This article assesses the trajectory of postsocialism as a concept and mounts a fivefold
critique of postsocialism as: referring to a vanishing object; emphasising rupture over …

Neoliberalism: The Key Concepts provides a critical guide to a vocabulary that has become
globally dominant over the past forty years. The language of neoliberalism both constructs …

The literature on civil resistance finds that nonviolent campaigns are more likely to succeed
than violent insurgencies. A parallel literature on democratization poses mass mobilization …

The transition literature is insufficient to understand the political developments in several
states of the former Soviet Union. Instead, it is perhaps best to explore these regimes in …

Why have the European Union and the Russian Federation encountered severe difficulties
in develo** their relationship? Why haven't the parties lived up to the initial promise and …

The article examines the impact of geographical proximity to the West and of Western aid on
democracy in Russia's regions and advances a geographic incrementalist theory of …

Shortlisted for the 2013 BISA IPEG Book Prize, this book explores how Eastern Europe's
post-communist transition can only be understood as part of a broader interrogation of …

All qualitative research faces fundamental hurdles in overcoming issues of access and
ensuring the credibility of one's observations. These issues are particularly acute when …

Despite the ubiquity of conspiracy theories in the former Soviet Union, there is an almost
total lack of systematic research on the issue. The relative absence of writing about …

This book argues that the weakness of civil society in the post-Soviet Caucasus is a result
not only of post-communist political and economic problems, but also of the effects of …