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Social Science in Eastern Europe

N E W S L E T T E R December 1999

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NEWSLETTER Social Science in Eastern Europe, December 1999 3

EDITORIAL ...................................................3

BULGARIA Scientific Institution

University of Sofia 'St. Kliment Ohridski' Faculty of Philosophy Department of Sociology ............................4

CROATIA Scientific Institution

University of Zagreb Faculty of Political Science.........................5

Journal description Political Thought.........................................5

CZECH REPUBLIC Contribution

Political Science in the Czech Republic ......6 Journal description

Perspectives ..............................................8 Recent publications.....................................8

HUNGARY Scientific institution

Friedrich Ebert Foundation Office Budapest..........................................9

Recent publications.....................................9 Journal description

East Central Europe/ L’Europe du Centre-Est ..............................10

ROMANIA Data Sources

The Data Base of the Institute for Quality of Life .............................................10

RUSSIA Scientific institutions

Institute of Humanities and Political Studies ....11 Center for Political and International Studies...................................11 Institute for Contemporary International Studies (ICIS).............................................12

Scientific society Association of European Studies ................13

Data Sources The Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS)...........................................14

SLOVAKIA Scientific institution

Forum Institute ...........................................15

WESTERN EUROPE Research project

Consolidating Russian Democracy? The third-round elections............................16

Data Sources Stocktaking of Comparative Databases in Survey Research....................................16

CONFERENCES .........................................17

RESEARCH FUNDS .............................20

INTERNET NEWS ..................................21

MISCELLANEOUS ................................23

EDITORIAL

Dear Reader, The present issue of our Newsletter is the last one in this millennium. Keeping with the times at the turn to the next one we are going to make a reform. From the year 2000 on there will be only an English edition of the Newsletter since the English-speaking share in the German edi-tion of the Newsletter has risen to far over 50 percent in recent years. Of course, capacity and cost reasons also play a role in giving up one of the two language versions. So we have decided to take the plunge to be able to provide you with free copies of the Newsletter in the future as well. We will be pleased to see that you con-tinue to read the Newsletter despite this interna-tionalization since our up-to-date reports on so-cial sciences in Eastern Europe are not affected and will remain to be of use to you. New years are not only bringing about innova-tions but are also times of stock-taking. We also want to show how much the interest in social scientific issues regarding Eastern Europe has grown. At present, Newsletter has more than 900 subscribers, and in 1999 approximately another 5,000 read its Internet version every month. Approx. 18,500 have visited our home-page http://www.berlin.iz-soz.de by now. The number of visits to the Clearinghouse providing Internet information about Eastern Europe is in-creasing continuously. Recently, your active contribution to building this socio-guide has been made possible: Under the URL http://193.175.239.51/-sgd_doc/newinst.html you find a fill-in form which you can complete online with URLs of social scientific institutions in Eastern Europe. We hope that this new oppor-tunity will put all the expertise in a common in-formation pool and be at the immediate online disposal to all those interested in Eastern Europe. We wish you a happy and prosperous New Year.

Yours editorial board

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BULGARIA

Scientific Institution

University of Sofia 'St. Kliment Ohridski' Faculty of Philosophy Department of Sociology

15 Tsar Osvoboditel Blvd. 1504 Sofia Tel.: (+359 2) 467 187 Fax: (+359 2) 943 44 47 E-mail: [email protected] Internet: http://www.uni-sofia.bg/newweb/faculties/phi-losophy/sclg.htm Management: Michailovska, Elena, Dr. (Head) Year of foundation: The Department of Sociology was established in 1976. Teaching: It is responsible for Sofia University's program in Sociology, and provides courses in sociological subjects offered within other pro-grams and faculties at Sofia University. Training in the Sociology program lasts for 5 years, or ten semesters. The curriculum includes a mix of obligatory (core) courses and various freely chosen disciplines, as an attempt to provide up-to-date, flexible, quality education balanced be-tween sociological theory, research methods, and substantive sociological specialities. Start-ing in 1998, the training is split into a Bachelor's and a Master's degree. The Bachelor's degree is acquired after four years of training and tak-ing a State Exam on the basic sociological dis-ciplines in the syllabus. The Master's degree is acquired after an additional year of training and is completed with the successful defence of a Master's thesis. Only students with a complete Bachelor's degree are admitted to the Master's degree. Admission is based on the average mark score of the Bachelor's degree. As of now, those admitted can choose between two Mas-ter's programs: • Culture and Society: Theoretical and histori-

cal sociology • Regulation of the labour markets, and sys-

tems of employment Both Master's programs include core courses and various freely chosen disciplines. Publications/ Papers: 1996-1998 • The Alternatives of Intellectual Behaviour,

1998 • Public Opinion: Epistemological Problems.

Sofia University Publishing House, 1998 • Russia and Bulgaria: Farewell Democracy,

Sofia, 1996. • Value attitudes towards higher education in

a period of transition. In: Strategies for Edu-cational and Scientific Policy, 1996, No. 2.

• The market situation in higher education - a view from inside. In: Strategies for Educa-tional and Scientific Policy, 1996, No. 4.

• Europe and the Constituting of Modern Bul-garia. In: Europe and the Balkans, (ed. St. Bianchini) 1996.

• Non-Scandalous. Sofia, 1996 • Sociology of symbolic forms (monograph).

Critique & Humanism Publishing House: So-fia, 1996

• Archaeology of Silence. Traumatic places of collective memory (monograph, forthcom-ing).

• Rewriting history: a study on the history textbooks (in coll.). MHE, Sofia: 1996.

• Historical and collective memory. In: Na-tional identity in the state of transition: his-torical resources. Bulgarian edition of Mi-nerva, Sofia 1997, 297 p.

• Never Ending Sociology (for the 11-12 form of Bulgarian high schools). Minerva ed., So-fia, 1997.

• A reader in the sociology of personality: classical texts with comments and notes. (in coll.) naouka i Izkustvo publishers, Sofia, 1990, second edition 1997.

• Restructuring of "the Life-World of Social-ism". International Sociology, v.11, March 1996

• Me and the Other (Dimensions of Strange-ness in Posttotalitarian Society). Sofia Uni-versity Press, Sofia, 1996 (in Bulg.)

• Social Psychology, vol. I-IV. Sofia, 1996-1997

• Computer Statistics. Sofia, 1997 • Social Psychology, vol. I-IV. Sofia, 1996-

1997 • Computer Statistics. Sofia, 1997 • Choice of party, choice of president: eight

essays on one cross-tabulation. (mono-graph). Sofia, 1998 (in Bulgarian)

• Steyer, R., I. Partchev and M. Shanahan. Modelling True Intra-Individual Change in Structural Equation Models: Does Poverty Explain a Decrease in Psycho-Social Ad-justment? (forthcoming)

• Using visualization techniques to explore Bulgarian politics. In: Greenacre, M., J. Blasius (Eds.) Visualization of Categorical Data. Academic Press, 1998

• Using multivariate analysis to visualize Bul-garian political space. In: Partchev, I. (Ed.) Multivariate analysis in the behavioural sci-ences: Philosophic to technical. Sofia, Marin Drinov Academic Publishing House, 1995

• The transition: elites and strategies. Sofia, 1996 (with D. Minev)

• Russia and Bulgaria: Farewell Democracy. Sofia, 1997 (with R. Dimitrov and J. Kyosev)


• Never-ending Sociology: A Textbook for Col-lege Students. Sofia, 1997 (with L. Dey-anova, G. Dimitrov, and M. Grekova)

• The New Political Actors and Their Strate-gies. In: Bulgaria at Crossroads, New York, Nova Science Publishers, 1996, ed. by J. Cohenen

• Informelle Netzwerkhilfe und Strategien der wirtschaftlichen Aktivitäten in Bulgarien. In: W. Glatzer (Hrsg.) Lebensverhältnisse in Osteuropa. Prekäre Entwicklungen und neue Konturen. 1996. Frankfurt, Campus Verlag: 237-46

• "Work without Labour Contract and Chang-ing Employment Policy in Bulgaria". The European Legacy, 1996, Vol.1, No.2: 664-73

• "The Entrepreneur: kamikaze or hero of the Economy". In: Bulgarian Entrepreneurship, Journal, December 1996, Bulgaria

• "Parallel emergence of the private business sector and convergence of information ba-sed industries", an overview on (multi)media development in Bulgaria 1989-1997, a report prepared for an international research project, The Netherlands, 1997

• Microanalysis of the Regulation of Everyday Life (on the ‘Instruction for Use'). Soci-ologicheski problemi, No.4, 1996 (in Bulgar-ian)

CROATIA

Scientific Institution

University of Zagreb Faculty of Political Science

Lepusiceva 6 10 000 Zagreb Tel.: +385 1-46 55 294 Fax: +385 1-46 55 316 Internet: http://rektorat.unizg.hr/engfak/epolit.html Management: Mileta, Vlatko, Prof. Dr. (Dean) Year of foundation: 1962 Historical development: Established in 1962, the Faculty of Political Science in Zagreb was the first academic institution for political science in Eastern Europe. It had been founded by a for-mal decision of the communist parliament of Croatia in the times of Yugoslavia as an institu-tion of teaching and research and as a full member of the University of Zagreb. This signi-fied a certain level of professional scientific in-dependence compared to other political science institutions that started as high level communist party schools. In 1990 and the following years many changes took place, one of the most

prominent being that the democratisation proc-ess introduced new fields for study and re-search like political parties, elections, parlia-ment and plenty of new political institutions. Furthermore, marxism lost its theoretical mo-nopoly, many different orientations received ac-ceptance as valid perspectives. The disintegra-tion of the federal state of Yugoslavia and the creation of an own national state created the subjects of diplomacy, foreign policy and inter-national relations. Opportunities to study abroad have greatly increased. Staff: about 40 lecturers Publications/ Papers: Journal: „Politicka misao“ (Political Thought), 1 issue in English „Croatian Political Science Review“; Series: „Biblioteka politicka misao“ (Political thought series) degree courses: Political Science (B.A.); Journal-ism (B.A.); Graduate programme: International Relations (M.A. or Ph.D) Library: The Faculty has a library which houses 50.000 books covering the fields of political sci-ence and communication.

