Journal Table of Contents (Journal TOC)

latest update – December 2012

List of journals with electronic table of contents in Central, Eastern and Southern Europe section between January and December 2012:

1) Baltic Journal of Economics

2) Central European Political Science Review

3) Communist and Post-Communist Studies

4) Comparative Economic Studies

5) Cyprus Review

6) East European Case Reporter of Constitutional Law

7) East European Politics

8) East European Politics and Societies and Cultures

9) East West Review Of Labor Law & Social Policy

10) Economic Change and Restructuring

11) Economic Systems

12) Economics of Transition

13) Environmental Law Review of Eastern & Central Europe

14) Europe-Asia Studies

15) Journal for Labour and Social Affairs in Eastern Europe

16) Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies

17) Journal of Baltic Studies

18) Journal of Constitutional Law in Eastern and Central Europe

19) Journal of Eurasian Law

20) Nationalities Papers

21) Perspectives on European Politics and Society

22) Perspectives

Journal Table of Contents (Journal TOC)

latest update – December 2012

23) Review of Central and East European Law

24) Revue d'Études Comparatives Est-Ouest

25) Romanian Journal of European Affairs

26) South European Society and Politics

27) Southeast European and Black Sea Studies

28) Südosteuropa

29) Südosteuropa Mitteilungen

30) Transition Studies Review

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Baltic Journal of Economics Volume 11 number 2 Contents Editorial 3 Policy papers Size and determinants of shadow economies in the Baltic States 5 Tālis J. Putniņš, Arnis Sauka How can the Baltic States as Non-DAC donors best contribute to international development cooperation? 27 Hilmar Þór Hilmarsson Articles Implications for competitiveness of Estonian carbon-intensive industry post-2013 41 Jüri Kleesmaa, Marko Viiding, Eduard Latõšov Building methodology, assessing the risks: energy security in the Baltic States 59 Arūnas Molis Macroeconomic effects of zero corporate income tax on retained earnings 81 Jaan Masso, Jaanika Meriküll The impact of functional characteristics of a credit bureau on per capita level of indebtedness: Evidence from East European countries 101 Vladimir Simović, Vojkan Vasković, Marko Rankovic, Slobodan Malinic

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Baltic Journal of Economics Volume 12 number 1 Content

Editorial 3 Policy paper Financial engineering instruments: the way forward for cohesion policy support? 5 Recent experience from the Baltic states Tarmo Kalvet, Alf Vanags, Klaudijus Maniokas Articles Perspectives on Euro introduction in the Romanian economy . 23 Codruţa Mare, Cristian Litan Competition and efficiency in EU27 banking systems .. 41 Alin Marius Andrieş, Bogdan Căpraru Testing for asymmetries in price reactions to quarterly earnings announcements . 61 on Tallinn, Riga and Vilnius Stock Exchanges during 2000-2009 Laivi Laidroo, Zana Grigaliuniene

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Central European Political Science Review Volume 12 number 46 Contents In t roduct ion by the Edi tor 5

Main Ar t ic les

COLLAPSE OR RENAISSANCE OF EUROPE?

Leonardo Morlino: The Freedom and Equality should be linked to Accountabilities and Responsiveness? 9 Leonidas Donskis: Spengler Revisited 55 Pál Koudela: International Migration from Central and Eastern European Countries to Western Europe and the United States 67 Csaba Varga: "Order out of Chaos" Philosophy of the Establishment and Operation of the European Law 88 Péter Krisztián Zachar: The Interactions between the Economic Chamber Organizations and the Policy Makers in Hungary after 1990 148 József N. Szabó: The Role of Civil Organizations in the Relationship between Hungary and her Neighboring Countries (1945-1946) 166

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Communist and Post-Communist Studies Volume 45 Number 1 March 2012 1 FDI determinants in an idiosyncratic country. A reappraisal over the Russian regions during transition years Concetto Castiglione, Yulia Gorbunova, Davide Infante and Janna Smirnova 11 Tax morale, Eastern Europe and European enlargement Benno Torgler 27 Kazakhstan: Oil endowment and oil empowerment Enrique Palazuelos and Rafael Fernandez 39 The paradigm of nationalism in Kyrgyzstan. Evolving narrative, the sovereignty issue, and political agenda Marlène Laruelle 51 U.S. support for Ukraine's liberation during the Cold War: A study of Prolog Research and Publishing Corporation Taras Kuzio 65 Why 'Together We Are Strong' does not work Jane L. Curry and Doris Göedl 11 The Nationalization of political parties and party systems in post-communist Eastern Europe Guido Tiemann 91 Negotiating domestic socialism with global capitalism: So-called tourist apartheid in Cuba Julie Mazzei 105 Institution, network and elites' political attitudes: An analysis of the "Wen Jiabao Phenomenon" Sangkuk Lee

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Communist and Post-Communist Studies Volume 45 Number 2 June 2012 Special Issue: In Search of Legitimacy: Post-Soviet De Facto States Between Institutional Stabilization and Political Transformation Guest Editor : Silvia von Steinsdorff 117 Post-Soviet de facto states in search of internal and external legitimacy. Introduction. Silvia von Steinsdorff and Anna Fruhstorfer 123 The emergence of dominant political party systems in unrecognized states John Ishiyama and Anna Batta 131 Regimes and peace processes: Democratic (non)development in Armenia and Azerbaijan and its impact on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict Nina Caspersen 141 De facto states and democracy: The case of Nagorno-Karabakh Pål Kolstø and Helge Blakkisrud 153 Political rule and violent conflict: Elections as 'institutional mutation' in Nagorno-Karabakh Franziska Smolnik 165 The dynamics of electoral politics in Abkhazia Donnacha Ó Beacháin 175 Secession and hybrid regime politics in Transnistria Oleh Protsyk 183 Opportunity structures and group building processes: An institutional analysis of the secession processes in Pridnestrovie and Gagauzia between 1989 and 1991 Dareg A. Zabarah 193 The problematic role of EU democracy promotion in Armenia, Azerbaijan and Nagorno-Karabakh Licínia Simão 201 Incomplete state building - incomplete democracy? How to interpret internal political development in the post-Soviet de facto states. Conclusion Silvia von Steinsdorff

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Communist and Post-Communist Studies Volume 44 Number 4 December 2011 245 The annulled Tax state: Schumpeterian Prolegomena to the study of postcommunist fiscal sociology Venelin I. Ganev 257 Populism, nationalism, or national populism? An analysis of Slovak voting behaviour at the 2010 parliamentary election Ben Stanley 271 Rise of xenophobic nationalism in Europe: A case of Slovenia Alenka Kuhelj 283 Czech extreme right parties an unsuccessful story Miroslav Mareš 299 Left-wing authoritarianism is not a myth, but a worrisome reality. Evidence from 13 Eastern European countries Sabrina de Regt, Dimitri Mortelmans and Tim Smits 309 Electoral-system change in Latvia and the elections of 2010 Frances Millard 319 Vigilante justice in post-communist Europe Lavinia Stan 329 Academic freedom and international standards in higher education: Contestation in journalism and political science at Moscow State University Jim Butterfield and Ekaterina Levintova 343 A comparative analysis on energy subsidies in Soviet and Russian policy Stacy Closson 357 Slovene commercial diplomacy in the Western Balkan countries Boštjan Udovič 369 Swords into plowshares: The organizational transformation of rebel groups into political parties John Ishiyama and Anna Batta

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Comparative Economic Studies Volume 53 Number 4 December 2011

Contents Presidential Address The Way We Were: Reflections on the Comparative History of Comparative Economics 489 Peter Murrell

Symposium Introduction Introduction to the Symposium on 'Financial Risks and Economic Stability in Emerging Market Economies' 507 Lucjan T. Orlowski

Symposium Articles Extreme Risks in Financial Markets and Monetary Policies of the Euro-Candidates 511 Hubert Gabrisch and Lucjan T. Orlowski Real Exchange Rate Volatility in the Presence of Financial Fragility and Central Bank Intervention in Turkey 535 Değer Eryar International Banking and Country Risk Calculus: The Experience of Greek Banks in Southeastern Europe 557 Panayotis Kapopoulos and Sophia Lazaretou Relationship Lending in Emerging Markets: Evidence from the Czech Republic 575 Adam Geršl and Petr Jakubík

Regular Articles Rent-Seeking, Hierarchy and Centralization: Why the Soviet Union Collapsed So Fast and What it Means for Market Economies 597 Guinevere Liberty Nell Evaluation of Mass Privatization in Bulgaria 621 Jeffrey B Miller and Vladimir Lazarov Cuba: From State Socialism to a New Form of Market Socialism? 647 Alberto Gabriele Stock Market Reaction to Debt Financing Arrangements in Russia 679 Christophe Godlewski, Zuzana Fungáčová and Laurent Weill The Gender Wage Gap during Serbia's Transition 695

Back to title list Milica Kecmanovic and Garry F Barrett Urban Public Transport in Post-Communist Transition: The Case of Tashkent, Uzbekistan . 721 Alexandr Akimov and David Banister

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Comparative Economic Studies Volume 54 Number 1 March 2012

Contents

Symposium: Labour Market Institutions and Policies in Developed and Emerging Market Countries Symposium Introduction Labour Market Institutions and Policies in Developed and Emerging Market Countries 1 Zuzana Brixiova and Balázs Égert Symposium Articles Policies to Facilitate the Return to Work . 5 Alain De Serves, Fabrice Murtin and Christine De La Maisonneuve Labour Market Institutions and Unemployment: Does Finance M a t t e r ? 43 Christophe Rault and Anne-Gaël Vaubourg Wage Differentials During Economic Reform and Crisis: Evidence from Egypt and Jordan 65 Mona Said Labour Market Reforms and Outcomes in Estonia 103 Zuzana Brixiova and Balázs Égert Regular Articles Diagnosing the 'Russian Disease': Growth and Structure of the Russian Economy 121 Masaaki Kuboniwa Social Models in the Enlarged European Union: Policy Dimensions and Country Classification 149 Michael Knogler and Fidelis Lankes Whither Corporate Russia? 173 Nadia Vanteeva and Charles Hickson Efficiency of Trade Credit Finance in China 203 Go Yano and Maho Shiraishi Acknowledgment to Referees 227

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Comparative Economic Studies Volume 54 Number 2 June 2012 Contents Special Issue: The Great Recession and European Labor Market Responses Guest Editors: Josef C. Brada and Marcello Signorelli Symposium Articles Comparing Labor Market Performance: Some Stylized Facts and Key Findings 231 Josef C. Brada and Marcello Signorelli Labor Market Flexibility and Unemployment: New Empirical Evidence of Static and Dynamic Effects . 251 Lorenzo E. Bernal-Verdugo, Davide Furceri and Dominique Guillaume Was Short-Time Work a Miracle Cure During the Great Recession? The Case of Germany and Italy 275 Fabio R. Aricò and Ulrike Stein Short-Time Working Arrangements in France During the Crisis: An Empirical Analysis of Firms and Employees . 299 Oana Calavrezo and François Lodin Unemployment Insurance Schemes, Liquidity Constraints and Re-employment: A Three Country Comparison .. 321 Lorenzo Corsini Innovation and Employment in Economic Cycles . 341 Matteo Lucchese and Mario Pianta Crises and Joint Employment-Productivity Dynamics: A Comparative Perspective for European Countries 361 Enrico Marelli, Marcello Signorelli and Joanna Tyrowicz This Time It's Different? Youth Labour Markets during 'The Great Recession' 395 Niall O'Higgins Demand and Supply of Skilled Labour and Overeducation in Europe: A Country-level Analysis 413 Giuseppe Croce and Emanuela Ghignoni

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Comparative Economic Studies Volume 54 Number 3 September 2012

Contents SYMPOSIUM INTRODUCTION 17th Dubrovnik Economic Conference Symposium 441 Paul Wachtel and Boris Vujčić SYMPOSIUM ARTICLES

Monetary and Financial Policies for 'De-Euroization' - A Case Study of Recent Croatian Experience 443 Tomislav Galac and Evan Kraft Credit Euroization in Eastern Europe: The 'Foreign Funds' Channel at Work 471 Peter R. Haiss and Wolfgang Rainer Do Foreign Banks Stabilize Cross-Border Bank Flows and Domestic Lending in Emerging Markets? Evidence from the Global Financial Crisis 507 Ursula Vogel and Adalbert Winkler Competition and Inflation in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe: A Sectoral Analysis 531 Reiner Martin and Julia Wörz REGULAR ARTICLES Disentangling the Impact of Wars and Sanctions on International Trade: Evidence from Former Yugoslavia 553 Olivier Lamotte The Law of One Price in Six Central and Eastern European Economies. 581 Ilir Miteza FDI Flows to Sub-Saharan Africa: The Impact of Finance, Institutions, and Natural Resource Endowment 597 Abel E Ezeoha and Nicolette Cattaneo Inter-regional Insurance and Redistribution - A Non-parametric Application to Russia 633 Simo Leppänen Cities in Transition 661 Oleksandr Shepotylo

