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Twentieth-century Southeastern Europe endured three, separate decades of international and civil war, and was marred in forced migration and wrenching systematic changes. This volume is the result of a yearlong project by the Open Society Institute to examine and reappraise this tumultuous century.

The ten-day 1956 revolution exerted a lasting effect on the fates of the families of those who were imprisoned and executed by the regime in the harsh reprisals that followed. The authors present excerpts from the interviews conducted with the children of those Hungarians.

This volume adds to the historiography of the 1956 Hungarian revolution. Based on a multinational scholarly research effort, these formerly secret materials from the archives of both sides of the Cold War offer insights from a variety of national, bureaucratic and personal perspectives.

The book contains twelve essays by Stephen Holmes, Frances M. Kamm, Mária Ludassy, Steven Lukes, Gyorgy Markus, András Sajó, Gáspár Miklós Tamás, Andrew Arato, Timothy Garton Ash, Béla Greskovits, Will Kymlicka, and Aleksander Smolar. The studies explore a wide scope of subjects that belong to disciplines ranging from moral philosophy, through theory of human rights, democratic transition, constitutionalism, to political economy. The common denominator of the studies collected is their reference to the scholarly output of János Kis, in honor of his sixtieth birthday.János Kis is a distinguished political philosopher who, after many years spent as a dissident under the Communist regime, emerged as an important political figure in Hungary's transition to democracy. Currently he is University Professor of Philosophy at Central European University, Budapest.

This is an analysis of the processes by which the countries of Central and Eastern Europe are being incorporated into a restrictive refugee regime established among the EU member states. It highlights the complex entanglement of domestic policies, European integration and international relations.

Discusses the process of the economic annihilation of the Jews in Hungary, who- from the economic point of view - were more influential than any other Jewish community in Europe. Following the German occupation in March 1944 the collaborating Hungarian government attempted to assert its claim concerning the complete confiscation of Jewish assets at all stages of the road leading to the extermination camps. The cooperation with the Germans proved to be the most problematic in this area. The story of the Jewish Gold Train is a relatively small but all the more emblematic chapter of the economic annihilation. The circumstances of the freight's assembling, the German-Hungarian conflicts concerning the train, the looting attempts, the fate of the assets seized by the Allies (double victimization of the survivors) provide the reader with an insight into the history of the repeated looting of the Hungarian Jewry.

Polish liberalism has generally been considered weak or nonexistent. Janowski, however, argues that 19th century Poland inherited a strong protoliberal tradition and that in mid-19th century, liberalism was dominant in Polish intellectual life.

This title provides the first detailed, empirically based examination from a structural and organizational perspective of the new parties and political groupings that have emerged in Poland since the collapse of Communism in 1989.

This work addresses the widely held belief that liberal democracy embodies an uneasy compromise of incompatible values - those of liberal rights on the one hand, and democratic equality on the other.