Journal description

Political Thought Politicka misao

Place of publication: Zagreb Publication dates: four issues a year in Croatian, one issue a year in English, since 1964, Title of the English issue: Croatian Political Science Review Edited by: Nenad Zakosek, Hrvoje Stancic, Bo-zica Jakovlev, Ljiljana Milinkovic Faculty of Political Science, University of Za-greb Lepusiceva 6 10 000 Zagreb Tel.: +385 1-4558 022 Fax: +385 1-4655 316 Editor- in-chief: Davor Rodin Subject area: All fields of political science

Headings: No specific sections, except book re-views, the articles are grouped under thematic topics. Inhalt von Numbers 5 1998 als Beispiel Transition Challenges • Mileta, V.: Breakdown of the Transitional

Model for the Passage from Socialism to Capitalism

• Grdesic, I.: Participation and Local Democ-racy in Croatia

• Perko-Separovic, I.: Adriatic Coastal Zone Under Pressure of the New Croatian Energy Policy

• Lozancic, D.; Burdelez, M.: A Brief Review of Civil-Military Relations in the Republic of Croatia


• Vidak, N.: The Policy of Immigration in Croa-tia

• Simic, M.: Areas of Implementation of Ethnic Rights of Members of National Minorities in the Republic of Croatia

• Rodin, D.: Cultural-Historical and Political Identity

Aspects of the New World Order in Southeast Europe • Vukadinovic, R.: U.S. Policy in Southeast

Europe • Tatalovic, S.: National Security of Macedonia • Pellicciari, I.: Unaware Actors: Policies and

Random Combinations of Aid Interventions in Bosnia and Herzegovina (1992-1995)

• Cucic, L.: Implications of the War in Former Yugoslavia on the US-EU Relations

Political Science Research • Caratan, B.: Nationality Issue and Democ-

ratic Transition • Krizan, M.: Intentional Communities and Li-

beral Policies of Cultural Support • Grizold, A.: Studying the Phenomenon of

Security in Social Sciences (Slovenian Ex-periences)

• Strpic, D.: The Issues for 1999 and Para-digms for the Millenium

Education for Journalists • Malovic, S.: Educating Journalists. Universal

Ignoramuses or Highly-Educated Special-ists?

Book Reviews

CZECH REPUBLIC

Contribution

Political Science in the Czech Republic

The following contribution is based on long-standing contacts with political scientists from the Czech Republic (ÈR), a stay as DAAD guest lecturer at the Charles University, Prague, and the study of political scientific journals of recent years, which I will deal with further be-low. Moreover, reference should be made to my specific interest in the situation of political sci-ence in our south-eastern neighbouring country, which is explained by my participation since the second half of the eighties in the attempt to build up political science as a university disci-pline in the GDR, which ultimately failed.1

1 See Dieter Segert: Subjektiver Rückblick auf ein geschei-tertes Unternehmen - die DDR-Politikwissenschaft im Jahre 1990 (Personal Retrospective of a Failed Undertaking – GDR Political Science in 1990), in: "Wissenschaft und Poli-tik - Diskurs" ("Science and Policy – Discourse"), edited by H. Meyer and H. Steiner, Berlin 1998: 328-340.

Political science in the Czech Republic had also to be rebuilt after 1989. Though, different to our attempt in the GDR, it could resort to own his-torical traditions of the inter-war period at the latest.2 After 1945 the discipline was taught at a university, the School for Politics and Social Sciences, though only until 1952. A larger num-ber of students was trained. Later on, within the framework of a partial liberalization in the early sixties, there was a new attempt to establish political science. The foundation of the "Czech Political Science Association" dates back to 1964.3 Besides the rich sociological tradition in Czechoslovakia that, different to the relevant discipline in the GDR, intentionally included politics as a research subject of its own, there was at the same an intensive political scientific research since the mid-sixties. This was trig-gered off by political processes in the run up to the Prague Spring. The group that had made such analyses was later called "Group Mlynáø" (Mlynáøùv tým).4 It was a group of approx. 20 scientists from the Institute of State and Law at the Academy of Sciences in Prague, which, on decision of the leadership of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KPÈ) conducted stud-ies on a reform of the political system since June 1966. Since April 1968 its head was the jurist Zdenìk Mlynáø, who was elected Secre-tary of the Central Committee (CC) of the KPÈ and then directly charged with the practical im-plementation of the proposals. Some of his for-mer collaborators like for example J. Fibich and V. Klokoèka dealt with the rebuilding of the aca-demic discipline of political science after 1990; others like Lubomir Brokl now operate in the zone between political science and sociology. Today, at least four centers of Czech political science exist, three of them are situated in Pra-gue. First, this is the Chair of Political Science at the "University of Economics" in Prague, which is headed by Professor Jan Škaloud. At the same time, he is chairman of the aforemen-tioned professional association of political sci-entists.5 Second, the Charles University houses three Institutes, dealing with political science. These are two institutions of the Faculty of So-cial Sciences, the Institute for Political Studies

2 I owe the comments on the pre-history of the attempts to revive political science in the sixties to Z. Mansfeldová, who dealt with the problem in connection with the annual confer-ence of the "Thematic Network in Political Science – Cen-tral and Eastern Europe," which took place in Leiden in July 1999. In general, I want to thank her for the critical review of the whole contribution. 3 Cf. the information in an article about political scientific in-stitutions in the Czech Republic in: "Politologický èasopis" 1/1995: 53ff. 4 Cf. the article by Lubomir Brokl: Mlynáøùv tým a jeho místo v èeské politické vìdì, in: "Politologická revue" 1/1997: 164-175. 5 At present, it comprises more than 200 members in sev-eral sections.


(since 1993 Institute, previously Chair, headed by Professor Rudolf Kuèera) and the Institute for International Studies (its predecessor exist-ing since the early nineties was founded by Pro-fessor Jan Køen, today's director is Professor Jiøi Pešek). Another Institute of Political Science is part of the Faculty of Philosophy of the Charles University (head Dr. Z. Zboøil). Third, Prague houses the "Institute for International Relations" that is outstanding in the field of in-ternational policy and works for the Foreign Ministry (director Jan Šedivý). Fourth, outside Prague at the Masaryk University in Brno there is the renowned "International Political Science Institute" (today's director Professor Petr Fiala). This Institute was founded in 1990 with the par-ticipation of personalities who had returned from emigration. Today, the same university has other centers of political science: the Chair of Constitutional Law and Political Science at the Faculty of Law and the Chair of Political Sci-ence at the Faculty of Social Studies. When looking at the institutional structure and history of the most important centers of political science, it is striking that these institutions were less initiated from above but were mostly set up in the initial years of the system change on the initiative of individual renowned colleagues. For example the Institute of Political Science (then still a Chair) at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Charles University was reestablished in 1990 by Professor Syllaba, who had already worked as political scientist between 1968 and 1970. By the way, in 1969 a group of students studied political science at that chair, but only for a short period of time. On other occasions, per-sonal animosities influenced institutional devel-opments and thus contributed to the establish-ment of independent institutes, like in the case of the two aforementioned neighbouring insti-tutes at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Charles University. However, it is characteristic for the recent history of the discipline that it emerged from the surrounding Social Sciences and Humanities, which is similar to the early times of the West German political science. These mother disciplines are law, contemporary history and philosophy. I already talked about sociology. The relevant academy institute in Prague has two political sociological research groups, one dealing with the transformation of the political system (e.g. L. Brokl, Z. Mansfel-dová), the other analyzing regional and local problems (e.g. T. Kostelecký). Research results were presented on the country's party and as-sociation system. The political science at universities is involved in the creation of various study courses. For about five years the Charles University's Fac-ulty of Social Sciences has provided a study course of political science and four study courses for magister in regional science each of

it having its own specific regional focus (estab-lished as an inter-disciplinary course after the "European Studies" in the Anglo-Saxon area). Also, academic degrees in political science can be obtained from the Faculty of Philosophy. A full-time study of political science is possible in Brno as well. Finally, a study of political science (either as baccalaureate or magister degree) is provided by the Faculty of Philosophy at the Palacky University Olomouc. Other political sci-entific institutions emerged from the nation-wide compulsory social scientific basic study before 1989. Today, they offer courses within the framework of the general study. Their past his-tory is still obvious from the names of the insti-tutions; for example they are called Chair or Cabinet for Social Sciences, Chair of Humani-ties, etc.6 Information on major researches of the recent years some can be obtained from relevant pub-lications. One of the focuses is the publication of surveys with information about the most im-portant topical discussions among Western po-litical scientists, their translation into Czech so to say.7 Other topics are questions of the coun-try's foreign and security policy, especially the eastern enlargement of the North-Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the European Union (EU), and studies in connection with the development of the political system, the party system and the internal political stability of the Czech Republic. From the way the problems are dealt with it becomes obvious that a part of the colleagues are involved in policy counsel-ling. Expression of this is by the way that some left science and hold influential political posts (in the government or in parties) now. Who would like to get more detailed information about Czech political science should look at the journals published in this discipline. In conclu-sion, a survey shall be given: a) Political scientific journals in the more narrow sense: • Politologická revue (since 1995, twice a

year, published by the Czech Political Sci-ence Association)

• Politologický èasopis (since 1995, quarterly, published by the International Institute of Po-litical Science of the Masaryk University Brno)

6 Cf. specifically the information cited in footnote 2 about political scientific places of the Republic in "Politologický èasopis." 7 These are monographs like the following: M. Novák: Systémy politických stran, Prague 1997 (System of Political Parties), V. Klokoèka: Ústavní systémy evropských státù, Prague 1996 (Constitutional Systems of European States), J. Škaloud et al. (eds.): Komparace politických sytémù, Prague 1995 (A Comparison of Political Systems), V. Dvoøáková and J. Kunc: O pøechodech k democracii, Pra-gue 1994 (About the Transitions to Democracy).


