Contemporary Belarus : between democracy and dictatorship / edited by Elena A. Korosteleva, Colin W. Lawson and Rosalind J. Marsh.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Paradoxes of democratisation in post-communist Belarus / Elena A. Korosteleva, Colin W. Lawson and Rosalind J. Marsh -- History and politics in post-Soviet Belarus: the foundations / David R. Marples -- Explaining post-communist authoritarianism in Belarus / Vital Silitski -- Difficulties of elite formation in Belarus after 1991 / Olga Belova-Gille -- Party system development in post-communist Belarus / Elena A. Korosteleva -- Electoral politics of Belarus / Christian W. Haerpfer -- President and opposition: specific features of the Belarusian political scene / David G. Rotman and Aliaksandr N. Danilov -- Belarus: in search of national identity between 1986 and 2000 / Jan Zaprudnik -- Path-dependence and the economy of Belarus: the consequences of late reforms / Colin W. Lawson -- Economic policy in Belarus from official and oppositional perspectives / Nadezhda Lisovskaia and Julia Korosteleva -- Russia and Belarus: the quest for the union; or who will pay for Belarus's path to recovery? / Anatasia Nesvetailova -- Belarus's external relations / Denis Krivosheev -- Belarus's relations with the European Union: a western perspective / Teresa Dumasy.