View No. 9 (2017): Socio-spatial change in Lithuania

Ruta Ubareviciene

258 pages

ISBN 978-94-92516-75-6

Published: 2017-09-11

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  • The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 signalled a major change for Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries. Despite the significant benefits gained with the ‘return to Europe’, CEE countries have also been faced with large challenges (Gentile, Tammaru, & van Kempen, 2012; Kornai, 2006; Kovács, 1999; Shleifer & Treisman, 2014). They had to transform their political and economic systems and find new ways to establish themselves in the context of increasing globalization,...