Eastern Europe Working Group
European University Institute

Organizers: and Lorenzo Cecchi
Sponsor: Laszlo Bruszt

Current session

• May 15, 2012
  Southern European PIIGS and Central Eastern European convergence in the crisis? What can CEE learn from the Mediterraneans?
  Zoltan Pogatsa, University of West Hungary
  Seminar 2, Badia Fiesolana: 3-5 PM

Past sessions

• May 10, 2012
  Political holes in the economy: the business network of partisan firms in Hungary (paper)
  David Stark, Columbia University
  Seminar 3, Badia Fiesolana: 5-7 PM

• March 16, 2012
  The resurgence of nationalism in times of crisis: the Yugoslav collapse, the EU uncertain future, and the prospect of reconciliation in the Balkans (paper)
  Stefano Bianchini, University of Bologna
  Seminar 2, Badia Fiesolana: 3-5 PM

• November 18, 2011
  Varieties of post-Soviet authoritarianism: comparing Belarus and Russia
  - Vladimir Gelman, European University at St. Petersburg: Institutional trap in Russian politics (paper)
  - , European University at St. Petersburg: Quo vadis Belarus?
  Seminar 3, Badia Fiesolana: 11-13 AM

• November 25, 2010
  The dynamics of sub-national authoritarianism: Russia in comparative perspective (paper)
  Vladimir Gelman, European University at St. Petersburg
  Seminar 2, Badia Fiesolana: 5:15-7:15 PM

• May 12, 2010
  Party system institutionalization in third wave Europe (paper)
  Fernando Casal Bertoa, Leiden University
  Seminar 3, Badia Fiesolana: 5:15-7:15 PM

• April 28, 2010
  Democratic capitalism in East-Central Europe: what went wrong? (paper)
  Dorothee Bohle, Central European University
  Seminar 3, Badia Fiesolana: 5-7 PM

• March 17, 2010
  Civil society in post-communist Europe twenty years later
  Grzegorz Ekiert, Harvard University
  Seminar 3, Badia Fiesolana: 5-7 PM