This talk is part of the Harriman Institute's Core Project for 2014-15, titled "Learning from Transition: From the Local to the Global." In late 1989 and early 1990, the dominant idea was that policymakers in Eastern Europe would be learning from the West. The term transition offered an image in which East Europeans were on a road to catching up with Western institutions which had earlier arrived at the right answers for the proper models of the relationship between markets and democracies.

Twenty five years later, our goal is to consolidate existing research less about 1989 itself than about the past 25 years of experience with political and economic transformation. To do so, this component of the Harriman Core Project for 2014-15 will focus on how different actors are learning from each other. Who is paying attention to whom? And what new combinations are being cobbled together in this process?

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