Black Sea Politics Political Culture and Civil Society in an Unstable Region

by Ayata, Ayse; Ergun, Ayça; Çelimli, Isil

• ISBN13: 9781845110352
• ISBN10: 1845110358
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-12-05
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris

Summary

Black Sea Politics presents a variety of experiences of civil society, looking at representation, participation and power relations in countries such as Ukraine, Romania, Bulgaria, and the Caucasus area. A rare combination of the "insider" perspectives of regional experts and the "outsider" views of international experts, this book presents vital new insights on an under-studied region with growing importance in international relations as witnessed by the confrontations between Russia and the West in the Ukranian election crisis.

Author Biography

Ayse Ayata is Professor of Political Science and Chair of the Center For Black Sea and Central Asia at the Middle East Technical University, Ankara. Ayça Ergun is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Middle East Technical University. Isil çelimli is at the Department of Sociology, Columbia University, New York.

Table of Contents

List of Tables	ix
Preface	xi
Ayse Günes-Ayata
Introduction	1	(10)
Ayse Günes-Ayata, Ayca Ergun, Isil Çelimli
PART I BLACK SEA AS A REGION OF STUDY
Frontier-Function & Civil Society: The Black Sea World in the Past and Its Prospects for the Future	11	(13)
Eyüp Özveren
Interregional Cooperation between the EU and BSEC	24	(17)
Tunç Aybak
PART II REPRESENTATION, PARTICIPATION AND ELECTIONS
Parties and Electorates in Ukraine: Cultivating the Grass-Roots	41	(21)
Sarah Birch
Transitional Politics, Political Marketing and Civic Society: The Case of the 2000 Elections in Romania	62	(15)
Lucian Maria Salagean & Stephen Blackwell
The Evolution of the Multiparty System in Ukraine: Prelude to a Robust Democracy?	77	(26)
Olga Kesarchuk
PART III CIVIL SOCIETY AND ITS ORGANIZATIONS
Democratization from Below: The Role of Civil Society in Azerbaijan	103	(17)
Ayça Ergun
Civil Society — a Key Element of the Post-Cold-War Zeitgeist: Civic Society Structure in Bulgaria	120	(10)
Elena Triffonova
The Civiliarchic Transformation of Civil Society in Armenia: Civiliologic Discourse	130	(11)
Asbot S. Alexagan
The Constitution of the Civil Sector in Bulgaria after 1989: Between Business Enterprise and Civic Participation	141	(16)
Petya Kabakchieva
PART IV POWER RELATIONS
The Predicament of Civil Society in Post-Soviet Russia: Dynamics of Media Politics	157	(14)
Oktay F. Tanrisever
Social Power and Post-Soviet Economic Transformation	171	(18)
Neil Robinson
State Formation, Civil Society and Democratization: Comparing the Turkish Experience with Mediterranean and East European Cases	189	(34)
Fethi Açikel
Notes	223	(6)
Contributors	229	(4)
Index	233