UNIVERSUM INSTITUTE FOR ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL STUDIES
CALL FOR PAPERS
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
ON
BALKANS AND KOSOVO: ECONOMY AND POLITICS
27-29 April 2009
Prishtina, Kosovo
INVITATION: Universum Institute for Economic and Social Studies invites scientists, researchers and scholars all over the world to the international conference on `Balkans and Kosovo: Economy and Politics'. Please find below the sub-topics of the conference.
PROPOSALS: should be written in one page with main arguments and keywords including suggestion for possible sub-topic. Participants can also suggest their own panel. Proposals will be evaluated by a panel of experts for each sub-topic.
PARTICIPATION FEE: There is NO participation fee for the conference.
TRANSPORTATION and ACCOMMODATION: To be covered by the participant. Only partial accommodation expenses will be covered for limited number of participants. Please state your need for partial expense reimbursement in your application.
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF PROPOSALS IS 28 MARCH 2009. All proposals should be sent by email at ercan.gundoan@ universum- ks.org or info@universum- ks.org
PROGRAM OF THE CONFERENCE
1. SUB-TOPIC: SOCIALIST EXPERIENCES IN BALKANS
* The Soviet Influence
* Different Socialist Experiences:
* Romania,
* Bulgaria,
* Albania,
* Yugoslavia and Kosovo
2. SUB-TOPIC: TOWARDS THE END OF COLD WAR
* Dissolution of the Socialist States and Yugoslavia
* Types of Conflict and Forces of Dissolution
* International Interventions
3. SUB-TOPIC: FIRST PERIOD OF THE POST-COLD WAR TRANSITIONS
* Reactions to Collapse
* Searches and Ready Prescriptions
* Market and State
4. SUB-TOPIC: SECOND AND PRESENT PERIOD OF THE POST-COLD WAR TRANSTIONS
* Old and New Problems: Historical Comparative Perspectives
* Directions: Neo-liberalism, Social Democracy, Market Socialism
* Recovery
* Europe and Integration
* USA
* NATO
5. BALKANS AND KOSOVO: FUTURE PERSPECTIVES
* Global Possibilities and Threats
* Integration and Disintegration
* World System Perspectives
Publication: All the papers will be published in a special volume of Universum Journal, to be published in May 2009.
Further information can be obtained from the website of the Conference
www.universum-ks.org/conference
I look forward to receiving your proposals.
Sincerely,
As Prof Dr Ercan Gundogan, Head of Department
Public Administration and International Relations
Universum Institute for Economic and Social Studies
Veterrniku, pn, Prishtina, Kosovo, 10000
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