EpsNet KIOSK 19
E-Newsletter edited by the European Political Science Network
27 January  2005

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Contents:

- Call for Papers
- Conferences and Seminars
- Job Vacancies
- Grants and Fellowhsips
- Partnership and Projects
- Reviews, Publications, Resources


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CALLS FOR PAPERS

1. Call for contributions in The Romanian Journal of Society and Politics

The editors of the Romanian Journal of Society and Politics are inviting you to submit papers for its 9th issue. RJSP is accepting high quality research papers from all fields of social sciences.  Interdisciplinary approaches and contributions from disciplines outside the social sciences are welcome as long as they address issues of relevance to contemporary Romanian politics, culture, or society. For each issue RJSP accepts a diversity of contributions, regardless of the main theme of the issue. These contributions can be research articles, reviews, discussion pieces and review articles on a variety of subjects.
However, every issue aims at focusing on a particular theme. The 9th issue of the RJSP, to be published in May 2005, will address the theme Democratization: Regional Perspectives. Fifteen years after the end of communism in Eastern Europe, we address the issue of democratic transformations in the region. We welcome contributions that approach the theoretical foundations of democracy, constitutional reforms and institutional arrangements, economic development and democratic consolidation, prospects of democratic consolidation etc. Of particular interest are articles that deal with the above issues in a comparative approach.

Deadline for submissions: 15 February, 2005
Publication expected: May 2005
All contributions should be sent by e-mail to: politics@home.ro or razvan@srsp.ro.

For more info on RJSP (including the style and the length of contributions), please check: http://www.srsp.ro/rjsp.html

2. “Search for a New World Order--the Role of Public Opinion”- 58th Annual Conference of the World Association for Public Opinion Research (WAPOR), Cannes, France
September 15-17, 2005

In the late summer of 2005, researchers will be gathering in Cannes for the 58th Annual WAPOR (www.wapor.org) Conference.

We would be pleased to receive as many proposals for papers, panels or round table sessions as possible.  The 2005 conference will have a central theme: “Search for a New World Order--the Role of Public Opinion.” Although this topic may remind some people, particularly Americans, of political catchphrases that were commonly used in the last few decades, it is intended to be neutral in terms of both political and philosophical outlooks. In view of the turmoil at the start of the 21st century, we feel it is time to take a closer look at the fundamental question of what role survey research has to play in a rapidly changing world. For example:


These are just some of the questions we would like to consider in Cannes. But these are not the only questions we would like to discuss! The theme is intended as a focus point and not a defining criterion. It goes without saying that the WAPOR Annual Conference in Cannes will, as always, provide a broad forum for all survey research issues. We are looking forward to receiving a wide variety of interesting papers pertaining to the entire spectrum of methodological research and applied survey research from around the world.

Deadline for proposals: April 1, 2005.
Please send your proposals for papers and panel sessions, along with a brief abstract of about one or two pages to:
Thomas Petersen
Institute fur Demoskopie Allensbach
Radolfzellerstrasse 8
78476 Allensbach
GERMANY
Tel: +49 (7533) 805 191
Fax:  +49 (7533) 3048
Email: tpetersen@ifd-allensbach.de


3. “Well-being and Social Justice” The 2005 Social Policy Association Conference, University of Bath, England
27th - 29th June 2005

Conference Theme: Well-being and Social Justice

Papers are invited which address the overall theme ‘Well-being and Social Justice’ and the following sub-themes:

1) Childhood and the life course
2) Crime and criminal justice processes
3) Economic security: poverty and social inequalities
4) Education and learning
5) Environment/ housing/community
6) Family and family policy
7) Health and social care
8) Labour market/ work as welfare/corporate citizenship
9) Theorising well-being: defining, measuring and understanding
10) Understanding agency and promoting voice

Papers presenting a comparative, European or international dimension are strongly encouraged. We also welcome papers from outside of the traditional social policy disciplines.

Abstracts of no more than 150 words should be submitted either, on paper with a floppy disc, or by email in rich text format.

Information enclosed with your abstract should include:
Title of paper, your name, affiliation, postal address (including postcode), contact number (including country and area code) and email address. Please indicate the relevant theme/sub-theme for your paper.

