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This book addresses important and under-researched issues such as, the role of young people in democratization processes, the role of new democracies in sharing their transition experience, and the effectiveness of aid. A major theme of the book is democracy assistance efforts by the NGOs from Central and Eastern Europe to support young people in Eastern Europe, the Western Balkans, and Central Asia. It examines this theme in a comparative perspective and with a deeper analysis of reasons and ways to support young people, the need to support them and the effectiveness of these efforts.Bringing together a wide range of material on democracy assistance of Central and Eastern European countries that includes surveying the providers and beneficiaries of aid and looking for better methods of impact evaluation, the book advances a framework for assessing democracy assistance efforts. It concludes with implications of the impact of democracy assistance on young people and democracy diffusion from Central and Eastern European democracies to other countries.This text will be of key interest to scholars and students of democracy, democratization, Central and Eastern Europe, Post-Soviet studies, and European and Comparative Politics, as well as for practitioners (donors, NGOs) who want to know what works best, and why and when in aid provision.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part 1Capitalism: Inequalities and Alternatives -- 1. Reflections on the Death of Socialism: Changing Perceptions of the State/Society Line -- 2. Is Capitalism Eternal? -- 3. Inequality and the Division of Labor: The Davis-Moore Theory Reexamined -- 4. Economy and Society: The Future -- 5. What is Left of the Left? -- Part 2: Multiculturalism and Identity Politics -- 6. Adversarial Identities and Multiculturalism -- 7. Diversity: Catchword and Reality -- 8. Conscience and Culture: The Moral Senseand Cultural Relativism -- Part 3: Communitarianism -- 9. Communitarianism, Human Nature, and the Spirit of the Times -- 10. The Apolitics of Community (in an Era without Politics) -- 11. Putting Putnam's Thesis in its Place -- Part 4: Theory and Theorists -- 12. What Happens but Once Might as Well not Have Happened at All: The Limits of Social Theory -- 13. The Postmodernist Shuffle -- 14. Raymond Aron -- 15. C.Wright Mills Recalled -- 16. Digby Baltzell -- 17. Etzioni, Socio-Economics, and Human Nature -- Part 5: Autobiographical Reminiscences -- 18. A Racial Incident Long Ago -- 19. Remembering the Rosenbergs and McCarthyism -- 20. Fated to be a Professor? -- Index.

In Japan, people often refer to August 15, 1945 as the end of "that war." But the duration of "that war" remains vague. At times, it refers to the fifteen years of war in the Asia-Pacific. At others, it refers to an imagination of the century long struggle between the East and the West that characterized much of the 19th century. This latter dramatization in particular reinforces longstanding Eurocentric and Orientalist discourses about historical development that presume the non-West lacks historical agency. Nearly 75 years since the nominal end of the war, Japan's "history problem" – a term invoking the nation's inability to come to terms with its imperial past – persists throughout Asia today.Going beyond well-worn clichés about the state's use and abuse of discourses of historical modernity, Koyama shows how the inability to confront the debris of empire is tethered to the deferral of agency to a hegemonic order centered on the United States. The present is thus a moment one stitched between the disavowal of responsibility on the one hand, and the necessity of becoming a proper subject of history on the other. Behind this seeming impasse lay questions about how to imagine the state as the subject of history in a postcolonial moment – after grand narratives, after patriotism, and after triumphalism.

Religious heretics -- six characters in search of God -- Fin de siècle Hebrew Nietzscheanism -- It would be a good thing if the God of Zarathustra were the God of Israel -- Bereavement, breakdown and the great heresy -- Nietzschean religious Jews -- A Nietzschean Hassid taken to Treblinka -- Zarathustra faces Mount Sinai -- The resurrection of myth -- It came over me like a revelation -- Zarathustra or Messiah? -- Nietzsche in the Holy Land -- The Nietzschian ethos and the Canaanite spirit -- Hebrew Hellenism.