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The Cyprus Review Volume 23 number 2 Table of Contents British Colonial Cyprus Guest Edited by Rebecca Bryant Rebecca Bryant Introduction 15-17 Roger Heacock The Framing of Empire: Cyprus and Cypriots through British Eyes, 1878-1960 21-37 Eleni Bouleti The Muslim Community on Cyprus and British Colonial Policy 1878-1915: The Significance of the Cyprus Evkaf in the Colonisation Process 39-56 Alexis Rappas The Uncharted World of Cypriot Colonial Servants and the Ideological Foundations of British Rule 57-76 Altay Nevzat Ronald Storrs and Misirlizade Necati: The Governor's Encounter with the Thirteenth Greek 77-107 Demetris Assos Conspiracy Theories and the Decolonisation of Cyprus under the Weight of Historical Evidence, 1955-1959 109-125 Jan Asmussen Conspiracy Theories and Cypriot History: The Comfort of Commonly Perceived Enemies 127-145

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Cyprus Review Volume 24 number 1 Table of Contents Yiannos Katsourides Composition, Recruitment and Career Patterns of the Political Elite in Cyprus (1988-2010) 13-37 Direnç Kanol Explaining Green Party Absence in Northern Cyprus 39-54 Thorsten Kruse Cyprus and the Two German States 'Class Struggle' in the Eastern Mediterranean 35-69 Costas Melakopides (with Marina Salvaridi) The 'Pragmatic Idealism' of Russia's Post-Cold War Policy towards Cyprus 71-97 Galatia Theodosiou-Zipiti, Mel West Attainment Gap - The Teacher Perspective 99-117 Anna Valanidou, Jane Jones Teaching Greek in Multicultural, Primary Classrooms: Teachers' Perceptions of the Challenges in Four Greek-Cypriot Primary Schools 119-143 Haritini Tsangari, Stephania P. Stephanidi Conciliation of Motherhood and Career among Cypriot Women 147-168

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East European Case Reporter of Constitutional Law

Volume 18 2011 Number 1 The Constitutional Court of the Republic of Lithuania 6 January 2011 Media Rights 1 The Constitutional Court of The Republic of Slovenia 3 February 2011 EURO Act 53 24 March 2011 Police Act 87

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East European Case Reporter of Constitutional Law Volume 18 number 2 The Supreme Court of The Republic of Estonia

19 May 2009 Public Information Act 135

The Constitutional Tribunal of The Republic of Poland

27 October 2010 Polish Ombudsman 151

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East European Politics and Societies Volume 26 Number 1 February 2012 Changing Patterns of Civil Society in Europe and America 1995-2005: Is Eastern Europe Different? Claire Wallace, Florian Pichler, and Christian Haerpfer ... 3 Prioritization Preferences among General Practitioners in Hungary László Gulácsi and Ottó Hajdú . 20 Czech Militant Democracy in Action: Dissolution of the Workers' Party and the Wider Context of This Act Miroslav Mareš .. 33 Struggle over Dimensionality: Party Competition in Western and Eastern Europe Jan Rovny and Erica E. Edwards 56 The European Dimension of Minority Political Representation: Bulgaria and Romania Compared Maria Spirova and Boyka Stefanova 75 Recent Developments in the Ukrainian Judicial System and the Impact of International and European Law Wolfgang Tiede and Oscar Rennalls . 93 The Working of EU Conditionality in the Area of Migration Policy: The Case of Readmission of Irregular Migrants to Albania Sokol Dedja 115 The European Union, Russia, and the Future of the Transnistrian Frozen Conflict Theodor Tudoroiu 135 Twenty Years After: Dissident Tradition in Czech Foreign Policy Matters Šárka Waisová and Linda Piknerová . 162 Has Anyone Seen It? Health Care in Croatian Elections Dagmar Radin and Aleksandar Džakula 189 Polish-Ukrainian Relations during World War II: The Boryslav Case Study: A Polish Perspective Piotr Wróbel 213

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East European Politics and Societies Volume 26 Number 2 May 2012 Lessons from "Post-Yugoslav" Democratization: Functional Problems of Stateness and the Limits of Democracy Vedran Džihić and Dieter Segert 239 Legitimating Urban "Revitalisation" Strategies in Post-socialist Łódź Michael Fleming 254 Witch-hunt or Moral Rebirth? Romanian Parliamentary Debates on Lustration Lavinia Stan . 274 Catholic Responses to Poland's "New Reality," 1945-1953: The Case of Tygodnik Powszechny Christina Manetti 296 Recruitment and Representation of Ethnic Minorities under Proportional Representation: Evidence from Bulgaria Oleh Protsyk and Konstantin Sachariew . 313 Perpetual Transitions: Contentious Property and Europeanization in South-Eastern Europe Alina Mungiu-Pippidi and Laura Stefan . 340 This Far, but No Further? Benefits and Limitations of EU Gender Equality Policy Making in the Western Balkans Andrea Spehar . 362 The Uncertain Future of Slovenian Exceptionalism Igor Guardiancich 380 Enacting Identities in the EU-Russia Borderland: An Ethnography of Place and Public Monuments David J. Smith and Stuart Burch . 400 Ordinary Poles Look at the Jews Antoni Sułek 425

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East European Politics and Societies Volume 26 Number 3 August 2012 The Socialist Prefabs after Utopia: "Non-Places" or "Something Like Happiness"? Svetlana Vassileva-Karagyozova and Nathaniel D. Wood 447 "Something like Happiness": Post-1989 Cinematic Portrayals of the Czech Industrial North Adrienne M. Harris . 454 The Socialist Housing Projects as Non-places in Post-2000 Polish Literary and Cinematic Narratives My Svensson . 469 Socialist Neighborhoods after Socialism: The Past, Present, and Future of Postwar Housing in the Czech Republic Kimberly Elman Zarecor . 486 Keeping the Doors Closed: Leadership Selection in Post-Communist Romania Mihail Chiru and Sergiu Gherghina 510 Patterns of Parliamentary Representation and Careers in Ukraine: 1990-2007 Elena Semenova 538 Minority Representation and Reserved Legislative Seats in Romania Ronald F. King and Cosmin Gabriel Marian 561 Laughter and Hatred Are Neighbors: Adolf Hoffmeister and E.F. Burian in Stalinist Czechoslovakia, 1948-1956 Shawn Eric Clybor 589 Regional Diversity and Divided Memories in Ukraine: Contested Past as Electoral Resource, 2004-2010 Ararat L. Osipian and Alexandr L. Osipian 616 Success against AH Odds? Determinants of Sectoral Rise and Decline in Central Europe Lucia Kureková .. 643

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East European Politics Volume 28 Number 1 March 2012

CONTENTS Editorial East European politics 1 Articles Governing the post-communist state: government alternation and senior civil service politicisation in Central and Eastern Europe Jan-Hinrik Meyer-Sahling and Tim Veen 4 EU-driven judicial reforms in Romania: a success story? Martin Mendelski 23 Modernisation, neo-modernisation, and comparative démocratisation in Russia Richard Sakwa 43 Member state-building versus peacebuilding: the contradictions of EU state-building in Bosnia and Herzegovina Ana E. Juncos 58 European integration and minority politics: ethnic parties at the EP elections Maria Spirova 76

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East European Politics Volume 28 Number 2 June 2012

CONTENTS Articles Electoral manipulation and the development of Russia's political system Edwin Bacon 105 Dynamics of new party formation in the Czech Republic 1996-2010: looking for the origins of a 'political earthquake' Seán Hanley 119 Discourse on democratisation by Russian and Chinese political elites Jeanne L. Wilson 144 Apologising for Srebrenica: the declaration of the Serbian parliament, the European Union and the politics of compromise Jasna Dragović-Soso 163 We all agree that we disagree too much: attitudes of Romanian MPs towards party discipline Laurentiu Stefan, Sergiu Gherghina and Mihail Chiru 180

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East European Politics and Societies Volume 28 Number 3 September 2012 SPECIAL ISSUE: RUSSIAN PARTY POLITICS Guest Editor: David White Preface David White 207 Articles Re-conceptualising Russian party politics David White 210 United Russia and the dominant-party framework: understanding the Russian party of power in comparative perspective Sean P. Roberts 225 The Russian Duma 'opposition': no drama out of crisis? Luke March 241 The youth movement Nashi: contentious politics, civil society, and party politics Maya Atwal and Edwin Bacon 256 Party finance in Russia Derek S. Hutcheson 267 Members and leaders in Russian party organisations Paul Chaisty 283 Institutional factors and Russian political parties: the changing needs of regime consolidation in a neo-patrimonial system Neil Robinson 298 Party and power: between representation and mobilisation in contemporary Russia Richard Sakwa 310

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East West Review Of Labor Law & Social Policy

VOLUME 16 NUMBER 1-2011 CONTENTS The Implementation of the European Social Partners' Framework Agreement on Work-Related Stress John Ritter 1

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East West Review of Labor Law & Social Policy VOLUME 17 NUMBER 1 - 2012

CONTENTS

Who - Healthy Workplace Framework Part 1 Joan Burton 1

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East West Review of Labor Law & Social Policy VOLUME 16 NUMBER 2 - 2011 CONTENTS The State, Communities and Public Libraries: Their Role in Tackling Social Exclusion John Pateman 135 Temporary Labour Migration for Victims of Natural Disasters the Case of Colombia Nicole de Moor 193 The Politics of Health Sector Reform in Eastern Europe: an Actor-Centered Institutionalist Framework for Analysis Pavel Ovseiko 237

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Economic Change and Restructuring Volume 45 • Number 4 • 2012 A Bayesian stochastic frontier: an application to agricultural productivity growth in European countries A. Tonini 247 Explicit inflation targets and central bank independence: friends or foes? A.H. Hallett • J. Libich 271 Is devaluation contractionary? Empirical evidence for Pakistan M. Shahbaz • F. Islam • N. Aamir 299 An empirical study of openness and convergence in labor productivity in the Chinese provinces Y. Jiang 317 Market structure, performance, and efficiency of the Chinese banking sector Q. Ye • Z. Xu • D. Fang 337

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Economic Change and Restructuring Volume 45 • Numbers 1-2 • 2012 Double Special Issue: In Honour of Wojciech Charemza

Guest Edited by: Stephen G. Hall and Dan Ladley Introduction to the special issue in honour of Wojciech Charemza S.G. Hall, D. Ladley 1

Measurement of causal effects P.A.V.B. Swamy, S.G.F. Hall 3

Financial crisis, effective policy rules and bounded rationality in a New Keynesian framework A.J. Al-Eyd, S.G. Hall 25

Does one size fit all? Modelling macroeconomic linkages in the West African Economic and Monetary Union D. Fielding, K. Lee, K. Shields 45

Current account determinants and external sustainability in periods of structural change S.N. Brissimis, G. Hondroyiannis, C. Papazoglou, N.T. Tsaveas, M.A. Vasardani 71

Regulatory induced herding? Evidence from Polish pension funds Z. Kominek 97

Price-wage nexus and the role of a tax system M. Majsterek, A. Welfe 121

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Economic Change and Restructuring Volume 45 Number 3 2012 Monetary transmission and the financial sector in the Czech Republic T. Havránek • R. Horváth • J. Matějů 135 State ownership and control in the Czech Republic E. Kočenda • J. Hanousek 157 Re-examining the saving-investment nexus: threshold cointegration and causality evidence from the ECOWAS L.J. Esso 193 Nonlinear adjustment of Asian real exchange rates S.A. Nusair 221

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Economic Systems Volume 35 number 4 CONTENTS M. Alexeev and R. Conrad, The natural resource curse and economic transition 445 M. Uctum and R. Uctum, Crises, portfolio flows, and foreign direct investment: An application to Turkey 462 Z. Fungáčová and T. Poghosyan, Determinants of bank interest margins in Russia: Does bank ownership matter? 481 N. Prean and H. Stix, The effect of raising deposit insurance coverage in times of financial crisis – Evidence from Croatian microdata 496 E. Weber, Foreign and domestic growth drivers in Eastern Europe 512 R. Horváth, L. Komárek and F. Rozsypal Does money help predict inflation? An empirical assessment for Central Europe 523 C. Bagoulla and N. Péridy, Market access and the other determinants of North-South manufacturing location choice: An application to the Euro-Mediterranean area 537 T. Poghosyan, Slowdown of credit flows in Jordan in the wake of the global financial crisis: Supply or demand driven? 562 D. Büttner and B. Hayo, Determinants of European stock market integration 574 H.A. Faruq, How institutions affect export quality 586

