Zoltan Barany Book order (chronological)

The analysis focuses on Bulgaria, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia's preparedness for NATO membership, highlighting their political, economic, and military conditions. Zoltan Barany concludes that these countries do not meet NATO's membership criteria and emphasizes the importance of maintaining the alliance's military capabilities. He suggests that while NATO should remain open to qualified candidates, it must avoid admitting nations that would primarily consume security rather than contribute to it.

Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics breaks apart the narrow disciplinary and subfield boundaries that have fragmented the study of both traditional social movements as well as their non-routine politics. By exploring non-institutionalized political actions, including revolutions, democratization, cycles of protest, and ethnic conflicts, the connections between a wide array of political and social phenomena are examined in national, comparative, and global perspectives.This book is the first attempt by a social scientist to explain the age-old predicament of Gypsies (or Roma), Eastern Europe's largest ethnic minority, and their relationship to the region's states and societies. Professor Barany comparatively examines the Gypsies' socioeconomic and political marginality and the policies toward them through seven centuries and in seven East European states. He illuminates the reasons why the Roma have consistently occupied the bottom of social, economic, and political hierarchies regardless of historical period or geographic location.