The international political economy of transition : neoliberal hegemony and Eastern Central Europe's transformation / Stuart Shields.
Material type: TextSeries: Routledge/RIPE studies in global political economy ; 35.Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2012Description: xiv, 174 pages ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0415386691
- 9780415386692
- Neoliberal hegemony and Eastern Central Europe's transformation
- 330.9437 23
- HC244 .S454 2012
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents -- Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- Contextualizing post-communist transition -- Methodological considerations -- Argument of the book -- Plan of the book -- 2. Theorizing the international political economy of post-communist transition -- Contextualizing transition in a changing global political economy -- What is post-communist transition? -- Orthodox approaches to the political economy of transition -- Towards a critical international political economy of post-communist transition -- Summary -- 3. Towards passive revolution: the making of modern Eastern Central Europe -- The development of under-development in Eastern Central Europe -- Hegemony and social forces under state socialist development -- Debt and reintegration to the global political economy -- Crisis and communist-led reforms -- Summary -- 4. The emergence of neoliberal social forces in the struggle for hegemony -- From Catholic labour organization to neoliberal orientation: pre-transition connections to transnational social forces -- The emergence of social forces for neoliberalism -- A first wave of neoliberalism: the Sachs-Balcerowicz Plan -- Configuring the 'winners' of transition: privatization and FDI -- Summary -- 5. From Shock Therapy to Europeanization: neoliberalization through depoliticization -- Securing neoliberal hegemony after Balcerowicz -- Reconfiguring the Eastern Central European political economy -- Depoliticization through Europeanization in post-communist transition -- Post-communist transition and the promotion of a global agenda for neoliberal competitiveness -- Summary -- 6. Counter-hegemonic social forces in post-communist transition -- Contextualizing populism: the social impact of neoliberalization -- From communist dissidence to neoliberal conformism -- The social implications of neoliberalism and the emergence of populist resistance -- Resisting neoliberalization: what's left for the left? -- Summary -- 7. Conclusion: Beyond transition? Beyond the transnational? -- Summary of the book -- Beyond post-communist transition? -- Beyond the transnational? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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