European Perspectives on Transition
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European Perspectives on Transition

A Comparative and Transnational Approach to the History of a Political and Social Concept

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European Perspectives on Transition

A Comparative and Transnational Approach to the History of a Political and Social Concept

About this book

The concept of transition occupies an awkward place within scholarship on contemporary European history. Seemingly unable to decipher the complex factors shaping the processes of democratization, it risks appearing redundant as a framework for understanding recent and on-going political developments. In European Perspectives on Transition, Pablo Sánchez León and Agustín Cosovschi prove otherwise, offering a pioneering and much-needed conceptual history of transition from a comparative perspective. Bringing together eight case studies on transitional discourse, ranging from the so-called Third Wave of Southern Europe in the 1970s to the regime changes in Central and Eastern Europe, this volume models a vital new way for studying temporality and transition within Europe.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series Information
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Table of Contents
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction. Transition: Conceptual and Comparative History of an Axial Political and Social Concept
  9. Chapter 1. Between Civil War and Revolution: The Concept of Transition in Spain and Portugal to the Twenty-First Century
  10. Chapter 2. The Engineering of a Transition to Democracy in Portugal
  11. Chapter 3. The Languages of Transition in the Soviet Republics: Interpreting Perestroika in Estonia and Lithuania in 1985–89
  12. Chapter 4. From Peaceful Revolution to the Search for Unity: Semantics of Transition in Germany since 1989
  13. Chapter 5. All Possible Futures: Social Sciences Thinking about Transition in Serbia and Croatia during the 1990s
  14. Chapter 6. The Semantics of the Transition to Democracy in Greece and Spain
  15. Chapter 7. Legal Doctrine and Liberal Pedagogy: The Concept of “Transition” and Polish Lawyers
  16. Chapter 8. Permanent Transition in Hungary
  17. Concluding Remarks: A Common Semantic Framework for Transitions with Diverse National Conjugations in Southern and Central-Eastern Europe
  18. Afterword: Time and Narrativity in “Transition”
  19. Index