Post-Communism: Four Perspectives

ISBN 10: 0876091869 / ISBN 13: 9780876091869

Verlag: Council on Foreign Relations Press, 1996

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Very Good condition. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers B15J-01768

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Post-Communism: Four Perspectives
• Verlag: Council on Foreign Relations Press
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1996
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0876091869
• ISBN-13: 9780876091869
• Einband: Softcover
• Zustand: Very Good

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Inhaltsangabe

This book offers distinctive perspectives, by four leading students of politics, on the single most important social, political, and economic development of the 1990s: post-communist Eurasia.

Reseña del editor

How have the 27 countries that emerged from communist rule between 1989 and 1992 fared since then? This book offers distinctive perspectives, by four leading students of politics, on the single most important social, political, and economic development of the last decade of the twentieth century. Stephen Holmes, of the University of Chicago, emphasizes the importance of state-building. He interprets the pathologies of post-communism as being rooted in the weakness of governments across post-communist Eurasia. Lord Skidelsky, of Great Britain's Social Market Foundation, sees the collapse of communism and its aftermath as part of the worldwide struggle to reduce the size of the state. John Mueller, of the University of Rochester, writes that the post-communist transition to capitalism and democracy, as these terms are properly understood, is already complete. Charles Gati, of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, argues the contrary: not only is democracy not firmly established in most of the countries from Berlin to Vladivostok, but its prospects in many of them are poor. In his introduction, Michael Mandelbaum offers a comparative assessment of the different countries that make up the world of post-communism.