Crises and Conflicts in Eastern European States and Societies: Stumbling Blocks or Stepping Stones for Democratisation?
 

2nd Changing Europe Summer School

Crises and Conflicts in Eastern European States and Societies:

Stumbling Blocks or Stepping Stones for Democratisation?

Warsaw (Poland) 2 - 8 September 2007

Organised by the Research Centre for East European Studies at the University of Bremen, together with the German Historical Institute, Warsaw and the German Association for East European Studies. Funded by the Volkswagen Foundation.




Participants and papers

Selected papers have been published in the Changing Europe book series.


Lorena Anton (University of Bucharest, Romania / University of Bordeaux, France)

Crises of memory. Pronatalism in Communist Romania and its remembering




Kenan Aslanli (Public Finance Monitoring Centre (PFMC), Baku, Azerbaijan)

Effective management of high oil revenues in transition economies with rich hydrocarbon reserves: Russia, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan




Max Bader (Department of East European Studies, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Social and regional cleavages as an impediment to party system consolidation in Georgia and Ukraine




Franziska Blomberg (European-University Viadrina (Frankfurt/Oder), Germany)

Bosnia-Herzegovina: The important role of youth-work within a strategy for successful multi-track democratic consolidation




Michael Bobick (Cornell University, USA)

Sovereignty and the Paradox of Statehood: Moldova and Transnistria




Cristina Bucur (Faculty of Political Science "Roberto Ruffilli", University of Bologna, Italy)

Polish and Romanian Semi-Presidentialism: A Comparative Analysis of Post-Communist Regime Change




Alexander Danzer (German Institute for Economic Research, Berlin, Germany)

Good bye Lenin. Ethnisized symbolic landscapes as a constraint to nation-building in transition




Lili di Puppo (European Viadrina University (Frankfurt/Oder), Germany)

International and national approaches to the fight against corruption in Georgia. Different methods, different objectives?




Klea Faniko (Institut des Sciences Sociales et Pédagogiques, Université de Lausanne, Switzerland)

Affirmative Action Plans that Assist Women's Mobility in Albania. The Paradox of Education




Gabor Halmai (Central European University , Hungary / Visiting Scholar - UFRGS, Porto Alegre, Brazil)

The swamps of neo-liberal hegemony. Polgári Körök in 'transitional' Hungary




Tatiana Karabchuk (Centre for Labour Market Studies at the State University - Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia)

Non-standard Employment in Russia: gender aspects and wages




Elina Karakulova (Institute for War and Peace Reporting, Kyrgyzstan)

Multiethnicity in the Kyrgyzstan's 'Tulip Revolution'




Amelie Kutter (European University Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder, Germany and Institute for Advanced Studies at Lancaster University, UK)

Re-drawing the boundaries of the demos: the construction of national belonging in face of transition and European intergration in Polish public discourse 1989/90 and 2003




Ksenia Limanskaya (Saint-Petersburg State University of Culture and Arts, Russia)

Child abuse as a social problem in Russia




Inna Melnykovska (Otto-Suhr-Institute of Political Sciences, Berlin, Germany)

Coloured Revolution or Soft Authoritarianism. Institutional Change in the Ukraine and Russia 1998-2005. The Nexus Between Politics and Economy




Karol Mojkowski (Warsaw University, Poland)

Social Capital: "Stumbling Block or Stepping Stone for Democratisation". Poland, Ukraine and the Baltic States in the Comparative Perspective




Rafael Mrowczynski (Research Centre for East European Studies, University of Bremen / Institute of Sociology, University of Hannover, Germany)

Middle Classes in post-socialist Russia and Poland: Emergence or Decline?




Maja Nenadovic (University of Amsterdam , Netherlands)

The impact of semi-sovereignity on Bosnia and Herzegovina's democratisation process




Damiana Gabriela Otoiu (Bucharest University & Université Libre de Bruxelles, Romania/Belgium)

"They restored the Palace of Justice, but not justice itself" : The restitution/ redistribution of property in postcommunist Romania




Wolfram Pergler (PhD Candidate at the University of Vienna, Lecturer at the IMC University of Applied Sciences Krems and St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences, Austria)

Civil Society at War. The Development of Working Conditions of Russian NGOs Engaged in Chechnya from 1994 to 2006




Sigrid Rand (J.W. Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Germany)

Post-communist transformations revisited: ideal types of socio-economic transformation strategies in post-communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe




Robert Sata (Department of Political Science, Central European University, Hungary)

The Quadric Model of Ethnic Relations: The Hungarian Minorities in Slovakia and Romania




Volha Vysotskaya (Bremen Graduate School of Social Sciences, Germany)

Migration Plans and Return Intentions of the Highly Skilled Migrants From Eastern Europe to Germany




Olha Yarova (American University of Central Asia, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan)

The Migration of Ukrainian Women to Italy and the Impact on Their Family in Ukraine




additional papers:

Anders Blomqvist (Södertörn University College, Baltic and East European Graduate School, Sweden)

Ethnic division and national narratives among Romanians and Hungarians in Satu Mare / Szatmárnémeti




Birgit Hofmann (Postgraduate School "Overcoming Dictatorships", Department of Contemporary History, Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg, Germany)

"Don't you talk with communists": Instrumentalization of the communist past in Czech Republic's political crises in 2005/ 2006




Veronika Pasynkova (European University at St. Petersburg, Russia):

Labour and Politics in Post-Communist Europe: Do Trade Unions Matter?




Ancuta Popa (West University of Timisoara, Romania):

A comparative analysis of monetary policy in Central and Eastern European Countries




Evgeny Troitskiy (Tomsk State University , Russia):

The European Union, Russia and the Conflict in Transnistria: Collision of Policies and Prospects for Cooperation




Annie Verderosa (Free University Berlin, Humboldt University Berlin, Potsdam University):

Post-Postcommunist Authoritarianism: Prospects for Democratic Consolidation