Joint Workshop:

• Project Members from Japan (Universities of Kanazawa, Shimane, and Kyoto)

• Centre for Russian and East European Studies (CREES)

• Centre for East European Language Based Area Studies (CEELBAS)

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Project Outline

Just after the literature on varieties of capitalism (VoC) began to influence post-communist studies, the financial crisis occurred in the US bringing about a global economic crisis in 2008. The members of the Economic and Monetary Union including some Central-Eastern European countries face financial instability originating from the ongoing sovereign debt crisis, while Asian economies are likely to achieve a the growth rate of approximately 8 per cent in 2010.

In this context, is the VoC approach still effective in explaining capitalism in the post-communist and developed countries? Or has the time come to think about the commonalities of capitalism？This workshop tries to address these issues by examining the characteristics of capitalism and current social-economic conditions in Russia and the Central-Eastern Europe, and comparing them with the current tendencies of capitalism in the developed countries.

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Attendance is free based upon registration. Please note number of places is limited. Please contact Dr. Richard Connolly via e-mail: r.connolly@bham.ac.uk to register.