International Political Economy of Transition

Taylor & Francis

The International Political Economy of TransitionAuthor(s): Stuart Shields\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138811829, 978-1138811829\nSynopsis\nShortlisted for the 2013 BISA IPEG Book Prize, this book explores how Eastern Europes post-communist transition can only be understood as part of a broader interrogation of neoliberal hegemony in the global political economy, and provides a detailed historical account of the emergence of neoliberalism in Eastern Central Europe.\n\nAdopting an innovative Gramscian approach to post-communist transition, this book charts the rise to hegemony of neoliberal social forces. Using transition in Poland as a starting point, the author traces how particular social forces most intimately associated with transnational capital successful in the struggle over competing reform strategies. Transition is broken down into three stages; the \""first wave\"" illustrates how the rise of partics