This paper analyses the transformation of elites in the Visegrád Four countries (namely the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia). Drawing on a process-tracing analysis, it argues that the emergence of foreign-led economies in the late 1990s was intertwined with political processes in...

chapter Introduction -- chapter 1 Understanding convergence towards the competition state: The transnational constitution of domestic politics -- chapter 2 The rise of the competition state: Towards the Porterian workfare postnational regime -- chapter 3 Creating national capitalism against the...

The world financial crisis of 2008 affected transition economies (including Eastern Europe and CIS members) in different ways depending on their previous growth patterns and forms of international integration. The sources of diversity have often been overlooked in views of transition as...

This paper analyses the changing forms of international economic integration in Central Asia Republics (CARs) of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan from their emergence as independent states at the time of the break-up of the Soviet Union to the world financial...