The year 1989 brought the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe. It was also the year that the economic theories of Reagan, Thatcher, and the Chicago School achieved global dominance. And it was these neoliberal ideas that largely determined the course of the political, economic, and social changes that transformed Europe—both east and west—over the next quarter century.
An Alternative Reading of the Cold War
The Neoliberal Turn in East and West
Centers and Agents of Revolution
Milestones of the Transformation
The Bumpy Road of Reforms in Eastern Europe
Neoliberalism’s Inherent Problems
The EU’s Marshall Plan for the East
Chalk and Cheese? Or Why We Should Compare
Metropolitan Convergence, or Why the East Looks like the West
The End of Economic Convergence?
Predatory Lending in Central and Eastern Europe
Political Reactions: Between Neoliberalism and Authoritarianism
Crisis Commonalities between Southern and Eastern Europe
Social and Labor Market Reforms in Germany
The Politicians Who Came in from the East
Mass Participation in Revolution