Back to title list Economic Systems CONTENTS Symposium: Inequality in Transition Guest Editors: David Aristei and Cristiano Perugini D. Aristei and C. Perugini, Symposium: Inequality in transition 1 D. Aristei and C. Perugini, Inequality and reforms in transition countries 2 C. Gruen and S. Klasen, Has transition improved well-being? 11 J. Silber and P. Verme, Relative deprivation, reference groups and the assessment of standard of living31 A. Lukiyanova and A. Oshchepkov Income mobility in Russia (2000-2005) 46 M. Kecmanovic Men's wage inequality in Serbia's transition 65 Articles R. Horváth and A. Podpiera, Heterogeneity in bank pricing policies: The Czech evidence 87 V. Kravtsova and S. Radosevic Are systems of innovation in Eastern Europe efficient? 109 A.V. Mollick Income inequality in the U.S.: The Kuznets hypothesis revisited 127 T. Khemraj and S. Pasha Analysis of an unannounced foreign exchange regime change 145 G. Burdín and A. Dean Revisiting the objectives of worker-managed firms: An empirical assessment 158

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Economic Systems Volume 36, issue 2, June 2012 CONTENTS Reviewer acknowledgement 173 J.-J. Dethier and A. Effenberger Agriculture and development: A brief review of the literature 175 S.D. Hoffman, I. Bićanić and 0. Vukoja Wage inequality and the labor market impact of economic transformation: Croatia, 1970-2008 206 M. Melecky Formulation of public debt management strategies: An empirical study of possible drivers 218 B. Vašiček Is monetary policy in the new EU member states asymmetric? 235 L. Latruffe, J. Fogarasi and Y. Desjeux Efficiency, productivity and technology comparison for farms in Central and Western Europe: The case of field crop and dairy farming in Hungary and France 264 O. Talavera, A. Tsapin and O. Zholud Macroeconomic uncertainty and bank lending: The case of Ukraine 279 J. Ponce The quality of credit ratings: A two-sided market perspective 294 T. Koivu Monetary policy, asset prices and consumption in China 307 M. Bahmani-Oskooee and D. Xi Exchange rate volatility and domestic consumption: Evidence from Japan 326

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Economic Systems Volume 36, issue 3, September 2012 ISSN 0939-3625 CONTENTS Selected papers from the EuroConference 2011: Crises and Recovery in Emerging Markets Guest Editor: Ali M. Kutan A.M. Kutan, Euroconference 2011: Crises and recovery in emerging markets 337 D. Lazăr, A. Todea and D. Filip, Martingale difference hypothesis and financial crisis: Empirical evidence from European emerging foreign exchange markets 338 O. Frini and C. Muller, Demographic transition, education and economic growth in Tunisia 351 M. Pirovano, Monetary policy and stock prices in small open economies: Empirical evidence for the new EU member states 372 A. Ari, Early warning systems for currency crises: The Turkish case 391 S. Boakye Theory of social transformation, political transition and economic growth 411 Articles R. Ahrend, Understanding Russian regions' economic performance during periods of decline and growth - An extreme bound analysis approach 426 G. Jones, Cognitive skill and technology diffusion: An empirical test 444 A. Hatemi-J and G.S. Uddin, Is the causal nexus of energy utilization and economic growth asymmetric in the US? 461

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Economic Systems Volume 36, issue 4, December 2012ISSN 0939-3625 CONTENTS J. Hanousek, E. Kocenda and M. Masika, Firm efficiency: Domestic owners, coalitions, and FDI 471 S.K. Annim, S. Mariwah and J. Sebu Spatial inequality and household poverty in Ghana 487 S.W. Hegerty Money market pressure in emerging economies: International contagion versus domestic determinants 506 S. Leppanen, M. Linden and L. Solanko Firms, public good provision and institutional uncertainty: Evidence from Russia 522 T. Liu and K.-W. Li Analyzing China's productivity growth: Evidence from manufacturing industries531 S. Urbahski Multifactor explanations of returns on the Warsaw Stock Exchange in light of the ICAPM 552 G. Petrevski and J. Bogoev Interest rate pass-through in South East Europe: An empirical analysis 571 B. Jovanovic and M. Petreski Monetary policy in a small open economy with fixed exchange rate: The case of Macedonia 594 Y. Lucotte Adoption of inflation targeting and tax revenue performance in emerging market economies: An empirical investigation 609

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Economics of Transition Contents

The Russian-Ukrainian earnings divide 1 Amelie F. Constant, Martin Kahanec and Klaus F. Zimmermann Credit risk assessment in the microfinance industry An application to a selected group of Vietnamese microfinance institutions and an extension to East Asian and Pacific microfinance institutions 37 Ayi Gavriel Ayayi The impact of microcredit on self-employment profits in Vietnam 73 Robert Lensink and Thi Thu Tra Pham Non-wage benefits, costs of turnover and labour attachment Evidence from Russian firms 113 Tuuli Juurikkala and Olga Lazareva Longitudinal evidence on financial expectations in Albania Do remittances matter? 137 Laetitia Duval and François-Charles Wolff Migrants'international transfers and educational expenditure Empirical evidence from Albania 163 Cristina Cattaneo

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Economics of Transition Volume 20 number 2 Contents Is the effect really so large? Firm-level evidence on the role of FDI in a transition economy 195 Jan Hagemejer and Joanna Tyrowicz Labour market institutions and labour market performance. What can we learn from transition countries? 235 Hartmut Lehmann and Alexander Muravyev The role of credit officers in the performance of micro loans. Evidence from Brazil Isabelle Agier 271 Political objectives and privatization decisions. Selection of firms for privatization or long-term state ownership in Romania 299 Ádám Szentpéteri and Álmos Telegdy A contribution to the public-private wage inequality debate. The iconic case of Romania 315 Liviu Voinea and Flaviu Mihaescu Export diversification in a transitioning economy. The case of Syria 339 Jamus Jerome Lim and Christian Saborowski The business environment and Moroccan firm productivity 369 Patricia Augier, Marion Dovis and Michael Gasiorek

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Economics of Transition Volume 20 no. 3 2012 Foreign direct investment under a weak rule of law Theory and evidence from China 401 Xiaozu Wang, Lixin Colin Xu and Tian Zhu Law and credit constraints in transition economies 425 Goran Skosples Bank loans vs. trade credit. Evidence from China 457 Julan Du, Yi Lu and Zhigang Tao Consumption smoothing in Russia 481 Geranda Notten and Denis de Crombrugghe Local elections and consumption insurance. Evidence from Chinese village elections 521 Li Gan, Lixin Colin Xu and Yang Yao Outlay equivalence analysis of child gender bias in household expenditure data Evidence from Uzbekistan 549 Ziyodullo Parpiev, Kakhramon Yusupov and Nurmukhammad Yusupov

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Economics of Transition Volume 20 no 4

Contents Perspectives on Transition and Institutions Centralisation and the capitalist market economy 569 János Kornai Articles The land that lean manufacturing forgot? Management practices in transition countries 593 Nicholas Bloom, Helena Schweiger and John Van Reenen Lost in transition? The returns to education acquired under communism in the first decade of the new millennium 637 Giorgio Brunello, Elena Crivellaro and Lorenzo Rocco Local governments' fiscal balance and privatization in transition countries 677 Ernesto Crivelli Land use rights, market transitions, and labour policy change in China (1980-84) 705 Yiu Por Chen Asymmetric trade protection leading not to productivity but to export share change The Korean case from 1967 to 1993 745 Hochul Shin and Keun Lee

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Environmental Law Review of Eastern & Central Europe Volume 11 – 2011 Number 1

CONTENTS

Implementation of The European Neighbourhood Policy in 2010 Report: Eastern Partnership 1

Energy Dimension of Climate Change Policy in The Economy in Transition -The Case Of Poland Mirosław Sobolewski, Zbigniew Karaczun & Andrzej Kassenberg 29

Legal Framework of Management In Greek Forests Christos Goupos 95

Forestry and Nature Conservation in The Republic of Macedonia -Legislative and Policy Framework Ivan Blinkov, Makedonka Stojanovska and Alexandar Trendafilov 111

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Environmental Law Review of Eastern & Central Europe Volume 11 - 2011 Number 2

CONTENTS

Conflicts and Partnership Between Forestry and Nature Protection: Case Study of the Slovak Republic Rastislav Šulek and Jaroslav Šálka 137 Environmental Impact Assessment Richard Harwood 157 Main Drivers and Performance of Eco-Innovation Mi Kyung Lee and Zong-Tae Bae 179 Local Attitudes Toward Management of Natural Resources in the Tara National Park Jelena Tomićević, Miodrag Zlatić, Marina Milovanović 205

Legal Regulations and The Possibilities of Sustainable Forest Management in Serbia Milan Medarević and Nenad Petrović 227

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Environmental Law Review of Eastern & Central Europe Volume 12 - 2012 Number 1 CONTENTS The Absence of a Coherent Green Party from The Romanian Political Arena Carmen Ungureanu 1 New Aspects Concerning The Adoption of the 'Acquis Communautaire' Regarding Forest Reproductive Materials in Romania Gheorghe Parnuta and loan Vasile Abrudan 71 Problems of Sustainable Forest Management Implementation - The Example of The Spatial Plan for The Special Purpose Reserve Golija / Serbia Milan Medarević and Nevena Vasiljević 79 Conflicts Between Forestry and Erosion in Serbia Ratko Ristić, Ratko Kadović, Ivan Malušević & Snežana Belanović. 91

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Europe-Asia Studies Volume 64 number 10 2012 Special Section: 'Location, agency and change in Provincial Russia' Guest Editors: Sophie Mamattah, Francesca Stella & Vikki Turbine CONTENTS Articles Francesca Stella, Sophie Mamattah & Vikki Turbine Introduction to Special Section 'Location, Agency and Change in Provincial Russia' 1811 Francesca Stella The Politics of In/Visibility: Carving Out Queer Space in Ul'yanovsk 1822 Vikki Turbine Locating Women's Human Rights in Post-Soviet Provincial Russia 1847 Irina Kosterina Young Married Women in the Russian Countryside: Women's Networks, Communication and Power 1870 Evgeniya Luk'yanova Russian Educational Reform and the Introduction of the Unified State Exam. A View from the Provinces 1893 Sophie Mamattah Locating Ethnic Identity: Russian German Identity Construction in Ul'yanovsk 1911

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Europe-Asia Studies CONTENTS Articles Tomila Lankina Unbroken Links? From Imperial Human Capital to Post-Communist Modernisation 623 Alla Bolotova Loving and Conquering Nature: Shifting Perceptions of the Environment in the Industrialised Russian North 645 Myrto Tsakatika Slovenian Employment Policy: 'Soft' Europeanisation by Consensus 673 Discussion Article Andrei P. Tsygankov Assessing Cultural and Regime-Based Explanations of Russia's Foreign Policy. 'Authoritarian at Heart and Expansionist by Habit'? . 695 Andy Byford The Russian Diaspora in International Relation- ; 'Compatriots' in Britain 715 Andrea Kendall-Taylor Purchasing Power: Oil, Elections and Regime Durability in Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan 737 Roman David Twenty Years of Transitional Justice in the Czech Lands 761 Debate Michael Gentile Mass Privatisation, Unemployment and Mortality 785

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Europe-Asia Studies Vol. 64 no. 5 2012 Articles Stephan Hensell The Patrimonial Logic of the Police in Eastern Europe 811 Stephen K. Wegren & Alexander Maximov Pathways of Rural Stratification in Russia's European North 835 Miroslav Stanojević The Rise and Decline of Slovenian Corporatism: Local and European Factors 857 Nadir Kinossian Post-Socialist Transition and Remaking the City: Political Construction of Heritage in Tatarstan 879 Lynne Attwood Privatisation of Housing in Post-Soviet Russia: A New Understanding of Home? 903 Discussion Article Ian Klinke Postmodern Geopolitics? The European Union Eyes Russia 929 Debate David Stuckler, Lawrence King & Martin McKee Response to Michael Gentile 'Mass Privatisation, Unemployment and Mortality' 949

