Product Description: In The Economic Transformations in East and Central Europe the contributors argue that the area's economic history over the last century contains vital legacies that will shape its economic future. The book is an invaluable guide to understanding the current and future problems of this volatile region, and includes analysis of individual countries with comparative studies...read more

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Product Description: The growing internationalization of the world poses a fundamental question, i.e., through what mechanisms does culture diffuse across political boundaries and what is the role of politics in shaping this diffusion? This volume offers some answers through the case study of the relationship between two quite different states during the Cold War era - Austria, a small neutral country, and the United States, the reigning superpower...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Describing and analyzing the links between monetary policy and economic governance in small countries in both Western and Eastern Europe, this interdisciplinary volume demonstrates how interest groups shape monetary policy decisions in increasingly globalized financial markets...read more

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Product Description: This volume, the first of its kind in English, brings together scholars from different disciplines who address the history of women in Austria, as well as their place in contemporary Austrian society, from a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives, thus shedding new light on contemporary Austria and in the context of its rich and complicated history...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This volume studies the problems of domination and nationalism in the two great multi-ethnic land empires - the Soviet Union and the Habsburg monarchy. The Habsburg Monarchy dissolved in 1918 in part because of conflict among its nationalities, while the Soviet Union managed to stabilize its multinational empire on the heels of the Russian Revolution...read more

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