The Splintering of Postcommunist Europe
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7879458 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alina Mungiu-Pippidi, Alina Mungiu‐pippidi (0000-0001-9472-9852, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 88-100 |
| Publication date | 2015-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of democracy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1045-5736 • E-ISSN: 1086-3214 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/jod.2015.0016 |
| OpenAlex | W2115866793 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 7 |
There are two radically different versions of the postcommunist narrative. One tells the triumphal tale of the only world region in which the reforms recommended by the “Washington consensus” worked. The other and more realistic account speaks of a historic window of opportunity that lasted for only a quarter-century, during which efforts by the West and patriotic elites of Central and Eastern Europe managed to drag the region into Europe proper, leaving Europe and Russia pitted against each other along the old “civilizational” border between them. This essay argues that while Institutional choices matter in the postcommunist world, geopolitical and civilizational boundaries still set the horizons of political possibility
Political science · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · Political Conflict and Governance · Soviet and Russian History
| Citations per year | 0.36 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2015 - 2018 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |