East European Quarterly articles from September 1998

East European Quarterly archives from September 1998

Development theories in the East European context: the impact of new dependency theory and neoclassical economics.
September 22, 1998... What is the future for East Europe? Academicians are split on this issue. Some believe in the old syllogism pervasive in these former communist nations which states "If it had not been for the system, we would be just like the West"...

The development of social benefits and social policy in Poland, Hungary and the Slovak Republic since the system transformation.
September 22, 1998... Social policy is generally understood in the social sciences as the counterpart of the economic policy. Its necessity as corrective of the market economy was respected by liberal economists like Friedrich A. Hayek (1960). It is therefore...

Hard-line Eurasianism and Russia's contending geopolitical perspectives.
September 22, 1998... INTRODUCTION The 1990s brought a new international relations perspective to Russia and the former Soviet region. The New Political Thinking associated with Soviet reformer Michael Gorbachev and his reform-minded advisors--i.e., a...

'Two's company, three's a crowd"; the role of Central Europe in Ukrainian security.
September 22, 1998... A brief look at the political and economic data for the Central European(1) countries could lead us to think that these countries, irreversibly set on the path to membership in European political and military organizations, could simply decide...

Failure of socialist self-management to create a viable nation-state, and disintegration of the Yugoslav administrative state and state institutions.
September 22, 1998... INTRODUCTION The revival of ethnic cleavages and increased tensions is one of the major problems for today's community of nations. Processes of democratization in the aftermath of the Cold War in some countries have revealed old...

Prospects for Balkan cooperation after the disintegration of Yugoslavia.
September 22, 1998... INTRODUCTION Since attaining their independence, the states of South-Eastern Europe have realised the significance, and the necessity, of converging their purposes and minimizing their disagreements. A common goal, a common direction...

Reporting Romania: a content analysis of The New York Times coverage, 1985-1997.
September 22, 1998... INTRODUCTION The dramatic events that signaled the collapse of communist regimes across Central and Eastern Europe and the equally significant political transitions in the former Soviet Union sundered what had been a standard...

Structure, symbol and style in Hryhorii Skovoroda's "Potop Zmin".
September 22, 1998... INTRODUCTION The Ukrainian thinker, Hryhorii Skovoroda (1722-94), produced a substantial body of philosophical and literary work between the late '50s and the early '90s of the eighteenth century. While there is a large secondary...