The Routledge Handbook of East European Politics is an authoritative overview that will help a wide readership develop an understanding of the region in all its political, economic, and social complexity.

Now in a fully updated edition, this essential text explores the other half of Europe, the new and future members of the EU along with the problems and potential they bring to the region and to the world stage.

"Now in a fully updated edition, this essential text explores the other half of Europe, the newer and future members of the EU along with the problems and potential they bring to the region and to the world stage"--

. . . The authors of this book are to be congratulated on the structure and clarity of its presentation.

In this book, Dr. Hazan examines the formal structure of East European politics and the functions of party organizations as the true centers of power.

This book should be of interest to students of eastern european politics.

The new edition of this market-leading text brings together specially commissioned chapters by a team of top international scholars on the changing politics of this diverse region negotiating the competing pulls of the European Union and ...

This book addresses a number of key questions: What determines EU performance in post-communist Europe? What are the conditions that influence it?

This text asks whether Eastern European societies can escape from the grip of totalitarian domination, and build up Western democratic systems.