Social culture and regional governance : comparison of the European Union and post-Soviet experiences / M. Strezhneva.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Strezhneva, M. V. (Marina Vadimovna)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Commonwealth of Independent States.

European Union.

Physical Description:

xiv, 269 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Commack, N.Y. : Nova Science Publishers, [1999]

Contents:

1.2. Social Versus Political Integration 8

1.3. The Emerging Set of the CIS Institutions 15

1.4. Regional Governance Regime 25

1.5. Research Objective 27

Integration as a Variant of Political Transformation 31

2.1. Integration 32

2.2. Political Integration 39

2.3. Ways of Life 48

Comparing the CIS and the EU 59

3.1. The Notion of 'Regime' 59

3.2. The Notion of Political Game 67

3.3. Legitimisation of Political Regimes 70

The Institutional Evolution of the European Community and the Problem of Legitimacy 81

4.1. 1950s 82

4.2. 1960s and 1970s 88

4.3. 1980s and 1990s 94

4.4. Legitimacy Issue 99

Major Post-Soviet Social Groups and Their Cultural Preferences 111

5.1. Ethno-Cultural Considerations 113

5.2. Socio-Economic Considerations 116

5.3. Political Considerations 122

5.4. National Combinations: Societies Versus Political Regimes 129

5.5. The CIS as a Tool of Post-Soviet Sociocultural Transformation 155

The Agenda of the CIS 165

6.1. Economic Issues 167

6.2. Security Cooperation 177

6.3. Conflicts Within the CIS Region 180

6.4. Citizenship 184

6.5. Institutional Design of the CIS 188

Approaches of the CIS Member-States to Financial and Monetary Cooperation 195

7.1. Monetary Component of Regional Transformation 196

7.2. National Priorities and Regional Monetary Arrangements 206

7.3. Regional Payments Union or Multilateral Convertibility? 218

Communicative Versus Normative Integration 229

Cultural and Institutional Bases of Intergovernmentalism 230

Limitations of the 'Integration' Explanatory Model 231

The Explanatory Model of Cultural Theory 234

Cultural Interpretation of Political Transformations 235

The Role of Hierarchy 237

The Role of Individualism 238

The Role of Egalitarianism 241

Individual Rights 242

Culture-Structure Interrelations and Their Historical Interpretation 243

Majoritarianism Versus Consensualism in Their Regional Political Forms 245

Legitimisation of Integrative Governance 247.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [249]-263) and index.

ISBN:

1560726342

OCLC:

40174914