From Eastern Bloc to European Union
Subtitle: Comparative Processes of Transformation Since 1990
Publisher: Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 397
ISBN-13: 9781785333170
Subjects: Communist countries, politics and government; Communist countries, economic conditions; Communist countries, foreign relations
Description: "More than 25 years after the fall of the Soviet Union, European integration remains a work in progress, especially in those Eastern European nations most dramatically reshaped by democratization and economic liberalization. This volume assembles detailed, empirically grounded studies of eleven states--Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Slovenia, and the former East Germany--that went on to join the European Union. Each chapter analyzes the political, economic, and social transformations that have taken place in these nations, using a comparative approach to identify structural similarities and assess outcomes relative to one another as well as the rest of the EU."--Provided by publisher.