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Globalization and the State in

Central and Eastern Europe

This book examines the transformation of the state in Central and Eastern Europe

since the end of communism and adoption of market-oriented reform in the early

1990s, exploring the impact of globalization and economic liberalization on the

region’s states, societies and political economy. It compares the different policies

and national strategies adopted by key Central and Eastern European states,

including the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary and Slovakia, showing how initial

internally oriented strategies of market reform, privileging domestic sources of

investment, had by the late 1990s given way to externally oriented strategies

emphasizing the promotion of competitiveness by attracting foreign investment.

It explores the reasons behind this convergence, considering the influence of

internal and external forces, and the roles of interests, institutions and ideas. It

argues that internationalization of the state is forged in the processes through which

domestic groups linked to transnational capital attain domestic inﬂuence necessary

to shape state policy and strategy. These groups – the comprador service sector in

particular – constitute and organize political, social and institutional support of

the competition state in the region. Overall, this book provides a detailed account

not only of the political economy of post-communist transformation in Central

and Eastern Europe, but of the processes by which states adapt to the forces of

globalization.

Jan Drahokoupil is a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of

Societies in Cologne. He obtained a Ph.D. at the Central European University in

Budapest. His recent publications include Contradictions and Limits of Neoliberal

European Governance: From Lisbon to Lisbon (co-edited with Bastiaan van

Apeldoorn and Laura Horn).

‘This book develops a very coherent and rich analysis of the much-discussed

process of transition from state socialism to market economies in Central and

Eastern Europe. The author more than meets the challenge of ﬁnding something

new to say about this topic, developing a novel approach based on a sophisticated

account of structure, agency, and discourse; providing a new periodization of the

steps in the transition in different societies; showing the interaction of economic

and political forces in changing institutional and conjunctural contexts; identifying

the key actors and forces that shape the transition and their crucial mediating role

between foreign capital and states and domestic economic and political interests;

and providing some insightful comments on varieties of transition. I recommend

this book most warmly.’

Bob Jessop, Founding Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies,

Distinguished Professor of Sociology, Lancaster University

‘The real innovation of Drahokoupil’s approach lies in going beyond the opposition

of national versus transnational explanations. His focus on the comprador sector

as the site linking the two perspectives is very effective and helps to set an agenda

for future studies, including on other world regions.’

Don Kalb, Professor, Central European University,

Budapest & Utrecht University

‘Drahokoupil’s book constitutes an advance in the understanding of the

internationalization of states, societies and political economies. The book is well

written and it provides provocative ideas on the forces of convergence in the

international political economy and on the evolution of the competition state based

on the insightful analysis of the Central and Eastern European countries.’

László Bruszt, Professor, European University Institute, Florence

‘Students of Eastern Europe’s transformation and transnational integration will

read this book with great interest. The book offers rich empirical data and a

convincing and sophisticated argument on how the interaction among state

reformers, domestic interest groups and transnational corporations shaped the

emergence of the region’s new transnational capitalism.’

Béla Greskovits, Professor, Central European University, Budapest

BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies

Series editor: Richard Sakwa,

Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Kent

Editorial Committee:

Julian Cooper, Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham

Terry Cox, Department of Central and East European Studies, University of Glasgow

Rosalind Marsh, Department of European Studies and Modern Languages, University

of Bath

David Moon, Department of History, University of Durham

Hilary Pilkington, Department of Sociology, University of Warwick

Stephen White, Department of Politics, University of Glasgow

Founding Editorial Committee Member:

George Blazyca, Centre for Contemporary European Studies, University of Paisley

This series is published on behalf of BASEES (the British Association for Slavonic and East

European Studies). The series comprises original, high-quality, research-level work by both

new and established scholars on all aspects of Russian, Soviet, post-Soviet and East

European Studies in humanities and social science subjects.

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Policy, 1991–2000

Roman Wolczuk

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Derek S. Hutcheson

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Post-Communist Transformation

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Communist Europe

J.C. Sharman

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Anton Steen

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Sarah Hudspith

7. Performing Russia – Folk Revival

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Laura J. Olson

8. Russian Transformations

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The baton and sickle

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10. State Building in Ukraine

The Ukranian parliament, 1990–2003

Sarah Whitmore

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Sergei Kovalyov, dissident and

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Emma Gilligan

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Postcommunist livelihoods and

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Anne White

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Religion in Russia after communism

Zoe Knox

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Class war and race war on the Dvina,

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The Russian, Czech and Slovak ﬁction

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Rajendra A. Chitnis

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Dissident legacies

Robert Horvath

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Adaptations of Literature,

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Screening the word

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Anat Vernitski

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Dimensions of security under Putin

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Philip Boobbyer

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Emergency powers and states of

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Alexander N. Domrin

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A social and cultural history of reform

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Olessia Koltsova

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Democratization in Russia and the

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Jacqueline Hayden

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Elections in Russia

Sarah Oates

28. Russian Constitutionalism

Historical and contemporary

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Andrey N. Medushevsky

29. Late Stalinist Russia

Society between reconstruction and

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Edited by Juliane First

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Konstantin Axenov, Isolde Brade and

Evgenij Bondarchuk

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From Red Square to the Left Bank

Ludmila Stern

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Irina Mukhina

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The Donbas in transition

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John Russell

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Czech transformation and right-wing

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Edited by Alexander Wöll and Harald

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Russia’s power, Oligarchs’ proﬁts and

Ukraine’s missing energy policy,

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Borderland colonization in Eurasian

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