Table of Contents

Alex Pravda: Introduction
PART 1 COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES
1: Karen E. Smith: Western Actors and the Promotion of Democracy
2: Iver Neumann: Regionalization and Democratic Consolidation
3: Susan Senior Nello: The Impact of External Economic Factors: The Role of the IMF
4: Reimund Seidelmann: International Security and Democracy-Building
5: S. Neil MacFarlane: The Internationalization of Ethnic Strife
6: Ewa Morawska: International Migration and the Consolidation of Democracy
7: Leslie Holmes: Crime, Corruption and Politics: Transnational Factors
8: Stephen Whitefield and Geoffrey Evans: Attitudes towards the West, Democracy and the Market
PART 2 NATIONAL PERSPECTIVES
9: Vello Pettai: Estonia and Latvia: International Influences on Citizenship and Minority Intergration
10: László Valki: The Case of Hungary
11: Antoni Kaminski: Poland: Compatibility of External and Internal Democratic Designs
12: Milada Anna Vachudová: The Czech Republic: The Unexpected Force of Institutional Constraints
13: Ivo Samson: Slovakia: Misreading the Western Message
14: Tom Gallagher: Building Democracy in Romania: Internal Shortcomings and External Neglect
15: Kyril Drezov: Bulgaria and Macedonia: Voluntary Dependence on External Actors
16: Radovan Vukadinovic: Yugoslavia: International Efforts to Link Peace, Stability and Democracy
17: Taras Kuzio: Belarus and Ukraine: Democracy-Building in a Grey Security Zone
18: Marie Mendras: Russia and the West: To Belong or Not to Belong? b
19: Jan Zielonka: Foreign Made Democracy

Reviews

A powerful insight into the process of institution building in the new democracies of Eastern Europe ... Democratic Consolidation in Eastern Europe is going to be a very helpful repository for anyone who is studying the period of transition and who is looking for critical and well-informed perspectives on Eastern Europe's experience of democratization. Acta Politica: International Journal of Political Science A grand, lucid and extremely perceptive collection of essays detailing the East European experience. The two volumes provide a unique examination of the particular experience of the 'transition to democracy' ... Democratic Consolidation in Eastern Europe is an extremely valuable contribution to the study of post-1989 Eastern Europe (and, in fact, Europe as a whole). Acta Politica: International Journal of Political Science There is little to fault in this welcome dual publication. Democratization The Zielonka/Pravda volume makes a sizeable contribution to our knowledge of and debate about the interface between international pressures and domestic innovation. Democratization