ABSTRACT

Europe Since 1989 charts the development of Europe east and west since the 1989 revolutions. It analyses the emergent European society, the development of a European public sphere, and civil society. Most books on Europe are heavily biased to the West and Europe Since 1989 takes the opposite approach. It argues that the transformation of the postcommunist world has implications for the whole of Europe and explores the interplay between long-term fundamental tendencies and chance events and the possible futures which confront contemporary Europe.

With close attention to political, economic and other social transformations, and an appendix which gives special attention to European macro regions (Nordic/Baltic Europe, Mediterranean Europe), it offers a sociology of Europe with a strong interdisciplinary emphasis.

chapter 1|8 pages

Introduction

Two alternative prefaces to the second edition, 2030? 1

chapter 2|21 pages

After 1989

chapter 3|17 pages

Path dependence

Causal models of postcommunist transition

chapter 5|16 pages

Convergence and catching up

EU enlargement and colour revolutions

chapter 6|12 pages

The Russian enigma

chapter 8|13 pages

Out of the crisis?