The Balkan war of 1999 Spring brought to an end the project of Western and Eastern Europe, i.e. the plan of post-Cold War unification. This would have been a viable project only if the Western states had wanted to rebuild the region on the basis of international norms instead of the principles of dominance and great power relations.
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Ten years after 1989 – The emergence of a new European left
The emergence of a New Left in Western Europe and the mass support for the post-communist parties in Eastern Europe shows that vast numbers of the world population do not accept the existing social order. What began in 1989 resulted in losses for many. In that light we have to pay attention to the new and radical tendencies of the international left ignored by many analysts and professional political scientists.See the coming published version in Kate Hudson: European Communism since 1989: towards a new European left, Macmillan Publishers, 1999.
The relevance of the ‘third way’
The editors proposed a question to leading Hungarian social scientists: "Was the programme of a Third Way meaningful in the time of the system change and does such an initiative has any relevance in the time of the turn of the century". Author Pal Szalai, sociologists Zsuzsa Ferge and Pal Tamas, political scientist Peter Szigeti and economist Istvan Siklaky answered.
A conceptual framework for the Third Way
A mini-encyclopaedia to support the discussion on the so-called Third Way, which can also be used to guide other studies of the contemporary social problems.
The other American exceptionalism
The development of the US differs from the European way by the lack of strong labour movement and a socialist or social democratic party. „The other US exceptionalism" is that until very recently soccer was not a popular game there, while it is the number one sport in Europe. The author displays the relationship between the two.