Friday, July 21, 2006

Transition Analysis

I have been asked recently to discuss transition analysis. In a post last month I suggested that successful transitions are characterized by (a) creative adaptability, and (b) resiliency in the face of crisis. But in that post I never really addressed how we might approach the study of transition. Professionally, my career started out with a focus on theory, practice and failure of socialism in the former Soviet Union. I earned my PhD in 1989, so transition studies were thrust upon me...more>>