Books written by Jan Zielonka

The Enlarged European Union: Diversity and Adaptation

Their economic, legal and administrative structures are less developed. This collection of essays will try to examine the origin, nature, scale and implications of this divergence.
Media and Politics in New Democracies: Europe in a Comparative Perspective

This book analyses the relationship between the media and politics in new democracies in Europe and other parts of the world. It does so from both theoretical and empirical angles. How is power being mediated in new democracies?
Democratic Consolidation in Eastern Europe: Volume 1

This is the first volume in a series of books on democratic consolidation in Eastern Europe.
Democratic Consolidation in Eastern Europe: Volume 2

However, they are essential for guaranteeing the longevity of democracy as well as for improving the quality of democratic governance over time. For the purposes of this chapter, it is important to note two points. First, in most cases, ...
Europe as Empire: The Nature of the Enlarged European Union

This book offers a strikingly new perspective on EU enlargement.
The Road to the European Union: The Czech and Slovak Republics

Since the start of the new millennium, the issue of European Union enlargement has become Europe's major preoccupation. This text, the first of two volumes, deals comprehensively with this subject,...
Europe as Empire: The Nature of the Enlarged European Union

The book tries to spell out the origin, the shape, and the implications of this empire. The aim of this book is to suggest a novel way of thinking about the European Union and the process of European integration.
Democratic Consolidation in Eastern Europe: International and transnational factors

At the initiative of the Smallholders' Party the Antall administration began large-scale compensation by giving coupons to those whose property had been nationalized after 1945. These coupons could be used to buy state-owned land, ...
Europe as Empire: The Nature of the Enlarged European Union

This book seeks to comprehend the evolving nature of the European Union following the fall of the Berlin Wall and the failure of the European Constitution. Its prime focus is...
Explaining Euro-paralysis: Why Europe is Unable to Act in International Politics

This text concerns Europe's apparent inability to cope with the complex international environment.
Media and Politics in New Democracies: Europe in a Comparative Perspective

And how do new technologies impact the media and democracy? This book examines these questions, drawing on a vast set of data assembled by a large international project.
Counter-Revolution: Liberal Europe in Retreat

This book addresses the imbalance; it is a self-critical book by a life-time liberal. Counter-Revolution suggests that Europe and its liberal project need to be reinvented and recreated. There is no simple way back.
Is the EU Doomed?

In this compelling essay, leading scholar of European politics, Jan Zielonka argues that although the EU will only survive in modest form - deprived of many real powers - Europe as an integrated entity will grow stronger.
Counter-revolution: Liberal Europe in Retreat

This book is a bold attempt to make sense of the extraordinary events taking place in present-day Europe.
Democracy and Political Culture in Eastern Europe

This new book builds a clear understanding of what makes democracies strong and resistant to autocratic temptation.
The Lost Future: And How to Reclaim It

... speeding up fast capitalism' commits 'time robbery', depriving people of 'sleep, affect, family, leisure, nature, self and identity'.7 Capitalism's quest for fast profits and quick turnover is certainly behind the spread of ever-new ...
Democracy and Political Culture in Eastern Europe

This new book builds a clear understanding of what makes democracies strong and resistant to autocratic temptation.