Forthcoming European Politics Books

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31. Adapting to Russia's New Labour Market

    Gender and Employment Behaviour

    Edited by Sarah Ashwin

    Series: Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series

    Economic reform in post-Soviet Russia created not only a devastating decline in living standards, but also widespread insecurity and uncertainty. This book is the first to analyse the situation from a gendered perspective, shedding new light on the way in which Russians are coping with the...

    To Be Published June 19th 2013 by Routledge
32. Educational Reform in Post-Soviet Russia

    Legacies and Prospects

    Edited by Ben Eklof, Larry E. Holmes, Vera Kaplan

    Series: Cummings Center Series

    This volume consists of a collection of essays devoted to study of the most recent educational reform in Russia. In his first decree Boris Yeltsin proclaimed education a top priority of state policy. Yet the economic decline which accompanied the collapse of the Soviet Union dealt a crippling blow...

    To Be Published June 19th 2013 by Routledge
33. Small-Town Russia

    Postcommunist Livelihoods and Identities: A Portrait of the Intelligentsia in Achit, Bednodemyanovsk and Zubtsov, 1999-2000

    By Anne White

    Series: BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies

    This book examines a number of key questions about social change in contemporary Russia - issues such as how people survive when they are not paid for months on end, 'the New Poor', the falling birth rate, why so many Russian men die in middle age, whether regional identities are becoming stronger,...

    To Be Published June 19th 2013 by Routledge
34. Russian/Soviet Military Psychiatry 1904-1945

    By Paul Wanke

    Psychiatry, like most professional fields in Russia, gained its legitimacy from its ability to serve the Tsar and later the Bolshevik party. The militarised nature of these governments meant that psychiatry would have to prove its worth to the military. This study will cover Russian/Soviet military...

    To Be Published June 19th 2013 by Routledge
35. Italy's Foreign Policy in the 21st Century

    A Contested Nature?

    Edited by Ludovica Marchi, Richard Whitman, Geoffrey Edwards

    Series: Routledge Advances in European Politics

    Italy’s foreign policy has often been dismissed for punching below its weight, for being too idiosyncratic and inconsistent. This book offers new insights into the position attained by Italy in the contemporary world. It explores how the country has sought to take advantage of the passage from a...

    To Be Published June 29th 2013 by Routledge
36. European integration and consensus politics in the Low Countries

    Edited by Hans Vollaard, Jan Beyers, Patrick Dumont

    Series: Europe and the Nation State

    Much of the empirical research on Europeanization that has mainly focused on the larger member states, and tends to ignore that most Europeans live in small states and that most of the EU member-states are small states. This book investigates how the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg, respond...

    To Be Published June 29th 2013 by Routledge
37. New Approaches to EU Foreign Policy

    Edited by Maciej Wilga, Ireneusz Pawel Karolewski

    Series: Routledge Advances in European Politics

    The EU foreign policy had existed as the European Political Cooperation with only a limited political leverage and rather symbolic institutional underpinnings, but this has been rapidly changing characterised by a growing institutional apparatus and increasing responsibility and demand for action....

    To Be Published June 29th 2013 by Routledge
38. Politics, Religion and Gender

    Framing and Regulating the Veil

    Edited by Sieglinde Rosenberger, Birgit Sauer

    Series: Routledge Studies in Religion and Politics

    Heated debates about Muslim women's veiling practices have regularly attracted the attention of European policymakers over the last decade. The headscarf has been both vehemently contested by national and/or regional governments, political parties and public intellectuals and passionately defended...

    To Be Published June 29th 2013 by Routledge
39. The Political Economy of South-East Europe

    From Post-War to Post-Crisis

    Edited by Gerhard Hanappi

    Series: Routledge Studies in the European Economy

    Recent developments in the global economy, such as the Greek budget crisis, have lead to new focus on the role of Europe, and in particular on the countries in Europe’s south-eastern region. This new volume from a global set of contributors explores south-east Europe’s present and future direction,...

    To Be Published June 30th 2013 by Routledge
40. The Council of Europe

    Structure, History and Issues in European Politics

    By Martyn Bond

    Series: Global Institutions

    The book provides a succinct and much needed introduction to the Council of Europe from its foundation through the early conventions on human rights and culture to its expansion into the fields of social affairs, environment and education. Founded in 1949 within a month of NATO, the Council of...

    To Be Published July 1st 2013 by Routledge