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Explores the application of constructivist theory to international relations. The text examines the relevance of constructivism for empirical research, focusing on some of the key issues of contemporary international politics: ethnic and national identity; gender; and political economy

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- About the Editors and Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One. Profiles of Entrepreneurs -- 1. Joining the Winners: Self-Employment and Stratification in Post-Soviet Russia -- 2. The Worm and the Caterpillar: The Small Private Sector in the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Slovakia -- 3. The Yu Zuomin Phenomenon: Entrepreneurs and Politics in Rural China -- 4. Security and Enforcement as Private Business: The Conversion of Russia's Power Ministries and Its Institutional Consequences -- 5. The Construction of a Professional Field: Resources, Skills, and Attributes of Founders of the Market Research Sector in Poland, 1989 to 1997 -- 6. Entrepreneurs and Democratization in China's Foreign Sector -- Part Two. Patterns of Entrepreneurialism -- 7. Entrepreneurial Action in the State Sector: The Economic Decisions of Chinese Managers -- 8. Entrepreneurial Strategies and the Structure of Transaction Costs in Russian Business -- 9. The Embedded Politics of Entrepreneurship and Network Restructuring in East-Central Europe -- 10. Social Capital and Entrepreneurial Success: Hungarian Small Enterprises Between 1993 and 1996 -- 11. Entrepreneurial Governmentality in Postsocialist Russia: A Cultural Investigation of Business Practices -- 12. Marketing Civility, Civilizing the Market: Chinese Multilevel Marketing's Challenge to the State -- Index.

Introduction / William J. Hurst, Thomas B. Gold, and Jaeyoun Won -- Broadening the debate on xiagang : policy origins and parallels in history / Lei Guang -- Xiagang and the geometry of urban political patronage in China : celebrated state (once-) workers and state chagrin / Dorothy J. Solinger -- Class formation or fragmentation? Allegiances and divisions among managers and workers in state-owned enterprises / Kun-Chin Lin -- Voices of xiagang : naming, blaming, and framing / Eva P.W. Hung and Stephen W.K. Chiu -- The power of the past : nostalgia and popular discontent in contemporary China / William J. Hurst -- China's older workers : between law and policy, between laid off and unemployed / Mary E. Gallagher -- The professional reintegration of the "xiagang" / Li Peilin and Zhang Yi -- Farewell to socialist labor in China / Jaeyoun Won -- State policies and Chinese laid-off workers' limited resistance / Yongshun Cai -- The reemergence of street protests : state workers challenge the Chinese state / Antoine Kernen