjects: Political Science, Political Economy, Economics, European Studies, Eastern European Studies

Fundamental shifts in Eastern European tax policy

Neither German nor Pole

Catholicism and National Indifference in a Central European Borderland

By James Bjork
Subjects: German Studies, History, European History, European Studies, Eastern European Studies, Political Science
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

A unique study of the importance of religious identification in a multi-national region

Market Dreams

Gender, Class, and Capitalism in the Czech Republic

By Elaine Susan Weiner
Subjects: Sociology, Political Science, European Studies, Eastern European Studies, History, Russian History, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Economics, Labor, Health, and Educational Economics, Public Policy and Governance

How have women experienced the transition from socialism to market economy in Eastern Europe?

Solidarity's Secret

The Women Who Defeated Communism in Poland

By Shana Penn
Subjects: European Studies, Eastern European Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies

The first book to document women's crucial role in the fall of Poland's communist regime

After Independence

Making and Protecting the Nation in Postcolonial and Postcommunist States

Edited by Lowell Barrington
Subjects: Political Science, African Studies, History, Russian History, Asian Studies, Comparative Politics, European Studies, Eastern European Studies

What happens to nationalism after independence is achieved?

When Ethnicity Did Not Matter in the Balkans

A Study of Identity in Pre-Nationalist Croatia, Dalmatia, and Slavonia in the Medieval and Early-Modern Periods

By John V. A. Fine
Subjects: History, European Studies, Eastern European Studies, Medieval and Renaissance Studies

A magisterial analysis showing the complexity of pre-national identity in Croatia, Dalmatia, and Slavonia

East Central and Eastern Europe in the Early Middle Ages

Edited by Florin Curta
Subjects: European Studies, Eastern European Studies, History

Studies on the history and archaeology of Eastern Europe during the early Middle Ages

Barrier of a Common Language

An American Looks at Contemporary British Poetry

By Michael Dana Gioia
Subjects: Literary Studies, American Literature, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Essay and Interview, European Studies, Eastern European Studies
Series: Poets on Poetry

The latest offering in the Poets on Poetry series from the acclaimed poet, critic, and current chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts

Embedded Politics

Industrial Networks and Institutional Change in Postcommunism

By Gerald Andrew McDermott
Subjects: Economics, International Economics, Sociology, European Studies, Eastern European Studies, Political Science, Comparative Politics

An empirical analysis of changing industrial processes in the postcommunist Czech Republic

The Metaphysician in the Dark

By Charles Simic
Subjects: Literary Studies, American Literature, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Essay and Interview, European Studies, Eastern European Studies
Series: Poets on Poetry

From one of America's foremost contemporary poets, a scintillating, surprising collection of essays on everything from poetry and art to the fine art of sausage-making

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