Addressing issues central to the future of European democracy – including politics and political processes, economic and social policy, and ideology, language and communication – this important book challenges many of the existing assumptions about the revolutions of 1989, their aftermath and the future of post-Cold War Europe.

Part 1: Nation-states, European institutions, and citizenship, Mary Kaldor; democracy and nationalism in Czechoslovakia, Zdenek Kavan; German identities - the impact of unification, Peter Lambert; from single European act to Maastricht - the creation of the European Union, Peter Holmes; gender and citizenship in east Central Europe after the end of state socialist policies for women's emancipation, Barbara Einhorn. Part 2: marketization and nationalism - a critical interface in the process of transformation, David A. Dyker; privitization and economic democracy in Hungary, Yudit Kiss; international business - global political economy and Eastern Europe, Sonia El Kahal; a Europe of the citizen, a Europe of solidarity? - social policy in the European Union, Crescy Cannan; the European Community and the problems of economic transition in Central and Eastern Europe, Alasdair Smith; steering the public sphere - communication policy in state socialism and after, William Outhwaite; the ideology of the end of Marxism/end of socialism thesis - a critical global perspective, John Maclean; "public service" and "collectivism" - the place of gender and voluntary work in different European traditions, Jenny Shaw; east Central European media systems in transition, Nancy Wood.