Carol Leff

The Czech And Slovak Republics

Nation Versus State

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book shows how the interaction of, democratization, marketization, and a national transformation that has reconfigured the dynamic between state and nation, has shaped Czechoslovakia's development, culminating in the paradoxical disintegration of a state that most citizens wished to preserve.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 314
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Oktober 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 449g
• ISBN-13: 9780813329222
• ISBN-10: 0813329221
• Artikelnr.: 20959298

Autorenporträt

Carol Skalnik Leff is assistant professor of political science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Inhaltsangabe

Chronology
Introduction to a Small Country at the Crossroads of Europe
The Historical Context of Czechoslovakia's Postcommunist Transition
Czechoslovakia's First Experiment with Democracy: The Interwar Republic, 1918
1938
Czechoslovakia Under Communism
The Domestic Politics of the Triple Transition
The Velvet Revolution of 1989 and the Politics of Democratization
National Identity and the Disintegration of Czechoslovakia
Political and National Identity Transitions in the Czech and Slovak Republics
Economic Transition in the Czech and Slovak Republics
The International Dimensions of Domestic Transformation
The Search for a New Security Order in International Realtions
Domestic Reform and Integration with the West: The Triple Transition and International Relations
Conclusion