Deadline for abstract submission: 18th February 2005

Abstracts should be sent to:

SPA 2005 Conference Office
Department of Social and Policy Sciences
University of Bath
Bath
BA2 7AY

Inquiries can be made by email to Spa2005@bath.ac.uk, telephone + 44 (0) 1225 383529 or fax  + 44 (0) 1225 826381

Once your abstract has been processed you will receive a standard email of confirmation. If you do not receive confirmation of receipt of your abstract by the end of February, please contact the SPA Conference Office

4. “What Counts? Calculation, Representation, Association,” Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, 17th Annual Meeting on Socio-Economics, Budapest, Hungary
June 30 - July 2, 2005


The 17th Annual Meetings on Socio-Economics will be held in Budapest, June 30 - July 2, 2005. The meetings will be co-hosted by the Central European University and the Corvinus University of Budapest (formerly Budapest University of Economic Sciences). In addition to the regular panels, open to the richest diversity in themes and methods, the 2005 meetings will include featured speakers and a set of Presidential Choice panels addressing the theme, “What Counts? Calculation, Representation, Association.” Faced with a deluge of information, a multiplicity of evaluative principles, and myriad features that could be potentially salient, what is taken into account? What matters, who counts, and with what kinds of measures and metrics? Whereas calculation, representation, and association might conventionally map to the domains of economy, polity, and the civic, the organizers are as much interested, for example, in representations within the economy, calculations within the civic, and the problem of making associations in politics. In examining how actors navigate multiple orders of worth, the focus will be on the socio-technologies of making and taking accounts. Because tools count as constitutive parts of the social, they must be brought into our accounts. Tools - instruments, artifacts, numbering systems, spreadsheets, microphones, monitors, servers, protocols, platforms, podiums, flipcharts, websites, power points, algorithms, maps, models, tabulators, tables - are a part not only of calculative practices but also of public assemblages in politics and civic life. Network analysis, moreover, will be enriched by studying how meetings, mobile phones, and emails mediate social ties. Papers are invited on these and other themes.

Papers are accepted in English, Spanish and French.
Deadline for proposal submission has been extended to: March 1, 2005.

To encourage the participation of Eastern Europeans, SASE will provide up to 5 travel and lodging grants of $500 to qualified participants.

For more information on conference details and grants, and for the on-line registration form please check http://www.sase.org/conf2005/callforpapers/callforpapers.html.

5. “A NEW International Role for Small(ER) States?” CEPSA Annual Conference 2005, Vienna, Austria
19-21 May 2005

Host institution: Austrian Political Science Association (AUPSA)
Organizing Institutions: Central European Political Science Association (CEPSA), the Institute of Political Science, Vienna University (IPW) and the Austrian Institute for International Politics (OIIP)
Sponsors: Österreichische Forschungsgemeinschaft and the Austrian Ministry for Foreign Affairs

General Theme “A New International Role for Small(er) States”

“Small states” was the catchword for a lively discussion during the 1970s and 1980s that tried to capture the specific situation and role of small European states in international relations. The general background of this discussion was the bloc confrontation which provided some European small states with unique opportunities to act as go-betweens, champions of the
non-aligned world or peace makers.

Since the demise of the bipolar world new and old European small states have been trying to carve out new roles for themselves. The advance of European integration and the expansion of the Union come with sovereignty losses and a diminished political weight for individual small states. Forging alliances in order to upscale the economic and political performance and the impact of these states is seen as a major remedy. Since, however, not only the small
states but also the big players have to operate in uncertain contexts, strategies are fraught with perilous hazards. For one example, it is unclear whether Turkey or the Ukraine may become EU members and when. Neighborhood policy (“wider Europe”) is still in an embryonic stage and can be expected to remain in flux.

The fact should not be obscured that small European states are not all alike. It is hard enough to find a suitable definition of this concept. Despite equal representation in the EU bodies, their political place value varies over the regions.

This conference is to explore the situation of European small states in this new environment, to suggest new or adapted roles and strategies.

Proposed panels:

Panel 1: Regionalization Processes in the EU - Northeast and East Central Europe
Panel 2: Next Steps of EU Enlargement
Panel 3: EU Neighborhood Policy
Panel 4: Scenarios of European Security and Peace Keeping Policy
Panel 5: Comparative Regional Perspectives: ECE, Baltic Area, Southeast Europe, Central Asia (Caucasus)
Panel 6: Open Panel

The CEPSA Conference 2005 aims to support young researchers. For this reason the CEPSA cooperates with the POWI04 initiative during the conference. Powi04 is a newly founded section of the Austrian Political Science. Association that focuses on promoting the work of young scientists within the Political Science community, building national and international
networks and bringing attention to the situation of graduate students. The national initiative is run by graduates and Ph.D. students of the Political Science Programs of the universities of Vienna, Salzburg and Innsbruck.
In order to promote the integration of young researchers, we strongly encourage young scientists to submit their papers. Moreover there will be a session especially for young researchers to discuss ways how to intensify the scientific exchange between young scientists and how to strengthen their position in the Political Science community of Central Europe.

