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The first years of the transformation processes in the Central East European Countries (CEECs) instigated many social scientific analyses about the institutional change in the political and economic systems. Later, it became more and more obvious that these new institutions would need a longer and deeper embedding process, than first expected, into the everyday life attitudes, the expectations and mentalities of the people. In this context, a certain amount of scientific attention shifted to a consideration of the relationship between the formal and informal social ties and interactions in these countries. In October 1998, an international conference at Potsdam provoked an interdisciplinary debate about the 'transformation of the informal in the CEECs'. The following observation will contribute to this debate, which concentrates on the East German transformation case and on the sphere of economic interaction in an innovative and rapidly changing branch - informational technology. The presented results are based on a research project focused on the cooperation and networking attitudes of different types of new entrepreneurs in this branch in the region Berlin-Brandenburg.

"The paper supplements the literature on post-communist organized labor with a systematic
comparison of union strategies towards employers at the plant level, in the metal sector throughout the 2000s (in Romania and Ukraine). It shows how unions can bring employers to the negotiation table, and highlights strategic elements that allow unions to act in support of their members even when facing the biggest difficulties, brought by collapsing economic sectors and dwindling employer interest in production. The paper's novel contribution lies in uncovering how trade unions cast their strategies in terms of constituting disruption to force their opponents to accept at least parts of their demands." [author's abstract]

"Der Beitrag beschäftigt sich mit der außenpolitischen Performanz der EU und stützt sich dabei auf drei verschiedene Betrachtungsweisen: den Realismus und die Theorien der EU als imperiale bzw. der EU als normative Macht. Mit Hilfe eines auf Basis dieser drei Theorien entwickelten Analyseschemas werden fünf Politikfelder analysiert, wobei die Studie zu dem Ergebnis kommt, dass die Imperiums-Theorie dem Auftreten der EU in ihren Außenpolitiken am nächsten kommt. Ein weiterer Fokus liegt auf der Frage, inwiefern die Performanz eines Akteurs in Zusammenhang mit seiner inneren Konstitution – seinen Akteursqualitäten steht. Dazu werden im Fazit drei Hypothesen formuliert, die jeweils einen bestimmten Grad an Akteursqualitäten für eine bestimmte Performanz des Akteurs annehmen." (Autorenreferat)