This book provides an authoritative assessment of the transitions'
or transformations' currently under way in Central and Eastern
Europe. In order to explore this abundant set of diverse and
complex processes, it has adopted a particular perspective, which
consists of examining the historical specificity of these processes
- particularly the simultaneity of political and economic
transitions - and, at the same time, how the social sciences have
approached and interpreted them and how, in return, they have
undergone the impact of these processes. The book offers, on the
one hand a number of new substantial insights into these
transformations, in particular on the questions of what democratic
consolidations' actually consist of, as well as the political
economy, in a strict sense, of these transitions, focusing on the
precise characterization of the market economies which have emerged
from these processes. On the other hand, it also constitutes an
in-depth critical appraisal, unequalled so far, of the
methodological principles, models of explanation, and fallacies, of
the main approaches or paradigms competing within this research
field, especially the strategic' approach of the classical
transitology, and the path dependence approach, with its more
avant-garde flavor. Thus, the analyses and discussions presented in
this collection of essays exceed widely the empirical fields of
East European transformations, and of transitology on the whole; as
a result this innovating book should usefully contribute to
destabilizing routine ways of thinking of social scientists and
students far beyond the communities of specialists in these
questions. Audience: This book will be of interest toacademics,
researchers, and students in the field of political science,
sociology, economics, history, political geography, international
affairs, and European and Eastern European studies. In addition
specialists, professionals and civil servants of international
organizations and public administrators interested in aspects of
the economic development, economic aid, and enlargement of the
European Union may find this volume invaluable.
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