• Mezinárodní politika (since 1976, monthly, published by the Institute for International Relations Prague in cooperation with the Jiøího Podìbrad Foundation for European Cooperation)

• Mezinárodní vztahy (since 1995, quarterly, published by the Institute for International Relations Prague)

• Perspectives (appears in English twice a year since 1993, published by the Institute for International Relations Prague)

b) Journals that frequently deal with political scientific issues: • Sociologický èasopis (appears quarterly

since 1964, published by the Institute for Sociology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, editor-in-chief: M. Havelka)

• Czech Sociological Review (since 1992, twice a year, published by the Institute for Sociology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic)

• Støední Evropa. Revue pro støedoevropskou kulturu a politiku (since 1984, ten times a year, published by the Institute for Central European Culture and Policy, editor-in-chief: R. Kuèera)

• Souèastná Evropa a Èeska Republika (since 1996, published by the Center for European Studies at the University of Economics Pra-gue)

• Proglas (published in Brno by the Center for the Study of Democracy and Culture)

c) Journals providing important information on the political life of the ÈR: • Parlamentní zpravodaj (since 1995, bi-

monthly, editor-in-chief: Pavel Hubáèek) • Politika v Èeské republice (since 1996,

monthly, published by the International Insti-tute of Political Science of the Masaryk Uni-versity Brno)

• Zahranièní politika Èeské republiky (two se-ries: Data - Documents, published by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Re-public, responsible editor: M. Konùpková)

Dieter Segert (at present lecturer at the Institute for International Studies of the Charles University in Prague)

Journal description

Perspectives

Place of publication: Prague Publication dates: semi-annually Published by: Institute of International Relations Edited by: Editorial Office Nerudova 3 11850 Prague 1 Tel.: +4202 57320957 Fax: +4202 57321079

Editor- in-chief: Dobroslav Matejka Subject area: International Relations; Czech For-eign Policy; European Integration; East Euro-pean Security Headings: articles; reviews The Journal is published in English and the contents can be read via the Internet: http://www.czechia.com/IIR/perrejus.htm Inhalt von 1998/99 Numbers 11/winter als Beispiel Contributions • Kavan, J. : Czech foreign policy • Stepanovsky, J.: War, détente and the de-

clining importance of neutrality • Vavra, M.: Towards the next century • Cestnejsi, A.: The European Union, its re-

gions, and the Czech Republic • Sarvas, St.: The shift from the transitional to

the democratic agenda • Lehmannova, Z.: Cultural integration in

Europe • Kotyk, V.: The centre and the regions in the

Russian Federation • Streda, L.: Chemical disarmament and the

Czech Republic • Sahlgren, K.A.: Patterns of diplomatic acad-

emies Reviews

Recent publications

Information Needs Analysis: What do you want to know about the European Union? Final Report of the Research Project Ed.: Centre of European Studies of the University of Eco-nomics. - Prague, 1999. - 71p. Martin Hampel et.al. Geography of Societal Transformation in the Czech Republic Dept. of Social Geography and Regional Development of Charles University Prague, 1999. - 242p. The Role of the Central European Parlia-ments in the Process of European Integra-tion. International Conference Prague, 12-14 September 1997 Publ. by Institute of Sociology, Academy of Sciences. Pra-gue - 1998, - 272p. Success or Failure? Ten years after Ed.: V. Dvorakova; Czech Association for Political Science Prague: 1999. - 198p. The Role of Cefta in the Process of EU En-largement. International Conference, May 1999

Prague: Institute of International Relations, Association for the Study of International Relations; Prague: 1999. - 200p.


Ten years of rebuilding capitalism: Czech society after 1989 Ed.: Jiri Vecernik; Petr Mateju Prague: Academia 1999. - 367 p.

HUNGARY

Scientific institution

Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Office Budapest

Benczúr u.45, 1068 Budapest, Hungary

Fax: ++36 1 3221079 Management: Peter Thelen, (Director) Dalos Rimma, János Molnár (Programme man-agers) Supporting institution: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Bonn Main fields: The FES Office Budapest launches different social science relevant programmes since its establishment in the beginning of the 90’s. Their constant discourse series are re-lated to the subjects of social equality, ecology, women’s rights, minority rights, foreign policy, economic-social policy, civil rights. The dis-course series are organised by acknowledged scientists, as István Láng (ecology), Pál Dunay (foreign policy), Katalin Lévai (women’s issues) etc. The Office supports and organises social science conferences, which are published later in their own book series in Hungarian. Such conferences were organised on globalisation, third way-thinking, clash of civilisations, prob-lems of reprimitivisation, on justice, the role of the state, neo-liberalism etc. As outside expert mainly György G. Márkus and Endre Kiss in co-operation with FES Office programme manag-ers organise these events. Through its interdisciplinary character, actual and both scientific quality orientation the events and the book series provoked wide range ac-ceptance and criticism on these issues by the Hungarian social science public. The atmos-phere of the events is a unique one; scientists, politicians, activists, especially trade union ac-tivists, but also ecology, feminism and peace activists appear, meet and discuss with each other. FES Office Budapest made itself one of the centres of the critical, new social sciences in Hungary, regardless of political identities and commitments.

Recent publications

Recent publications of Collegium Budapest (in englisch) • Kornai, J.: Hardening the Budget Constraint:

The Experience of Post-Socialist Countries 1999. - 41p., (Discussion Paper Series ; 59)

• Vedovato, G.: La Hongrie vers l’Europe: de la vocation à l’intégration 1998. - 48p., (Public Lecture Series ; 19)

• Greskovits, B.: Brothers-in-Arms or Rivals in Politics? Top Politicians and Top Policy Makers in the Hungarian Transformation 1998. - 55p. (Discussion Paper Series; 55)

• Gimpelson, V.: The Politics of Labour Market Adjustment. The Case of Russia 1998. - 47p., (Discussion Paper Series ; 54)

• Habich, R.; Speder, Z.: Winners and Losers. Transformational Outcomes in a Compara-tive Context 1998. - 45p., (Discussion Paper Series ; 56)

Toth, I.J.: Ownership Structure, Business Links and Performance of Firms in a Trans-forming Economy. The Case of Hungary; Budapest: Institute of Economics - Hungarian Academy of Sciences. -1999. - 82p., (Discussion Papers; 3) Simonovits, A.: The New Hungarian Pension System and its Problems. Budapest: Institute of Economics - Hungarian Academy of Sciences. - 1999. - 25p. (Discus-sion Papers; 1) Social Change and Urban Restructuring in Central Europe Ed.: Geörgy Enyedi Budapest: Akademiai Kiado, 1998. - 287 p. Intellectuals and Politics in Central Europe Ed.: Andras Bozoki Budapest: CEU Press, 1999. - 292 p. Towards Better Reproductive Health in Eastern Europe. Concern, Commitment, and Change Ed.: G. Lindmark; M. Horga; A. Campana; J. Kasonde Budapest: CEU Press; World Health Organization, 1999. - 150 p. Special issue of the journal „Review of So-ciology“ 1999 (in englischer Sprache): • Szalai, E.: System Change and the Conver-

sion of Power in Hungary • Blasko, Zs.: Cultural Capital and Social Re-

production • Bukodi, E.; Robert, P.: Historical Changes,

Human Capital, and Career Patterns as Class Determinants in Hungary

• Vasarhelyi, M.: Public Opinion Regarding Corruption


• Csepeli, G.; Örkeny, A.: International Com-parative Investigation into the National Iden-tity

• Sik, E.: „Slave market“ in Moscow Square • Moksony, F.: Small is Beautiful. The Use

and Interpretation of R2 in Social Research Discussion Polemical Notes on the Experience and Pros-pects of Post-Socialist Transformation in the Hungarian Labour Market (I.R. Gabor) and Comments (P. Galasi and J. Köllö)

Journal description

East Central Europe/ L’Europe du Centre-Est: Eine wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift

Place of publication: Budapest Publication dates: since 1974 - 1995 by Charles Schlacks, Jr.; since 1995/96 by Collegium Bu-dapest Published by: Collegium Budapest; Central Euro-pean University Edited by: ECE/ECE c/o Collegium Buda-pest/Institute for Advanced Study Szentharomsag u. 2 1014 Budapest Tel.: +361-457776000 Fax: +361-4577610 E-mail: [email protected] Editor- in-chief: Martin Krygier Subject area: The journal presents new interdis-ciplinary approaches to cultural studies, political science, anthropology, art history, and compara-tive sociology Headings: Articles; Book-reviews The journal contains articles in English, French and German (with the majority in English). Inhalt von 1999 Numbers 1 als Beispiel Articles • Dupcsik, C.: Postcolonial Studies and

Inventing of Eastern Europe • Karpov, M.: Democratic Opposition and

Mass Mobilization: The Problem of Control • Krastev, I.: The Liberal Estate • Domanski, H.: Meritocracy, Income Hierar-

chy, and Mobility Dynamics: Poland in Com-parison with other Postcommunist Societies

