This book seeks to explain the advent of this post-communist tripartition and elucidate and explain the political pathways of 24 post-communist countries in the

Offering a single, coherent framework of the political, economic, and social phenomena that characterize post-communist regimes, this is the most comprehensive

Revealing how the quest for independence and challenges of democratization created a contest between nationalists and Europeanists, two powerful forces in domes

The collapse of communism was widely heralded as the dawn of democracy across the former Soviet region. However, the political outcome has been much less unifor

The collapse of Communism has created the opportunity for democracy to spread from Prague to the Baltic and Black Seas. But the alternatives—dictatorship or t