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Europe-Asia Studies Volume 64 number 6 CONTENTS Articles Stephen G. Wheatcroft The Soviet Famine of 1946-1947, the Weather and Human Agency in Historical Perspective 987 Kirsti Jõesalu The Role of the Soviet Past in Post-Soviet Memory Politics through Examples of Speeches from Estonian Presidents 1007 Daina S. Eglitis & Laura Ardava The Politics of Memory: Remembering the Baltic Way 20 Years after 1989 1033 Ainius Lašas When History Matters: Baltic and Polish Reactions to the Russo-Georgian War 1061 William Fierman Russian in Post-Soviet Central Asia: A Comparison with the States of the Baltic and South Caucasus 1077 Nodir Djanibekov, Kristof Van Assche, Ihtiyor Bobojonov & John P.A. Lamers Farm Restructuring and Land Consolidation in Uzbekistan: New Farms with Old Barriers 1101

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Europe-Asia Studies Volume 64 number 7 CONTENTS Articles Edwin Bacon Writing Russia's Future: Paradigms, Drivers, and Scenarios 1165 Melanie H. Ram Legacies of EU Conditionality: Explaining Post-Accession Adherence to Pre-Accession Rules on Roma 1191 David Lewis Who's Socialising Whom? Regional Organisations and Contested Norms in Central Asia 1219 Geoffrey Swain Before National Communism: Joining the Latvian Komsomol under Stalin 1239 Eiki Berg Parent States versus Secessionist Entities: Measuring Political Legitimacy in Cyprus, Moldova and Bosnia & Hercegovina 1271 Laura A. Henry & Lisa Mcintosh Sundstrom Russia's Climate Policy: International Bargaining and Domestic Modernisation 1297

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Volume 64 Number 9 November 2012 Special Issue: Many Faces of the Caucasus Guest Editors: Nino Kemoklidze, Cerwyn Moore, Jeremy Smith & Galina Yemelianova CONTENTS Articles Nino Kemoklidze, Cerwyn Moore, Jeremy Smith & Galina Yemelianova Many Faces of the Caucasus 1611 Vicken Cheterian The Origins and Trajectory of the Caucasian Conflicts 1625 Tracey German Securing the South Caucasus: Military Aspects of Russian Policy towards the Region since 2008 1650 Nona Shahnazarian & Ulrike Ziemer Young Soldiers' Tales of War in Nagorno-Karabakh 1667 Brian Grodsky Co-optation or Empowerment? The Fate of Pro-Democracy NGOs after the Rose Revolution 1684 Thomas de Waal A Broken Region: The Persistent Failure of Integration Projects in the South Caucasus 1709 Lale Yalçin-Heckmann Re-thinking Citizenship in the South Caucasus 1724 Anton Popov Re-making a Frontier Community or Defending Ethnic Boundaries? The Caucasus in Cossack Identity 1739 Andrew Foxall Post-Soviet Ethnic Relations in Stavropol'skii Krai, Russia: 'A Melting Pot or Boiling Shaft'? 1758 Cerwyn Moore Suicide Bombing: Chechnya, the North Caucasus and Martyrdom 1780

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Europe-Asia Studies Volume 64 number 1 CONTENTS Articles Martin Myant & Jan Drahokoupil International Integration, Varieties of Capitalism and Resilience to Crisis in Transition Economies 1 Richard Connolly The Determinants of the Economic Crisis in Post-Socialist Europe 35 Svetlana Stephenson The Violent Practices of Youth Territorial Groups in Moscow 69 Tanya Bagashka Presidentialism and the Development of Party Systems in Hybrid Regimes: Russia 2000-2003 91 Aadne Aasland, Åse Berit Grødeland & Heiko Pleines Trust and Informal Practice among Elites in East Central Europe, South East Europe and the West Balkans 115 Kenneth Wilson How Russians View Electoral Fairness: A Qualitative Analysis 145 Reviews Vincent Pouliot International Security in Practice: The Politics of NATO-Russia Diplomacy - Tuomas Forsberg 169 Martin Myant & Jan Drahokoupil Transition Economies: Political Economy in Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia - Heiko Fritz 172

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Juliane Filrst Stalin's Last Generation: Soviet Post-War Youth and the Emergence of Mature Socialism Gleb Tsipursky 173 Hayashi Tadayuki & Ogushi Atsushi (eds) Post-Communist Transformations: The Countries of Central and Eastern Europe and Russia in Comparative Perspective — Bolormaa Shagdar 174 Li Xing (ed.) The Rise of China and the Capitalist World Order —Julio S. Amador III 178 Karoly Attila Sods Politics and Policies in Post-Communist Transition: Primary and Secondary Privatisation in Central Europe and the Former Soviet Union —Emily Manz 179 Emmanuel Karagiannis Political Islam in Central Asia: The Challenge of Hizb ut-Tahrir —Alexander Wolters 181 Yuwa Wei Securities Markets and Corporate Governance: A Chinese Experience —Huachun Wang 183 Bruno S. Sergi Misinterpreting Modern Russia: Western Views of Putin and his Presidency —Dagi Dagiev 184

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Europe-Asia Studies Volume 64 number 2 CONTENTS Articles Matthew Light Migration, 'Globalised' Islam and the Russian State: A Case Study of Muslim Communities in Belgorod and Adygeya Regions 195 Balazs Szalontai & Changyong Choi The Prospects of Economic Reform in North Korea: Comparisons with China, Vietnam and Yugoslavia 227 Shigeki Ono Financial Development and Economic Growth: Evidence from Russia 247 Ed Clark & Anna Soulsby Constructing Post-Socialism: Organisational Identity and the Experience of International Joint Ventures 257 Arsène Saparov Why Autonomy? The Making of Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Region 1918-1925 281 Ammon Cheskin Synthesis and Conflict: Russian-Speakers' Discursive Response to Latvia's Nationalising State 325 Aziz Atamanov & Marrit van den Berg Rural Nonfarm Activities in Central Asia: A Regional Analysis of Magnitude, Structure, Evolution and Drivers in the Kyrgyz Republic 349

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Europe-Asia Studies Volume 64 number 3 Special Issue: 'Russia and the World' Guest Editor: Natasha Kuhrt CONTENTS Introduction Natasha Kuhrt 393 Articles Luke March Nationalism for Export? The Domestic and Foreign-Policy Implications of the New 'Russian Idea' 401 James Headley Is Russia Out of Step with European Norms? Assessing Russia's Relationship to European Identity, Values and Norms Through the Issue of Self-Determination 427 Valentina Feklyunina Russia's International Images and its Energy Policy. An Unreliable Supplier? 449 Natasha Kuhrt The Russian Far East in Russia's Asia Policy: Dual Integration or Double Periphery? 471 Jennifer G. Mathers Nuclear Weapons in Russian Foreign Policy: Patterns in Presidential Discourse 2000-2010 495 Aglaya Snetkov When the Internal and External Collide: A Social Constructivist Reading of Russia's Security Policy 521 Roland Dannreuther Russia and the Middle East: A Cold War Paradigm? 543 Domitilla Sagramoso The Radicalisation of Islamic Salafi Jamaats in the North Caucasus: Moving Closer to the Global Jihadist Movement? 561 Ekaterina Braginskaia ‘Domestication’ or Representation? Russia and the Institutionalisation of Islam in Comparative Perspective 597

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Europe-Asia Studies Volume 64 Number 8 October 2012 Special Issue: New Media in New Europe-Asia Guest Editors: Jeremy Morris, Natalia Rulyova & Vlad Strukov CONTENTS Introduction Jeremy Morris, Natalia Rulyova & Vlad Strukov 1349 Part One: Civic Activism and Citizen Media Maria Bakardjieva Mundane Citizenship: New Media and Civil Society in Bulgaria 1356 Boris Gladarev & Markku Lonkila The Role of Social Networking Sites in Civic Activism in Russia and Finland 1375 Cai Wilkinson & Yelena Jetpyspayeva From Blogging Central Asia to Citizen Media: A Practitioners' Perspective on the Evolution of the neweurasia Blog Project 1395 Part Two: Political Mediation Dmitry Yagodin Blog Medvedev: Aiming for Public Consent 1415 Florian Toepfl Blogging for the Sake of the President: The Online Diaries of Russian Governors 1435 Sarah Oates Political Challengers or Political Outcasts?: Comparing Online Communication for the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and the British Liberal Democrats 1460 Part Three: From Nation to the Individual: Past and Present Orlin Spassov Contesting Bulgaria's Past Through New Media: Latin, Cyrillic and Politics 1486 Galina Miazhevich Ukrainian Nation Branding Off-line and Online: Verka Serduchka at the Eurovision Song Contest 1505 Natalia Rufyova & Tar as Zagibalov Blogging the Other: Construction of National Identities in the Blogosphere 1524 Part Four: Consumption, Production and New Media Jeremy Morris Learning How to Shoot Fish on the Internet: New Media in the Russian Margins as Facilitating Immediate and Parochial Social Needs 1546

Back to title list Natalia Sokolova Co-opting Transmedia Consumers: User Content as Entertainment or 'Free Labour'? The Cases of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. and Metro 2033 1565 Vlad Strukov Spatial Imagining and Ideology of Digital Commemoration (Russian Online Gaming) 1584

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Journal for Labour and Social Affairs in Eastern Europe Volume 15 number 2 Contents Editorial 141 Lyuben Tomev Employment policies under budget austerity in times of crisis 143 Valeriu Frunzaru Romania: the commodification of work during the economic crisis 169 Maja Vehovec and Iva Tomić Croatia: Time to re-evaluate employment policy 197 Mihail Arandarenko The labour market crisis and the road to job recovery in Serbia 225 Damir Miljević Bosnia and Herzegovina - future stuck in the past 253 Vesna Stojanova and Todor Milchevski Labour market and employment policies in Macedonia 269

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Journal for Labour and Social Affairs in Eastern Europe Volume 14 number 2 2011 Contents Editorial 149 Gabriela Cretu: Romania: the cost of scarce social policies - economic failure 151 Dušan Pavlović and Mihail Arandarenko: Serbia: equity and efficiency - hand- in-hand 169 Predrag Bejaković: Croatia: Paradise Lost 185 Krastyo Petkov and Atanas Vladikov: Bulgaria: transition revised - social frag- mentation and the increase in poverty 197 Svetlana Cenić: Bosnia and Herzegovina: development versus progress 215 Jadranka Kaluđerović: Montenegro: from equity towards efficiency 239 Neda Milevska Kostova and Biljana Kotevska: Macedonia: education vs. unemployment - a way out of poverty? 251 Jeton Mehmeti: Kosovo: new country, old problems 265 Erisa Çela: Albania: education, employment and social policies - lost in translation 277 Cornel Ciurea: Moldova: system survival vs. long-term viability 293

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Journal for Labour and Social Affairs in Eastern Europe Volume 14 number 3 Contents Editorial 319 Stefania Barbuceanu The metal and textile industry in Romania 321 Mare Ančeva Developments and prospects in the metal and textile industries of Macedonia 347 Radmila Grozdanić Developments and perspectives in the metal industry of Serbia 375 Dejan Dulovic The current economic situation facing Montenegro in the time after the global financial crisis 401 Duljko Hasić Research on the development and prospects of the metal and textiles industries in Bosnia and Herzegovina 427

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Journal for labour and social affairs in eastern Europe Vol. 14 no 4 2011 Editorial 461 Darko Šeperić: To Europe and back - The Croatian EU accession process and its outcomes 463 Ivana Palinkas: Under pressure: The impact of EU policy on the social partners in central and eastern Europe 481 Christophe Solioz: Civil society: any way out from the dead end? 493 Sanja Paunović and Rajko Kosanović: The problem of unemployment in the Republic of Serbia with specific regard to informal employment 505 Rossitsa Rangelova and Grigor Sariiski: Ageing population and labour productivity in Bulgaria 521 Manfred Wannöffel: Trade unions in Turkey: past, present and future developments 545 Yaffa Moskovich: Transition from the old to the new: lessons learned in the Israeli Histadrut during the Ramon leadership 571

