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  • Ruling Ideas

    How Global Neoliberalism Goes Local

    by Cornel Ban ...
    Neoliberal economic theories are powerful because their domestic translators make them go local, hybridizing global scripts with local ideas. This does not mean that all local translations shape policy, however. External constraints and translators' access to cohesive policy institutions filter what kind of neoliberal hybrids become policy reality. By comparing the moderate neoliberalism that ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • The Political Economy of Extreme Poverty in Eastern Europe

    A Comparative Historical Perspective of Romanian Roma

    Edited by Enikő Vincze, Cornel Ban, Sorin Gog, Jon Horgen Friberg ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series
    This book examines the creation of extreme poverty in Eastern Europe, focusing on Romanian Roma, through a comparative historical perspective on its roots and the socio-economic and political mechanisms that have shaped it in labor, housing, and migration.This interdisciplinary book explores the (re)production of extreme poverty among the Roma across different political economy regimes. Chapters ... Read more

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  • Contemporary Housing Struggles

    A Structural Field of Contention Approach

    by Ioana Florea, Agnes Gagyi, Kerstin Jacobsson ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This OA book provides a comparative study of housing contention in Budapest and Bucharest in 2008-2021. The financialization of housing and the resulting inequalities, expulsions and social contention are a central characteristic of today’s capitalist crisis. These two East European cities that fall outside the usual focus of urban movements research provide an illuminating case of similar ... Read more

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  • Taking Stock of Shock

    Social Consequences of the 1989 Revolutions

    by Kristen Ghodsee, Mitchell Orenstein ...
    Kristen Ghodsee and Mitchell A. Orenstein blend empirical data with lived experiences to produce a robust picture of who won and who lost in post-communist transition, contextualizing the rise of populism in Eastern Europe. After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, more than 400 million people suddenly found themselves in a new reality, a dramatic transition from state socialist and centrally ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • China-Europe Relations

    Perceptions, Policies and Prospects

    Edited by David Shambaugh, Eberhard Sandschneider, Zhou Hong ...
    The fast-developing relationship between China and Europe has become one of the most important in international affairs. China-Europe Relations takes an innovative and insightful look at this phenomenon, examining:the state of Chinese studies in Europe and European studies in Chinathe decision-making behind the EU’s China policy, and what the Chinese perceptions and assessments are of Europe that ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • University Autonomy in Russian Federation Since Perestroika

    by Olga Bain ...
    Series series RoutledgeFalmer Studies in Higher Education
    This study focuses on the national higher education policies and institutional strategies that foster or hinder individual Russian universities in applying newfound principles of autonomy. This new autonomy has become more dramatic with the decentralization of power, transition to the market economy, and severe state austerity since Perestroika. This book suggests a model of a university that ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Ukrainian Migration to the European Union

    Lessons from Migration Studies

    Edited by Olena Fedyuk, Marta Kindler ...
    Series series IMISCOE Research Series
    This book brings together research findings from a variety of disciplines in this integrated study of the migration of Ukrainian nationals to the EU. It contextualizes and historicizes this migration against the background of the series of crises experienced by Ukraine and the wider region over the last thirty or so years, from the dissolution of the USSR, through EU border changes, to the failed ... Read more

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  • 25 Years of Transformations of Higher Education Systems in Post-Soviet Countries

    Reform and Continuity

    Edited by Jeroen Huisman, Anna Smolentseva, Isak Froumin ...
    Series series Palgrave Studies in Global Higher Education
    This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This open access book is a result of the first ever study of the transformations of the higher education institutional landscape in fifteen former USSR countries after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. It explores how the single Soviet model that developed across the vast and diverse territory of the Soviet Union over several decades ... Read more

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  • From Club to Commons

    Enlargement, Reform and Sustainability in European Integration

    by Veronica Anghel, Erik Jones ...
    Series series Elements in Economics of European Integration
    The Element identifies the logic of how the European Union (EU) has developed both in terms of the way the organization works and the way it has expanded to include new member states. It combines insights from the economic theories related to clubs and common-pool resources. The argument is that the EU may have started as a club, where members agreed to lose arrangements to generate and govern non ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • The Making and Unmaking of the Ukrainian Working Class

    Everyday Politics and Moral Economy in a Post-Soviet City

    by Denys Gorbach ...
    Series Book 36 - Dislocations
    Industrial workers in Ukraine have a complex political lifeworld because their political action aimed at bringing radical social change coexists with a demobilizing stance that condemns all political participation as corrupt. This contradictory attitude to politics defines the character of populist mass mobilizations that shook Ukraine in 2004 and 2014, as well as the electoral overhaul of 2019 ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Federalism and Regional Policy in Contemporary Russia

    by Andrey Starodubtsev ...
    How do Russian leaders balance the need to decentralize governance in a socially and politically complex country with the need to guarantee political control of the state?Since the early 2000s Russian federal authorities have arranged a system of political control on regional elites and their leaders, providing a "police control" of special bodies subordinated by the federal center on policy ... Read more

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  • East Central Europe and the former Soviet Union

    The Post-Socialist States

    by Michael Bradshaw, Alison Stenning ...
    Series series Developing Areas Research Group
    A comprehensive introduction to the important economic, social and political processes and development issues in this increasingly popular area of study. Employing a groundbreaking thematic approach the book centres its discussion on the interrelation between contemporary development theories and continuing transition issues in this huge and complex region. ... Read more

    $91.99 USD