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International Reports 5/2008

Issue 5 | July 11, 2008

Transformation and Civil Society in Poland. Civil Society and the Church as ’Allies’ | In the Fast Lane? TheTymoshenko Phenomenon: High Inflation and Economic Problems Have Hardly Damaged Her Popularity so far | ’Ideology’ or ’Unity’? Spain’s Future after the Parliamentary Elections of March 9, 2008 | Elections in Sri Lanka’s ’Liberated’ East: An Opportunity for a New Political Start?

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  • Editorial

    Ausgabe 5/2008 der Auslandsinformationen der Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung

    by Gerhard Wahlers

  • Transformation and Civil Society in Poland. Civil Society and the Church as ’Allies’

    Some Considerations Based on New Studies

    When transformation began in Poland in 1989, it was dedicated to three fundamental objectives: Introducing a liberal democracy under the rule of law, building a market economy, and establishing a civil society with the capacity to take action. While the nation has come considerably closer to the first two objectives despite certain problems, the road towards a civil society appears somewhat rockier, for the extent to which it has been implemented so far is not satisfactory.

    by Stephan Georg Raabe

  • In the Fast Lane? The Tymoshenko Phenomenon

    High Inflation and Economic Problems Have Hardly Damaged Her Popularity so far

    When Yulia Tymoshenko was elected Ukrainian prime minister for the second time in December 2007, she must have been aware of the fact that the tasks she would be facing in the future would by anything but easy.

    by Juri Durkot

  • ‚Ideology’ or ‚Unity’? Spain’s Future after the Parliamentary Elections of March 9, 2008

    Die Zukunft Spaniens nach den Parlamentswahlen vom 9. März 2008

    The winners of the elections held on March 9 of this year are Spain’s socialists led by José Rodríguez Zapatero. However, not only the PSOE, which has been ruling the country for four years, but also the non-socialist PP gained strength.

    by Michael Däumer, Sebastian Grundberger, Malte Kähler

  • Elections in Sri Lanka’s ‘Liberated’ East: An Opportunity for a New Political Start?

    When Batticaloa’s town councillors were elected in March 2008, Sri Lanka’s eastern province experienced the first democratic act in 14 years. Given that the province was controlled for many years by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), a Tamil guerrilla group, and that it was not before July 2007 that the region was recaptured by Sri Lanka’s military, the poll which is to be followed by nothing less than provincial elections in May 2008 attracted much attention.

    by Kristina Eichhorst

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Dr. Gerhard Wahlers

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