TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shields,Stuart
TI  - The international political economy of transition: neoliberal hegemony and Eastern Central Europe's transformation 
T2  - RIPE series in global political economy
SN  - 0415386691
AV  - HC244 .S454 2012
U1  - 330.9437 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Post-communism
KW  - Europe, Eastern
KW  - Neoliberalism
KW  - Economic policy
KW  - Foreign economic relations
N1  - 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.
ER  -