The volume is an up-to-date reassessment of how the interplay between memory, history, and justice generates insights that examine the present and future of democracy without becoming limited to a Europe-centric framework of understanding.
Presents the life story of a Serbian woman named Natalija spanning over 70 years through memoirs, letters, and diaries, covering extraordinary Balkan... Læs mere
Ivan T. Berend is Distinguished Professor at the University of California Los Angeles, Director of the European Studies Program. He was one of the masterminds of regime change in Hungary.
This book explores and illustrates how domestic and international factors shape the direction of democratization in Turkey, with special reference to the constitution making process as a key mechanism of democratic development.
This book is based on a detailed examination of the changing representation of Bishop Nikolaj Velimirovic in the Serbian media and in commemorative discourse devoted to him.
Provides the most comprehensive history of Gypsies in Romania, synthesizing Romanian and foreign literature with extensive archival research to address the enormous social... Læs mere
Twentieth-century Southeastern Europe endured three, separate decades of international and civil war, and was marred... Læs mere
The 12 essays explore a wide scope of subjects that belong to disciplines ranging from moral philosophy, through theory of human rights, democratic transition, constitutionalism, to political economy.
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.
Written around 1112-1116, The Deeds of the Princes of the Poles tells the ancient history of Poland down to the reign of Boleslaw III. The chronicle contains information on Poland's relations to her neighbours as well as the political ideas of the time.
Provides detailed, empirically based examination of party structure and organization in post-communist Poland... Læs mere