Europe Since 1989: Transitions and Transformations

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Europe Since 1989 charts the development of Europe east and west since the 1989 revolutions. It analyses the emergent European society, the development of a European public sphere, and civil society. Most books on Europe are heavily biased to the West and Europe Since 1989 takes the opposite approach. It argues that the transformation of the postcommunist world has implications for the whole of Europe and explores the interplay between long-term fundamental tendencies and chance events and the possible futures which confront contemporary Europe. With close attention to political, economic and other social transformations, and an appendix which gives special attention to European macro regions (Nordic/Baltic Europe, Mediterranean Europe), it offers a sociology of Europe with a strong interdisciplinary emphasis. Cover Title Copyright Contents Acknowledgements Abbreviations 1 Introduction: two alternative prefaces to the second edition, 2030? 2 After 1989 3 Path dependence: causal models of postcommunist transition 4 East–West divergences and convergences 5 Convergence and catching up: EU enlargement and colour revolutions 6 The Russian enigma 7 European democracy and civil society 8 Out of the crisis? 9 Europeanisation and the European Union 10 Appendix on territoriality Index