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Journal for Labour and Social Affairs in Eastern Europe Volume 15 number 1 Contents Editorial 3 George Aspridis and Marina Petrelli When the EU met the western Balkans: Ready for the wedding? 5 Béla Galgóczi A 'Europe of multiple speed' in a downward spiral 27 Masoura Eleftheria The development of social security policies in Greece (1974-2011) through the method of data analysis 39 Béla Galgóczi and Bruno S. Sergi Social and economic trends in south-east Europe 51 Liviu Voinea Why is there no money for pensions? The causes of the social insurance budget deficit and alternative solutions 61 Ivan Markov, Jeni Nacheva, Yosif Yosifov, Maria Zareva and Petya Georgieva Calculating reimbursement rates in Bulgaria - results of recent reforms 81 Danijela Jaćimović Increasing the effectiveness of FDI as a driving factor in raising the level of competitiveness in the western Balkans 95 Nilay Etiler and Kuvvet Lordoglu Health issues of immigrant women: A qualitative study of domestic services in Turkey 109 Lela Rekhviashvili Survival strategies of the poor and marginalised - The case of internally displaced people in Georgia 123

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Journal of Balkan & Near Eastern Studies VOLUME 14 NUMBER 3 SEPTEMBER 2012 Special Issue: Iran in Eurasia: Geopolitical Patterns and Regional Relationships Guest Editor: Reuel Hanks Introduction Iran in Eurasia: Geopolitical Patterns and Regional Relationships. Editor's Introduction Reuel Hanks 313 Themes Implications of Iran's Uranium Enrichment Programme for Regional Security Gregory Gleason 317 Russia's Foreign Policy toward Iran: A Critical Geopolitics Perspective Mariya Y. Omelicheva 331 Perceived and Real Threats Coming from the South: The Impact of Iran and of the AfPak Region on Post-Soviet Central Asian Security Didier Chaudet 345 Omnibalancing in Tajikistan's Foreign Policy: Security-Driven Discourses of Alignment with Iran Kirill Nourzhanov 363 Iran and the Caucasus States in the 21st Century: A Study of Foreign Policy Goals and Means Houman A. Sadri 383

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Journal of Balkan & Near Eastern Studies VOLUME 14 NUMBER 1 MARCH 2012

Editorial

The Greek Workshop of Debt and the Failure of the European Project Vassilis K. Fouskas and Constantine Dimoulas

1 Themes The Securitization of Migration: Greece in the 1990s Jonathan Swarts and Neovi M. Karakatsanis 33

From Engagement to Containment: EU-Iran Relations and the Nuclear Programme, 1992-2011 Bernd Kaussler 53 Standards before Status before Accession: Kosovo's EU Perspective James Ker-Lindsay and Spyros Economides 77 Ethnicity vs. Citizenship in the Workplace Context: A Case Study of Macedonia Harley Johansen and Michele O'Neill 93 A New Actor or Passer-By? The Political Economy of Turkey's Engagement with Africa Mehmet Ozkan 113 Smuggling and Trafficking in Turkey: An Analysis of EU-Turkey Cooperation in Combating Transnational Organized Crime Sule Toktas and Hande Selimoglu 135 Children and Armed Conflict: The Yugoslav Experience Constantine P. Danopoulos, Nila Kapor-Stanulovic and Konstantinos S. Skandalis 151 Election Report and Political Analysis Turkey's June 2011 Parliamentary Elections Filiz Başkan and Aylin Güney 165

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Journal of Balkan & Near Eastern Studies Volume 14 Issue 2 June 2012 Special Issue: Conflicts of Heritage in the Balkans and the Near East Guest Editors: Costas M. Constantinou, Olga Demetriou and Mete Hatay Preface Conflicts of Heritage in the Balkans and the Near East: Editors' Preface Costas M. Constantinou, Olga Demetriou and Mete Hatay 175 Themes Conflicts and Uses of Cultural Heritage in Cyprus Costas M. Constantinou, Olga Demetriou and Mete Hatay 177 Stones of the Suez Canal: A Discourse of Absence and Power in Cyprus and Egypt Elizabeth Hoak-Doering 199 The Ohrid Festival and Political Performativity in the Contemporary Republic of Macedonia Rozita Dimova 229 Obsolete Cultural Heritage in Post-Conflict Environments. The Case of AVNOJ Museum in Jajce, Bosnia Herzegovina Dzenan Sahovic and Dino Zulumovic 245 'The Land of the Golden Fleece': Conflict and Heritage in Abkhazia Eleni Sideri 263 Soap Factories in Nablus: Palestinian Heritage (Turâth) at the Local Level Véronique Bontemps 279 The Palestinian Triptych: Official, Elite and Popular Heritage Roger Heacock 297

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Journal of Balkan & Near Eastern Studies VOLUME 14 NUMBER 4 DECEMBER 2012 Themes Shaping Abkhazia: Cartographic Anxieties and the Making and Remaking of the Abkhazian Geobody Peter Kabachnik 397 The State and Modes of Regulation in Greece from the Post-War Period to the 2009 Financial Crisis Maria Markantonatou 416 Democracy as a Verb: New Meditations on the Yugoslav Praxis Philosophy Ziga Vodovnik 433 Review Article Reviewing the Continuing Cyprus Conundrum William Mallinson 453

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Journal of Baltic Studies Volume 42 Number 4 December 2011 Articles Evicting the Speaking Subject: a Critique of Latvian Concepts of Language Sergei Kent 447 Assessing Kaliningrad's Geostrategic Role: the Russian Periphery and a Baltic Concern W. Alejandro Sanchez Nieto 465 Estonian Folklore as a Source of Baltic-German Poetry Liina Lukas 491 The Evolution of Innovation Policy Governance Systems and Policy Capacities in the Baltic States Erkki Karo 511 Developments in Usage and Acquisitions of Scientific Information in the Baltic Slates' Leading Technical University Libraries: Past Trends and Current Challenges Kate-Riin Kont 537

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Journal of Baltic Studies Volume 43 Number 1 March 2012 Articles An Itinerant Sheep, and The Origins of The Livonians: Friedrich Menius's Syntagma De Origine Livonorum (1635) Stefan Donecker 1 The Problem of Soviet Colonialism in the Baltics Epp Annus 21 Successful but Different: Deliberative Identity and the Consensus-driven Transition to Capitalism in Estonia and Slovenia Li Bennich-Björkman and Branka Likić-Brborić 47 Gendered Entrepreneurship in Rural Latvia: Exploring Femininities, Work, and Livelihood Within Rural Tourism Cecilia Möller 75 Higher Education Cooperation and Networks in the Baltic Sea Region: A Basis for Regionalization and Region Building? Stefan Ewert 95 Does the Context Matter? Attitudes Towards Cosmopolitanism Among Russian-Speaking Students in Estonia, Latvia and the Russian Federation Ami Toots and Tõnu Idnurm 111

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Journal of Baltic Studies Volume 43 Number 2 June 2012 Special Issue with Guest Editors: Ineta Dabašinskienė and Violeta Articles Child Language Acquisition Research in the Baltic Area Ineta Dabašinskienė and Violeta Kalėdaitė 151 Classical Studies on the Acquisition of Russian as a First Language (1900-1950): An Overview Maria D. Voeikova 161 Gender Differences in Language Acquisition: A Case Study of Lithuanian Diminutives Ineta Dabašinskienė Interrogatives in Russian and Lithuanian Child-Directed Speech: Do we Communicate with our Children in the Same Way? Victoria V. Kazakovskaya and Ingrida Balčiūnienė 197 Emergence and Early Acquisition of the Adjective Inflection in Estonian Reili Argus 219 Morphosyntactic Features of Lithuanian Adjective Acquisition Laura Kamandulytė-Merfeldienė 239 Acquisition of the Impersonal Voice by an Estonian Child Reeli Torn-Leesik and Maigi Vija 251 Children's Explanations of the Concept of Future in Latvian Dace Markus 273

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Journal of Baltic Studies Volume 43 Number 3 September 2012 Articles In Memoriam: John Hiden 1940-2012 David Smith iii Transnational Contacts and Cross-Fertilization Among Baltic Historians in Exile, 1968-1991 Toivo U. Raun 315 Making Use of the Past: The Role of Historians in Baltic Sea Region Building Marta Grzechnik 329 'The highest flights of circumlocutory art': Britain, Latvia and Recognizing the Soviet Annexation of 1940 Geoffrey Swain 345 How Normal is Normalization? The Discourses Shaping Finnish and Russian Speakers' Attitudes Toward Estonian Language Policy Delaney Michael Skerrett 363 Explaining Electoral Reforms in Lithuania Žilvinas Martinaitis 389 Performative Translation Options Under The Soviet Regime Anne Lange 401

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Journal of Constitutional Law in Eastern and Central Europe

VOLUME 19 / 2012 NUMBER 1

Contents

The European Social Charter and Its Implementation in The Republic of Azerbaijan Zaka A. Mirzayev 1 Bosnia's Three-Headed Beast: Sejdic and Finciv. Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Case For "Reasonable" Discrimination Katie Engelhart 23 Judicial Adjudication of Language Rights in Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. Principles and Criteria Francesco Palermo 61 Implications of Enlargement for The Rule of Law and Constitutionalism in Post-Communist Legal Orders Enrica Rigo 107

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Journal of Constitutional Law in Eastern and Central Europe VOLUME 18/2011 NUMBER 1 Contents Independent Public Agencies - Legal Frameworks and Institutional Challenges - Part II Vivi Lassen 1 Nationalized Citizenship in Central European Countries Michal Vašečka 119

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The Journal of Eurasian Law Volume 4 Number 1(2011) Table of Contents

ARTICLES Surveying History at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia Ahmad Wais Wardak, Andrew Covin and Richard Ashby Wilson 1

Legal Transplants in the New Constitutions: Comparative Study of Ukraine and Poland Yegor Vasylyev 41 Microsoft, the Police, and Software Pirates: An Examination of Microsoft's Role in and Response to Human Rights Violations in Russia Karmjit Sangha 65 Is Self-Help Repossession Possible in Central Europe? Alexandra Horváthová, Cătălin Gabriel Stănescu and Klaudia Fabián 83

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The Journal of Eurasian Law Volume 4 no 2 (2011)

Table of Contents

ARTICLES

The 2012 Fundamental Law of Hungary: An Introduction Michael Newcity 137 The Fundamental Law of Hungary (English translation) 141

Opinion on Three Legal Questions arising in the Process of Drafting the New Constitution of Hungary European Commission for Democracy through Law (Venice Commission) 187 Opinion on the New Constitution of Hungary European Commission for Democracy through Law (Venice Commission) 205 Position of the Government of Hungary on the Opinion on the New Constitution of Hungary Adopted by the Venice Commission at its 87th Plenary Session (Venice, 17-18 June 2011) Government of the Republic of Hungary 247 Resolution on the Revised Hungarian Constitution The European Parliament 263 DOCUMENTS OF NOTE Judgment dated 5 December 2011, Application of the Interim Accord of 13 September 1995 (The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia v. Greece) International Court of Justice 269

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Journal of International Relations and Development Volume 15 Number 4 October 2012 Special Issue: Power of Numbers Articles The power of numbers in global governance 455 Hans Krause Hansen and Arthur Mühlen-Schuhe Full faith in credit? The power of numbers in rating frontier sovereigns and the global governance of development by the UNDP 466 Arthur Mühlen-Schuhe Pragmatic numbers: the IMF, financial reform, and policy learning in least likely environments 486 Leonard Seabrooke The power of performance indices in the global pontics of anti-corruption . . . . 506 Hans Krause Hansen Making serious measures: numerical indices, peer review, and transnational actor-networks 532 Tony Porter

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Nationalities Papers The Journal of Nationalism and Ethnicity

Volume 40 Number 1 January 2012 CONTENTS Articles The discourse of historical legitimization: a comparative examination of Southern Jutland and the Slovenian language area Peter Thaler 1 In the service of the nation: intellectuals' articulation of the Muslim national identity Iva Lucic 23 An inquiry into the linkage among nationalizing policies, democratization, and ethno-nationalist conflict: the Kurdish case in Turkey Demet Yalcin Mousseau 45 Hungarian cultural autonomy in Vojvodina from the 1974 Socialist Constitution to the 2009 Statute of Autonomy: path dependence dynamics against the reversal of minority policies Leonas Tolvaišis 63 Nationalism versus multiculturalism: the minority issue in twenty-first-century Bulgaria Eleonora Naxidou 85 Nationalism and orthodoxy: Nichifor Crainic and the political culture of the extreme right in 1930s Romania Roland Clark 107 Stabilization and symbolism: language and regional politics in the Chuvash Republic Kyle L. Marquardt 127

