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NATO Enlargement and Central Europe
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Institutions And The Fate Of Democracy
As democracy has swept the globe, the question of why some democracies succeed while others fail has remained a pressing concern. In this theoretically innovative, richly historical study, Michael Bernhard looks at the process by which new democracies choose their political institutions, showing how these fundamental choices shape democracy's survival. Offering a new analytical framework that maps the process by which basic political institu-tions emerge, Bernhard investigates four paradigmatic episodes of democracy in two countries: Germany during the Weimar period and after World War II, and Poland between the world wars and after the fall of communism. Students of democracy will appreciate the broad applicability of Bernhard's findings, while area specialists will welcome the book's accessible and detailed historical accounts.
The Post-communist Condition
This volume offers interdisciplinary perspectives on discourses in one national context of post-communist transformation. Proposing a macro-micro approach to discourse analysis and transformation, it examines a spectrum of topics including Polish history, with its 'interpreters'; changes in political bodies and the media, policies of the Catholic Church and the Institute of National Remembrance; xenophobia and anti-Semitism, with the emergence of unemployment and homelessness; experiences of new gender relations and migrations. In effect, drawing upon unique sets of data, the book shows how post-communist transformation can be understood through analyses of the changing public and private discourses. It shows Polish post-communism as a fragile and uneasy transformation, with people and institutions struggling to make sense of it and of life within it. The volume will be of interest to a broad range of social scientists: discourse analysts, sociologists, modern historians and political scientists, as well as to the informed lay public.
We Are All Migrants
In 2015, Germany agreed to accept a million Syrian refugees. The country had become an epicenter of global migration and one of Europe's most diverse countries. But was this influx of migration new to Germany? In this highly readable volume, Jan Plamper charts the groups and waves of post-1945 mobility to Germany. We Are All Migrants is the first narrative history of multicultural Germany told through life-stories. It explores the experiences of the 12.5 million German expellees from Eastern Europe who arrived at the end of the Second World War; the 14 million 'guest workers' from Italy and Turkey who turned West Germany into an economic powerhouse; the GDR's Vietnamese labor migrants; and the 2.3 million Germans and 230,000 Jews who came from the Soviet Union after 1987. Without minimizing racism, We Are All Migrants shows that immigration is a success story – and that Germany has been, and is, one of the most fascinating laboratories on our planet in which multiple ways of belonging, and ethnic, national, and supranational identities, are hotly debated and messily lived.
Polish Politics and Society
An examination of political, social and economic development in Poland since the summer of 1989, with the main focus on democratization.
Rocznik Ziem Zachodnich
Czasopismo naukowe Rocznik Ziem Zachodnich jest rocznikiem wydawanym online przez Ośrodek „Pamięć i Przyszłość” we Wrocławiu, począwszy od 2017 roku. Funkcję redaktora naczelnego pełni w nim prof. Grzegorz Strauchold. Czasopismo jest miejscem prezentacji wieloaspektowych badań naukowych poświęconych przeszłości i współczesności ziem przyłączonych do Polski po II wojnie światowej oraz przestrzenią do dyskusji naukowej na ten temat. Struktura czasopisma składa się z następujących części: artykuły i studia, materiały źródłowe, recenzje i omówienia, raporty i ekspertyzy, przeglądy badań i sprawozdania, a także Biblioteka Myśli Zachodniej, w której, z na...
Poland and NATO
Poland and NATO is the third book by Jeffrey Simon on emerging post-communist countries to recently join NATO. As with the previous two volumes, this book contains a treasure of firsthand research grounded in primary source material and personal interviews with key civil and military leaders.
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