The essay synthesises ‘stylised prescriptions’ from review of recent research on interactions of postcommunist countries and the West since 1989. The essay considers aid negotiation by postcommunist recipients and multilateral and bilateral donors in economic reform, democratisation, civil society development, environmental policy, the social sector and science and education, and the effects of East–West interactions on those of postcommunist countries with each other. Drawing on concepts from the study of international negotiations, and on research on postcommunist countries by scholars from social science and policy disciplines in the US, EU and Russia, the essay builds on a dialogue that began during the second Aleksanteri Seminar organised in 2002 by the Aleksanteri Institute in Helsinki. This scholarly dialogue proposes greater attention in transitological debates to the interactive process of aid negotiation, to ‘donor congestion’ in the postcommunist space, and to its (intended and unintended) effects.
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