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Nationalities Papers The Journal of Nationalism and Ethnicity Volume 40 Number 3 May 2012 CONTENTS Analysis of Current Events Rational or reckless? Georgia's zugzwang in the Caucasus David S. Siroky and Valeriy Dzutsev 303 Special Section: The Autonomy of Minority Literature Languages, politics and field theory - the question of the autonomy of small literatures Clémence Scalbert-Yücel 315 Rossetti's Obsession by Ramon Saizarbitoria: on the seduction of minority literary fields Ur Apalategui 321 Literatures at the intersections of national terri tories: Iranian-Azerbaijani ethnic entrepreneurs in a transnational historical space Gilles Riaux 341 Emergence and equivocal autonomization of a Kurdish literary field in Turkey Clémence Scalbert-Yücel 357 Writing as resistance: Berber literature and the challenges surrounding the emergence of a Berber literary field in Morocco Stéphanie Pouessel 373 The controversial question of "French Jewish literature" Clara Levy with Cherry Schrecker 395 Specificity and independence of the literary game Bernard Lahire 411 Ukrainianization, terror and famine: coverage in Lviv's Dilo and the nationalist press of the 1930s Myroslav Shkandrij 431 Exploring "North" and "South" in post-Soviet Bishkek: discourses and perceptions of rural-urban migration Moya Flynn and Natalya Kosmarskaya 453 The ethnic and non-ethnic politics of everyday life in Bulgaria's southern borderland James Dawson 473

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Nationalities Papers The Journal of Nationalism and Ethnicity Volume 40 Number 5 September 2012 CONTENTS Special Section: Making states and breaking states: Kosovo and the Caucasus in 2008 Guest Editors: Ronald Grigor Suny and Vicken Cheterian Introduction Ronald Grigor Suny and Vicken Cheterian 657 The contemporary practice of state recognition: Kosovo, South Ossetia, Abkhazia, and their aftermath Mikulas Fabry 661 Conflict resolution after the 2008 Georgia-Russia War: the Taiwan and Kosovo models as tools for mobilization and comparison Bruno Coppieters 611 Karabakh conflict after Kosovo: no way out? Vicken Cheterian 703 The August 2008 war: main consequences for Georgia and its conflicts Ghia Nodia 721 Analysis of Current Events Problem areas for the new Turkish foreign policy Ayşe Zarakol 739 Articles The term "Macedonian(s)" in Ottoman Macedonia: on the map and in the mind Maria Pandevska 741 Between ethnopolitics and liberal centrism: the Movement for Rights and Freedoms in the mainstream of Bulgarian party politics Boyka Stefanova 767 Nationalism in the Russian media: content analysis of newspaper coverage surrounding conflict in Stavropol, 24 May-7 June 2007 Caress Schenk 783 811

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Perspectives on European Politics and Society VOLUME 13 NUMBER 1 APRIL 2012 Special Issue: From Aid Recipients to Aid Donors?: Development Policies of Central and Eastern European States Guest Editors: Ondřej Horký and Simon Lightfoot Contents From Aid Recipients to Aid Donors? Development Policies of Central and Eastern European States Ondřej Horký and Simon Lightfoot 1 The Transfer of the Central and Eastern European 'Transition Experience' to the South: Myth or Reality? Ondřej Horký 17 Visegrad Countries' Development Aid to Africa: Beyond the Rhetoric Dominik Kopiński 33 Hungarian International Development Cooperation: Context, Stakeholders and Performance Balázs Szent-Iványi 50 Development Discourse in Romania: From Socialism to EU Membership Mirela Oprea 66 Involving Civil Society in the International Development Cooperation of 'New' EU Member States: The Case of Slovenia Maja Bučar 83 Assessing the Aid Effectiveness of the Czech Republic: Commitment to Development Index and Beyond Petra Krylová, Miroslav Syrovátka and Zdeněk Opršal 100 Development Cooperation of the Baltic States: A Comparison of the Trajectories of Three New Donor Countries Evelin Andrespole and Andres Ilmar Kasekamp 117

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Perspectives on European Politics and Society VOLUME 13 NUMBER 3 SEPTEMBER 2012

Special Issue: The European Citizens' Initiative: a First for Participatory Democracy?

Guest Editors: Luis Bouza García and Justin Greenwood Contents

Articles Introduction Luis Bouza García and Justin Greenwood 251

A Comparative Approach to the Regulation on the European Citizens' Initiative Viel or Cuesta-López 257

The European Citizens' Initiative - Empowering European Citizens within the Institutional Triangle: A Political and Legal Analysis Dorota Szeligowska and Elitsa Mincheva 270 Assessing Participation and Democracy in the EU: The Case of the European Citizens' Initiative Elizabeth Monaghan 285 Civil Society and Democracy in the EU: The Paradox of the European Citizens' Initiative Julia De Clerck-Sachsse 299 The ECI as a Democratic Innovation: Analysing its Ability to Promote Inclusion, Empowerment and Responsiveness in European Civil Society Luis Bouza Garcia and Susann del Rio Villar 312

The European Citizens' Initiative and EU Civil Society Organisations Justin Greenwood 325

New Rules, New Players? The ECI as a Source of Competition and Contention in the European Public Sphere Luis Bouza Garcia 337 Towards e-ECIs? European Participation by Online Pan-European Mobilization Stephane Carrara 352

National and European Political Parties and the European Citizens' Initiative Rudolf Hrbek 370

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Perspectives on European Politics and Society VOLUME 13 NUMBER 2 JUNE 2012 Contents Articles Bosnia's Slow Europeanisation Nikolaos Tzifakis 131 Second-Order Elections, but also 'Low-Cost' Campaigns? National Parties and Campaign Spending in European Elections: A Comparative Analysis Mathieu Petithomme 149 Europeanisation at Work in the Western Balkans and the Black Sea Region: Is There an All-European Way of Voting in the United Nations General Assembly? Florent Marciacq 169 Travelling against the Tide: The Cypriot Communist Left in the Post-1990s Era Yiannos Katsourides 187 Romania's Accession to the EU and the EU Children's Rights Agenda: Policy Entrepreneurship and Feedback Effects Ingi Iusmen 210 Does the Confidence in the EU Spill Over to the National Level? A Longitudinal Analysis of Political Trust in Central Europe Mihail Chiru and Sergiu Gherghina 226

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Perspectives Volume 19 number 2 Contents Introduction: Identity and Solidarity in the Foreign Policy of EU 5 Members: Renewing the Research Agenda Eisa Tulmets Projecting the Re-Discovered: Czech Policy Towards Ekstern Europe 27 Tomáš Weiss Between a Romantic 'Mission in the East' and Minimalism: Polish Policy Towards the Eastern Neighbourhood 45 Melchior Szczepanik Shining in Brussels? The Eastern Partnership in Estonia's Foreign Policy 67 Vahur Made Latvian and Lithuanian Policy in the Eastern Neighbourhood: Between Solidarity and Self Promotion 81 Katerina Kesa Slovakia in the East: Pragmatic Follower, Occasional Leader 101 Lucia Najšlova New Eastern Perspectives? A Critical Analysis of Romania's Relations with Moldova, Ukraine and the Black Sea Region 123 Irina Angelescu A Limited Priority: Hungary and the Eastern Neighbourhood 143 András Rácz Slovenia and the Eastern Neighbourhood 165 Polona Bunič and Zlatko Šabič

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Perspectives Review of International Affairs

Volume 20 number 1 Contents Three Incarnations of The Quiet American: Applying Campbell's 'foreign policy' to Sub-Elite Identifiers 5 George Hays II After the Enlargement: Trends and Threats in the European Union Decision- Making 33 Michal Parízek Which IR Do You Speak? Languages as Perspectives in the Discipline of IR 59 Hélène Pellerin Do They Actually Matter? The Impact of NGOs on the European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights (EIDHR) 83 Anna Kárníková Existing Conflicts in the Arctic and the Risk of Escalation: Rhetoric and Reality 111 Zdeněk Kříž, Filip Chráštanský

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Post-Communist Economies Volume 24 Number 2 June 2012 CONTENTS Special Section: Labour Problems in Post-Communist Economies GUEST EDITORS: Tomasz Mickiewicz and Marcello Signorelli Articles Regional unemployment in the EU before and after the global crisis Enrico Marelli, Roberto Patuelli and Marcello Signorelli 155 The role of the informal sector, flexible working time and pay in the Russian labour market model Rostislav Kapelyushnikov, Andrei Kuznetsov and Olga Kuznetsova 111 Determinants of youth unemployment in Russian regions Olga Demidova and Marcello Signorelli 191 Self-employment and the business cycle: evidence from Poland Stanislaw Cichocki 219 Taxation of labour: the effect of labour taxes and costs on employment in Macedonia Nikica Mojsoska-Blazevski 241 Banking system liquidity absorption and monetary base backing in the context of exchange rate policy in the Czech Republic, Poland and Hungary Karel Brůna and Jaroslava Durčáková 257 Does international trade provide incentives for efficient behaviour of Russian manufacturing firms? Victoria Golikova, Ksenia Gonchar and Boris Kuznetsov 277 Conditionality or specificity? Bulgaria and Romania's economic transition performance in comparative perspective Achim Ahrens and Joachim Zweynert 291

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Post-Communist Economies Volume 24 Number 3 September 2012 CONTENTS Articles Russia and China facing the 'Great Wall': how to succeed in the second structural transition Jan Winiecki 309 Spatial complementarity of FDI: the example of transition countries Oleksandr Shepotylo 327 A free trade agreement between Ukraine and the European Union: potential effects on agricultural markets and farmers' revenues Olexandr Nekhay, Thomas Fellmann and Stephan Hubertus Gay 351 Internationalisation of innovative SMEs in the Hungarian medical precision instruments industry Magdolna Sass 365 The effectiveness of investment incentives: the Slovenian FDI Co-financing Grant Scheme Anže Burger, Andreja Jaklič and Matija Rojec 383 Is non-farm income diversification a feasible option for small-scale farmers? An assessment using a composite fuzzy indicator Jana Fritzsch 403 Price transmission in the milk sectors of Poland and Hungary Zoltán Bakucs, Jan Falkowski and Imre Fertő 419

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Post-Communist Economies Volume 24 Number 4 December 2012 CONTENTS Articles The dual challenge still ahead: economic theory and economic policy in Bulgaria after accession to the European Union Zoya Mladenova 433 Industry restructuring in transition after the arrival of multinationals: a general equilibrium analysis with firm-type costs differences María C. Latorre 441 Accounting for recent trends in absolute poverty in Poland: a decomposition analysis Michal Brzezinski 465 Reduction of the effective corporate tax burden in Romania 1992-2012 and Romania's current ranking among the Central and Eastern European EU member states Christoph Spengel, Sebastian Lazar, Lisa Evers and Benedikt Zinn 477 Distribution of personal income tax changes in Slovenia Mitja Čok, Jože Sambt, Marko Košak, Miroslav Verbič and Boris Majcen 503 University efficiency and public funding for higher education in Bulgaria Kiril Tochkov, Nikolay Nenovsky and Karin Tochkov 517 A selection analysis of returns to education in China Lili Kang and Fei Peng 535

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Review of Central and East European Law Volume 37, No. 1, 2012

Articles

The Push for Precedent in Russia's Judicial System William Pomeranz and Max Gutbrod 1-30 Prospects for Trust in Russia: The Perspective as Seen from 2010 and 2011 Drafts Amendments to the Russian Civil Code Z.E. Benevolenskaya 31-52

The Romanian Constitutional Court's Relationship with the Ordinary Courts: What Are Some of the Causes of Its High Caseload? Filip Gâdiuţă 53-93 Theoretical Issues of Sovereignty in Russia and Russian Law Mikhail Antonov 95-113 Essay Law as a Programming Language Alexey V. Lisachenko 115-124 Conference Report The Theory of Public Legal Relationships: Perspectives for Avoiding Civil Law Dogma St. Petersburg Law Faculty (Spring 2011) 125-145

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Review of Central and East European Law Volume 37, No. 2-3, 2012 Special Issue: Russia and European Human-Rights Law: Progress, Tensions and Perspectives Foreword Angelika Nussberger 155-157 Introduction Lauri Mälksoo 161-170 Culture Re-introduced: Contestation of Human Rights in Contemporary Russia Petr Preclik 173-230 Tilting at Windmills? The European Response to Violations of Media Freedom in Russia Dorothea Schönfeld 233-290 Orthodox Pluralism. A Consideration and Comparison of the Contours of Freedom of Religion in the Russian Federation and Strasbourg Jurisprudence Dara Hallinan 293-346 Assessing Human Rights in Russia: Not to Miss the Forest for the Trees. A Reply to Preclik, Schönfeld and Hallinan Vladislav Starzhenetskii 349-356 Russia and European Human-Rights Law. Margins of the Margin of Appreciation Lauri Mälksoo 359-369

