Product Description: Sabic, Bukowski, and their contributors examine the efforts, thus far fruitless. of Slovenia to achieve full membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The rejection of the Slovenian application received considerable attention, both in Europe and in the United States...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Professors of international studies, political science, linguistics, and other fields examine the fortunes of the political left in Russia, Lithuania, Hungary, Poland, Slovenia, and Romania. Each of the six country studies explores how the left-wing parties, defined broadly to include any party which emerged originally out of Marxist ideological roots and which continues to have an interest in issues of social justice, have returned to the political stage since the demise of the Soviet Union...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book brings together experts in international relations and comparative politics in order to examine the sociopolitical and economic issues of individual socialist countries and to investigate specific issues cross-nationally...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)