This book illustrates the complexities of building civil dialogue and the difficulties of integrating diverse interests within new democracies of Central and Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia.

This book was published as a special issue of Environmental Politics.

Adam Fagan is based at Queen Mary, University of London, UK.

JoAnn Carmin is based at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA.

1. Environmental Mobilisation and Organisations in Post-Socialist Europe and the Former Soviet Union JoAnn Carmin and Adam Fagan 2. Environmental Organisations and the Europeanisation of Public Policy in Central and Eastern Europe: The Case of Biodiversity Governance Tanja Börzel and Aron Buzogány 3. Externally Sponsored Contention: The Channelling of Environmental Movement Organisations in the Czech Republic after the Fall of Communism Ond¿ej Císä 4. Between Transnationalism and State Power: The Development of Russia's Post-Soviet Environmental Movement Laura A. Henry 5. Transnational Environmental Activism in Central Asia: The Coupling of Domestic Law and International Conventions Erika Weinthal and Kate Watters 6. Environmental Politics in the Western Balkans: River Basin Management and Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) Activity in Herzegovina Adam Fagan and Indraneel Sircar 7. The Environmental Issue in the East of Europe: Top-Down, Bottom-Up and Outside-In Michael Waller