Globalization and Regime Change

Lessons from the New Russia and the New Europe

Edited by Robin Alison Remington, Robert K. Evanson

Publication date:

25 October 2019

Length of book:

434 pages

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

ISBN-13: 9780742518049

This timely book examines post-communist developments in Russia, central Europe, and the Balkans, emphasizing foreign and security policies and their domestic linkages. Framed around the concepts of globalization and regime change, the rich set of case studies traces the repercussions for politicians and institutions forced to adjust to the disappearance of the “East” from the cold war’s East-West polarity. The contributors explore how each country has grappled with such questions as how to change from one party to many, how to create viable market economies, and how to restructure security alliances. They conclude by considering the prospects for further regime change from democracies to hybrid systems and the implications for the future of the European Union.

Acknowledgments

1 Introduction

Robin Alison Remington

2 Russia: The Importation of Western Concepts and Their Effect on EU-Russian Relations

Tatiana Romanova

3 Regime Change in Post-Soviet Russia: A Bottom-Up View from the Countryside

David J. O’Brien and Valery V. Patsiorkovsky

4 Poland: An Engine of the EU’s Foreign and Security Policy?

Joanna Kaminska

5 The Incoherence of Czech Domestic Politics and Its Foreign-Policy Consequences

Carol Skalnik Leff and Olena Betlii

6 Czech National Security: Balancing NATO and EU Responsibilities

James W. Peterson

7 The Czech Republic and the Sudeten Germans: The End of Conflict?

Robert K. Evanson

8 In The Nick of Time: The Politics of European and Trans-Atlantic Integration in Slovakia

Carol Skalnik Leff

9 A New East-West Divide in Europe: Immigration as Rift between Hungary and the EU

Katalin Fábián

10 Codependency as Survival: Romania, the Warsaw Pact, NATO, and the EU

Larry L. Watts

11 Re-inventing Yugoslavia: Lessons from Bosnia and Herzegovina

Francine Friedman

12 Transitions in Europe: The Celtic Polities and Kosovo

Kurt W. Jefferson

13 Terrorism or Non-Violence: Competing Paradigms for Post-Cold War Europe and Russia

Paul Wallace and Robert K. Evanson

14 Conclusions

Robert K. Evanson

Glossary

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Index

About the Contributors

This important book by some of the best scholars in the field will be an essential read for all those who wish to better understand this crucial but long-neglected part of Europe.