Eastern European Politics Books

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41. The Colour Revolutions in the Former Soviet Republics

    Successes and Failures

    Edited by Donnacha Ó Beacháin, Abel Polese

    Series: Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series

    During the first decade of the 21st century, a remarkable phenomenon swept through the former Soviet Union changing the political, social and cultural landscape. Popularly known as the ‘Colour Revolutions’, these non-violent protests overthrew autocratic regimes in three post-soviet republics: the...

    Published April 15th 2012 by Routledge
42. Kosovo, Intervention and Statebuilding

    The International Community and the Transition to Independence

    Edited by Aidan Hehir

    Series: Routledge Studies in Intervention and Statebuilding

    This book examines international engagement with Kosovo since NATO’s intervention in 1999, and looks at the three distinct phases of Kosovo’s development; intervention, statebuilding and independence. Kosovo remains a case study of central importance in international relations, illustrative of key...

    Published April 14th 2012 by Routledge
43. Communism, Nationalism and Ethnicity in Poland, 1944–1950

    By Michael Fleming

    Series: BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies

    This book fills a significant gap in the study of the establishment of communist rule in Poland in the key period of 1944–1950. It shows that nationalism and nationality policy were fundamentally important in the consolidation of communist rule, acting as a crucial nexus through which different...

    Published March 28th 2012 by Routledge
44. Democratic Elections in Poland, 1991-2007

    By Frances Millard

    Series: BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies

    This book is a political history of democratic elections in Poland from the first fully competitive parliamentary elections in 1991 to the unexpected, most recent election in 2007. Until now, there has been no equivalent study covering similar developments in this, or any other, post-communist...

    Published March 28th 2012 by Routledge
45. The Military and the State in Central Asia

    From Red Army to Independence

    By Erica Marat

    Series: Central Asian Studies

    The military played a pivotal role in the political development, state functions, foreign policy and the daily lives of the people in the Central Asian states from the early twentieth century until the present. This book is the first major, in-depth study of the military institutions in Central...

    Published March 28th 2012 by Routledge
46. The European Union and its Eastern Neighbours

    Towards a More Ambitious Partnership?

    By Elena Korosteleva

    Series: BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies

    This book explores the EU’s relations with its eastern neighbours. Based on extensive original research – including surveys, focus-groups, a study of school essays and in-depth interviews with key people in Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, Russia and in Brussels – it assesses why the EU’s initiatives...

    Published February 19th 2012 by Routledge
47. Power and Policy in Putin’s Russia

    Edited by Richard Sakwa

    Series: Routledge Europe-Asia Studies

    The volume provides a retrospective analysis of Putin’s eight years as president between 2000 and 2008. An international group of leading specialists examine Putin’s leadership in an informed and balanced manner. The authors are drawn from Russia itself, as well as from Europe, America and...

    Published December 14th 2011 by Routledge
48. EU External Relations Law and the European Neighbourhood Policy

    A Paradigm for Coherence

    By Bart Van Vooren

    Series: Routledge Research in European Union Law

    The European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) is a recent example of an external EU policy drawn up explicitly with the objective of achieving coherence in the external policies of the EU and its Member States. Positioning the ENP in the legal-historical context of political union, this book explains why...

    Published December 6th 2011 by Routledge
49. Post-Communist Parliaments

    Change and Stability in the Second Decade

    Edited by David M. Olson, Gabriella Ilonszki

    Series: Library of Legislative Studies

    At the end of the "founding" or initial decade, the new parliaments of post-Communist Europe had developed two distinct types: democratic and presidentially-dominated. Whilst in the early years, they had been characterised as "parliaments in adolescence," they have - through the second decade -...

    Published October 11th 2011 by Routledge
50. The European Union and the Baltic States

    Changing Forms of Governance

    Edited by Bengt Jacobsson

    Series: Europe and the Nation State

    This book explores how the Baltic States have adapted to, and been embedded in, a wider European environment and how they have become modern European states. It focuses on changes in the policies, politics and administrative practices that have taken place after 1991 in Estonia, Latvia and...

    Published October 6th 2011 by Routledge