Volume 6 Number 2, 3

Spring & Summer 1997

Constitution Watch
          A country-by-country update on constitutional politics in Eastern Europe and the ex-USSR

Special Reports

	Ken Jowitt explores the real causes of the Soviet Union’s collapse
	Stuart Eizenstat reflects on the thorny problems of postcommunist restitution
	Andrei Plesu asks if the EU is more than a community of consumers and producers
	Bohdan Futey analyzes the new Ukrainian “Law on the Constitutional Court”

Feature

The 1997 Polish Constitution

	Introduction: When Polish Constitutionalism Began	Irena Grudzinska Gross
	A Brief History of the Constitution	Wiktor Osiatynski
	A Constitution of Possibilities	Eva Letowska
	The Presidency in the New Constitution	Leszek Garlicki
	The Battle for a Constitution	Pawel Spiewak

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These reports have been researched and written by the EECR affiliates and staff:

Maja Brkljacic Scott Carlson Miro Cerar Vladimir Chura Aurelian Craiutu Venelin I. Ganev Mark Gillis

Kathleen Imholz Vakhtang Khmaladze Rumyana Kolarova Andrei Kortunov Gunars Kusins Stevan Lilic Krenar Loloci

Alexander Lukashuk Darina Malova Tomasz Merta Alina Mungiu-Pippidi Zaza Namoradze Laszlo Nemenyi Marko Novak

Mitchell Orenstein Vello Pettai Alison Rose Lavinia Stan Elena Stefoi-Sava Steven Solnick Virgus Valentinavicius