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By Professor Attila Agh

This booklet offers an intensive advent to East important Europe and its renewed emergence because the momentous alterations within the former Soviet bloc. by way of conscientiously differentiating among vital Europe, East principal Europe and the Balkans, (ac)Attila Agh exhibits how the time period `Eastern Europe' used to be a political misnomer of the chilly battle. Drawing on theories of democratization to increase a standard conceptual and theoretical framework, this textbook is the 1st to put the political and social adjustments of this complicated area in a really comparative viewpoint. via extensive thematic sections the coed is proven find out how to distinguish among approaches of democratization and redemocratization, transition and transforma

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The Western leaders were nervous that the behaviour of the nuclear-armed paranoid Russia would become unpredictable and focused even more on Russia than before.

Many alien and artificial elements were imposed upon the countries of the forced democratizations, but these inorganic elements became after some time mostly organic, producing or triggering a real democratization effect. The forced democratization by the EU in ECE countries at present still lacks both the means and resources of triggering successful democra­ tizations, but this can drastically change during negotiations about full membership in the late 1990s. This contrast of high expectations and lack 36 TRANSFORMAnON IN EC EUROPE AND THE BALKANS of support places an external overload on ECE democratizations, while the crisis of the Balkan and East European facade democracies also means a special additional burden for the ECE countries.

Obviously, nowadays, the latest Eastern invasion is over, and Central Europe once again is 'automatically' returning to the West. It is the story of the Sleeping Beauty being woken by the Young Prince. Politicians as well as the peoples of Central European countries thought in late 1989 that the return to democracy and a free market society could be resolved quickly and easily, 'overnight', by the pluralization and pri­ vatization programmes without major pain and conflict but with signifi­ cant Western assistance.

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