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

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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German Migrations: Between Blood and Soil

German Politics & Society ◽

10.3167/104503002782385345 ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 20 (4) ◽

pp. 137-150 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Tobias Brinkmann

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Ethnic Identity ◽

Eastern Europe ◽

Federal Republic ◽

Central And Eastern Europe ◽

Frankfurt Am Main ◽

Bundesrepublik Deutschland ◽

Ethnic Germans ◽

And Migration ◽

Cultural Belonging

Dieter Gosewinkel, Einbürgern und Ausschließen. Die Nationalisierung der Staatsangehörigkeit vom Deutschen Bund bis zur Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2001)Daniel Levy, Yfaat Weiss, ed., Challenging Ethnic Citizenship: German and Israeli Perspectives on Immigration (New York/Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2002)Barbara Marshall, The New Germany and Migration in Europe (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000)Jan Motte, Rainer Ohliger, Anne von Oswald, ed., 50 Jahre Bundesrepublik – 50 Jahre Einwanderung: Nachkriegsgeschichte als Migrationsgeschichte (Frankfurt am Main/New York: Campus, 1999)David Rock and Stefan Wolff, ed., Coming Home to Germany? The Integration of Ethnic Germans from Central and Eastern Europe in the Federal Republic since 1945 (New York/Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2002)Stefan Wolff, ed., German Minorities in Europe: Ethnic Identity and Cultural Belonging (New York/Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2000)

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