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Europe Since 1989

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.

William Outhwaite is professor of sociology (emeritus) at Newcastle University. His recent books in this area include European Society (Polity, 2008), Critical Theory and Contemporary Europe (Continuum, 2012), and (with Larry Ray) Social Theory and Postcommunism (Blackwell, 2005).

Europe Since 1989

Transitions and transformations

William Outhwaite

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Outhwaite, William.
Europe since 1989 : transitions and transformations / by William Outhwaite. 1 Edition.
pages cm
1.European Union countriesEconomic integration.2.EuropeForeign relations.3.EuropePolitics and government.I.Title.
HC241.O926 2015
940.56dc23
2015017541

ISBN: 978-1-138-84706-4 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-1-315-72701-1 (ebk)

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Contents

My greatest debt is to the Leverhulme Trust, whose Major Research Fellowship (20082011) made possible the bulk of the work behind this book. My new colleagues at Newcastle, where I had moved in 2007, were also unfailingly supportive. Several friends there or elsewhere have commented on parts or all of earlier drafts notably Frane Adam, Valentina Feklyunina, Luke Martell, Peter Phillimore, Larry Ray, Darrow Schecter, Richard Sakwa, and Simon Susen. (Any errors are, of course, mine.) Laura Marcus, whom I accompanied to Edinburgh and followed to Oxford, where I was an undergraduate, and Daniel Outhwaite have watched the project develop over the years.

An earlier version of was presented at a work-in-progress seminar at Newcastle, the International Consortium of Social Theory Programs Conference at Sussex in summer 2010, and a Citizenship in South-East Europe (CITSEE) seminar at Edinburgh in December 2010. An earlier version of parts of this chapter is in the Journal of Democratic Socialism 1(1), 2011, and I presented an earlier version of the appendix at the Conference of Europeanists in Barcelona, also in 2011. Some of the material in the later chapters was presented at workshops at Lancaster University and the Hansa-Wissenschaftskolleg, Delmenhorst, in June 2009 and appears in a similar form in my chapter Towards a European Society in the Routledge Handbook of European Sociology, edited by Sokratis Koniordos and Alexandros-Andreas Kyrtsis (2015). While finalising the manuscript I benefited also from comments on an overview of the whole project from Mihaela Mihai, Werner Bonefeld, and others at a politics seminar at York in early 2015.

ASEAN	Association of South-East Asian Nations
VH	llamvdelmi Hatsg (State Protection Authority)
CAP	Common Agricultural Policy
CDU	ChristlichDemokratische Union (Christian Democratic Union)
CEE	Central and Eastern Europe
CEEC(s)	Central and Eastern European Countries
CIS	Commonwealth of Independent States (Russian: SNG)
CMEA	(Comecon) Council for Mutual Economic Assistance
SR, SSR	Czechoslovak (Socialist) Republic
CSU	ChristlichSoziale Union (Christian Social Union)
DDR	Deutsche Demokratische Republik (German Democratic Republic)
EB	Eurobarometer
EBRD	European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
EC	European Community/ies
ECB	European Central Bank
ECJ	European Court of Justice; now Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU)
ECSC	European Coal and Steel Community
EFTA	European Free Trade Area
FP	Freiheitspartei sterreichs (Austrian Freedom Party)
gal/tan	green/alternative/libertarian versus traditionalism/authority/nationalism.
GDP	gross domestic product
IMF	International Monetary Fund
KGB	Committee for State Security (Komitet gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti)
MEP	Member of the European Parliament
MfS	Ministerium fr Staatssicherheit (Stasi)
NAFTA	North American Free Trade Association
NATO	North AtlanticTreaty Organization
NGO	non-governmental organisation
OECD	Organisation for European Cooperation and Development
OMC	Open Method of Coordination
PDS	Partei des demokratischen Sozialismus
PHARE	Pologne, Hongrie: Activit pour la Restructuration conomique
TACIS	Technical Assistance to the Commonwealth of Independent States
SCO	Shanghai Cooperation Organisation
SdRP	Social Democracy of the Polish Republic
SED	Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands/Socialist Unity Party of Germany
SVP	Schweizerische Volkspartei (Swiss Peoples Party)

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