Journal Reviews Book Reviews

ROMANIA

Data Sources

The Data Base of the Institute for Quality of Life

The Institute for Quality of Life (ICCV), estab-lished in 1990, publishes the diagnosis of the quality of life in Romania and evaluates the so-cial policies adopted in the country during the period of transition. It also investigates and of-fers alternative solutions to the main social and economic problems of present day Romania, by conducting empirical research on local or secto-rial national samples. The institute publishes books, studies, reviews, brochures, research reports and provides consultancy in its field of expertise. Upon request from domestic or for-eign beneficiaries, the ICCV conducts research programs and studies on contract basis. Since 1990 about 70 empirical studies on vari-ous topics have been conducted. The institute created a data base on social-economic and sociological topics. In 1999 the ICCV presents an overview on the conducted surveys and de-scriptions of single studies in the Internet. Here are the surveys from the years 1996-1998: 1998 • Democratization. Explanatory Factors of

Political Behavior • Urban Development and Design • Quality of Life Diagnosis • Public Opinion Survey • Perceptions of Social Policies • Poverty in Romania 1997 • Public services and their Reflection in the

Quality of Services for People • Barometer - Youth • Quality of Life Diagnosis • Opinions regarding Cultural Design of Ur-

ban Environment • Study Regarding Social and Economic

Problems of Gipsies from Buzau County • Fundamental Values of Democracy 1996 • Barometer of Public Opinion • Democratic Culture and Competence in

Romanian Society • Quality of Life Diagnosis • Romania 10% - Evaluation of the Social

Benefit and Analysis of the Poorest Seg-ment in the Transition Period

For further information, please see: http://www.iccv.ro/english/ebaze.htm


RUSSIA


Institute of Humanities and Political Studies

Maly Gnezdinsky pereulok, 9 - str.3 B 103009 Moscow Tel./Fax: +7095 1824538, 2926769, 1821030 Management: Igrunov, Vyacheslav (Director) Year of foundation: The Institute for Humanities and Political Studies (Institut Gumanitarno-Politicheskih Issledovany - IGPI) was founded in 1995 as an international non-governmental organization. Historical development: The organization is a suc-cessor of the Institute for Humanities and Politi-cal Studies founded in 1990 in cooperation with the Moscow Public Bureau for Information Ex-change (Moskovskoe Obschestvennoe Buro In-formatsionnogo Obmena - "M-Bio" - the first coordination and information center of the po-litical club's activities in the USSR). Staff: Today approximately 100 fellows are en-gaged in the Institute, among them are five deputies of the State Duma, 16 Doctors and Candidates of Science. IGPI has several branches in Russia and Ukraine, and represen-tations in Germany and in the United States. Research: Main research focuses: • society's political development • social and political processes in the USSR,

in the former Soviet Union countries and their regions

• ethnicity and nationalism problems. Services: The archive of IGPI has one of the most capacious collections of documents and materials on political history of the USSR (pe-riod 1980-1990) and post-soviet states. The ar-chive collects different editions published in russian regions and post-soviet states.


Center for Political and International Studies

Prospekt Mira 36 129010 Moscow Tel.: +7095 2803536, +7095 2806414,

+7095 2804138 Fax: +7095 2800245 E-mail: [email protected] Internet: http://isn.rsuh.ru/cpis/english/info.htm Management: Nikitin, Alexander, Dr. (Director) Year of foundation: 1989

Financing: The Center finances its activities through research and consulting contracts with domestic and international institutions, grants, publishing, information services, public opinion polling etc. Main fields: The Center for Political and Interna-tional Studies is a non-governmental independ-ent non-profit research and consulting institu-tion conducting expert studies, convening the-matical conferences and seminars, publishing analytical reports on international security, dis-armament, political dynamics of modern socie-ties and conflict resolution. Research projects: • Parliamentary Control over the Military

Sphere in the CIS • Peace-Keeping Operations in the Conflict

Regions of the CIS • Relations Russia-NATO • Russia, America and Promotion of Democ-

racy • Nuclear Disarmament Surveys: In cooperation with other institutions CPIS has conducted in 1989-1993 a series of public opinion surveys in Russia, Ukraine, Lithuania on security, economic and political is-sues. Publications: The Center has published the fol-lowing studies: • Collective Security for Russia and the CIS.

On results of the series of international con-sultations on security issues

• Russia on the Way to Market Economy • Public Movement 'Democratic Russia': his-

tory, current status, prospects • National Reconciliation: Mediation Practice • Nuclear Weapons and Security Issues in the

CIS. Policy of Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan

• Towards Nuclear Armaments • Elimination of Chemical Weapons: Political

and Technical Aspects • Peacekeeping Operations on the Territory of

the CIS Events: In 1992-1997 under the auspices of the Committees on International Affairs and on De-fence of the Parliament of the Russian Federa-tion, in coordination with the Ministry for Foreign Affairs and the Council of CIS Defence Minis-ters the Center for Political and International Studies conducted a programme of interna-tional conferences and consultations on East-West security matters with participation of rep-resentatives and experts from NATO, North At-lantic Assembly, European Union, international research institutions.



Institute for Contemporary International Studies (ICIS)

4 Bolshoy Kozlovsky pereulok 107078 Moscow Tel.: +7095 2089461; +7095 2083338 Fax: +7095 2089466 E-mail: [email protected] Internet: http://isn.rsuh.ru/icis/ Management: Bazhanov, Yevgeny, Prof. (Director) Year of foundation: ICSIS was established in April 1994 by the Diplomatic Academy of the Foreign Ministry of Russia. Staff: 55 Supporting institution: Ministry of Foreign Affairs centres: The Institute consists of eight research centers: • Center for CIS Studies - Director: Prof. Ana-

toly Shutov • Center for Transatlantic Studies - Director:

D.Sc.(History) Igor Kravchenko • Center for Asia Pacific Studies - Director:

Prof. Vladimir Li • Center for Middle Eastern and African Stud-

ies - Director: D.Sc.(Political Science) Vla-dimir Dontsov

• Center for Security, Arms Control and Pea-ce-Keeping Studies - Director: D.Sc.(History) Mikhail Shelepin

• Center for International Law and Humanitar-ian Studies - Director: Prof. Stanislav Cher-nichenko

• Center for International Economy and Global Studies - Director: Prof. Grigoriy Khozin

• Center for Linguistic and Cultural Studies -Director: Prof. Natalya Geraskina

Main fields: The Institute conducts fundamental research in all fields pertaining international re-lations; publishes textbooks, monographs and periodicals; provides academic support to Rus-sian foreign policy, organizes multi-national conferences and maintains other forms of co-operation with research and educational cen-ters. Research: The ICIS research agenda encom-passes such fields as international relations, di-plomacy, political science, international law, world economy, global issues, security, disar-mament, history, area studies (Russia, C.I.S., Europe, America, Middle East, Africa, Asia and the Pacific), transition to democracy and market economy, languages and culture. In 1998-99 a special emphasis has been made on the problems of overall security, settlement of local conflicts, non-proliferation of MDW, ter-rorism, disease control, drug consumption and other types of crime, stability of world economic

system, promotion of democratic institutions, etc. Publications/ Papers: ICIS publishes regularly the “Diplomatic Yearbook” featuring articles, view-points, chronologies, interviews, archival mate-rials, social overview on virtually all aspects of international life. Among the authors of “the Dip-lomatic Yearbook” are state officials, legislators, prominent diplomats, scholars and journalists of Russia and foreign countries. ICIS publishes a book series under six general titles: “International Relations”, “International Economic Relations”, “Inter-national Law”, “Scholarly Tribune”, “Men and Culture”, “Memo-ries”. In 1998 ICIS published over 70 periodicals, books, monographs (in Russian), among them: • The Diplomatic Yearbook 1997, ed. by Yu.

Kashlev, A. Shutov, E. Bazhanov, P. G. Ka-banen;

• Diplomats Remember. The World Through the Eyes of the Diplomatic Service Veterans, ed. by P. Petrik, B. Poklad, Yu. Kashlev and others;

• Topical Problems of the Contemporary World, N 1, ed. by A. Rudnitzky;

• Topical Problems of the Contemporary World, N 2, ed. by V. Li;

• Topical Problems of the Contemporary World, N 3, ed. by E. Bazhanov;

• Foreign Policy and Diplomacy of the Coun-tries of the Asia Pacific Region, ed. by V. Li;

• Russian Diaspora in the C.I.S. and Baltic Countries, by T. Poloskova;

• Topical Problems of International Law, ed. by S. Chernichenko;

• Foreign Investments in Russia, ed. by A. Subbotin;

• Diplomatic and Consular Practice, ed. by I. Kravchenko;

• Language. Oral communication. Text, ed. by N. Geraskina;

• Countries and ethnic groups, by E. Baz-hanov;

• Federalism in the Contemporary World, ed. by I. Kravchenko;

• Settlement in the Middle East, ed. by V. Dontzov, E. Bazhanov;

• World Integration Processes, ed. by A. Rud-nitzky;

• Mass Media in the System of International Relations, ed. by V. Seidov;

• Topical Problems of International Economic Law, by B. Ashavsky;

• The Concept of Social Right (History and Today), by S. Chernichenko;

• Foreign Language for International Commu-nication, ed. by N. Geraskina;

• Topical Problems of World Economy, ed. by A. Subbotin;


• Problems of Disarmament and Non-Proliferation in the Contemporary World, by S. Cherkass;

• International Relations after the Cold War, by G. Khozin;

• Foreign Policy of Russia, ed. by A. Rud-nitzky;

