1. Identity Formation and Elites In The Post-Socialist States, David Lane, University of Cambridge.
Part I Conceptualising Identities
2. European Identity Making and Identity Transfer Ireneusz, Pawel Karolewski, University of Wroclaw.
3. Russia’s Identity: Between the ‘Domestic’ and the ‘International’ Richard Sakwa, University of Kent.
4. Neoliberalism, Exogenous Elites and the Transformation of Solidarity, Peter Zeniewski, University of Oxford.
Part II Formation of Elites
5. The Elite-Population Gap in The Formation Of Political Identities. A Cross-Cultural Investigation, Heinrich Best, University of Jena.
6. Business Elites and the Role of Companies in Society. A Comparative Study in Poland, Hungary and Germany, Katharina Bluhm, Osnabrueck University, Bernd Martens University of Jena and Vera Trappmann Osnabrueck University and FSU Jena.
7. Supranational Attachment of European Elites and Citizens, Győrgy Lengyel, Corvinus University.
Part III Country Studies
8. Balancing National Uncertainty and Foreign Orientation: Identity-Building and the Role of Political Parties in Post-Orange Ukraine, Inna Melnykovska, Freie Universität Berlin and the University of Kiel, Rainer Schweickert, Kiel Institute for the World Economy and Tetiana Kostiuchenko, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.
9. Chechen Elites: Control, Cooption or Substitution? John Russell, University of Bradford.
10. Citizenship, Collective Identity and The International Impact on Integration Policy In Estonia, Latvia And Lithuania, Magdalena Solska, University of Regensburg.
11. The Dynamics of Elite Networks and Patron-Client Relations in Afghanistan, Timor Sharan, University of Exeter.
Biography
David Lane is an Emeritus Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge and was previously Professor of Sociology at the University of Birmingham. His recent work includes: Elites and Classes in the Transformation of State Socialism (2011); Rethinking the ‘Coloured' Revolutions (with Stephen White, 2010); The European Union and World Politics (with Andrew Gamble, 2009). Recent articles have been published in: The Political Quarterly (2008); Mir Rossii (2007); New Political Economy (2008); British Journal of Politics and International Relations (2009); European Societies (2010) and Communist Studies and Transition Politics (2011).
