Four 'Fundamental Contradictions' of East European Communism

East European Countries after the Breakup of Communism and the Ongoing Challenge of European Integration

The status of Europe and East Asia in the transition of world order can be analyzed under different aspects. One of the most important criteria distinguishing the different strategies of European and East Asian countries is the attitude towards regional integration versus cooperation. While Europe simultaneously tries to deepen and enlarge the area of integration, East Asian countries try to pr...

*achers Under Communism— The Case off East Germany

I N OUR always ongoing attempts to improve the education and professional status of teachers, we have often looked outside of our borders for comparisons and ideas. Generally we have observed the democracies, where political ideas have much in common with our own, and sometimes the Soviet Union, with which we are obviously in competition internationally. However, there is one European coun try—...

The fallacy of communism.

Four fundamental processes of community assembly

A central aim of ecology is understanding the mechanisms of community assembly. To address this problem, community assembly is often modeled as a sampling process, in which species are selected from a pool of available species, possibly with effects of interspecific interactions, habitat filtering, and other ecological mechanisms. However, the fundamental stochastic sampling process by which sp...

Investigation of the market efficiency of emerging stock markets in the East-European region

The presence of stock market efficiency is a distinctive characteristic of the effectively functioning market economy. Investigation of the market efficiency of seven emerging East-European stock exchanges is carried out as their major stock indices (BELEX15, BET, CROBEX, ISE100, PFTS, RTSI, SOFIX) are studied in respect of long-range dependence (LRD), persistency, and forecasting possibili...