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The Economist Book of the Week on 29th May 2010 was A Tale of Two Villages by Alina Mungiu-Pippidi. "A dramatic, thought-provoking and sometimes savagely funny account of one of the
toughest problems in Europe: the ingrained poverty of the Romanian countryside."
CEU Press launched Masterpieces of History - The Peaceful End of the Cold War in Europe, 1989, the sixth book in the Cold War Reader Series, on May 31 at the Open Society Archives. The volume, based on the ground-breaking research and documentation of the National Security Archive in Washington DC, contains crucial historical documents and is absolutely indispensable for understanding the end of the Cold War.
Prague Tales leads top ten of CEU Press sales after 2000. 2. Memoir of Hungary, 3. The 1956 Hungarian Revolution, 4. A Cardboard Castle, 5. Jewish Budapest, 6. A Biographical Dictionary, 7. Stalin – an Unknown Portrait , 8. Uprising in East Germany, 9. A Life under Russian Serfdom, 10. Russian Foreign Policy in Transition
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Safe Third Countries
Extending the EU Asylum and Immigration Policies to
Central and Eastern Europe
Sandra Lavenex, European University Institute,
Florence, Italy
The refugee issue has always been controversial and
Lavenex's analyses add fuel to an already heated debate.
She analyses the various bi- and multilateral processes
by which the countries of Central and Eastern Europe
(CEECs) are being gradually incorporated into a restrictive
refugee regime established among the EU member states,
in which the CEECs serve as "gate-keepers" for refugees
and immigrants heading towards Western Europe.
At a time when many transition countries are trying
to enter the EU, Lavenex highlights the CEECs consent
to adapt to Western European policies aimed at fighting
illegal immigration and reducing the numbers of asylum
seekers as a political bargaining tool in exchange for
future membership in the EU. She also argues that the
regime undermines the values of international refugee
protection and diffuses states' responsibilities by
establishing a system of negative redistribution for
the handling of asylum claims.
Safe Third Countries is the first comprehensive study
on the extension of the emergent European refugee regime
and highlights, in an innovative manner, the complex
entanglement of domestic policies, European integration
and international relations.
1999
200 pages
ISBN 978-963-9116-44-3 paperback $22.95 / €19.95 / £15.99
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