Lecture Plan

Politics of Russia and Eastern Europe

Jaewon, Chung (tel:010-9957-4556/ E-mail: moscow4@hanmail.net)

* Course Outline

This course is designed to critically examine the literatures on political  transformations in post-communist countries with a view to empirical analysis of the international and regional dynamics. Topics for the course include political  transformations in post-communist Russia and Central and Eastern European countries.

* Conduct of the Course

Those who take this course are supposed to have basic knowledge about the history of real socialism, the process of democratization, transition to market economy, and the reality of neoliberal globalization in the Periphery of the world capitalist system. The course will be organized as a seminar course, which is comprised of student's summary of readings, free discussions followed by comments from the lecturer.

* Students' Responsibility and Evaluation

Students are expected to summarize assigned readings and present it in class. Students should attend the class and participate in the discussion actively. All students will be divided into a few groups so that they can prepare a presentation which will substitute for the mid-term examination. At the end of the semester, students are required to take final exam and submit a research paper on the relevant topics of their own choice.

* Cource organization

Developments in Russian Politics 7 / (ed.) Stephen White, Richard Sakwa and Henry E. Hale. (New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010)

Politics in Russia / Thomas F. Remington. (New York : Pearson / Longman, 2010).

Understanding Russian Politics / Stephen White. (London: Cambridge University Press, 2011)

Central and southeast European politics since 1989 / (ed.) Sabrina P. Ramet. (UK ;  Cambridge University Press, 2010)

Developments in Central and East European Politics 3 / (ed.) Stephen White, Judy Batt, and Paul G. Lewis. (Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2003)

를 중심 교재로 하되, 각 주 단위의 주제에 따라 참고 교재가 덧붙여질 것임. 학생들은 매 주 주제에 따라 주 교재는 물론 다양한 자료를 이용, 발제를 해야 하며, 발제를 하지 않는 학생들도 사전에 자료를 읽고 토론에 임해야 함.

Week 1. State communism and its dissolution

Week 2. Post-socialist models of rule in Central and Southeastern Europe

Week 3. The emergence of the nation-state in Central and Southeastern Europe

Week 4. Party systems, the executive, and the structures of representation

Week 5. Economic reforms and the illusion of transition

Week 6. Class and Inequality in Central and Southeastern Europe

Week 7. Central Europe

Week 8. Southeastern Europe

Week 9. Regional security, regional relations and the implications of EU enlargement

Week 10. Political institutions in post-soviet Russia: The executive, the legislature, and political parties

Week 11. Nationalism, federalism, and regionalism

Week 12. Russian capitalism: state and market in Russia's economic transition

Week 13. State and society: social movements and social policy

Week 14. Russian foreign and security policy

Week 15. Commonwealth, community and fragmentation

Week 16. Final Exam