Judging Collaborators in Post-Communist Europe: The Difficult Case of Jan Kavan

Publication Date: June 01, 1995

When democratization comes to the Czech Republic, the nation's newly-emerging political system faces a powerful ethical problem. How should it deal with those who participated in, or were involved with, the former Communist regime? Like other...

Cultures in Collision: Battling Over the Environmental Review of Quebec's Great Whale Project (Sequel)

Publication Date: April 03, 1995

When the government of Quebec announces plans to build a huge hydroelectric project in the James Bay region in the north of the province, a protracted struggle is set in motion. The government's vision of energy self-reliance and export, along...

Cultures in Collision: Cultures in Collision: Battling Over the Environmental Review of Quebec's Great Whale Project

Publication Date: April 03, 1995

When the government of Quebec announces plans to build a huge hydroelectric project in the James Bay region in the north of the province, a protracted struggle is set in motion. The government's vision of energy self-reliance and export, along...

Managing Success: Partners in Development Reorganizes its Dongola Office (Epilogue)

Publication Date: January 01, 1995

This case deals with different management problems in a large, international non-government organization, Partners for Development. The case describes the management aftermath of successful anti-famine programs in the African nation of Dongola...

Managing Success: Partners for Development Reorganizes its Dongola Office

Publication Date: January 01, 1995

This case deals with different management problems in a large, international non-government organization, Partners for Development. The case describes the management aftermath of successful anti-famine programs in the African nation of Dongola...

The Treuhandanstalt: Taking a Nation Private (Epilogue)

Publication Date: January 01, 1995

The dramatic merger of the former East and West Germanys led to an historic mission for a new agency: the sale to private buyers of the vast assets of the former East Germany. The agency created for the purpose was the Treuhandanstalt, conceived...

Hungary Between East and West: The Dilemma over Yugoslavia (Epilogue)

Publication Date: January 01, 1995

This set of cases describes the diplomatic and economic pressures faced by the government of Hungary with the 1991 break-up of Yugoslavia and subsequent outbreak of the Balkan War, which occurred on Hungary's southern border with Serbia...

Hungary Between East and West: The Dilemma over Yugoslavia (B)

Publication Date: January 01, 1995

This set of cases describes the diplomatic and economic pressures faced by the government of Hungary with the 1991 break-up of Yugoslavia and subsequent outbreak of the Balkan War, which occurred on Hungary's southern border with Serbia...

Romani Politics in the Czech Republic

Publication Date: January 01, 1995

The fall of Communism in Eastern Europe ushered in a new era of political freedom. At the same time, it opened an old Pandora's box of ethnic tensions and hatreds, suppressed in the ostensibly universalist Marxist regimes. Among the most...

Mikhukhu People of South Africa: A Question of Survival

Publication Date: January 01, 1995

This case focuses on an organization established to fight for the housing rights of people living in "informal settlements" in apartheid-era South Africa. In the wake of democratization, the group finds itself under increasing pressure from...

The Regulation of Mud Flaps (Epilogue)

Publication Date: January 01, 1994

When Congress calls for new regulations governing the size and effectiveness of truck mud flaps, small companies which had dominated the mud flap market suddenly find themselves in trouble. Failure to adapt their products to the new regulations...

Financing Environmental Improvements in Slovakia: The Slovak Environmental Revolving Investment Fund (Epilogue)

Publication Date: January 01, 1994

The fall of the Iron Curtain revealed previously unimagined environmental degradation in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. In the newly-independent Slovak Republic, untreated waste flowed into the rivers, heavy industry clouded...