{"product_id":"fragile-dreams-9780472075041","title":"Fragile Dreams","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExamines 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePreface and Acknowledgments\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 1. Revolutions: The fall of communism as witnessed from a beer barrel and beyond\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 2. Communism: The political importance of telling a good story\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 3: Neoliberalism: Why BMWs don’t just randomly explode!\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 4. Nationalism: Liberalism’s evil twin screws up the Enlightenment\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 5: Ethnic Conflict:  The breakup of Yugoslavia through a feminist lens\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 6. “Transitology”: How I joined the global conspiracy against Slovakia\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 7. Humanitarian Intervention: Liberalism weaponized in the Western Balkans\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 8. International Relations: The West Gets Cocky\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 9. Homophobia: Intersectionality and the political uses of fear\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 10. Populism: Austerity, fear and loathing on Central Europe’s periphery\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 11. Illiberal Democracy: The Political Economy of Hungary’s Liberal Unraveling\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Liberalism’s fragile dream\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"LUP - University of Michigan Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51534947647831,"sku":"9780472075041","price":64.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780472075041.jpg?v=1755858195","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/fragile-dreams-9780472075041","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}