9 Stefano Bianchini, George Schöpflin and Paul Shoup : Introduction - Post Communist Transition as a European Problem // Part One - Adapting Democracy // 21 Jean Blondel : How the Process of Political Transition from Communism can be Monitored and how the Moment of Consolidation can be Determined // 31 András Bozóki : Democratic Design and "Return " to Europe: Discourses of the Roundtable Talks of 1989 // 59 Luisa Chiodi : Promoting Civil Society: local NGOs in the Balkans since the 90’s // 79 Stamenka Uvalic-Trumbic : Universities and Politics: Reshaping Relations in South Eastern Europe? // Part Two - Reshaping the State // 97 George Schöpflin : Post-communism and the Perceptions of Europe // 105 Carla Tonini : Poland after Schengen. Bridge into the East or Bulwark of Europe? // 117 Zoltán Balázs Vizi : National Sovereignty and Human Rights in Central and Eastern Europe after 1990 // 131 Malina Kroumova : Defining the Parameters of State Policy towards Minorities, the Balkan Experience in the 90’s // 155 Julie Mostov : Soft Borders: Rethinking Sovereignty and Democracy // 173 Paul Shoup : The West and the War in Bosnia: Some Thoughts // 185 Stefano Bianchini : Post Communism, Post-Westfalianism. Overcoming the Nation-State // 203 Index // 209 List of Contributors