Revitalization Processes in Post-Communist Eastern Europe: Religion as Active Participant in Political Transformation

2019 ◽  
pp. 185-207
Author(s):  
Douglas Durasoff
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Political Transformation ◽  
Active Participant

Dilemma of Simultaneity

2019 ◽  
pp. 471-479
Author(s):  
Ilyas Saliba ◽  
Wolfgang Merkel
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
Economic Transformation ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Political Transformation ◽  
The Third ◽  
Transformation Processes

The theory of the dilemma of simultaneity is empirically based on the transformations of post-socialist states in Central and Eastern Europe. The transformations after the collapse of the socialist bloc were without precedent with regards to breadth and depth. The dilemma of simultaneity consists of three parallel transition processes on three dimensions. The first part of this chapter explores the three dimensions of the transitions: nation building, political transformation, and economic transformation. The second part discusses the three levels of transformation: (1) ethno-national identity and territory, (2) polity, and (3) socio-economic distribution. The third part highlights the complexity and challenges of multidimensional simultaneous transformation processes. The fourth and fifth parts discuss the role of international actors and socio-economic structures on the transitions in Central and Eastern Europe. The chapter concludes with an account of Elster’s and Offe’s critics and their response.

scholarly journals Between Individual Memory and Social Memory. What Do People in Poland Remember About 1989?

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Aneta Ostaszewska
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Social Memory ◽  
Political Transformation ◽  
The Past ◽  
Individual Memory ◽  
Collapse Of Communism ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Relationship

30 years have passed since the events of 1989 that led to the collapse of communism in Central and Eastern Europe. In the paper the themes of social memory of political transformation in Poland in 1989 are discussed. The content of online statements collected from popular Polish news portals are analysed. When asking the question what events and experiences do Poles bring back when they think of 1989, I am interested in the relationship between the individual (biographical) memory and collective memory – the socially reconstructed knowledge of the past.

Proto-Refugees? Palestinian Arabs and the Concept of Statelessness before 1948

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-81
Author(s):  
Laura Robson
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
League Of Nations ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Political Transformation ◽  
Refugee Status ◽  
Arab Population ◽  
British Mandate ◽  
Palestinian Arab ◽  
European Jewish ◽  
Mandate System

The Palestine mandate was built around the assumption that the League of Nations and the British mandatory government would preside over a gradual demographic and political transformation there, creating a European Jewish settler majority to replace the Palestinian Arab one and allowing for the eventual emergence of a Jewish nation-state. This process required a corresponding de-nationalisation of the incumbent Arab population – a project that formally began with the language of the mandate and continued through the mechanisms of governance set by the British mandate state and the League of Nations throughout the mandate period. Through new legal, economic and political mechanisms, the mandate system coalesced around a project of producing Palestinian Arab statelessness that made notable use of a simultaneously emerging language of refugeedom elsewhere in the Middle East and Eastern Europe. This paper explores the use of refugee-related discourse and institutions to produce this deliberate de-nationalisation of Palestinian Arabs during the mandate period, arguing that the League of Nations put into place conditions and categories of statelessness for Palestinians that set them up as ‘proto-refugees’ long before the physical expulsions of 1948 and set the stage for an international acceptance of their refugee status as a long-established and essentially permanent condition.

scholarly journals Aktualność tzw. „doktryny Giedroycia” w kontekście polityki Unii Europejskiej wobec Rosji

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 69-83
Author(s):  
Tomasz Kamiński ◽  
Marcin Frenkel
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Political Transformation ◽  
Political Activities ◽  
Imperial Russia ◽  
Relevant Today ◽  
Political Concept ◽  
Democratic State ◽  
Economic Support ◽  
The Eu

Russian intervention in Donbas and annexation of Crimea have triggered a fundamental revision of the EU policy towards Easter neighbourhood and Russia. The main goal of this paper is to develop discussion about the EU strategy towards Russia by presenting political concept named “The Giedroyc doctrine”, created by Polish intellectuals on exile, when Poland was under Soviet domination. Although created a few decades ago, some elements of this doctrine are still surprisingly relevant today and may contribute to contemporary European debate. In particular, we argue that strengthening the prosperity, stability and security in Eastern Europe is possible only when Russia transforms itself into a prosperous and democratic state. Autocratic and neo-imperial Russia undermines any major pro-Western political changes in the region. Therefore, successful transformation of Russia into stable, prosperous and democratic state should be included into the long-term vision of European politicians who intend to keep Europe secure. All political activities in the Eastern neighbourhood should be subordinated to this. It means that economic support for Ukraine and strengthening cooperation with this country should not be a goal itself. Westernization of Ukraine ought to be perceived only as a beginning of political transformation of the whole region.

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