• Foreign Aid to Russia, by V. Tzikalo; • C.I.S., ed. by A. Shutov; • Disintegration and Separatist Tendencies in

the C.I.S, by Y. Lysenko; • Russia and America on the Eve of the XXI-st

Century, by V. Mataysh; • Russia and Japan, by A. Ivanov; • Islam as Factor of International Relations, by

V.Dontzov; • Political and Economic Situation in Iraq, by

V. Safarov; • China’s Experience in Attracting Foreign In-

vestments, by E. Merkulova. Events: In 1994-1998 the Institute held over 90 multi-national conferences with 100-200 partici-pants each as well as hundreds of smaller scale symposia, seminars and workshops. Co-operations: ICIS cooperates on a regular ba-sis with more than 60 research and educational centers abroad. The cooperation format in-cludes exchange of literature and information, visits of researchers and lecturers, joint confer-ences and projects. The on-going joint projects are: • Security and Peace in Korea (with RAND

Corporation, Santa Monica, USA); • The Blank Spots of the Diplomatic History of

the XXth Century (with Columbia University, New York, USA);

• Security for Europe (with BIOST, Cologne, Germany);

• Comprehensive Security System for Eurasia (with G. Marshall Center, Garmisch, Ger-many);

• Security for North East Asia (with Kim Dae-Jung Peace Foundation, Seoul, ROK);

• Non-Proliferation of MDW (with Monterey In-stitute for International Studies, Monterey, USA);

• The DPRK report (with the University of Cali-fornia, Berkley, USA);

• Participation in the Northeast Asia Peace and Security Network Daily Report (with Nautilus Institute, USA)

• Participation in the International Relations and Security Network (ISN) Project (with the Center for Security Studies and Conflict Re-search, Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland).

Scientific society

Association of European Studies

Mokhovaja str. 11-3 „B“ 103873 Moscow Tel.: +7095 2016704; 2034187 Fax: +7095 2004298 E-mail: [email protected] Internet: http://www.aes.org.ru Management: Borko, Youri A. - Prof. of Econom-ics, Head of Department on European Integra-tion Studies, Institute of Europe RAS (Presi-dent). Year of foundation: The Association of European Studies (AES) is a non-governmental organiza-tion, officially registered in 1992. The AES unites researchers, professors of the universi-ties and other research institutions as well as individual specialists working in the government and private sectors. Since May 1994 the AES is a co-founder of the World Union of European Community Studies Associations (ECSA-World). Organization: The AES is governed by its Gen-eral Conference which is convened every 3 years. In the period between the conferences the AES is managed by the Board. The Board functions as the central body of the AES Mos-cow branch as well. The day-to-day work of the AES is directed by the President of the Associa-tion and the Secretariat. The Statute of the AES envisages both collective and individual mem-bership. On this basis about 200 specialists participate in the activities of the AES and ist local branches. There is also the institute of honorary membership of the AES. Main fields: The main aims of the AES are: • to support the development of European

studies in Russia, including integration, poli-tics and economics, science and technology, culture, education, law, informatics, social issues, etc.;

• to develop international cooperation; • to promote education and training in the re-

spective fields; • to carry out the publishing activities. More than 30 research institutes of the Russian Academy of Sciences are represented in the AES (including Institute of Europe, Institute of the USA and Canada, Institute of World Econ-omy and International Relations, Institute of Universal History, Institute of State and Law, In-stitute of Slavic and Balkan Studies, Institute of Scientific Information of Social Sciences and others), as well as 17 universities, Moscow In-stitute of International Relations, All-Russian Market Research Institute and others. An important task of the AES is to collect, ana-lyze and transfer information to interested re-


search centres, universities, governmental and business structures in Russia and in the other countries as well. Research topics: Key directions of research: • Problems of European integration • European Union after Maastricht. The eco-

nomic and monetary union • The development of the EU’s cooperation

with the Central and East European States and the prospects of their accession to the EU

• The development of the institutional struc-ture of the EU

• Europe of citizens: social dimension and so-cial policy of the EU

• The experience of the European countries in transition

• EU research and development policy • Migration processes and policies in Europe • Problems of youth in Europe • Security problems in Europe, Russian and

NATO. • The CIS and its place in the system of all-

European cooperation • The European integration experience and

possibility of its application to Russian and the CIS.

Publications/ Papers: Since 1997 twice a year the AES publishes a new periodical in Russian and English “The AES-Russia Newsletter”. The pur-pose of this publication is to regularly inform all those interested about European research ac-tivities in Russia, European integration studies, in particular Russia - EU relations; general and special courses or seminars on European mat-ters in the Universities; conferences, past or still planned, symposia, round tables etc.; new books and articles; who is who in European problems. Events: Many seminars, conferences, symposia, which are regularly organized by the AES, pro-vide for numerous working contacts and a fruit-ful exchange of views and information. Besides, they are instrumental in carrying out multilateral joint research projects of Russian and foreign specialists, scientific associations, foundations and other interested parties. Co-operations: The AES maintains close relations with many national European Studies Associa-tions, as well as foreign universities and re-search centres, including Free University of Berlin, Free University of Brussels, University of Gent, Institute for Security Studies (Paris), the Netherlands Atlantic Commission, Hellenic Centre for European Studies (Athens), Federal Institute for Russian, East European and Inter-national Studies (BIOST) (Cologne), Interna-tional Peace Research Institute (Oslo), the Han-sard Society for Parliamentary Government (London), Institute Robert Schuman for Europe,

European Institute of Higher Research (IEHEI, Nice.

Data Sources

The Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS)

As part of the Living Standards Measurement Study of the World Bank the RLMS is a house-hold-based survey designed to measure the ef-fects of Russian reforms on the economic well-being of households and individuals. In particu-lar, determining the impact of reforms on household consumption and individual health is essential, as most of the subsidies provided to protect food production and health care have been or will be reduced, eliminated, or at least dramatically changed. These effects are meas-ured by a variety of means: detailed monitoring of individuals' health status and dietary intake; precise measurement of household-level ex-penditures and service utilization; and collection of relevant community-level data, including re-gion-specific prices and community infrastruc-ture data. Data have been collected eight times since 1992:

Phase I Round I 1992,

Round II 1992/93

Round II 1993

Round IV 1993/94

Phase II Round V December 1994

Round VI 1995

Round VII 1996

Round VIII 1998/1999

RLMS survey instruments were designed by an interdisciplinary group of Russian and American social science and biomedical researchers with extensive experience in survey research. It has been organized and coordinated by Dr. Barry M. Popkin, economist, Professor of Nutrition, and Fellow of the Carolina Population Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The agencies listed below have collaborated with the Carolina Population Center on this pro-ject. • The Institute of Sociology, Russian Acad-

emy of Sciences (ISRAN) • Paragon Research International Inc. • The Russian Center for Preventive Medi-

cine (RCPM) (Rounds I-IV only) • The Russian Institute of Nutrition, Russian

Academy of Medical Sciences (RIN)


• The State Statistical Bureau, Russia (Goskomstat Rossiia) (Rounds I-IV only)

Particular care was taken to collect data that would allow to answer policy-relevant questions concerning the design and impact of programs and policies affecting a wide range of social sector outcomes. The survey is designed to al-low various modules of questions to be included from round to round. In the initial two years of this effort, a main goal of the RLMS was to work with the Russian Sta-te Statistical Bureau (Goskomstat) and the Russian Center of Preventive Medicine to up-grade the systems in place for monitoring these issues. A breakdown in the collection of statisti-cal data was occurring throughout the former Soviet Union. In addition, it had become clear that Russian Federation data collection systems did not provide a representative profile of the economic and social dimensions of the popula-tion. In particular, adequate monitoring of the poor did not take place. Among the accom-plishments of Phase I was the creation of the first national sample frame, allowing surveys to be representative at the national level. More re-cently, this sample frame has been extended to develop samples representative at the regional and oblast levels. For Phase II, begun in 1994, the RLMS switched collaborators in Russia and the em-phasis of the work changed from institution-building to providing timely, high-quality infor-mation. The new RLMS sample is smaller, but the number of primary sampling units was dou-bled to enhance the representativeness of the survey. Data are available through anonymous FTP. In order to receive data, please see the webpage of the Carolina Population Center at the Univer-sity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from which it is possible to access the complete documen-tation of the study and an order form for obtain-ing data sets in SAS XPORT format: http://www.cpc.unc.edu/projects/rlms/home.html Source: http://www.cpc.unc.edu/projects/rlms/project/study.html

SLOVAKIA


Forum Institute

Ul. Zoltana Kodalya 769/29; P.O.Box 49. 924 01 Galanta Tel./Fax: +421 707 780 68 83 E-mail: [email protected] Internet: http://www.foruminst.sk

Management: Oelloes, Laszlo (president) Year of foundation: end of 1996 Historical development: In 1998, the Institute ex-panded to a modern regional institution of the Hungarian sciences, working in Slovakia. Supporter: Katedra and Forum Foundations Financing: The Institute is a non-profit establish-ment. It is funded by donations and third-party financial contributions. Before 1998 the Institute has not received any governmental support. Organization: The Institute is operated by a Sci-entific Council of directors. A General Assembly is held every year. An Academic College con-sisting of 33 members from the USA, Hungary and Slovakia supervises the activities of the In-stitute. The Institute is subdivided into regional centers. Centers: • Center for Contemporary Research (Gal-

anta) • Center of Ethnology (Komarno) • Library and Documentation Center (So-

morja) • Center of Methodology (Kosice) • Information Center (Galanta) • Center for International Cooperation (Brati-

slava) Main fields: The Institute aims at examining the economy and society of the nineties, beginning with the 1989 change (research on the present, sociological studies, study of social processes, analysis of economic transformations, evalua-tion of the public opinion, self-governing bodies and regional research). At present the setting up of a mere research institute is under way. It shall conduct basic research in addition to the present activities like the support for the culture of minorities, the elaboration of textbooks for experiment, the establishment of a network of citizen clubs, the assistance to cultural institu-tions, the preparation of elections. Research areas: • The Center for Contemporary Research mainly

launches projects that focus on public edu-cation. Besides the working out of new teaching methods in the Slovakian language for Hungarian students, a Slovak-Hungarian history textbook for secondary school was developed. Other projects include the study of enterprises in Slovakia, the transformation of the Hungarian institutional system be-tween 1989 and 1992 (oral history), and the study of the preparations for the 1998 elec-tion.

