Politics

Turning Prayers into Protests is comparative study of grass-roots religious activity in Slovakia and East Germany prior to 1989.

Examines the impact of the Czechoslovak and East German uranium industries on local politics and on societies. This book contains an introduction that discusses the silver-mining industries in the Erzgebirge region and outlines the fate of this region, including the various political pressures and medical problems its inhabitants came under.

Describes Dan Bar-On's method of using storytelling as both a qualitative biographical research method and as an intervention, to bring people from opposite sides of an abyss to a dialogue. Such work needs slow pace and long-term commitment, with a special combination of a scientific rigorous analysis with a sensitive approach toward the people one approaches.

Three portraits of men who were at the very center of governance in thirteenth-century France.

The book is comprised of the four major debates on modern Bulgarian history from Independence in 1878 to the fall of communism in 1989.

A unique contribution by combining eye witness experience with the best of current scholarship on one of the most serious ethical issues of the day, namely, responding to criminal behavior of a national regime.

The inheritance of the east-European autocratic system frozen up by the communist state was thawed after the peaceful regime change. This book contains the analysis required for the portrayal of the features of conservatism, its strategic vision, conceptual system, argumentation, assessment criteria and values.

Explores and illustrates how domestic and international factors shape the direction of democratization process with special reference to constitution making process in Turkey. This book describes how all five Turkish constitutions were, by and large, the products of indigenous effort, although borrowing could be felt in certain limited areas.

This book examines constitutional adjudication in the Visegrad Four: Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The creation of constitutional courts was one of major milestones in the re-creation of the democratic system in these countries.

A collection of essays about the many faces of violence during and after the Cold War. The main themes are war and peace, totalitarianism and nationalism. It concludes with a balance sheet of the 20th century and looks into elements of order and disorder in the current international system.

Ludwik Rajchman, an exponent of humanitarian intervention and a defender of colonized people, inspired the creation of WHO and UNICEF. This biography, written by his great-granddaughter, uses family archives and documentary sources to tell the story of his life.

This is an analysis of the processes by which the countries of Central and Eastern Europe are being incorporated into a restrictive refugee regime established among the EU member states. It highlights the complex entanglement of domestic policies, European integration and international relations.