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The
European Studies Alliance
and the
Center for Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia (CREECA)
are pleased to sponsor a talk by
Anton
Pelinka
Department
of Political Science, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Director, Institute for Conflict Research, Vienna, Austria
Visiting Professor, University of Michigan
on
"Political
Transformation in Central-Eastern Europe"
Monday, 15 April 2002
12:00 noon
206 Ingraham
Anton
Pelinka is Austria's best-known and most prolific political
scientist. His work has appeared in many languages and
he has written widely about both Austrian and European
politics. His most recent book in English is Austria:
Out of the Shadows of the Past (Westview Press). Pelinka
has held many distinguished fellowships, visiting professorships
and academic positions in Europe and the United States,
including at Harvard, Stanford, and the University of
Chicago.
In
his talk, Professor Pelinka will provide a systematic
analysis of the transformation process in Poland, Czechoslovakia,
Hungary, Romania, and Yugoslavia. What happened in 1989
- what did the transformation in all the Central-Eastern
European countries have in common, and what were the differences
between the countries?
For
more information about this talk, please contact the European
Studies Alliance at info@europeanstudiesalliance.org
or at 265-4766.
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