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46 Acta Jur. Hng. 1 (2005)

handle is hein.journals/ajur46 and id is 1 raw text is: 1216-2574 / USD 20.00 ACTA JURIDICA HUNGARICA @ 2005 Akadimiai Kiadd, Budapest 46, Nos 1-2, pp. 1-11 (2005) CSABA VARGA* Rule of Law between the Scylla of Imported Patterns and the Charybdis of Actual Realisation (The Experience of Lithuania) Abstract. Nations of Central and Eastern Europe in the near past have all faced the same dilemma: how can they manage international encouragement to adopt atlantic patterns in promise of ready-made routes with immediate success, in a way also promoting the paths of organic development, relying on own resources and potentialities that can only be gained from tradition? Or, otherwise speaking, is it feasible at all to rush forward by rapidly learning all the responses others elaborated elsewhere at a past time? Or are they expected themselves to become Sisyphus bearing his own way, at the price of suffering and bitter disillusionment? The question was not raised by each country individually in the region as not much time was left for pondering in the rapid drift of events. Anyhow, cost-free solutions adopted from without may easily lead to adverse results, far away from expectations for the time being. The principles of free market, democracy and parliamentarism-with rule of law and human rights in the background-are usually believed to offer a kind of panacea curing the basic ills in the contemporary world. Generalised experience notwithstanding, social science has to be given the chance to record-if found so-that the same staff may not work at some places where it has just recently been transplanted as it is used to work amidst its natural surrounding in the western hemisphera, not with the same cost/benefit ratio at the least. For that reason, scholarship in Central and Eastern Europe is growingly aware of the fact that what it can provide is by far not marginal feedback but the very first testing and teasing proof on social embeddedness of some ideas and ideals, deservedly fundamental for the atlantic world. Realistically speaking, not even western social development is separable from the economic reserves of the development actually run. Or, operation of any societal complexity requires resources in both social organisation and material production. Keywords: transition, rule of law, Lithuania, open society, social balance, ius and lex, rights and duties Having recovered from the trauma of surviving Soviet imperial socialism and compelled to open up new ways in independent state-building in parallel with the readjustment of what is left as local legal arrangement to common European standards, nations of Central and Eastern Europe all have faced the * Scientific Adviser, Institute for Legal Studies, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, H- 1250 Budapest, P. 0. Box 25; Professor, Director of the Institute for Legal Philosophy of the Pdzmdny P6ter Catholic University of Hungary, H-1428 Budapest 8, P. 0. Box 6. E-mail: varga@jak.ppke.hu

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