Description
Book SynopsisExamines Central European communism, why it failed, and what has come since. Moving loosely chronologically from 1989 to the present, each chapter focuses on topics of importance to the fields of comparative politics, sociology, and feminist and gender studies.
Table of Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1. Revolutions: The fall of communism as witnessed from a beer barrel and beyond
- Chapter 2. Communism: The political importance of telling a good story
- Chapter 3: Neoliberalism: Why BMWs don’t just randomly explode!
- Chapter 4. Nationalism: Liberalism’s evil twin screws up the Enlightenment
- Chapter 5: Ethnic Conflict: The breakup of Yugoslavia through a feminist lens
- Chapter 6. “Transitology”: How I joined the global conspiracy against Slovakia
- Chapter 7. Humanitarian Intervention: Liberalism weaponized in the Western Balkans
- Chapter 8. International Relations: The West Gets Cocky
- Chapter 9. Homophobia: Intersectionality and the political uses of fear
- Chapter 10. Populism: Austerity, fear and loathing on Central Europe’s periphery
- Chapter 11. Illiberal Democracy: The Political Economy of Hungary’s Liberal Unraveling
- Liberalism’s fragile dream
