The aim of this paper is to reflect theoretically on the current East-Central European "situation".

The first section of this paper will further define political conditionality and discuss some of the problems that arise with its use. The second section will review how conditionality came to be adopted by the union. The way in which the EU has implemented conditionality will be discussed in...

How can individuals in contemporary Western societies constitute themselves as mortal beings? This question is addressed, in the following paper, on the basis of a series of interviews with Italian persons who have HIV or AIDS. Typically, at the time of diagnosis, the knowledge of having HIV was...

Although there is little doubt that banks between the wars were the victims of deflation, deflation alone cannot explain the cross-national distribution of banking crisis. In addition, one must take into consideration cross-country variations in banking structures -- the degree to which banks...