• The Center of Ethnology focuses on inter-ethnic relations, particularly those of the Hungarian minorities in Slovakia, and inter-cultural communication. Hitherto, the follow-ing studies were conducted: inter-ethnic con-tacts in the north-western Carpathian Basin, Slovak-Hungarian-German ethno-cultural


contacts, the ethnic situation in Komarno in the 20th Century, sacral reminders in the small plain, bibliography of Hungarian folk-lore in Slovakia.

Publications/Papers: In 1998, the Institute pub-lished numerous books, periodical, etc. in Hun-garian, Slovak and German. Bibliographical ref-erences can be found on the Internet home-page. Cooperations: Partner institutes are among oth-ers the Open Society Foundation and the Open Society Institute in Budapest, the Teleki Foun-dation in Budapest, the Westminster Founda-tion London, the Institute for European Ethnol-ogy and Cultural Research (Inst. für Eu-ropäische Ethnologie und Kulturforschung) in Marburg, the Chair of Folklore (Lehrstuhl für Volkskunde) at the University of Passau etc.

WESTERN EUROPE

Research project

Consolidating Russian Democracy? The third-round elections The election of the Russian Duma in December, 1999 and the scheduled election of a President in summer 2000 is intended to consolidate the country's post-Soviet system of government. But will Russia consolidate a democracy in the West European sense or will Russia in 2001 still have serious deficiencies in the rule of law, accountability, institutions of civil society and a market economy? This ESRC-funded research project (www.russia-votes.org) will first deter-mine the extent to which Russians find their government a rule of law democracy in the eve-ryday delivery of services and how shortcom-ings in performance affect attitudes and behav-iour. Secondly, it will ascertain the extent to which the electorate gives the winners a clear or a confused mandate to act or avoid action. Thirdly, the research will determine the extent to which dissatisfaction with the Yeltsin govern-ment has undermined support for the existing Russian regime. Insofar as there are demands for change, are they for strengthening democ-ratic institutions of for undemocratic alterna-tives? Evidence will come from two ESRC-funded nation-wide surveys of the Russian electorate following the December 1999 Duma vote, and the year 2000 presidential election, and previous Russian surveys and cross-national comparisons with 10 countries now negotiating EU membership. Project runs from August 1999 - January 2002. Contact: Prof. Richard Rose

Centre for the Study of Public Policy University of Strathclyde Tel.: +44 1415483217 Internet: http://www.cspp.strath.ac.uk

Data Sources

Stocktaking of Comparative Databases in Survey Research

The project „Stocktaking of Comparative Data-bases in Survey Research“ is part of the EUREPORTING. EUREPORTING is a Euro-pean-wide project with the long-term objective to create a science-based European System of Social Reporting and Welfare Measurement. It is financed by the European Commission in the framework of the TSER-Programme for a three years period starting in March 1998. The EUREPORTING-project is carried through in collaboration with researchers from 13 Euro-pean countries. For more information, please see: http://www.zuma-mannheim.de/data/social-indica-tors/eureporting/start.htm The main goal of the subproject "Stocktaking of Comparative Databases in Survey Research" directed by Prof. Dr. Rudolf Richter, Paul Lazarsfeld-Society for Social Research (PLG) and University of Vienna, Institute for Sociology, Vienna is to develop and establish a DYNAMIC INFORMATION CENTRE, which is providing policy makers on the one hand and the scien-tific community on the other hand with a retriev-able data-base of survey data and survey ques-tions about social reporting and social welfare. This DYNAMIC INFORMATION CENTRE will be established in close cooperation with the Austria Data Archive WISDOM on the one hand and both other subgroups in order to ensure a common standard in hardware and software and serve as a new online information system to make social welfare and social reporting sur-vey information accessible to policymakers, en-terprises and scientists. The main goal of that subproject is to foster and document the measurement of social reporting in a cross-national and comparative manner. Stocktaking of existing data bases includes in-formation on the content of and access to exist-ing data in a multi-national, comparative man-ner. But even more important is new work to strengthen the comparability of existing data. So the emphasis on research in this subproject is the international comparability of surveys in general and survey questions and variables in particular. That subproject is concentrating upon cross-sectional survey data and is not in-cluding panel data, which are taken care of by another subproject of the EUREPORTING. In order to enhance the quality of available data various processes have to be launched. Among those are conversion studies which are needed


to make existing variables and questions, that are assessed with different scales, at all com-parable. Validation studies are necessary to make sure that a specific question measures the same concept in all European countries un-der investigation. The Researcher Dr. Ch. Haerpfer is the princi-pal investigator of this subproject. There are 6 other scholars involved in the research of this subproject: Louis Chauvel (OFCE), Wolfgang Schulz (Vienna University), Richard Rose (Uni-versity Strathclyde), Karl Müller (IHS), Ruut Veenhoven (Erasmus University), Jiri Vecernik (Academy of Sciences Czech Republic). As an associated partner to the subproject, the Czech Academy of Sciences (Dr. J. Vecernik) will contribute by documenting the survey data on social reporting in the Czech Republic. The first task of the Czech partner is to find and de-scribe systematically cross-sectional national sample surveys, which were conducted in the Czech Republic between 1990 and 1997 and cover the field of social reporting. Those sur-veys are then documented in a source book in strict comparison with the source books of this subproject. These Czech data on social report-ing are then integrated in the DYNAMIC INFORMATION CENTRE of the Paul Lazars-feld Society of Social Research, thus being available on the Internet at the end of the pro-ject. The second task is to compare the Czech surveys from a methodological perspective with surveys in other post communist countries, es-pecially in Poland and Hungary, in order to as-sess the homogeneity or heterogeneity of social reporting survey data in the post communist buffer zone of the three countries Czech Republic, Poland and Hungary, which are most likely to join the European Union in the first wave of enlargement of the EU. Source: http://mailbox.univie.ac.at/~haerpfc9/

CONFERENCES

Announcement

Gender in Transition in Eastern and Central Europe Date: 09.-11.12.99 Conference site: Humboldt-Universität, Berlin Organiser: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HUB), Zentrum für Interdisziplinäre Frauenstudien (ZiF) Kontakt: HUB, ZiF, Gabriele Jähnert Sophienstraße 22a 10178 Berlin Tel.: +4930 80882 301/-304 Fax: +4930 39882 216

E-mail: [email protected]

Announcement

Access 2000: Intellectual property vs. The right to knowledge? 8. BOBCATSSS Symposium

Date: 24.-26.01.00 Conference site: Jagiellonian University Library, Cracow, Poland Organiser: Royal School of Library and Informa-tiona Science, Denmark; Jagiellonian University Krakow Kontakt: BOBCATSSS Royal School of Li-brary/Inf. Science Birketinget 6 DK-2300 Copenhagen, Denmark E-mail: [email protected]

Announcement

Conference on postcommunist civil-military relations

Date: 22.-23.03.00 Conference site: University of Glasgow, Scotland, Großbritannien Organiser: Institute of Central and East European Studies and the Scottish Centre for War Stud-ies, University of Glasgow Kontakt: David Betz, ICEES, Univ. of Glasgow Inst. of Central and East European Studies, Bute Gardens Fax: +44141 330 5594 E-mail: [email protected] Internet: http://www.one-europe.ac.uk/events/2000/mar.htm

Announcement

The 2000 Annual Conference of the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies

Date: 01.-03.04.00 Conference site: Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, Großbritannien Organiser: British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies (BASEES)s Kontakt: Dr. Peter I. Barta, Senior Lecturer Head Russian Studies Univ. of Surrey Guilford Tel.: +441483 300 800 ext. 2822 Fax: +441483 259 527 E-mail: [email protected] Internet: http://src-home.slav.hokudai.ac.jp/eng/ calender-e-con.html


Announcement

Between wars. Nations, nationalism and gender relations in Central and Eastern Eu-rope 1918-1939

Date: 11.-14.05.00 Conference site: Obory, Poland Organiser: German Historical Institute Warsaw, Institut für Zeitgeschichte Wien Kontakt: Dr. Sophia Kemlein German Historical Institute PKiN, XVII p., Plac Defilad 1, skr. 33 PL-00-901 Warszawa Tel.: +431 4277 41210 Fax: +431 4277 9412 E-mail: [email protected]

Announcement

Vademecum - InSEA 5th European Congress

Date: 19.-21.06.00 Conference site: Warsaw, Poland Organiser: Polish Committee of the International Society for Education through Art (InSEA), the National Centre of Art for Children and Young People in Poznan, ‘Zamek’ Cultural Centre in Poznan, and under the auspices of the Ministry of Culture and Art of the Republic of Poland Topics: The Congress is conceived on the prem-ise that education through art is a means of promoting international understanding and co-operation. This will be achieved by bringing to-gether specialists, teachers, academics, gov-ernment officers and others directly concerned with the encouragement and advancement of creative education. Arts and crafts will be used to explore approaches to art education which are more inclusive, interactive, collaborative and interdisciplinary. The Pre-Conference Session Education through Art: Time Passing and Time Enduring will be held in Warsaw, 17.-18.06.00. Kontakt: InSEA European Congress Vademecum, National Centre of Art for Children and Young People in Poznan 61-809 Poznan, ul. SW. Marcin 80/82, Poland Tel.: +4861 853 6090 Fax: +4861 852 8580 E-mail: [email protected]

