Abstract
An Uncharted Transition focuses on the western Balkans and east-central Europe in an integrated approach attempting to evidence the main trends in, review the variety of interacting trajectories of and offer new insights into these regions. This essay sheds new light on some key issues, such as transition, integration, democratisation, the east–west divide and the core–periphery gap. Its aim is to highlight systemic change, to acknowledge the hybridisation of structural factors and individual ones, and to identify the oscillation between formality and informality, consolidation and deconsolidation, and democratisation and de-democratisation. The author argues, first, that transition—characterised by instability, movement, alterations and ruptures—becomes the rule of any society, not exclusively that of ‘transitional societies’. And, secondly, away from the sequencing theorised on in democratisation studies, transition points tentatively—beyond the post-Wall period—to a new era: an age of transition characterised by uncertainty as well as by movement that creatively empowers a society to self-constitute. Accordingly, democracy is framed as an open-ended process, ‘under construction’, constantly interrogating itself. An Uncharted Transition invites the reader to explore the new lands of democracy through forward-looking analyses based on a substantial number of sources in multiple languages. It presents if not a manifesto, then a wake-up call to those involved in shaping how Europe, central and eastern Europe specifically, could be in the future.
Schlagworte
consolidation Demokratieprozess core-periphery divide Demokratisierung EU-Integration democratic process democratization Integration East-West divide Kern-Peripherie-Gefälle EU integration Konsolidierung insecurity Ost-West-Spaltung Oszillation integration oscillation Regionalismus Regionalwissenschaften regional sciences Südosteuropa regionalism Systemwandel Southeast Europe Transformation system change Transition transformation transition Umgestaltung western Balkans Unsicherheit westlicher Balkan- 14–32 Domino 14–32
- 26–32 On the road 26–32
- 33–56 Dance on a volcano 33–56
- 50–53 Perspectives 50–53
- 109–120 4. (De-)Convergence 109–120
- 121–140 5. (De-)Consolidation 121–140
- 141–164 6. (De-)Democratization 141–164
- 167–222 Part Three Horizons 167–222
- 181–194 8. New World Order 181–194
- 223–228 Black Light Matters 223–228
- 229–230 Acknowledgements 229–230
- 231–255 Bibliography 231–255
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