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Book SynopsisFollowing the transformation of the Soviet-controlled Eastern European system, there has been a renewal of discourses on civil society. The collection of essays discusses this complicated and controversial concept and explores the possibility of new approaches for the study of Korean civil society and democracy. Combining interdisciplinary and transregional research, it contributes directly to the field of
democracy after democratization and sheds light on concepts of civil society, developments of various civil society organizations and student movements in Germany, Korea, and Eastern Europe.
Table of ContentsContents: Walter Reese-Schäfer: Civil Society and Political Theory – Hyo-Je Cho: Voyage through Uncharted Waters: Challenges for Korean Civil Society in Times of Turbulent Democracy – George Katsiaficas: A Global Perspective on 1968 – Jin-Wook Shin: Ideological Conflict in Civil Society and Korean Democracy in Trouble – Dieter Segert: Weak civil societies - either a legacy of state socialism or as produced by the transition stress? East Central Europe after 1989 in comparison – Il-Pyo Hong: The Pressure of «Dual De-institutionalization» and the Institutionalized Response of Social Movements in Korea – Klaus Meschkat: Students as agents of democratization in German society: 1968 and the revival of the concept of Council Democracy – Axel Rüdiger: 1968 and its Consequences in the GDR - Looking for Traces in the Cultural Field – Yun Tae Kim: The Social Impacts of Student Movement in Korea.
