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(PIR) "CORRUPTION IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE"

In a major analysis of corruption around the world published in 1999, the CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States) was judged by the World Bank to be the most corrupt region on earth.

(PIR) "EU ENLARGEMENT EASTWARDS AND REGIONAL POLICIES"

The course aims at analyzing the impact of the EU enlargement Eastwards on the process of post-communist transition, drawing a particular attention to Central and South East Europe in a comparative perspective.

(PIR) "GLOBALIZATION AND NATIONALISM"

This interdisciplinary - sociology, political science and history - designed course aims to deepen and broaden students' understanding of core concepts and available theoretical approaches related to globalization and nationalism.

(PIR) "NORTHERN DIMENSION AND NEIGHBORHOOD POLICY"

The issue of “neighbourhood policy” has formally entered the European Union (EU) policy debate only recently and it is one of the issues which is rapidly acquiring priority on the EU agenda.

(PIR) "POLITICS OF TRANSITION IN CEE AND SEE"

Politics of Post-communist Transition will be treated by considering the impact of both the communist collapse and the different processes of transformation of ECE and SEE during the 1990s, from the collapse of the socialist federations, to the EU Enlargement.

(PIR) "REGIME CHANGE AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF ELITES: EAST CENTRAL EUROPE AFTER 1989"

The course will discuss modes of regime change and their realizations in East Central Europe during and after 1989.

(PIR) "RUSSIA, BALTIC COUNTRIES AND WESTERN EUROPE: GEOPOLITICAL PERSPECTIVES"

RUSSIA, BALTIC COUNTRIES AND WESTERN EUROPE: GEOPOLITICAL PERSPECTIVES

(PIR) "POST-COMMUNIST POLITICAL SYSTEMS AND CABINETS"

This course is a fully comparative introduction to the main features of politics in the countries of Central Europe and the Balkans (sixteen including Moldova) and in the eleven countries of the Community of Independent States.

(PIR) "THE DISSOLUTION OF YUGOSLAVIA AND PROSPECTS FOR THE WESTERN BALKANS"

This course examines the historical, political, cultural, and religious dynamics in the former Yugoslavia leading up to its dissolution, as well as the post war period after the signing of the Dayton Peace Accords.

(PIR) "RUSSIAN POLICIES AND THE CAUCASUS"

The course examines complicated process of state-building in the South Caucasian States - Armenia, Azerbeaijan and Georgia - in historical and geopolitical perspectives.

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