A History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe: Volume II: Negotiating Modernity in the 'Short Twentieth Century' and Beyond, Part II: 1A History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe is a synthetic work, authored by an international team of researchers, covering twenty national cultures and 250 years. It goes beyond the conventional nation centered narratives and presents a novel vision especially sensitive to the cross cultural entanglement of political ideas and discourses. Its principal aim is to make these cultures available for the global 'market of ideas' and