From Eastern Empire to Western Hegemony: East Central Europe under Two International Regimes
From Eastern Empire to Western Hegemony: East Central Europe under Two International Regimes
Author(s): Andrew C. JanosSubject(s): Political history, Government/Political systems, International relations/trade, Post-Communist Transformation, Geopolitics
Published by: SAGE Publications Ltd
Keywords: Political history; historic events of 1989-1992; Soviet bloc; collapse of Soviet Union; regime; political system;
Summary/Abstract: The historic events of 1989-1992 surrounding the demise of the Soviet bloc created extraordinary challenges for both participants and observers of the political drama. The challenge to participants on both sides of the Iron Curtain was to create political order from the chaos of collapse. To observers, not least among them political scientists, the challenge was to create intellectual order by identifying appropriate conceptual frameworks capable of capturing the quintessential elements of the process and of assembling seemingly disparate events into coherent narratives. [...]
Journal: East European Politics and Societies
- Issue Year: 15/2001
- Issue No: 02
- Page Range: 221-249
- Page Count: 29
- Language: English
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