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Article: The Baltic Transformed: Complexity Theory and European Security.(Book Review)
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- Demokratizatsiya
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- June 22, 2003
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Walter C. Clemens Jr. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2001. 320 pp. $28.95 textbook.
In The Baltic Transformed, Walter C. Clemens Jr. presents an exhaustive empirical overview of the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. Against the theoretical backdrop of complexity theory, the fundamental thesis of which is that the ability of a people to self-organize plays a significant role in state "survival and prosperity," Clemens asks why these tiny, multiethnic states have fared so well under postcommunism, despite the wholesale repression experienced during the Soviet past and the pressures exerted by the Russians in the present? ...