Announcement

Hierarchy and Power in the History of Civili-zations International Conference

Date: June 2000 Conference site: Moscow, Rußland

Organiser: The Center for Civilizational and Re-gional Studies of the Russian Academy of Sci-ences in cooperation with The Institute of Cul-tural Anthropology (Russian State University of Humanities, Moscow) Topics: The Conference objective is to discuss the processes of the politogenesis in their re-gional and temporary variation. This discussion, in its turn, could and should promote the ad-vancement of the understanding of the general trends and mechanisms of sociocultural evolu-tion, the interrelation and interaction of social, cultural and political dimensions in the society, and further development of general methodol-ogy for anthropology, cultural studies, sociology, political science etc. Deadline: for panel proposals: 01.09.99, for pa-per proposals with abstracts (max. 300 words): 01.12.99 Kontakt: Igor V. Sledzevski, Center for Civiliza-tional and Regional Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences 30/1 Spiridonovka St. Moscow 103001, Russia Fax: +795 2020 786 E-mail: [email protected]

Announcement

Tradition and modernity in Romanian cul-ture and civilization, 1600-2000 Sixth International Conference

Date: 03.-07.07.00 Conference site: Iasi, Romania Organiser: Center for Romanian Studies Kontakt: Center for Romanian Studies Oficiul Postal I, Csusa Postal 108 6600 Iasi, Romania Tel.: +4032 219000 Fax: +4032 219010 E-mail: [email protected]

Announcement

Travel writing, Ethnography and the Migra-tion of Stereotypes 6th Biennial Conference of the European Asso-ciation of Social Anthropologists (EASA)

Date: 26.-29.07.00 Conference site: Cracow, Poland Organiser: EASA Deadline: 31 January 2000 The Scientific Committee encourages EASA members to put forward their ideas and to con-tribute with papers to the workshops’ sessions of the 6th Conference. Members should send the title of the paper and an abstract of no more than 200 words to the workshop Convenor(s) no later than 31 January 2000. It is up to the


Convenor(s) to select papers that will make a coherent workshop session. The selected pa-pers with their abstracts will be gathered to-gether in a booklet available to the conference participants. E-mail: [email protected] Internet: http://www.ub.es/easa/index.htm

Announcement

Labour markets, work, and welfare during the transition and integration processes Seminar

Date: 10.-14.10.00 Conference site: Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania Organiser: Center for European Integration Stud-ies (ZEI), Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn in cooperation with Tartu Uni-versity, the University of Latvia, the Vilnius Uni-versity and the Euro Faculty Kontakt: ZEI, Univ. Bonn, Ken Smith Walter-Flex-Straße 3 53113 Bonn Tel.: +49228 737 967 Fax: +49228 731 809 E-mail: [email protected]

Report

Workshop "New Forms of Management, Pri-vatisation and Participation"

Date: 19.-20. July 1999 Conference site: St. Petersburg State University, Faculty of Management in co-operation with and supported by German Volkswagen Founda-tion The workshop was a meeting of the Research Committee (RC) 10 of the International Socio-logical Association (ISA) organised by the regu-lations of the RC 10. Members of the RC 30 and the RC 44 of the ISA took part in the work-shop as well. Participants came from eleven countries and three continents (Brazil, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Spain, Japan, Russia, USA). Among them were researchers, academic professors and also practically working economists and politicians. Many reports were presented by German and Russian students showing their ability to con-duct researches and to make scientific analy-ses. The reports were based on empirical stud-ies and theoretically orientated. The reports dealt with problems of Germany and Russia in particular and of Brazil, China, It-aly, Hungary, Greece, Spain, Poland and Europe in general.

The reports and discussions at the workshop contributed to the current discussion on privati-sation and the development of management and economy in Central and Eastern Europe. The workshop had the following agenda: 1. Plenary • Basis of new forms of management, partici-

pation and privatisation (Kreissig/Raskow) • Development of positions of the manage-

ment to participation in small and medium sized enterprises in East Germany (Lang)

2. New Forms of Management • Successful management in German small

and medium sized enterprises (Gruhler) • Empirical studies on development of man-

agement in Eastern Europe (Ishikawa) • Importance of participative management in

small and medium sized enterprises in Europe (Insola)

• Management in small and medium sized en-terprises in Northern Italy (Silvestri)

• Management and self-organisation in enter-prises" (Trofimov)

• Management in Russian enterprises and business evaluation (Loukianova/Zenkevich)

• Entrepreneurship and management in Rus-sia - psychological aspects (Koshelova)

• Forms of management and privatisation in Russian household economy (Fox)

3. Students researches into management, participation and privatisation

• Russian system of taxes as a problem of modern forms of management (Adrianov)

• Co-operative structures in interorganisa-tional networks (Schlorke/Schubert/Uhl-mann)

• Japanese management methods and prob-lems of realisation in Russia (Kusnezova)

• Human resources consulting - as an impor-tant task of management in Russia (Denisova)

4. Privatisation and participation • Privatisation and participation in Siberia

(Gershikov) • Structure of Hungarian economy after priva-

tisation - limits of participation (Galgoczi) 5. Participation - forms and industrial rela-

tions • Industrial relations in Greece - present situa-

tion, trends and future (Nicolaou-Smokoviti) • Teamwork - a contribution to co-

determination at workplace - example of Volkswagen (Seul)

• Participation in propriety and management or co-determination in Poland (Kulpinska)

• Women participation in the management of the future (Guadelupe Gomez y Patio)

6. Economic change and participation • Democracy, participation and education

(Suenker)


• Communal enterprises - participation in Russian entrepreneurship (Patokina/Cher-niakov)

• Industrial change and fetching modernisa-tion the example of Volkswagen (Voigt)

7. Practical experiences in management, privatisation and participation

• Foundation of a private enterprise and prob-lems of participative management in East Germany (Arnold)

• Privatisation of Hoermann-Rawema and problems of participative project manage-ment in Eastern Europe (Streicher)

• Development of business ethic and partici-pative management on the market (Igantiev)

8. Roundtable discussion: Potentialities and forms of management and participation in the co-operation between Russia and Ger-many (Ar-nold/Effenberger/Streicher/Gaube/Moltschanov/Chonobiev - Katkalo)

Contact: Prof. Dr. Volkmar Kreissig State University St. Petersburg Faculty for Management Pereulok Dekabristov 16 199155 St. Petersburg/Russia Tel.: +7812 350-8155

Fax: +7812 350-0406 E-mail: [email protected]

Report

International Conference „The Enlargement of the European Union and Russia’s Priori-ties“

On October 15-16, 1999, the Institute of Europe and the Association of European Studies in co-operation with the Delegation of the European Commission in Russia, held a conference „The Enlargement of the European Union and Rus-sia’s Priorities“. It assembled representatives of the Russian Government, executives of Minis-tries and Departments, diplomats of EU Mem-ber-Countries and applicant countries, re-searchers, businessmen and journalists. Among the key speakers were V. Loukin, Chairman of the Committee for International Af-fairs of the State Duma of the Russian Federa-tion (RF), I. Ivanov, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the RF, M. Emerson, Prof. of the Lon-don School of Economics, Academician V. Zhurkin, Director of the Institute of Europe (Russia), G. Dubois, Deputy Head of the Dele-gation of the European Commission in RF, S. Stebelsky, Director of EU Department of Minis-try of Foreign Affairs of Poland, Prof. Y. Papani-colaou, Director General of the International Centre of the Black Sea Studies (Greece), Prof. I. Shikova, President of ESCA-Bulgaria, V.

Shlyamin, Minister of External Relations of the Republic Karelia (Russia), N. Arbatova, vice-president of the Council of the Mediterranean and Black Sea Studies (Russia), S. Glinkina (Deputy Director of the Institute of International Economic and Political Studies (Russia), etc. Summary of discussions were made by Prof. Y. Borko, President of the Association of Euro-pean Studies (Russia). The following topics were discussed: • the prospects of the EU enlargement: sce-

narios and problems • trade and economic relations between the

EU, CEECs and Russia in the context of the EU enlargement

• implications of the EU enlargement for the security of Russia and its position in Europe

• interconnection between the EU enlarge-ment and cooperation in the southern re-gions of Europe

• interconnection between the EU enlarge-ment and cooperation in the Baltic and Northern regions of Europe

Materials of the conference are to be published. For detailed information please contact: AES, Institute of Europe, 11-3 “B“, Mokhovaya ul., Moscow 103873 Tel.: +7095 201-67-04, +7095 201-69-89 Fax: +7095 200-52-55 E-mail: [email protected] Dr. Kaveshnikov, Institute of Europe

RESEARCH FUNDS

IREX Consortium for the Humanities and Social Sciences The International Research & Exchanges Board (IREX) is pleased to announce the creation of the new IREX Consortium for the Humanities and Social Sciences. The Consortium, created in response to needs raised from academics in the field, will strengthen institutions of higher education in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Russia, and Ukraine. The Consortium is funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Humanities and social sciences institutions are central to the foundation of a strong, healthy civil society. The IREX Consortium for the Hu-manities and Social Sciences is designed to give university and scholarly leaders in Arme-nia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Russia, and Ukraine the tools and knowledge needed to strengthen their institutions and build effective regional centers of learning. Three synergistic program components within the Consortium encourage partnership and participation between scholars from the US, Western and Central Europe, Tur-


key, Iran, Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Armenia. The program components are: • The Targeted Exchanges Program, geared

toward individual academics, curriculum de-velopers, and educational institution admin-istrators;

• The Small Grants for Partnership Develop-ment Program, in which universities ex-change information and cultivate new part-nership linkages;

• The Information Resources and Dissemina-tion Program, which will provide a forum for the creation of on-line databases and the dissemination of scholarly papers and new curricula over the Internet.