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Review of Central and East European Law Volume 37, No. 4, 2012 Articles Assessing the Role of the Justice-of-the-Peace Courts in the Russian Judicial System Kathryn Hendley 377-393 The Legitimacy of the Bolshevik Order, 1917-1918: Language Usage in Revolutionary Russian Law Tatiana Iu. Borisova 395-419 Competing Paths of Regional Economic Integration in the Post-Soviet Space: Legal and Political Dilemmas for Ukraine Guillaume Van der Loo and Peter Van Elsuwege 421-447 The Legacy of Empire: A Genealogy of Post-Soviet Election Laws Max Bader 449-472

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Revue d’études comparatives Est –Ouest Vol. 42, n° 4, décembre 2011 SOMMAIRE Valentin Behr Historiens militants ou historiens de bureau ? Les producteurs du récit historique officiel à l'Institut de la mémoire nationale 5 Ivan Zoltan Denes Le mouvement estudiantin à Budapest en 1969 37 Anne-Sylvie Pigeonnier Les organisations européennes et la promotion des droits des minorités nationales dans les pays baltes : le cas de la Lituanie 55 Mathieu Petithomme Repenser les conflits gelés à partir de l'étatisation de territoires contestés : le cas de la République du Haut-Karabagh 83 Joëlle Robert-Lamblin Ethno-histoire et situation contemporaine des Évènes de la région Bystrinski (Kamtchatka central, Extrême-Orient russe, 2004) 107 Assen Slim L'instrument d'aide et de préadhésion (2007-2013) de l'UE favorise-t-il l'intégration des Balkans occidentaux ? 149

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Romanian Journal of European Affairs Volume 11 number 4 Contents Foreword — 10-year Anniversary of RJEA ................................... 5 Remarks on the Future of the European Union: Domestic and Global Challenges Ahead.......................................................................... 7 András Inotai Startegic Thinking in the EU - Aspiration or Reality?................ 12 Oana Mocanu, Mihai Sebe, Gabnela Andreica Ukraine, the European Union and the Democracy Question......., 18 Geoffrey Pridham Small States as "Contributing Nations" to the EU's Normative Power: the Case of Slovenia..................................................................... 34 Rok Zupančič, Miha Hribernik The Europeanization of Romanian Foreign Policy: Mitigating European and National 'Misfits' in the International Criminal Court and Kosovo Cases .......................................................................... 50 Mircea Micu Assessing European Union's Development Policy: Building the Bridge Between Rhetoric and Deeds....................... 66 Nikolay Karamalakov Formal Rules Versus an Economic Approach in Dealing with Cartels: the Need for More Coherence in European Competition Law ..... 92 Radu Muşetescu, Andreas Stamate

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Romanian Journal of European Affairs Volume 12 number 1 The Ambivalent Role of the EU in the Western Balkans – "Limited Europeanisation" between Formal Promises and Practical Constraints. The Case of Bosnia-Herzegovina 5 lordan Gheorghe Bărbulescu, Miruna Troncotă Building a Common State Army Forces in Post-War Bosnia and Herzegovina: Assessing its Peace-Building Perspective 27 Bedrudin Brljavac Cooperation and Competition in the European Parliament: A Game Theoretical Interpretation 39 Alexandru Volacu Les partis politiques européens: les grands absents de la politique européenne 61 Cristina Stănculescu Can Historical Institutionalism Explain the Reforms of the Common Agricultural Policy? . 76 Nicoleta Lăşan

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Romanian Journal of European Affairs Volume 12 number 2 Contents European Cohesion Policy: A Proposed Evaluation Model . 5 Alina Bouroşu (Costăchescu) Comparative Analysis of South Eastern Europe Economies facing the Crisis. Future Prospects for the Region 30 Andreea Paul (Vass), lleana Alexe Changing Borders, Stable Attitudes: The National and European Identity Before and After the Most Recent EU Enlargements . 52 Sergiu Gherghina Les présidents de la Commission européenne: entre trajectoires professionnelles et circonstances politiques .. 67 Victor Negrescu Euros(c)eptic - The Theory of the Optimum Currency Area and the Practice of the Euro 80 Annamária Artner, Péter Róna

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Romanian Journal of European Affairs Volume 12 number 3 Contents The Power of a Single Voice: The EU's Contribution to Global Governance Architecture 5 Ana Postolache The Influence of the EU Council Presidency on Public Opinion 19 Petr Kaniok Living across the Borders: The Mobility Narratives of Romanian Immigrants in Spain 33 Silvia Marcu Competing Variables in Turkey's Multi-Vector Foreign Policy 51 Agnes Nicolescu Study of the Peculiarities of Export Developments in EU Member Countries and in Armen . 65 Karen Grigoryan

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South European Society and Politics VOLUME 16 NUMBER 4 DECEMBER 2011 Contents Intergovernmental Cooperation in a Decentralised System: the Sectoral Conferences in Spain Sandra León and Monica Ferrín Pereira 513 Economic immigrants in Greek rural areas: socio-economic integration and questions of ethnic exclusion Isabella Gidarakou, Leonidas Kazakopoulos and Alex Koutsouris 533 New Grounds for Patriarchy in Turkey? Gender Policy in the Age of AKP Simten Coşar and Metin Yeğenoğlu 555 Review Articles Two Procrustean Views on the Greek Crisis Alexandros-Andreas Kyrtsis 575 Modernism, Secularism, Democracy and the AKP in Turkey Ayhan Kaya 581

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South European Society and Politics VOLUME 17 NUMBER 1 MARCH 2012 Contents Kulturkampf in Turkey: The Constitutional Referendum of 12 September 2010 Ersin Kalaycioğlu 1 A Long Way to Tipperary: Time in the Italian Legislative Process 1987-2008 Enrico Borghetto and Marco Giuliani 23 Migrants and Political Life in Greece: Between Political Patronage and the Search for Inclusion Ruby Gropas and Anna Triandafyllidou 45 FIAT Goes it Alone: the Italian Car Industry, the Government and the Crisis of the 2000s Luca Germano 65 Turkish Opposition to the Common Market: An Archaeology of Nationalist Thought, 1967-1980 Mehmet Dosemeci 87

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South European Society and Politics VOLUME 17 NUMBER 2 JUNE 2012 Special Issue Elections in Hard Times: Southern Europe, 2010-11 Edited by Anna Bosco and Susannah Verney Contents Electoral Epidemic: The Political Cost of Economic Crisis in Southern Europe, 2010-11 Anna Bosco and Susannah Verney 129 The 2010 Regional Elections in Italy: Another Referendum on Berlusconi Piergiorgio Corbetta 155 The Turkish Cypriot Presidential Election of April 2010: Normalisation of Politics SaitAksit 175 The Eurozone's First Post-bailout Election: The 2010 Local Government Contest in Greece Susannah Verney 195 The 2010 Regional Election in Catalonia: A Multilevel Account in an Age of Economic Crisis Guillem Rico 217 The 2011 Portuguese Presidential Elections: Incumbency Advantage in Semi-presidentialism? Carlos Jalali 239 The Twilight of the Berlusconi Era: Local Elections and National Referendums in Italy, May and June 2011 Alessandro Chiaramonte and Roberto D'Alimonte 261 In the Whirlwind of the Economic Crisis: Local and Regional Elections in Spain, May 2011 Belén Barreiro and Ignacio Sánchez-Cuenca 281 Disengaging Citizens: Parliamentary Elections in the Republic of Cyprus, 22 May 2011 Christophoros Christophorou 295 After the Bailout: Responsibility, Policy, and Valence in the Portuguese Legislative Election of June 2011 Pedro C. Magalhaes 309 No Crisis, No Change: The Third AKP Victory in the June 2011 Parliamentary Elections in Turkey Senem Aydtn-Duzgit 329 The 2011 General Election in Spain: The Collapse of the Socialist Party Irene Martin and Ignacio Urquizu-Sancho 347

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Southeast European and Black Sea Studies Volume 11 Number 4 December 2011 Special Issue: Human Security in the Balkans Guest Editors: Nikolaos Tzifakis and Asteris Huliaras CONTENTS Preface Asteris Huliaras and Nikolaos Tzifakis 349 Articles Problematizing human security: a general/contextual conceptual approach Nikolaos Tzifakis 353 Human and national security: a relation of contradiction or commonality? Efstathios T. Fakiolas 369 The geography of nationalisms and human security in the pre-Communist Balkan space G. Kritikos ' 385 Poverty and security in the Balkans: national, regional and social dimensions Antonios Rovolis 403 Foreign aid to the Balkans (1990-2010): the dynamics of the 'silent' human security agenda Asteris Huliaras 421 Demography and security, a complex nexus: the case of the Balkans Alexandra Tragaki 435 Migration and security threats in south-eastern Europe Apostolos G. Papadopoulos 451 Environmental threats and security in the Balkans Konstantia-Ekaterini Lasaridi and Anastasios Valvis 471 EU and South-Eastern Europe: from asymmetrical inter-regionalism to dependencia sub-regionalism? Charalambos Tsardanidis 489

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Volume 12 Number 1 March 2012 Articles Je t’aime ... moi non plus! An empirical assessment of Euro-parliamentarians' voting behaviour on Turkey and Turkish membership Stefano Braghiroli 1 Positions of Turkish political parties on European integration Filiz Başkan and Selin Bengi Gümrükçü 25 Politics, cultural heterogeneity and support for European Union membership in Turkey F. Michael Wuthrich, M. Murat Ardağ and Deniz Uğur 45 Is Turkey democratizing with EU reforms?: an assessment of human rights, corruption and socio-economic conditions Demet Yalcin Mousseau 63 Europeanization of foreign policy and world culture: Turkey's Cyprus policy Didem Buhari-Gulmez 81 Geopolitics, Turkey's EU accession course and Cyprus: power balances and 'Soft Power' calculations Demetrios A. Theophylactou 97 'What will become of us without barbarians?' The enduring Greek-Turkish rivalry as an identity-based conflict Alexis Heraclides 115 Reform paradoxes: academic freedom and governance in Greek and Turkish higher education Ioannis N. Grigoriadis and Antonis Kamaras 135 The Macedonian name dispute and European Union accession Aristotle Tziampiris 153 Europeanization post-accession: rule adoption and national political elites in Romania and Bulgaria Cosmina Tanasoiu 173

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Southeast European And Black Sea Studies Volume 12 Number 2 June 2012 CONTENTS Articles The EU and border management in the Western Balkans: preparing for European integration or safeguarding EU external borders? Gemma Collantes-Celador and Ana E. Juncos 201 State capacity and 'embeddedness' in the context of the European Union's Regional Policy: the case of Greece and the third Community Support Framework (CSF) Anastassios Chardas 221 European Neighbourhood Policy as a tool for stabilizing Europe's Neighbourhood Özgür Ünal Eriş 243 Securitizing or developing the European neighbourhood? Migration management in Moldova Nora Ratzmann 261 Dynamics of de facto statehood: the South Caucasian de facto states between secession and sovereignty Helge Blakkisrud and Pål Kolstø 281 The first casting happens at home: role formation in the European parliamentary elections Sergiu Gherghina and Mihail Chiru 299 Fake or failed? A Greek would-be reforma pactada Ioannis Tzortzis 315 Estimating ethnic discrimination in the labour market using experimental data Nick Drydakis 335 What type of fiscal policy for the Western Balkans during the crisis Fikret Causevic 357

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Southeast European and Black Sea Studies Volume 12 Number 3 September 2012 SPECIAL ISSUE: EUROPEAN UNION IN ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD: FAILED HOPES AND NEW HORIZONS Guest Editors: Francisco A. Pérez and Jordi Vaquer CONTENTS Articles Preface to special issue 'European Union in its neighbourhood: failed hopes and new horizons' Francisco A. Pérez 373 Regionalism and the EU's neighbourhood policy: the limits of the possible Andrew Cottey 375 Determinants of regional leadership: is the European Union a leading regional actor in peace and security? Marieke Zwartjes, Luk Van Langenhove, Stephen Kingah and Léonie Maes 393 Compatibility of regionalizing actors' activities in the Mediterranean region; what kind of opportunity for the European Union? Ana Bojinović Fenko 407 EU's flexible regional multilateralism towards its Black Sea neighbourhood Panagiota Manoli 431 Globalization, regionalization and society in the Caspian Sea Basin: overcoming geography restrictions and calamities of oil dependent economies Leila Alieva 443

