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This book is shortlisted for the 2013 BISA IPEG Book Prize This book is a must read for all those people interested to know why Poland is such a success story - a 'rising star' according to international financial media - in the current, crisis-ridden European Union. And why Poland, and other East Central European member states, may very well become next in line in the ongoing sovereign debt crisis. - Otto Holman, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. With his careful historical-structural research, Shields responds in the best of possible ways to stylized transitology and IPE canons. Changing the world may be hard, but neo-Gramscians can most certainly interpret it. - Magnus Ryner, King's College London, UK. Stuart Shields' new book provides an exemplary model of how to formulate and use a critical IPE approach to understanding significant contemporary developments. Although the subject of his book is the political economy of post-communist transition in central and eastern Europe, the context is the deep-seated transformations currently underway in the global political economy. His book is empirically rich and theoretically insightful. It takes the debate over the future of neoliberal forms of capitalism to a new level, and will be mandatory reading for all scholars interested in advancing a critical understanding of IPE. - Randall Gemain, Carleton University, Canada.

This book is a must read for all those people interested to know why Poland is such a success story - a 'rising star' according to international financial media - in the current, crisis-ridden European Union. And why Poland, and other East Central European member states, may very well become next in line in the ongoing sovereign debt crisis. - Otto Holman, University of Amsterdam

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Stuart Shields is Lecturer in International Political Economy in the Centre for International Politics at the Department of Government, the University of Manchester. He has a long standing interest in the transnational dimensions of the reintegration of Eastern Central Europe into the global political economy. Since completing a PhD in the Department of International Politics at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth his work has been published most notably in New Political Economy and the Review of International Political Economy. He teaches International Political Economy in the Centre for International Politics, Department of Government at the University of Manchester. He is currently guest editing and contributing to a special edition of Competition and Change focused on peripheral capitalisms in the 'new' European political economy.

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