Deadline: 15 March 2005
Contact: Karin Liebhart/ Institute of Political Science, Vienna University
A-1010 Vienna, Universitätsstrasse 7/2
Phone: +43/1/4277/47739, Fax: +43/1/4277/9477
Email: karin.liebhart@univie.ac.at

6. Ethics and Integrity of Governance: A Transatlatic Dialogue, Leuven, Belgium
June 2-5, 2005

Organizers: Study Group on Ethics and Integrity of Governance of the European
Group of Public Administration (EGPA), Section on Ethics of the American Society of Public Administration (ASPA)

Host institution: Public Management Institute of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KUL)

The conference takes place in the beautiful medieval city of Leuven, a traditional university city about 20 minutes from Brussels. Jointly organised by a European and American network on public sector ethics, the conference aims to strengthen co-operation among European and US
scholars on the topic. All relevant aspects of administrative ethics will be discussed and particular attention will be given to the similarities and differences, both in theory and practice, between Europe, the US and other parts of the world. This comparative angle is expressed in the two keynote speeches by John Rohr and Jeremy Pope, respectively.

At the core of the conference will be 5 workshops. These will be jointly chaired by an American and European convenor and will consist of an internationally mixed audience of participants. The conference is open to all interested, but participants will be expected to subscribe to one workshop and be expected to participate actively in the sessions of that workshop. Participants are also strongly encouraged to prepare a paper. At least one edited volume is expected from the papers presented at this conference.

The organising committee of the conference invites papers on the topics
of the 5 workshops:
1. Concepts and theories (chairs: Richard Chapman and Mel Dubnick)
2. The ethical administrator: comparative and contemporary perspectives (chairs: Mark Bovens and Terry Cooper)
3. Integrity and ethics management (chairs: Alan Doig, Alan Lawton, and Kathryn Denhardt)
4. New developments and the ethics of governance (chairs: Geert Bouckaert and Montgomery Van Wart)
5. The dark side of ethics (chairs: Leo Huberts and Frank Anechiarico)

Deadline for submission: February 15, 2005
Paper proposals should be sent to: jeroen.maesschalck@soc.kuleuven.ac.be

The full call for papers, the conference program and all practical information can be found at the conference website: http://www.publicmanagement.be/ethics
For more information, please contact: jeroen.maesschalck@soc.kuleuven.ac.be
 
7. Yearbook for Historical Communist Studies
To be published in print in Berlin in 2005 by Stiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur

Since 1993 the Jahrbuch fuer historische Kommunismusforschung (Yearbook for Historical Communist Studies) has befme an essential forum for scholarly exchange and discussion concerning the hsitory of communism in the 20th century. It has been created in order to present to the interested public the results of international scholarly research which is not oriented towards the everyday debate over politics. With articles based on original research, publication of original documents, miscellanea, and book reviews the Jahrbuch has created more and more interest among a public beyond the scholarly community. The editorial board invites shcolars to submit in English-language manuscripts in view of publication in the Jahrbuch 2005 and 2006. The main focus for the 2005 edition is “The end of World War II ing point for the international communist movement” and for the 2006 edition “50 years of de-stalinizaton in Eastern Europe – a reassassment.”

Deadline: not specified

Contact: Mr. Heiko Haensel, Redaktion Jahrbook fuer Historische Kommunismusforscung, Stiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur, Otto Braun Strasse 70-72, 10178 Berlin, Germany
Tel.: +49-30-23-24-72-09, Fax: +49-30-23-23-72-10
Email: h.haensel@stiftung-aufarbeitung.de
Internet: http://www.stiftung-aufarbeitung.de

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CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS

1. Social Justice in a Changing World, Conference at the Graduate School of Social Sciences, University of Bremen, Germany
March 10-12th, 2005