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Southeast European and Black Sea StudiesVolume 12 Number 4 December 2012 SPECIAL ISSUE: GREECE AND TURKEY IN NATO GUEST EDITORS: Dimitrios Triantaphyllou and Evanthis Hatzivassiliou CONTENTS Introduction Apropos NATO's first enlargement Evanthis Hatzivassiliou and Dimitrios Triantaphyllou 467 Articles Greek-Turkish relations in an era of regional and global change F. Stephen Larrabee 471 Turkey's quest for NATO membership: the institutionalization of the Turkish-American alliance Şuhnaz Yilmaz 481 Greek perceptions of NATO during the Cold War Dionysios Chourchoulis and Lykourgos Kourkouvelas 497 Revisiting NATO's stabilizing role in south-eastern Europe: the Cold War experience and the longue duree Evanthis Hatzivassiliou 515 NATO and Turkey in the post-Cold War world: between abandonment and entrapment Serhat Güvenç and Soli Özel 533 The NATO-EU-Turkey trilogy: the impact of the Cyprus conundrum Sinem Akgul Acikmese and Dimitrios Triantaphyllou 555 The evolving security environment in the eastern Mediterranean: is NATO still a relevant actor? Thanos Dokos 575

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Südosteuropa Mitteilungen Jahrgang 51, 5-6 2011 Analysen / Positionen / Essays 6 Petros Markaris "Was sind das für Zeiten ...?" - Zur Rolle der Literatur in der griechischen Krise 12 Nurcan Baysal / Dilan Bozgan / Nina Henkens The Kurdish Issue in Turkey: The Right to Exist Is Not Enough 26 Andreas Ernst Nord-Kosovo: Die Krise als Chance - Steckt im Zankapfel der Keim für eine serbisch-albanische Aussöhnung? 38 Áron Buzogány Soziale Bewegung von rechts: Der Aufstieg der national-radikalen Jobbik-Partei in Ungarn 52 Sonja Schüler Erscheinungsformen und Hintergründe politischer Korruption im heutigen Bulgarien 69 Main Focus: The Secret Police Files of the Former Communist Countries Schwerpunkt: Die Akten der ehemaligen kommunistischen Geheimpolizeien

73 Maria Dermendzhieva Die Akten der Staatssicherheit in Bulgarien und die Folgen ihrer verspäteten Öffnung 81 Igor Caşu The Former KGB-Archives in Moldova: How Accessible Are They? 85 Yevgeniy Zakharov The Access to Information in the Ukrainian Security Service Archives 89 Valters Nollendorfs The KGB-Files in Latvia: The Skeleton and Its Ghosts 94 Aleksandar Resanović Secret Police Records - The Case of Former Yugoslavia. With Reference to the Case of Serbia 101 Andreja Valič Zver The Slovenian Way of "The Lives of Others"

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60. Jahrgang 2012, Heft 1 I n h a l t s v e r z e i c h n i s Sabrina P. Ramet / Roman Kuhar Ownership and Political Influence in the Post-socialist Mediascape: the Case of Slovenia 2-30 Blendi Kajsiu The Instrumentalisation of Media in Albania .. 31-52 Valentina Gueorguieva Distorted Representation and Active Citizenship. Digital Media and Spontaneous Street Demonstrations in Bulgaria (2006-2010) 53-77 Wim van Meurs Bauernparteien und rurale Wählerschaften 78-110 Stefan Wegener / Doris Marquardt / Martin Petrick / Kelly Labar Administrative Hürden bei der Einführung der Gemeinsamen Agrarpolitik in Bulgarien und Rumänien 111-133

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Südosteuropa 60. Jahrgang 2012, Heft 2

INHALTSVERZEICHNIS SCHWERPUNKT: POPULISMIUS UND EUROSKEPTIZISMUS IN SÜDOSTEUROPA Daniela Mehler, Ksenija Petrović, Florian Bieber:

Populismus und Euroskeptizismus in Südosteuropa seit 1989 152-166

Martin Beischl:

Euroskeptizismus vor und nach dem EU-Beitritt: Mittelost- und südosteuropäische Parteien im Vergleich 167-192

Olaf Leisse:

Rechte Parteien im Europäischen Parlament und der Beitritt Südosteuropas - eine Gefahr für die europäische Demokratie? 193-216

Katerina Gehl

Populismus in Bulgarien? Ausdrucksformen des Politischen im gegenwärtigen bulgarischen Mediendiskurs 217-238

Aleksandra Salamurović

Der politische und mediale Diskurs in Serbien und Kroatien zwischen Euroskeptizismus und Populismus 239-263

Rosanna Dom

Die russische Elite in der Republik Moldau: Populismus und Euroskeptizismus? 264-285

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Transition Studies Review  Volume 18 No. 2 2011 WTER WORLD TRANSITION ECONOMY RESEARCH S.T. Jawaid, A. Waheed Effects of Terms of Trade and its Volatility on Economic Growth: A Cross Country Empirical Investigation 217 TFBR TRANSITION FINANCE AND BANKING RESEARCH Z. Irsova, T. Havranek Bank Efficiency in Transitional Countries: Sensitivity to Stochastic Frontier Design 230 D.M. Bolocan, CM. Litan Estimating the Probability of Default with Applications in Provisioning the Portfolio of Clients of a Credit Institution 271 A. Omri, M. Frikha No Contagion, Only Interdependence During the US Sub-Primes Crisis 286 SEEI SOUTH EAST EUROPEAN ISSUES M. Apostolov Governance and Enterprise Restructuring: The Case of Macedonia 299 FEAS FAR EAST AND ASIAN STUDIES G.H. Chang, J.C. Brada A Model of the Macroeconomic Effects of Privatization on Employment in Transition and Developing Countries with an Application to China 310 SAP SOUTH ASIA PAPER M. Zakaria, S. Shakoor Relationship Between Government Size and Trade Openness: Evidence from Pakistan 328 H. U, Rahman, H.M. Mohsin Monetary Policy Announcements and Stock Returns: Evidence from the Pakistani Market 342 M. Nawaz, M. Nasir, A. Ali, W. Chaudhry Trade Liberalization and Child Labor: A Case Study of Pakistan 361 SEAP SOUTH EAST ASIA PAPER N.T. Phat, N.T. Dung Actions for Sustainable Policy of Poverty Alleviation in the Informal and Non-Agricultural Sector in Rural Areas in Vietnam 377 ECAR EURASIA AND CENTRAL ASIA REPORTS S. Mirzosaid Health Expenditure Efficiency in the Commonwealth of Independent States: A Data Envelopment Analysis Approach 384

Back to title list IKRP INNOVATION, KNOWLEDGE, RESEARCH PAPERS L. Božić, V. Botrić Innovation Propensity in the EU Candidate Countries 405 LAR LATIN AMERICA RESEARCH J. Matusitz, E. Minei Cultural Adaptation of an MNC in Mexico: A Success Story 418 SHC SOCIETY, HISTORY AND CULTURE F. Alicino The Collaborations-Relations Between Western (Secular) Law and Religious Nomoi Groups in Today's Multicultural Context: The Cases of France and Canada 430 G. Jiglau, S. Gherghina The Divergent Paths of the Ethnic Parties in Post-Communist Transitions 445 EAP EASTERN ASIA PAPER S. Ibrahim The Progress of Financial Market Integration in East Asia 458 MOTEL MITTELFORUM TRANSITION ISSUES M. Giansoldati, R. Pauluzzo The International Evolution of Italian and Chinese Districts: What Role for Lead Firms? 471

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Transition Studies Review Volume 18 No. 3 2012 SPIG SOCIETY, POLICY, INSTITUTIONS AND GOVERNANCE G. Dominese Economic, Financial and Geopolitical Governance: USA, European Union and China 487 WTER WORLD TRANSITION ECONOMY RESEARCH V. Cojanu Beyond the 'Nation State': the Quest for New Territorial Paradigms in an Interconnected World Economy 498 S.A. Corujo, M.C.N. Simões Democracy and Growth: Evidence for Portugal (1960-2001) 512 SEEI SOUTH EAST EUROPEAN ISSUES R. Capolupo Economic Transition and Regional Growth: The Case of Albania and Comparator SEECs 529 IOSSS INTERNATIONAL ORDER, SECURITY AND STRATEGIC STUDIES G. Novikova The Nagorno Karabakh Conflict through the Prism of the Image of the Enemy 550 H.R. Schweickert, I. Melnykovska, H. Heitmann Picking Winners? Evidence on NATO's Enlargement Strategy 570 BSRS BLACK SEA REGIONAL STUDIES A. Rogach, T. Balyuk Intra-Firm Transactions of TNCs in Ukraine: Empirical Investigation 586 AIP AFRICAN ISSUES PAPER B.T. Matemilola, A.N. Bany-Ariffin, W.N.W. Azman-Saini Financial Leverage and Shareholder's Required Returns: Evidence from South Africa Corporate Sector 601 RSSP REGIONAL STUDIES AND SPATIAL PLANNING M.B. Zolin, A. Rasi Caldogno Beyond the European Rural Areas: the Need for Strategic Approaches 613

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Transition Studies Review Editor: G. Dominese • Co-Editors: Y. Chen, L. Gaiser • Managing Editor: L. Tran Dinh Volume 19 • Number 1 • September 2012 FOREWORD Transition Studies The New Journals of the Network G. Dominese 1 FEAS FAR EAST AND ASIAN STUDIES Are Asian Per Capita GDP Stationary? Evidence from First and Second Generation Panel Unit Root Tests A.K. Tiwari • A. Chaudhari • K.G. Suresh 3 SEEI SOUTH EAST EUROPEAN ISSUES Factors Driving Bribe Payments: Survey Evidence from Croatia R.K. Goel • J. Budak • E. Rajh 13 RTP RUSSIA TRANSITION PAPERS The Re-Emerging Role of the State in Contemporary Russia N. Vanteeva 23 MMEP MEDITERRANEAN AND MIDDLE EAST PAPERS Algeria's Trade with GAFTA Countries: A Synthetic Control Approach A.S. Hosny 35 SAP SOUTH ASIA PAPERS Policy Disciplining Effect of Capital Account Openness in India L.R. Nair 43 Impact of Political Risk and Uncertainty on FDI in South Asia M. Azam • M.A. Khan • N. Iqbal 59 SEZ Proliferation in India: Are the Objectives Being Realized? A. Bhatt • M. Puri • A. Appolloni 79 EAP EASTERN ASIA PAPER Stock Exchange Markets in China: Structure and Main Problems E. Geretto • R. Pauluzzo 89 AFC AGRO-FOOD CHAIN EU Agro-Food Chain and Vertical Integration Potentiality: a Strategy for Diversification? T.F.M. Chang • L. Iseppi 107 JRD JUNIOR RESEARCHERS DISSERTATIONS Politics and Religion in India: Minorities

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Transition Studies Review Editor: G. Dominese • Co-Editors: Y. Chen,L. Gaiser • Managing Editor: L. Tran Dinh Volume 19 • Number 2 • November 2012 EIM ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND INTERNATIONAL MANAGEMENT The Outward Projection of Italian Firms: Facts and Figures on Foreign Affiliates M. Giansoldati • C. Pizzi • G. Corò • M. Volpe 139 SPIG SOCIETY, POLICY, INSTITUTIONS AND GOVERNANCE The Relationship Between Military Spending and Black Market Premium in Greece: An ARDL Approach A. Aslan 155 TFBR TRANSITION FINANCE AND BANKING RESEARCH Evolution of Equity Market Risk During the Crisis: Europe, Americas and Asia P. Stucchi • G. Dominese 163 NER NEXT EUROPE RESEARCH: EUROPEAN INSTITUTIONS, ENLARGEMENT, WIDER INTEGRATION AND THE WORLD The Annual Demand for Seasonal Immigrant Labor in Greece and its Influence on the Entrance of Albanian Workers S. Karafolas 179 TFBR TRANSITION FINANCE AND BANKING RESEARCH Consolidation in the Exchange Industry: What are Exchanges Actually Worth? Some Evidence from a Crises Environment M. Polato • J. Floreani 195 WTER WORLD TRANSITION ECONOMY RESEARCH The Effect of Globalization on Financial Development in the MENA Region M. Falahaty • S.H. Law 205 ECGW ENVIRONMENT, CLIMATE AND GLOBAL WARMING Allocating Costs of Environmental Management among Generations: A Case of Environmental Liabilities in Transition Economies S. Komatsu • A. Kalugin • S. Kaneko 225 JDR JUNIOR DISSERTATIONS AND RESEARCHES Analyzing the Import Demand Function with Expenditure Components: Evidence from Pakistan S. Majeed • A. Waheed 245