The Post-Soviet as Post-Colonial

A New Paradigm for Understanding Constitutional Dynamics in the Former Soviet Empire

William Partlett, Herbert Küpper (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

288 Seiten

2022
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-80220-943-3 (ISBN)

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This book takes a new approach to post-socialist constitutional change in Europe and Eurasia. It views these constitutions as the products of the collapse of Europe’s last empire, the Soviet Union. This book therefore seeks to understand these constitutions as more than just post-authoritarian texts, but also as post-colonial ones.

This post-colonial paradigm provides a new set of tools for understanding constitutional dynamics in key countries within the European Union as well as the former Soviet republics to the East. In particular, it helps explain democratic backsliding in Central Europe (such as Hungary and Poland), authoritarian resilience in many of the former Soviet republics (including Russia, Belarus, and Kazakhstan) as well as ongoing struggles about national identity in places like Ukraine and Moldova.

Partlett and Küpper’s application of the post-colonial paradigm to the former Soviet world contributes to our understanding of post-colonial constitutionalism. This insightful book therefore appeals to the comparative constitutional academic community as well as the broader academic community interested in post-colonialism. It will also be of interest to a general audience interested in better understanding the former socialist bloc countries.

William Partlett, Associate Professor of Law, Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne, Australia and Herbert Küpper, Managing Director, Institute for East European Law, Research Centre for Eastern and South Eastern Europe, Regensburg, Germany

Contents: Preface Introduction: understanding East European and Eurasian constitutions through the post-colonial lens 1. Post-colonialism and post-socialist constitutional change 2. Russian constitution-making: convergence or continued exceptionalism in the former imperial centre? 3. An unexpected independence: the constitutions of the states of the ‘inner empire’ 4. Case studies from the inner empire 5. Factual decolonisation: the constitutions of the states of the ‘outer empire’ 6. Case study from the outer empire Conclusions: the shadows of the past and the overlaps between
the post-authoritarian and the post-colonial Bibliography Index

Erscheinungsdatum	23.05.2022
Reihe/Serie	Elgar Monographs in Constitutional and Administrative Law
Verlagsort	Cheltenham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	1-80220-943-3 / 1802209433
ISBN-13	978-1-80220-943-3 / 9781802209433
Zustand	Neuware