CITIZENSHIP AND DEMOCRATIC CONTROL IN CONTEMPORARY EUROPE

Edited by Barbara Einhorn, Honorary Research Fellow, Mary Kaldor, Jean Monnet Reader in Contemporary European Studies and Zdenek Kavan, Lecturer in International Relations, University of Sussex, UK

• Part 1: Nation-states, European institutions, and citizenship, Mary Kaldor; democracy and nationalism in Czechoslovakia, Zdenek Kavan; German identities - the impact of unification, Peter Lambert; from single European act to Maastricht - the creation of the European Union, Peter Holmes; gender and citizenship in east Central Europe after the end of state socialist policies for women's emancipation, Barbara Einhorn. Part 2: marketization and nationalism - a critical interface in the process of transformation, David A. Dyker; privitization and economic democracy in Hungary, Yudit Kiss; international business - global political economy and Eastern Europe, Sonia El Kahal; a Europe of the citizen, a Europe of solidarity? - social policy in the European Union, Crescy Cannan; the European Community and the problems of economic transition in Central and Eastern Europe, Alasdair Smith; steering the public sphere - communication policy in state socialism and after, William Outhwaite; the ideology of the end of Marxism/end of socialism thesis - a critical global perspective, John Maclean; "public service" and "collectivism" - the place of gender and voluntary work in different European traditions, Jenny Shaw; east Central European media systems in transition, Nancy Wood.

'A stimulating work that challenges many of the existing assumptions about the revolutions of 1989, their aftermath and the future of post-Cold War Europe.'