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Daniel Chirot
is professor of International Studies and of Sociology, University of Washington. His publications include How Societies Change, Newbury Park 1994; Modern Tyrants: The Power and Prevalence of Evil in Our Age, New York 1994; Editor, The Origins of Backwardness in Eastern Europe, University of California Press, Berkeley 1989; Co-editor (with Martin Seligman), Ethnopolitical Warfare, Washington, DC 2001; Co-editor (with Anthony Reid), Essential Outsiders: Chinese and Jews in the Modern Transformation of Southeast Asia and Central Europe, University of Washington Press, Seattle 1997.
Eurozine Articles
Returning to Reality
Culture, Modernisation and Various Eastern Europes
Daniel Chirot warns that the differentiation between "East" and "Central" Europe draws a new border between "East" and "West" which will result in excluding the poorer parts of Europe and will keep them poorer in delaying their modernisation. [more]
