State-Building, Rule of Law, Good Governance and Human Rights in Post-Soviet Space

Lucia Leontiev is a PhD candidate at Institute of Law, Politics and Development of Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies of Pisa, Italy and Maastricht University, The Netherlands.Punsara Amarasinghe is a PhD researcher at Institute of Law, Politics and Development at Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies of Pisa, Italy.

• 1. Soviet Union Dissolution and 30 Years of Independence: Introduction and Perspective Part 1: State-building Process in the Aftermath of Soviet Union Dissolution: The Challenges of Democratic Statehood Building with a memory and a legacy 2. The Four Stages of State Rebuilding in the Baltic States Since 1990 3. Dynamics of the Democratic Process in the Republic of Belarus in the post-Soviet Period 4. Evolution of Governance in the Kyrgyz Republic: Thirty Years in Transition Part 2: Rule of Law and Good Governance in post-Soviet Space: Challenges and Opportunities 5. Democratization and Political Transformation in Georgia: Cutting the Soviet Union Ties 6. Rule of Law in Moldova: Illusion or Reality? 7. Rule of Law and Good Governance in Armenia: On the Law and Praxis Part 3: On the Law and Practice of Human Rights in the post-Soviet Space: Progress and Discontents 8. Soviet Union’s Legacy in Laws, Institutions and Practice of Human Rights in the Republic of Azerbaijan 9. Post-Socialist Perception of Human Rights in Russia 10. Human Rights in the Post-Soviet Central Asia 11. A Union or, rather, a Dis-Union of Nations? Legacies of Soviet ‘nationality policies’ and their influence on law and practice in the post-Soviet states 12. Three decades of EU’s human rights promotion in post–Soviet countries: Success story or wasted effort?