Dieser Sammelband geht zurück auf eine Tagung, die im Dezember 1999 vom genannten Institut und vom interfakultären Institut für Ost- und Ostmitteleuropa der Universität Fribourg veranstaltet wurde. Inhalt: Claus Offe: Political Liberalism, Group Rights, and the Politics of Fear and Trust (1-16); Ulrich K. Preuss: The Rule-Making and Policy Actors in the Transition and the Issue of the Strategy of Transformation (17-29). Constitutionalism and Good Governance: Attila Ågh: Public Sector Reforms, Institutional Design and Strategy for Good Governance in East Central Europe (33-57); Vojin Dimitrijevic: Human Rights - Internationally Established Standards as Challenged by Constitutional Policies (59-69); Irina Umnova: Will Constitutionalism be a Challenge for Contemporary Russia? (71-93); Miroslaw Wyrzykowsi: The Major Features and Structural Problems of Institutional Design in States in Transition. What Kind of Strategy for Good Governance? Poland - A Case Study (95-114); Rumyana Kolarova: Reforms, Institutional Design and Strategy of Good Governance. The Opportunistic Democratisation of Bulgaria (115-124). Market Economy Reforms and Social Policy: Wladimir Andreff: Lessons from the Experience of Privatisation in the Post-Communist World (127-144); Lubomír Ml?och: Lesson form the Czech Privatisation. Institutional Change and the Concept of Order (145-153); Stanislaw Owsiak: New Challenges Facing Public Finances in Transforming Economies. The Lesson of Poland (155-176); Bernard Snoy: The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (177-185). The Transition and Socio-Cultural Identities: Gennady S. Batygin: The Transfer of Allegiances of the Intellectual Elites (189-199); Edward M. Swiderski: Gennady Batygin on the Course of the Post-Soviet 'Culture Syndrome' (201-213); Nenad Miš?evi?: National Identities in Transition (215-238); Christian Giordano: Transition, Consolidation, and Ethnicity (239-253).