Location: Bremen

Date: 28 July – 2 August 2008

Organiser: the Research Centre for East European Studies at the University of Bremen in cooperation with the EU Institute for Security Studies funded by the Volkswagen Foundation

The topic: The changes in post-socialist Central and Eastern European countries have been affected by outside influences more than any preceding wave of democratisation in this ever-shrinking world. Most Central European states quickly and successfully set course for EU and NATO membership, which had major implications for the transformation of their polities, societies and economies. States and societies on the territory of the former Soviet Union and in the Balkans had much bumpier trajectories, resulting in a broad spectrum of hybrid political regimes with varying degrees of global integration.

As globalisation is a two-way street, the Changing Europe Summer School 2008 will focus on two sets of issues: The first evolves around the influence of external impulses on the transformation processes in Central and Eastern Europe in the era of ongoing globalization. The second addresses the ways in which political systems, societies and economies have reacted (and continue to react) to these external forces and how they integrate themselves into the global environment. The deadline for receipt of paper proposals is 05 January 2008.

Email: orga@changing-europe.de
Website: www.changing-europe.de