From Eastern Bloc to European Union

<p> More than 25 years after the fall of the Soviet Union European integration remains a work in progress especially in those Eastern European nations most dramatically reshaped by democratization and economic liberalization. This volume assembles detailed empirically grounded studies of eleven states-Estonia Latvia Lithuania Poland the Czech Republic Slovakia Hungary Romania Bulgaria Slovenia and the former East Germany-that went on to join the European Union. Each chapter analyzes the political economic and social transformations that have taken place in these nations using a comparative approach to identify structural similarities and assess outcomes relative to one another as well as the rest of the EU.</p>