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PSCI 3209

Reconstruction and Transformation in Europe and Eurasia

0.5 credit · Undergraduate

The politics of dramatic political changes, such as revolution, secession, constitutional revision, and systemic reform. The course will include selected historical and comparative cases from Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.

Undated

Topics

  • Introduction; ethnic and linguistic diversity
  • Historical and Institutional Context: the Soviet Union; the Warsaw Pact
  • Post-Soviet Statebuilding: Collapse and Conflict.
  • Post-communist Regimes and Reform
  • Identity, Language, Culture
  • The Research Paper; the Colour Revolutions, Part I
  • The Colour Revolutions, Part II
  • . 21st century conflicts: Georgia, Ukraine, Nagorno-Karabakh
  • . Authoritarianism (*** In light of Remembrance Day, there will be no
  • . Populism and Nationalism

Readings

  • Katherine Graney, Russia, the former Soviet Republics and Europe since 1989: Transformation and Tragedy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.
  • Soviet State.” Current History, vol. 116, no. 792, October 2017, pp. 251-57.
  • Vaclav Havel and Paul Wilson. “The Power of the Powerless.” East European Politics and Societies and Cultures, vol. 32, no. 2, May 2018, pp. 353–408.
  • Diana Panke, “The European Court of Human Rights under scrutiny: explaining variation in non-compliance judgments.” Comparative European Politics, vol. 18 (April 2020), pp. 151–
  • Graney, chapters 5 and 7 Alessandra Russo and Andrea Gawrich. “Overlap with Contestation? Comparing Norms and Policies of Regional Organizations in the Post-Soviet Space.” Central Asian Survey, vol. 36,
  • no. 3, July 2017, pp. 331–352.
  • Kathleen E. Smith, “A Monument for Our Times? Commemorating Victims of Repression in Putin’s Russia.” Europe-Asia Studies, vol. 71, no. 8, Oct. 2019, pp. 1314–1344.

Prerequisites & course information

Prerequisite(s): third-year standing. Lectures three hours a week.

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