Brings together articles that address the interconnected epidemics of HIV/AIDS and drug abuse. The editor places particular importance on 'harm reduction, ' a policy attempting to decrease the adverse consequences of drug use without total prohibition of drugs. Source documents offer examples of harm reduction initiatives and more

AIDS, Drugs And Society (Sourcebook on Contemporary Controversies)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Diseases & Physical Ailments

Central European University Pr

The "Europeanization" of European private law has recently received much scrutiny and attention. Harmonizing European systems of law represents one of the greatest challenges of the 21st century. In effect, it is the adaptation of national laws into a new supra-national law, a process that signifies the beginning of a new age in Europe. This volume seeks to frame the creation of a new European Common Law in the context of recent events in European integration. The work is envisioned as a guide and written in a research friendly style that includes text inserts and an extensive bibliography. The detailed analysis and research this volume accomplishes is invaluable to those scholars and lawmakers who are the next generation of European leaders.

The Harmonization of Civil And Commercial Law in Europe

Pasa, Barbara

Benacchio, Gian Antonio

Foreign & International Law

Capitalism With a Comrade's Face: Studies in the Postcommunist Transition

Are nations that are moving away from communism succeeding in becoming free-market democracies? In what ways do decades of totalitarian rule continue to distort the institutional shape of these societies? Which of communism's legacies will remain as permanent features of their landscape? To answer these questions, this book analyses the turbulent transitions that have taken place in the post-communist world since 1989-91. Each chapter dissects institutional upheaval in transition-central banking, the trade union movement, capital markets, or corporate governance. The authors stress the links between what was and what will be the social fabric of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. They expose the fragility of political and economic institutions that can easily threaten the region's rebirth, but they also believe that many post-communist countries are successfully seizing the opportunity to become reunited with the West and the global economy.

Capitalism with a Comrade's Face

Business & Money

Rapaczynski

Economics

Presenting an integrated view of transition based on a unified analytical framework, this text evaluates the experience of several transition economies. The author's view of transition emphasizes the connection between peculiar initial conditions and the effects of market reforms. Taking the starting point of underdeveloped markets and market institutions, he evaluates macroeconomic policies in relation to their impact on the development of markets. He stresses particularly financial markets, the "missing" market under the system of central planning and highlights fundamental trade-offs for economic policy, which can play a crucial role in determining the success of reforms. Intensity and timing of reform measures, he argues, should be adapted to different situations.

Macroeconomic Policies and the Development of Markets in Transition Economics

Coricelli, Fabrizio

This study on 18th century Central Europe, examines the coexistence of the Austrian hereditary provinces and Hungary. Both partners in this ambivalent relationship collaborated in bringing about reforms in the Habsburg monarchy, which later inspired movements around East-Central Europe.

Hungary and the Habsburgs 1765-1800

History

Wilkinson, Tim

Balázs, Éva H.

Europe

Each of the essays in this collection dissects the upheaval in a particular institution in transition, such as central banking, the trade union movement, capital markets, or corporate governance. In a lively and accessible style, the authors bring out the links between what was and what will be in the social fabric of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. They expose the fragility of political and economic institutions that can easily threaten the region's rebirth, but they also believe that many post-Communist countries are successfully seizing the opportunity to become reunited with the West and the global economy.

Murphy, Kenneth

Rapaczynski, Andrzej

Frydman, Roman

Political Economy of Protest and Patience

Why did Eastern Europeans protest less about the brutal social consequences of systemic change than the people of Latin America a decade earlier? Why has the region-wide authoritarian or populist turnabout not occurred? Why has democracy in these countries proved to be crisis-proof? In what ways has economic crisis impacted on the politics of the region? In addressing these questions, this book uses a comparative analysis of the structures, institutions, cultures, and actors shaping both the Eastern European and the Latin American transformations. The author argues that structural, institutional, and cultural factors have put a brake on destabilizing collective actions which have paved the way for the emergence of the enduring, low-level equilibrium between incomplete democracy and imperfect market economy which seems set to characterize the Eastern European experience for the foreseeable future.

The Political Economy of Protest and Patience: East European and Latin American Transformations Compared

Greskovits, Bela

Coreskouits, Bela

This is the first ever documented account of a Cold War crisis as seen from both sides of the Iron Curtain. Based on unprecedented access to the previously closed archives of each member-state of the Warsaw Pact, the book offers a unique look at a deeply divisive crisis. Highly readable, the book includes top-level documents from Kremlin Politburo meetings, multilateral sessions of the Warsaw Pact leading up to the decision to invade, and even transcripts of KGB-recorded telephone conversations between Leonid Brezhnev and Alexander Dubek. Once highly classified American documents from the National Security Council, CIA, and other agencies are also included. To provide a historical and political context, the book includes an introductory essay for each section, and a chronology, glossary, and bibliography provide further background information. As members of the commission appointed by Vclav Havel to investigate the events of 1967-70, the editors have a unique Czech-Slovak perspective to offer to foreign readers.

The Prague Spring 1968: A National Security Archive Documents Reader

Vondorova, Jitka

The author, one of the most highly respected scholars of historical anthropology, has undertaken extensive research on folk beliefs related to communication with the supernatural sphere. In this book, she examines the systems of such communication known by early modern Hungarians, and the role these systems played in the everyday life of the village. New types of mediators are identified such as "the neighborhood witch," the healing witch, and the demons seen in dreams. Representing a major contribution to the most up-to-date international research, Eva Pocs draws on significant East European material and literature not previously coordinated with that from the West. In so doing, she makes a valuable contribution to a subject that has recently attracted the attention of several leading scholars.

Between the Living and the Dead: A Perspective on Witches and Seers in the Early Modern Age

Religion & Spirituality

Pócs, Eva

Pocs, E.

New Age & Spirituality

In an exploration of the life and customs of the Hungarian nobility, this book compares historical reality and legal literature on the example of one noble family - the Elefanthy kindred from northern Hungary (present-day Slovakia). The author begins by outlining the customary law regarding noble status, inheritance, and marriage, as summarised in the famous code of Stephen Werboczy (1514). He then compares these norms with the documentary evidence and finds that the legal literature differs in regard to social mobility and kindred solidarity.

The Elefanthy

Fügedi, Erik

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