A growing number of experts in economics, political science and sociology believe that the freedom of action of the nation-state in coping with issues of distributive justice is waning. Current processes of economic privatization and globalization shift power over distribution from the state toward ‘capital’ and markets. What are the implications for social justice? The conference will explore the risks and options of privatized markets and transnational regimes for social justice on different levels. On the individual level, we experience an increasing mismatch of individual life course risks like unemployment, poverty or marital separation and state protection, and the emergence of new forms of social inequality. In this conference, we may address the distributional outcomes and developments of different social groups. Who are the winners and losers in times of globalization? What kind of social justice do people expect? Do citizens demand a new social contract? On the domestic level, we witness the
disintegration of the collective bargaining process, the scaling back of social insurance and the resulting bourgeoning of mixed and private forms of social provision. Does distributive justice continue to be a central goal of welfare state activity? What could be the features of a new social contract? Do the social and normative bases for such a contract, i.e. collective identity and social solidarity, exist? On the international level, trade is the main area in which regulatory processes occur. Transnational regimes increasingly constrain the environmental, agricultural, health and food safety rules of democratic constitutional states, and thus affect the fundamental welfare of citizens. How can social rights and distributive justice be guaranteed in the international legal framework? What role do non-governmental actors play in the regulatory processes? What international institutional arenas may succeed the nation-state as addressees for the implementation and enforcement of a social contract? Can the recognition of social rights open avenues towards ensuring the legitimacy of transnational governance?

The conference will consist of plenary sessions as well as of thematic panels

For more information on registration, panels, accommodation etc. please visit the conference website: http://www.gsss.uni-bremen.de/socialjustice/ 


2. “Europe after the Enlargement,” Center for Social and Economic Research, Warsaw, Poland.
April 8 –9, 2005.

The conference agenda will concentrate on topics such as: constitutional future of the EU, economic governance in the enlarged EU, perspectives of the Lisbon strategy, economic and social consequences of population aging and perspectives of next EU enlargements. As in previous years we are inviting leading economists, reformers and policy makers from EU, CEE, FSU countries and US and we are hoping to stimulate a lively and interesting debate.

All information including the detailed conference program an on-line registration form available at http://www.case.com.pl. We encourage you to register early to take advantage of the reduced registration fee.
Any inquiries should be directed to the email address: conference@case.com.pl

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JOB VACANCIES

1. Director, Institute for Women's Studies in the Arab World, Beirut, Lebanon

Founded in 1924 in Beirut as a junior college for girls, the Lebanese American University now is a co-educational higher education institution, preparing students for responsible leadership in their communities in the context of region's rich cultural heritage. The Institute for Women's Studies in the Arab World (IWSAW) was established in 1973 to engage in research, advocate policy changes to Arab women's and children's issues, as well as to facilitate communications between individuals and groups involved in such issues. Located at the LAU Beirut Campus, the Institute reaches people both inside and outside the university by means of course offerings, publications in Arabic and English, diverse action programs directed to women and children, and conferences and seminars.

DESIRED COMPETENCIES:

The IWSAW director should have the character, vision and commitment to reinforce the Institute's position as a preeminent women's studies center in the region and to promote the development of gender studies at LAU. The director should have excellent communication and interpersonal skills and should have good command of oral and written English and Arabic (French is an asset) and knowledge of the Arab world and its culture, including the area of gender. The director should also be able to maintain and expand links between the institute and regional and international organizations and agencies
(ability to travel is a must).

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

The director, who is expected to teach six credit hours per year (one course per semester), should have an earned doctorate from a recognized university and have a well established academic record that is substantiated by:
The director should have

APPLICATION PROCESS:
The anticipated starting date is October 1, 2005. A complete application should include a letter of application, current vitae, and names, addresses, phone numbers and e-mail addresses of at least three references, identifying the applicant's relationship with each reference. Only complete applications submitted in electronic Format will be considered.

Deadline for application: March 1, 2005
Short-listed candidates will be invited for interviews in Beirut in June, 2005.
Applications should be e-mailed to: iwsaw.search@lau.edu.lb.
Website: http://www.lau.edu.lb/employment/71.html


2. Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Relations, Lynchburg College

Location: Virginia, United States
Institution Type: College/University
Position Type: Assistant Professor

The Political Science and International Relations programs of Lynchburg College invite applications for the position of Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Relations for the 2005-2006 academic year. The successful candidate will teach introductory courses in global politics and political ideas, an upper-division methods course, and an upper-division political violence course. Candidates with Ph.D. in hand are preferred, though ABD will be considered.
Salary is competitive. Candidates should forward a cover letter, three letters of recommendation, CV, graduate transcript, and samples of teaching syllabi (if available).

Deadline for submission of applications: February 27, 2005.

