Research Catalog

Title

Social culture and regional governance : comparison of the European Union and post-Soviet experiences / M. Strezhneva.

Author

Strezhneva, M. V.

Publication

Commack, N.Y. : Nova Science Publishers, c1999.

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Description

xiv, 269 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Subject

• Commonwealth of Independent States
• European Union

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-263) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Social Versus Political Integration -- The Emerging Set of the CIS Institutions -- Regional Governance Regime -- Research Objective -- Integration as a Variant of Political Transformation -- Integration -- Political Integration -- Ways of Life -- Comparing the CIS and the EU -- The Notion of 'Regime' -- The Notion of Political Game -- Legitimisation of Political Regimes -- The Institutional Evolution of the European Community and the Problem of Legitimacy -- 1950s -- 1960s and 1970s -- 1980s and 1990s -- Legitimacy Issue -- Major Post-Soviet Social Groups and Their Cultural Preferences -- Ethno-Cultural Considerations -- Socio-Economic Considerations -- Political Considerations -- National Combinations: Societies Versus Political Regimes -- The CIS as a Tool of Post-Soviet Sociocultural Transformation -- The Agenda of the CIS -- Economic Issues -- Security Cooperation -- Conflicts Within the CIS Region -- Citizenship -- Institutional Design of the CIS -- Approaches of the CIS Member-States to Financial and Monetary Cooperation -- Monetary Component of Regional Transformation -- National Priorities and Regional Monetary Arrangements -- Regional Payments Union or Multilateral Convertibility? -- Communicative Versus Normative Integration -- Cultural and Institutional Bases of Intergovernmentalism -- Limitations of the 'Integration' Explanatory Model -- The Explanatory Model of Cultural Theory -- Cultural Interpretation of Political Transformations -- The Role of Hierarchy -- The Role of Individualism -- The Role of Egalitarianism.

ISBN

1560726342

LCCN

^^^98048630^

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Harvard Library