The liberalisation of east‐west trade: An assessment of its impact on exports from central and Eastern Europe

Reshaping the relationships between Western Europe and the former communist bloc is one of the most intriguing challenges for the coming years. Will Central and Eastern Europe become passive players in the European and world economy, or will companies located there become integrated as fully fledged partners? Foreign direct investment (FDI) is heavily concentrated in a few countries in Central and Eastern Europe. It is argued that the type of FDI is more important than the amount of FDI. There is a need for a critical assessment of the strategies of the investors and the impacts on local entrepreneurship. In this vein, the authors describe various interesting future research paths and make policy recommendations.

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Educational policies in Central and Eastern Europe: legacies of state socialism, modernization aspirations and challenges of semi-peripheral contexts

Policy Futures in Education ◽

10.1177/1478210318777415 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 16 (4) ◽

pp. 385-397

Author(s):

Katarzyna Gawlicz ◽

Marcin Starnawski

Keyword(s):

Eastern Europe ◽

Central And Eastern Europe ◽

Educational Policies ◽

Educational Systems ◽

State Socialism ◽

Special Issue ◽

Education Policies ◽

Historical Experience ◽

International Assessment ◽

East West

The article introduces a special issue of Policy Futures in Education on changes and challenges in educational policies and systems of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). The countries in the region share some characteristics, such as their historical experience with the authoritarian–socialist or communist rule and its impact on education policies, as well as their long-lasting economic semi-peripherality. Differences within the region are also discussed in the article: from macro-level economic gaps to relative dissimilarities of education systems’ structures, as well as international assessment benchmarks. The articles in this issue present analyses of educational policies in Belarus, Croatia, Hungary, Poland, Russia and Ukraine. A theme that emerges most clearly across these texts is the complexity of East–West relationships. Read together, the contributions serve as a call for a more nuanced and contextualized look at CEE. Transformation of educational systems that entails the interplay of past legacies and borrowed policies can bring about troubling outcomes, exacerbated by the entanglement of education in a wider agenda.

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GRIFFITH, William E. (Ed.) Central and Eastern Europe : The Opening Curtain? Boulder (Col.) - New York, Westview Press - An East-West Forum Publication, 1989, 480p.

Études internationales ◽

10.7202/702894ar ◽

1991 ◽

Vol 22 (3) ◽

pp. 632

Author(s):

Emmanuel Neuman

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Eastern Europe ◽

Central And Eastern Europe ◽

East West

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Political Consumerism in Central and Eastern Europe

The Oxford Handbook of Political Consumerism ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190629038.013.22 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 478-514

Author(s):

Léna Pellandini-Simányi ◽

Emese Gulyás

Keyword(s):

Eastern Europe ◽

Western Europe ◽

Central And Eastern Europe ◽

Political Action ◽

European Social Survey ◽

Political Consumerism ◽

Social Survey ◽

Everyday Ethics ◽

East West

This chapter compares political consumerism in Western Europe and Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) as well as within the CEE region, using European Social Survey, Special Eurobarometer, Fairtrade sales, and qualitative data. The chapter begins by discussing the largely neglected legacy of the socialist era for political consumerism. The discussion then compares European countries along twenty-two aspects of political consumerism, encompassing everyday consumer choices, attitudes, and awareness. The chapter shows, first, that certain forms of political consumerism cross-cut the East-West divide. Second, it proposes a threefold classification of the CEE countries (Mainstreamer, Reluctant Comfortable, and Passively Willing). Finally, the chapter outlines a version of political consumerism, referred to as the embedded politics of everyday life, prevalent in CEE, which differs from its Western counterpart in that it is less linked to political action and more to everyday ethics, such as thrift and patriotism.

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Ethnonationalism in European East – west borderlands:Weltanschauungenin the European Union and Central and Eastern Europe ∗ 1

Religion State & Society ◽

10.1080/09637490601110997 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 35 (1) ◽

pp. 5-41 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Pertti Ahonen

Keyword(s):

European Union ◽

Eastern Europe ◽

Central And Eastern Europe ◽

The European Union ◽

East West

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Introduction

Focaal ◽

10.3167/fcl.2009.530101 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 2009 (53) ◽

pp. 3-19 ◽

Cited By ~ 20

Author(s):

Jill Owczarzak

Keyword(s):

Social Science ◽

Eastern Europe ◽

Central And Eastern Europe ◽

Science Studies ◽

Special Section ◽

Postcolonial Studies ◽

Gender And Sexuality ◽

Key Concepts ◽

East And West ◽

East West

The introduction to this special section explores the ways in which postcolonial studies contribute a deeper understanding of postsocialist change in Central and Eastern Europe. Since the collapse of socialism, anthropological and other social science studies of Eastern Europe have highlighted deep divides between “East” and “West” and drawn attention to the ways in which socialist practices persist into the postsocialist period. We seek to move beyond discourses of the East/West divide by examining the postsocialist context through the lens of postcolonial studies. We look at four aspects of postcolonial studies and explore their relevance for understanding postsocialist Eastern Europe: orientalism, nation and identity, hybridity, and voice. These themes are particular salient from the perspective of gender and sexuality, key concepts through which both postcolonialism and postsocialism can be understood. We thus pay particular attention to the exchange of ideas between East/West, local/global, and national/international arenas.