Contact Info:
Political Science/International Relations Search
Attn: Dr. Daniel Lang, Dean
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Lynchburg College
1501 Lakeside Drive
Lynchburg, VA 24501
Website: http://www.lynchburg.edu

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GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS

1. 2005-2006 Carnagie Research Fellowshiop Program

The primary goal of the program is to intergrate Russian social scientists and humanists into the work of regional Centers for Advanced Study and Educations (CASEs), supported by the carnegie Corporation in New York and the John D. And Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, in cooperation with the Kennan Institutie, INO-Center Moscow, and the Russain Ministry of Higher Education. The mission of this multi-year commitment is to strengthen regional universities, restore academic communities, foster a new generaion of social and scientists and humanists, and integrate scholars from Russa’s regions into collegial communities with their Western coleagues. All fellows will conduct research on specific topics in their fields and wrtie a 15 to 30-page academic paper for peresentation uopn the fewllo’s return home. Ti is expected that retruning fellows will actively particpate in the Development of the program activities of the CASE with which they are affiliated. Fellows also will be expected to present their work at conferences and receive peer evalutaion of the results of their research.
The fellowship includes the following: round-trip from their home cities to the host universities in the United States , pre-departure orientation; an academict oriatntion in Washington, DC; visa support; a monthly stipend; health insurance; a professional development fund; access to libraries and archives; and support for membership ininternatioal professional associations in their field,. There will also be limited funding available for pre-program English language brush-up traninig for some candidates. 
Eligibility: Faculty, researchers, and advanced graduate students from the citities of Tomsk, Ekaterinburg, Voronezh, Iskutsk, Novgorod, Kaliningrad, Saratov and their respective oblasts; other CASE afficlited schoalrs.
Deadline: June 16, 2005.  
Contact: National Council for Eurasian and East European Research, 910 17th Streat, NW, Suite 300, Washington, DC 20006, USA
Tel.: +1-202-822-69-50, Fax: +1-202-822-69-55
Email: mej@nceeer.org or nceeer@actr.ru
Internet: http://www.nceeer.org/Programs/carnegie/carnegie.htm

2. International Philantrophy Fellowship Program: Academic Year 2005-2006 at the Johns Hopkins Institute for Policy Studies, Center for Civil Society Studies

Duration: academic year or semester
Site: Baltimore, USA
The Center provides an opportunity for advacnes study, research, and traning for up to eight participants each year who are involved in studying or managin private non-profit, or philantrhropic organiyaitons outside the United States, or working with NGO liasions in the public or commercial sectors.
The institute invites candidates who
The candidates are expected to
There are no restrictions on nationality. Fellows are required to attend the annual Internationa Felows in Philanthropy Conference prior ro their fellowship year and are strongly encouraged to participate in subsequent conferences. The 2005 conference will be held in Beijing, China.

Deadline: February 25, 2005

Contact: Carol M. Wessner, International Fellows in Philnathropy Program, Johns Hopkins Institute for policy Studies, Center for Civil Society Studies, Wyman Building, Fifth Floor, 3400 North Charles Street, Balitmore, MD 21218
Tel.: +1-410-516-53-89, Fax: +1-410-516-82-33
Email: cwessner@jhu.edu
Internet: http://www.jhu.edu/~philfellow


3. TEMPUS: The European Commission's trans-European cooperation scheme in higher education

The European Commission's trans-European cooperation scheme in higher education provides grants to the development and restructuring of higher education in the partner countries.

Tempus III 2004/2005
Reference of the call: EAC65/04
Closing Date(s):  February 15 2005    -  June 15 2005 -  October 15 2005     
Global budget: 55 Million Euros
Amount awarded per project: 95% structural projects - 100% individual mobility grants
Domains concerned: Education - Training - Co-op & Development
Who can apply: Associations - Corporations - Federations, Unions - Local and Regional authorities - SMEs - Training centres - Universities
Regions: EU Member States, partner countries: western Balkan countries, Eastern European and central Asian countries (NIS), Mediterranean countries: Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, the Palestinian Authority, Syria and Tunisia
          
Details

Objectives:
Support multilateral cooperation projects involving higher education establishments from EU Member States and the partner countries which form project consortia. National coordination is safeguarded by ensuring the submission of projects, which adhere to national priorities for the implementation of Tempus that are defined on an annual basis by the Commission and the relevant authorities of each partner country.

