The Politics of East European Area Studies

Does Eastern Europe still exist? This volume explores the contemporary meanings of `Central and Eastern Europe,¿ with a focus upon its construction as a distinctive region through Area Studies scholarship. Alex Cistelecan, Robert Bideleux, Katalin Miklóssy and Dieter Segert¿tease out the implications for an `Area Studies¿ approach to the region. Very few other titles discuss the background, history or politics of academic study of the region.