All three programs are interrelated, and IREX encourages individuals and universities to apply for multiple components of the Consortium to ensure maximum benefit to both individuals and institutions. Applications for the Targeted Exchanges Pro-gram are now available on the IREX web site http://www.irex.org/programs/chss/ and will be due January 14, 2000. Applications for the Small Grants for Partner-ship Development Program and the Information Resources and Dissemination Program will be available after December 1999. Please see the IREX web site for more informa-tion and application due dates. Central European University • Summer University - Application The Summer University (SUN) is an academic program for university professors, administra-tors and professionals. It offers a series of in-tensive two, three or four-week courses in the social sciences and humanities to encourage and promote regional academic cooperation and curriculum development by drawing to-gether young faculty in lectures, seminars and workshops. Applications should be received no later than January 17, 2000. For further information you can contact ([email protected]), or visit WEB site (http://www.ceu.hu/sun/sunindx) from which you can download the application form. • Call for Fellowship Applications CEU is now accepting applications for fellow-ships for the 2000/2001 academic year (for stu-dents from Central and Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union and Central Asia). Addi-tional financial aid is available for students from other countries. The Central European Univer-sity is an internationally recognized institution of post-graduate education in the social sciences which seeks to contribute to the development of

open societies in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union (CEE/FSU). • Academic Departments and programs Economics (MA); Environmental Sciences and Policy (MSc); Gender & Culture (MA); History - [Central European History (MA), Comparative History Track (PhD), Nationalism Studies Track (PhD), Southeast European Studies Track (PhD)]; International Relations and European Studies (MA); Legal Studies - [(Comparative Constitutional Law (LLM), International Busi-ness Law (LLM), Human Rights (MA), Juridicial Sciences (SJD)]; Medieval Studies (MA, PhD); Nationalism Studies (MA); Political Science - [Politics and the Political Economy of Transition (MA), Comparative Politics Track (PhD), Inter-national Relations Track (PhD), Public Policy and Political Economy Track), Social and Politi-cal Theory Track (PhD)]; Southeast European Studies (MA), Sociology - [Society and Politics (MA), Economy and Society (MA), Sociology (PhD)]. For information about research degrees, doc-toral support and non-degree programs, please contact the Admissions Office Contacts: CEU Admissions Office, Nador u 9 1051 Budapest HUNGARY Tel: +361 327-3009 Fax: +361 327-3211 E-mail: [email protected] Internet: http://www.ceu.hu

INTERNET NEWS

• The Russian Regional Report (RRR) is a

weekly survey of political and social trends in the 89 regions of the Russian Federation. It is published as a part of the EWI (East-West Institute, USA) Rebuilding Russia pro-gram, designed to provide a steady flow of informed analysis that seeks to identify emerging ideas, trends, and patterns of power and governance in Russia. RRR staff also publishes the highly acclaimed Russian Regional Investor (RRI), a weekly summary of the economic and business trends in Russian regions, as well as the Russian-language Ðîññèéñêèé Ðåãèîíàëüíûé Áþëëåòåíü (RRB), a unique overview and analysis of political, economic and social de-velopments across Russia written and edited entirely by our team of experts in Moscow and New York. RRR relies in its work on an unparalleled network of regular correspon-dents in some 35 regions of the Russian Federation, as well as on the central media, regional newspapers, and academic re-


search by top Western scholars. Accessible under http://www.iews.org/

rrrabout.nsf/pages/mission+page • Russian Sociological Forum (RSF) is an

international electronic journal in sociology published in Russia (http:www.socfo-rum.com/journal/index.htm). It is a member of the International Consortium of Alternative Academic Publications (http://www.icaap.org/). RSF is distributed free in order to promote uncommercialized scholarly communication. Russian Sociological Forum publishes aca-demic-level articles in all areas of sociology and related social sciences, commentaries to articles and book reviews. Editor: Inna F. Deviatko; Language: Russian; Start: 1999.

• Russian information Society Network

was founded on March 11th, 1999 and unites scientists who investigate develop-mental problems of the economy, politics, education and the society in general as well as psychological, social and philosophical issues of internet communications on the basis of net and information technologies. The main tasks include the exchange of in-formation and ideas, the preparation and realization of projects which are aligned on the formation of the information society in Russia and on the integration of the country into the global information society (http://www.isn.ru).

• Parliamentary Elections in Elections in

Russia On December 19, 1999 the Russian Federa-tion will hold elections for the Russian par-liament (State Duma). The Federal Institute for East European, Russian and Interna-tional Studies (BIOst) provides German-language material on these elections under the following address: http://www.biost.de/ du-mawahl/wahlindex.htm Included are information on the parties and election blocs, their background and political programmes, as well as short biographies of major candidates, results of opinion polls and links to WWW-sites related to the elec-tions. Also available are full-text versions of our publication series "Current Analyses" focusing on this topic.

• Contact: Bundesinstitut für ostwissenschaftliche und internationale Studien Lindenbornstr. 22 50823 Köln Tel.: +49-221-5747-0 Fax: +49-221-5747-110 E-mail: [email protected] Internet: http/www.biost.de

• „INTERMARIUM“, the first online Journal of East Central European Postwar History and Politics. Intermarium (reflects East Central Europe's geographic location between the seas: Baltic, Adriatic and Black), provides an electronic medium for noteworthy scholar-ship and provocative thinking about the his-tory and politics of Central and Eastern Europe following World War II. The journal is meant to broaden the discourse on aspects of national histories that are undergoing change thanks to the availability of new documentation from recently opened ar-chives. (http://www.columbia.edu/cu/sipa/REGIONAL/ECE/intermar.html) It is a project of the Institute of Political Stud-ies of the Polish Academy of Sciences and Columbia University's Institute on East Cen-tral Europe. The contributions are in English.

• Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Repub-

lic, is offering scholarships for undergradu-ate students in Central and Eastern Europe and the Newly Independent States (NIS) to attend the Central European Studies Pro-gram in Spring 2000. More information is on the web site at: www.rect.muni.cz/cesp

• The publication „Science in Slovenia“ that

appeared in a printed version in December 1998 is now available online: http://www.-mzt.si/mzteng/pub/science-dec98/index. html Contents: View into the new millenium - by the Minister; 1. Scientific Endavour in Slove-nia (Historical Overview) 2. Ministry of Sci-ence and Technology (National Research Policy; Legal and Organisational Frame-work; Organisation and Expert Bodies of the Ministry of Science and Technology; Financ-ing; International Co-operation; R&D Human Potential) 3. Science and Research Organi-sations (Universities; The Slovenian Acad-emy of Science and Arts; National Research Institutes; Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Science and Arts/ In-stitute for Ethnic Studies (IES)/ Institute for Contemporary History/ Urban Planning Insti-tute of the Republic of Slovenia/Institute for Economic Research/ Educational Research Institute/ Science and Research Centre of the Republic of Slovenia/; Public Institutes: Economic Institute of the Law School (EIPF); Slovenian Science Foundation; 4. Basic R&D Infrastructure: (Archive of the Republic of Slovenia; Libraries; Institute of Information Science - IZUM; Academic and Research Network of Slovenia - ARNES); 5. Basic Data on Slovenia.


MISCELLANEOUS

Call for Papers

The section "Sociology of Eastern and Central Eastern Europe" of the German Society of So-ciology (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziolo-gie/DGS) announces its next meeting. It is to be held in St. Petersburg/Russia from June 8 (Thursday) to June 12 (Monday) 2000 in coop-eration with the colleagues from the "Center for Independent Social Research" (CISR) there. Thus, the meeting is part of the Aurora project in St. Petersburg, which is to verify and use new grounds in the scientific dispute on post-socialist transformation processes. The meeting in the year 2000 will be devoted to the topic of "border shifts." The meeting's focus will be the presentation of empirical research results or project designs dealing with altered border situations in Eastern and Central Eastern Europe. Border shifts as a result of system change will be in the fore. For-mer borders of the "bloc" have become open border regions today (examples are the western borders of Poland, the Czech Republic, Hun-gary, etc.). Internal borders hardly recognized in the past, have developed into borderlines now separating the new Western Europe from the new Eastern Europe (e.g. the borders between Russia and the Baltic States). All these politi-cally implemented events have social and eco-nomic consequences that attract our attention. The topic could contain the following aspects: • Changed migration patterns concerning in-

ternal and external migration; • Experiences of border regions: regular bor-

der traffic and border trade; • Examples of border-crossing institutional re-

lations; • Responses to the program of the "Eastern

Enlargement:" Are there ideas of a "Western Enlargement" and what are they intended for?

• Networks or fragmentation of political and cultural publics?

• Socio-cultural shifts/new-old cultures of ori-gin and reference;

• Individual and collective problems and chances of assignment.

Conference language will be English, transla-tion into Russian and German is envisaged. There are still reservations about the funding of that meeting. Contact: Ingrid Oswald (DGS Council of Speakers of the section Eastern(Central Eastern)Europe) E-mail: [email protected] or: Dr. Ingrid Oswald Gothaer Str. 5a

D-10823 Berlin Tel.:/Fax: +49-30-787 11 780 or: Viktor Voronkov (CISR) E-mail: [email protected]


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