Fourteen essays, presented by Boatright (political science, Clark U.) discuss core concepts and debates surrounding campaign finance law and campaign finance reforms for federal and state elections in
This work examines what the author dubs "nation-building" in the Russian autonomous republic of Tatarstan after the fall of the Soviet Union. Basing her study in the linguistic-anthropological premise
This interesting volume on collective moral responsibility for mass crime provides a nuanced but clear exposition of the Serbian author's belief in a responsibility for restorative right-action by all
Seven essays from a 2008 international gathering further a research project on the Apostolic Penitentiary Registers that the Medieval studies department at Central European University began in 2001. T
The time has passed, when nationalism was closely connected to Romanticism. The nationalism of today values reality. It is a live expression of sociology as a science, a field for the implementation o
Notwithstanding the advantages of physical power, the struggle for survival among societies is not merely a matter of serial armed clashes but of the nation's spiritual resources that in the end alway
This book undertakes a critical analysis of the history of domestic tourism in Yugoslavia under Communism. Despite the central role of tourism in the political making of the Yugoslav socialist state a
Readable, cogent explanation of how the U.S. can have the best system of higher education in the world, but also a system that seems to be coming apart at the seams.-Susan Fuhrman, President Teachers
Bracewell (History, University College London) has assembled over 100 examples of travel writing about Europe, written by east Europeans over the past 450 years. Ranging from pilgrimage diaries from t
Ozbudun (constitutional law, Bilkent U., Turkey) and Genckaya (political science, Bilkent U.) conduct an analysis of processes of constitution-making in Turkey. They provide a historical overview of T
Suggesting that the introduction of socialism was a correlative of political modernity in the Balkans, Dimou (Institute of Slavic Studies, U. of Leipzig, Germany) examines how it developed as an ideol
For nearly a half century after World War II, any history of Ukraine written or taught there was merely a local subunit of the history of the Soviet Union. After 1991, a demand for accounts of Ukraini
A well educated middle class woman, mother of six and twice widowed, Matic Zrnic's kept diaries through more than half a century, five wars, four ideologies, and numerous governments. It was published
Time is a slippery concept. Historians, physicists, clockmakers and poets have all tried to define time and make it somehow manageable. Miller (Literature, University of California at Santa Cruz) has
The new democracies of eastern Europe are sunk into a deep malaise, says Kis (philosophy, Central European U., Budapest), but as long as the old democracies of the West stand firm, the pessimism of ci
How could scholarship justify the horrors of nazism? Mees (history, RMIT U., formerly the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology) notes that national socialist ideology is often dismissed as a random
The 12 essays comprise a second volume to emerge from a research project on East European travel writing 1550-2000 carried out at the University of London; the first, in 2007, was a bibliography. Stud
Bracewell (history, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, U. College London) and Drace-Francis (history, U. of Liverpool) and their 15 contributors have written a study of travel writing publi
As referred to in the title, one of the major concerns of Melegh (Corvinus U., Hungary) is the discourse of a lower-to-higher civilizational slope ranging, respectively, from east to west that has ree
Szalai (sociology, Institute of Political Science, Hungarian Academy of Sciences) critiques the "existing socialism" of the Soviet system from a leftist perspective, arguing that it was a transitory s
This dictionary of well-known terminology in Czech popular culture includes people, places, songs, sports, and traditional dishes. Roberts (political science, Northwestern U.) shares, for example, ent
A project on the comparative history of empires, launched in 2001 at the Central European University, generated the ten papers published here, earlier versions of which were presented at a 2003 intern
In this English translation, Achim (history, Romanian Academy, Bucharest) compensates for the lack of reference to Roma or Gypsies in traditional histories of Romania. Arguing that this people have be
Krastev (political science, Center for Liberal Strategies in Sofia, Bulgaria) examines anti-corruption movements of several states, whether stable or in transition, and finds disturbing similarities.
Dworkin (philosophy, New York U. School of Law) presents 11 essays of political philosophy in honor of Hungarian political thinker Kis. The more abstract essays are grouped under the heading "Liberal
Borkowska (literature, Polish Academy of Sciences) discusses the works of selected Polish women prose writers from 1845 to 1918. First, she provides an introduction to feminist criticism in relation t
Shuster and Meany present students, academics, and educational professionals with an exploration of the practical and theoretical aspects of successful competitive public speaking and debate. The auth
Drawing on personal accounts and documents, historian Reisch reveals hitherto unknown details about programs funded by the CIA to distribute books to key intellectuals and professionals, libraries, re
Seventeen essays center on the changes within the police forces of post-communist countries, especially since 1989. They discuss trends in the governance and organization of police departments, the re
Despite gloomy predictions, democracy and the market economy seem to be taking root throughout Eastern Europe, against a background of deep recession. Looks into reasons for the failed predictions of
In recent years, following the end of the cold war and the relative simplicities of the bipolar confrontation, nationalism has re-emerged as a dominant force and ideology in our world. Everywhere, peo
