The 3rd Annual Kokkalis Graduate Student Workshop


Lower Auditorium, Center for European Studies

Third Annual Workshop




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Friday, February 9, 2001

1:45 p.m.   
Welcome Address
Dimitris Keridis, Director, The Kokkalis Program

2:00 p.m.   
Crime and Corruption
Chair: Mr. Miklos Marschall, 
Executive Director, Transparency International
 
András László Pap, Central European University, Budapest
 Hungarian Police Corruption: A Post Communist State of Art

Robin Skulrak, University of Pittsburgh
Crime, Corruption and the Failure of Economic Reform: The Case of Bosnia-Herzegovina

Androniki Tzivanaki, University of Leicester
Information Society Services in Southeastern Europe as a Means for Money Laundering

Sappho Xenakis, Oxford University
The Challenge of Organized Crime to State Sovereignty in the Balkans:
A Historical Perspective


4:00 p.m.   
Old and New Security Concerns
Chair: Dr. Larry Wolff, Professor of History, Boston College

Enika Abazi, Bilkent University, Ankara
Intra-State Conflicts and their Implications on Regional Security: The Case of Ethnic Albanians in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

Maria Koinova, European University Institute, Florence
Three Outcomes of Ethnic Conflict: The Cases of Bulgaria, Macedonia and Yugoslavia 1989-1999
 
Katerina Linos, Harvard University, Cambridge
Understanding Greek Immigration Policy
 
Ibrahim al-Marashi, Oxford University
“The Bosnian Arabs?” The Islamic Middle East and the Security of the Balkans

Ralph Piotrowski, Free University of Berlin
Recognizing Croatia: How the Representation of Actors and Events Shaped Policy in the United States and Germany

Saturday, February 10, 2000

9:00 a.m.   
Media and Democracy
Chair: Dr. Elizabeth Prodromou, Associate Director, Institute on Religion and World Affairs, Boston University

Tom Kowalik, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
The Emergence of Media Influence in the 1990s in Hungary: A Change from a Monolithic to a Pluralistic Structure

Ken Palmer, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The Power Sharing Process: Media Reforms in Bosnia-Herzegovina

Radmila Popovic, University of Belgrade
Enemy Construction in the Media During the Kosovo Conflict: A Comparative View

Ecaterina Zatusevski, Central European University, Budapest
Mass Media and Political Linguistics in the Period of Democratization of Society: Moldovan Lessons

10:45 a.m.  
Economic Reform, State Administration and Development
Chair: Dr. Thanos Veremis, The Constantine Karamanlis Professor in Hellenic and Southeastern European Studies, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University

 Aysun Ficici, New Hampshire College, Manchester
Political Economy of Turkish Privatization: A Critical Assessment

Klarita Gërxhani, University of Amsterdam
Albanian Political-Economics: Consequence of a Clan Culture

 Sorin Ionita, Bucharest University
Grassroots of Government: 
Strategies, Attitudes and Effectiveness in Romanian Local Administration


Oana Popa, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca
The Economic Dimension of Security in Southeast Europe

1:30 p.m.   
Civil Society and Human Rights
Chair: Dr. Cemal Kafadar, Vehbi Koç Professor of Turkish Studies; Director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University

Kristen Ghodsee, University of California, Berkeley
International Organizations, Women and Civil Society in Post-Socialist Bulgaria

Paula Pickering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
The Choices that Minorities Make:
Strategies of Negotiation with the Majority in Post-War Bosnia


Ourania Roditi-Rowlands, University of Sussex, Brighton
Comparative Study of the Role of NGOs in Hungary and Romania

Katia Vlachos-Dengler, RAND Graduate School, Santa Monica
Greek Civil Society and the Impact of Globalization

3:15 p.m.
Concluding Remarks
Dr. Dimitris Keridis, Director, The Kokkalis Program, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University  

3:45 p.m.
Closing Reception
Garden Room, Center for European Studies

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