ABSTRACT

The Routledge Handbook of East European Politics is an authoritative overview that will help a wide readership develop an understanding of the region in all its political, economic, and social complexity. Including Central Europe, the Baltic republics, South Eastern Europe, and the Western Balkans, as well as all the countries of the former Soviet Union, it is unrivalled in breadth and depth, affording a comprehensive overview of Eastern European politics provided by leading experts in the fields of comparative politics, international relations, and public administration. Through a series of cutting-edge articles, it seeks to explain and understand patterns of Eastern European politics today.

The Routledge Handbook of East European Politics will be a key reference point both for advanced-level students developing knowledge about the subject, researchers producing new material in the area, and those interested and working in the fields of East European Politics, Russian Politics, EU Politics, and more broadly in European Politics, Comparative Politics, Democratization Studies, and International Relations.

chapter |5 pages

Introduction

part I|46 pages

The state of democracy

part III|55 pages

Elections and political participation

part IV|53 pages

Minorities and identity politics

chapter 17|8 pages

The Representation of Women

chapter 18|9 pages

The Struggle for LGBT Rights

chapter 19|10 pages

Politics at the Fringes?

Eastern Europe’s populists, racists, and extremists

part V|66 pages

Policy issues and policy choices

chapter 21|14 pages

Dealing with the Past

Post-communist transitional justice

chapter 22|12 pages

“The West, the East and the Rest”

The foreign policy orientations of Central Eastern European countries

chapter 23|12 pages

Combatting Corruption

chapter 24|12 pages

East European Exceptionalism

Foreign domination in finance

part VI|37 pages

International relations and actors