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POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION IN EAST CENTRAL EUROPE

Austrian Institute for International Affairs Series

The Austrian Institute for International Affairs (AIIA) is an independent research institution for the scientific study of current issues of Austrian foreign policy and international relations.

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Political and Economic Transformation in East Central Europe, edited by Hanspeter Neuhold, Peter Havlik, and Arnold Suppan

Political and Economic Transformation in East Central Europe

edited by Hanspeter Neuhold, Peter Havlik, and Arnold Suppan

First published 1995 by Westview Press, Inc.

Published 2019 by Routledge
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Political and economic transformation in East Central Europe /
Hanspeter Neuhold, Peter Havlik, and Arnold Suppan, editors.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 0-8133-8892-9
1. Europe, EasternPolitics and government1989 2. Europe,
EasternEconomic conditions1989 3. Europe, EasternForeign
relations1989 4. Post-communismEurope, Eastern. 5. Democracy
Europe, Eastern. I. Neuhold, Hanspeter. II. Havlik, Peter.
III. Suppan, Arnold.
JN96.A2P625 1995
940'.09717dc20 94-38549
CIP

This book was typeset by Susanna Mai, AHA.

ISBN 13: 978-0-367-28333-9 (hbk)

Contents

Franz Vranitzky

Mate Szabo

Klaus Bachmann

Rudolf M. Rizman

Jiri Kabele

Darina Malova

Hans-Georg Heinrich

Andras Inotai

Dariusz K. Rosati

Ante Cicin-Sain

Joze Mencinger

Jiri Krovak

Brigita Schmgnerova

Peter Havlik

Laszlo J. Kiss

Franciszek Golembski

Radovan Vukadinovic

Bojko Bucar

Jiri Valenta

Pavol Demes and Miroslav Mojzita

Gerhard Mangott

Gerhard Mangott and Hanspeter Neuhold

Guide

The present volume is meant to provide a comprehensive and comparative assessment of the state of the transformation processes in six East Central European countries: Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia. Four years after the collapse of the Communist regimes in Eastern Europe, the reformist countries have reached a critical halfway-stage on their road to stable pluralist democracies and functioning market economies with corresponding reorientations of their foreign policies.

The book contains the revised and updated papers given at a conference organized by the Austrian Institute for International Affairs, the Austrian Institute of East and South-East European Studies, and the Vienna Institute for Comparative Economic Studies in Vienna on December 3/4, 1992. What distinguishes this publication from most of the literature on the new market-oriented democracies in the former Soviet bloc and Yugoslavia is its multidimensional approach. It includes the domestic political and economic aspects, as well as the international dimension of transformation. These problems are dealt with by experts who with one exception are nationals of the countries they discuss. The Croatian participant who covered the political situation in his country did not want us to publish his paper.

The reason for the choice of our authors should be obvious: We wanted to present the transition problems from the point of view of insiders who are directly concerned. Various "horizontal" and "vertical" perspectives are in the main left to the readers of this book. For instance, they could compare the economic situation in any two or more of the reformist countries and draw their own conclusions; they could also focus on the interrelationship between internal democratization, marketization, and new foreign policy. Three such "horizontal" assessments are offered by Austrian social scientists who acted as discussants at our conference. Both types of analysis are briefly attempted in the concluding chapter of this volume.

Readers ought to note that most contributions to this book were finalized in early 1993. We lost some time because some authors did not meet the agreed on deadline for the revision of their manuscripts. However, we hope that readers will still find this stock taking at an important juncture of the transformation processes interesting and useful.

We want to thank Federal Chancellor Franz Vranitzky for agreeing to open our symposium. His keynote address is also published in this volume. We are very grateful to the Creditanstalt for making available its "Oktogon" as our conference venue.

As usual, we are also greatly indebted to the staff of Westview Press for valuable assistance and excellent cooperation. Our thanks are also due to the editors of the Austrian Institute of East and South-East European Studies and the Vienna Institute for Comparative Economic Studies, as well as to John Buche for his editing of the entire manuscript and to Michael Postl and Robert Puaschitz for proofreading and useful substantial suggestions. The volume could not have been finalized without the technical skills of Susanna Mai and the expertise of Monika Herkner-Stepanovsky at the AIIA.

We wish to dedicate this book to the memory of Fred Praeger, to whom we owe the introduction of the Westview AIIA Series, and whose active help and advice, sense of humor, and keen interest in his native country and in our work we shall miss very much.

Hanspeter Neuhold
Peter Havlik
Arnold Suppan

• ARGE(s) Arbeitsgemeinschaft(en) (working communities)
• BS Bank of Slovenia
• CEI Central European Initiative
• CEFTA Central European Free Trade Association
• CFC Chlorofluorocarbon
• CFE Conventional Forces in Europe
• CFSP Common Foreign and Security Policy
• CIS Commonwealth of Independent States
• CIT countries in transition
• CMEA/COMECON Council for Mutual Economic Assistance
• CPC Conflict Prevention Center
• CPE(s) centrally planned economies
• CPI consumer price index
• CR Czech Republic
• CSCE Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe
• CSFR Czech and Slovak Federal Republic
• CSK Czechoslovak Koruna
• CSSR Czechoslovak Socialist Republic

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