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Challenges and Pitfalls of Feminist Sisterhood in the Aftermath of the Cold War*

Aspasia ◽

10.3167/asp.2020.140103 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 14 (1) ◽

pp. 1-19

Author(s):

Ioana Cîrstocea

Keyword(s):

Cold War ◽

Eastern Europe ◽

Central And Eastern Europe ◽

Establishing Operations ◽

Feminist Activism ◽

New Challenges ◽

The Cold War ◽

Second Wave ◽

East West ◽

Instrumental Role

Established in the aftermath of the Cold War and animated by US-based scholars and activists experienced in the second wave of women’s liberation movements, the Network of East-West Women (NEWW) has received little attention from scholars. This transnational and transregional group played an instrumental role in triggering and structuring the circulation of information, contacts, and academic and activist publications dedicated to women in Central and Eastern Europe, and in conceptualizing new gender politics in that region after the end of the socialist regimes. Building on original empirical evidence (archive work and interviews), this article considers NEWW’s founding and its steps in establishing operations “beyond borders” in the 1990s—a time of professionalizing and globalizing women’s rights politics when transnational feminist activism was faced with both new challenges and potentialities.

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East-West Conference

Acta Oeconomica ◽

10.1556/aoecon.53.2003.4.5 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 53 (4) ◽

pp. 429-441

Author(s):

Stephan Barisitz ◽

Sandra Dvorsky ◽

Jarko Fidrmuc ◽

Andreas Freytag ◽

Gerhard Reitschuler ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Eastern Europe ◽

Central And Eastern Europe ◽

Policy Mix ◽

East West ◽

The Eu

[East-West Conference of the Oesterreichische Nationalbank (OeNB) took place from the 3rd to the 5th of November 2002 in Vienna and covered the topic Structural Challenges and the Search for an Adequate Policy Mix in the EU and in Central and Eastern Europe.]

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Italy’s approach to East–West and South–North migrations: from lack of knowledge to political use of them

European Spatial Research and Policy ◽

10.18778/1231-1952.26.2.04 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 26 (2) ◽

pp. 81-93

Author(s):

Alessandro Vitale

Keyword(s):

Eastern Europe ◽

Central And Eastern Europe ◽

Migration Policy ◽

Population Data ◽

Mass Migration ◽

The World ◽

Survey Results ◽

Restrictive Measures ◽

East West ◽

The Eu

After the end of the bipolar world, the possibility of an East–West mass migration became a new issue that took root in the Italian consciousness in forms masked by the feelings of the threat of an imminent “mass invasion” from Central and Eastern Europe. This new fear stimulated restrictive measures belatedly adopted in Italy and created a de facto unjust and imbalanced condition for new migrants from Eastern Europe because the first South–North migrations’ wave had already occurred when the regimes of Central and Eastern Europe collapsed. There are many evident similarities between the beliefs, attitudes and the use of insecurity (not based on data) of the 1990s and the current Italian migration policy. What they have in common is the incorrect perception and the misuse of it by politicians and propagandists. Immigration from Eastern Europe continues to be compared to that from the South of the world and Asia which continues to be interpreted without considering their real natures and the actual trends that characterise them. According to new studies that compared survey results with population data, contemporary Italians overestimate the number of immigrants coming from outside the EU to their country more than any other Europeans. As a result, the misuse or ignorance of the data on migrations is particularly dangerous because the devaluation of them has critical implications for policymaking.

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Contemporary Godparenthood in Central and Eastern Europe

Journal of Family History ◽

10.1177/0363199017738203 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 43 (1) ◽

pp. 3-11 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Monica Vasile ◽

Jennifer R. Cash ◽

Patrick Heady

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

Eastern Europe ◽

Central And Eastern Europe ◽

Practical Significance ◽

Social Meaning ◽

Structural Elements ◽

Kinship System ◽

Historical Factors ◽

East West

This introduction to the collection opens up the conversation between historians and anthropologists about the practical significance and social meaning of spiritual kinship. By discussing the key findings of five anthropological studies—in Italy, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, and Moldova—we point to resemblances and differences. We examine common structural elements of the spiritual kinship system and the religious and material meanings involved. We find differing symbolic logics as well as different intensities of godparental practices, which can be described as a geographical, east-west gradient. Speaking broadly, the more to the east a place is, the more thriving the practice. In explaining the variation, ethnographic insights suggest that long-term differentiating trends are important, and also contemporary historical factors—substantial economic and political changes since the mid-twentieth century.

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