Changing Europe

This book examines the integration of major trade unions from the six biggest countries of EU`s Eastern enlargement into EU governance structures.

This timely collection offers fresh perspectives on the analysis of the ‘New Great Game’ – the fight for access to the former Soviet Union’s energy resources.

For the post-socialist countries the global crisis 2008/2009 was the first stress test after the post-socialist recovery.

Post-socialist transformations in Central and Eastern Europe have been characterised by historically shaped crises and conflicts on all levels of political, economic and societal life. Minority and ethno-political conflicts, many of them currently at a stalemate, have severely hampered ...

The collapse of the former socialist states has led to the transformation of their political, economic and social systems as well as a major change in international orientations. In this context, new economic and political elites of the former state socialist societies have emerged. How they ...

The end of socialism posed a historical challenge to European societies. The former socialist Central and East European countries were faced with what has been called a "triple transformation": Mutually dependent changes in the political, economic, and social spheres. At the same time, the old ...

The integration of ten Central and East European countries (CEEC) into the EU as part of the 2004 and 2007 enlargements poses new challenges to EU governance, as the number of countries involved has thereby increased dramatically. However, the actors coming from the new member states also face ...

The contents of this volume span from civil society networks to the perversion of democratic representation through political corruption.

The contributions in this volume highlight the different aspects of the role, development and societal background of civil society in Central and Eastern Europe.

This volume reflects the wide variety of Europeanization processes taking place in Central and Eastern Europe.