European Transformations: Five Decisive Years at the Turn of the Century : An 'Innovation' Reader 1988-1992

by Liana Giorgi (Editor)

Attempts to document and analyze the process of transformation in Europe in 1988-1992, including the end of the Cold War, the breakdown of Communism and the beginning of a new era for Europe and the world. Contributors from different countries confront a "crisis" of the social sciences.

421 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1, 1994

About the author

I was born 1966 in Cyprus where I lived till I was eighteen, with a year's intermezzo spent in London because of the 1974 Turkish invasion. In the mid-1980s, and thanks to a Fulbright scholarship, I was able to travel to the United States for undergraduate studies at MIT. I initially wanted to do physics but ended up with a Bachelors in Cognitive Sciences instead. From there, I went on to complete a Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, with the support of a Commonwealth Scholarship. Following a brief stay at the Department of Women’s Studies of the University of Amsterdam, I moved to Vienna in 1991 where I was offered the opportunity to co-direct an international research organization in the not-for-profit sector specializing in European studies.

In 2010, following almost twenty years of interesting research in the social sciences, I decided to give up my job in order to pursue other creative endeavors, and to have more time for my own fiction and non-fiction writing. I continue to earn my living as a research and policy consultant while in parallel completing training in psychotherapy, mediation and conflict resolution.

A list of academic publications is available at cosis.net

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