The program is conceived for three principal instruments for cooperation :
- Individual mobility grants (IMG): they are intended to provide academic and administrative staff of the higher education sector  with the opportunity to benefit from limited mobility periods abroad Grants requested for mobilities cover 100 % of the mobility costs. Individual mobility grants can last one week up to eight weeks, but may not exceed EUR 5,000.

- Structural and complementary measures (SCM): short-term projects with a ‘top-down’ approach mainly aiming at reform at national level Grants requested for structural and complementary measures and joint European projects will cover 95 % of the total eligible project cost; the other 5 % of the total eligible project costs must be co-financed by the applicant respectively the consortium.Structural and Complementary Measures can last up to 1 year and the maximum grant amounts are EUR 150,000 for structural measures respectively EUR 100,000 for Complementary Measures.

- Joint European projects (JEP): medium-term projects with a ‘bottom-up’ approach aiming at reform at the institutional level The maximum grant amount for 2-years joint European projects is EUR 300,000 and for 3-year JEPs EUR 500 000.

Call text available at http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/lex/LexUriServ/site/en/oj/2004/c_319/c_31920041223en00730074.pdf

4. FP6 - 3 Strengthening the foundations of the European Rserach Area (ERA). Development of Research and Innovation policies

Reference of the call: FP6-2004-KNOW-REG-2OJEU of 31.12.04
Domains concerned: Research - Public policies
Who can apply: Administrations, States - Corporations - Local and Regional authorities - Research centres - SMEs - Universities
Regions: EU Member States, Candidate countries, Associated States (EFTA)
Global budget: 8,95 Million Euros
Amount awarded per project:maximum 100% of the eligible costs
Closing Date: May 19 2005     

Summary
Call for proposals for Coordination Actions under the  priority Support for the coherent development of policies (in the third pilar of FP6) This call is part of the third block of prgorammes “Strengthening the foundations of the European Research Area” Sub-programme - Coherent development of research and innovation policies. Support for the coherent development of policies.

Objective: To promote increased and better regional  investment in research through mutual learning, coordination and collaboration between regional policies and initiatives, by applying the following: foresight, benchmarking, networking and coordination activities and exchange of personnel.

Instrument: Coordination Actions (CA)
Partnership criteria CA:  Different organisations from 3 different States, Member States or Associated States for the CA  projects.Each consortium shall include at least one partner from a New Member State or from an Objective 1 region in order to allow an exchange of know-how between regions with well developed R&D policies and infrastructure and those in need for expertise in this field. In cases where the coordinating entity comes from the  private sector, it has to prove that it is acting on behalf of a public body promoting regional development, e.g. a regional  development authority or a regional council. Participants in projects selected in this call will be required to be part of the Innovating Regions in Europe (IRE network)

Call text available at: http://www.europa.eu.int/eur-lex/lex/LexUriServ/site/en/oj/2004/c_325/c_32520041231en00020005.pdf


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PARTNERSHIP AND PROJECTS

1. Call for participation in Erasmus exchange program

The College of Public Administration and International Relations in Prague is interested in extending cooperation with other universities and colleges from the EU in the framework of the ERASMUS exchange program, preferably from the academic year 2005/06 (which necessitates the signing of a bilateral agreement till mid-March, 2005).

The College is interested to start our cooperation in the field of INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND EUROPEAN STUDIES. It has both Bachelor and Master programs in this area. For the Erasmus students, the College have prepared courses taught in ENGLISH. The College proposes to start cooperation with a moderate program of exchanging 2 BACHELOR STUDENTS, each for 1 semester.

Information about the College is available at http://www.vsvsmv.cz.
Questions should be directed at:
Prof. Michal Klima
Jean Monnet lecturer
Vice-Chairman
College of Publ. Administration and Intern. Relations
Dubecska 900/10
100 00 Praha 10 – Strasnice
Czech Republic
Tel.: 00420 602 565 527
Fax: 00420 274 817 190
E-mail: michal.klima@seznam.cz

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REVIEWS, PUBLICATIONS, RESOURCES

1. Institute of European Integration (IEIP) and Policy in Athens, Greece

The Institute of European Integration and Policy (IEIP) seeks to study European Integration issues through an interdisciplinary approach and cooperates with other national, European and international institutions and research foundations.


The Institute currently concentrates on seven core research areas: the future of Europe, economic governance, comparative democratization (primarily in Southeastern Europe), cohesion, environmental policy, Greece and the EU, Euro-Mediterranean policy.
For more information on the center, go to: http://eeep.pspa.uoa.gr


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