With the collapse of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance in 1991, the Eastern European nations of the former socialist bloc had to figure out their newly

This book investigates the origins of the eurozone crisis across three of the most severe cases - Greece, Portugal and Ireland.

This book provides a new understanding of the eurozone crisis across three of the worst hit cases: Greece, Portugal, and Ireland. In contrast to accounts which

The authors explore three ways of conducting causal analysis in case studies. They draw on established practices as well as on recent innovations in case study

This book takes stock of the major economic challenges that advanced industrial democracies have faced since the early 1990s and the responses by governments to