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The East European Studies (EES) program provides a non-partisan forum for bringing historical and contemporary understanding of the former communist states of Eastern Europe and the Baltics to the nation's capital. EES organizes seminars, conferences, workshops and briefings featuring prominent scholars and policymakers from the U.S. and Eastern Europe with experience in shaping U.S.-Eastern European policy.
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Upcoming Events
Missile Defenses in Europe: Who Threatens Whom and How?
Wednesday, September 24 2008, 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Stephen Blank, Professor of National Security Studies, Strategic Studies Institute, US Army War College
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Blue Helmets and Black Markets: The Business of Survival in the Seige of Sarajevo
Thursday, October 02 2008, 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Peter Andreas, Associate Professor of Political Science and International Studies, Brown University
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Talk of the Nation: Language and Conflict in Romania and Slovakia
Wednesday, October 08 2008, 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Zsuzsa Csergo, Assistant Professor of Political Studies, Queen's University
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A Litmus Test of the Century and its Social and Moral Order: Lithuania in the Twentieth Century
Tuesday, October 14 2008, 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Leonidas Donskis, Professor of Political Science and Director of the School of Political Science and Diplomacy, Vytautas Magnus University
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Kosovo in the Balance: A Trial for Diplomacy
Wednesday, September 19 2007, 12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Borut Grgic, Director, ISS-Slovenia; Tim Judah, correspondent, The Economist; Vladimir Matic, Clemson University; James O'Brien, The Albright Group; and others TBA
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4th Annual Serbian-American Lecture: Of Novelty and Oblivion, What Can We Learn From Dissidents under Communism
Tuesday, April 10 2007, 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Aleksa Djilas, Writer, Sociologist and Historian, Belgrade, Serbia
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Language Politics and Language Policies in the Contemporary Western Balkans: Infinitives, Turkisms, and EUrolinguistics
Wednesday, April 18 2007, 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Victor A. Friedman, Andrew W. Mellon Professor, Department of Slavic Languages and Literature and Director of the Center for East European and Russian/Eurasian Studies, University of Chicago
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Kosovo’s Impending Settlement: Analyzing the Ahtisaari Proposal
Tuesday, March 13 2007, 10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Soren Jessen-Petersen, Guest Scholar at the United States Institute of Peace and former Special Representative to the UN Secretary-General and head of UNMIK and Steven E. Meyer, Professor of National Security Studies, National Defense University
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The 2006 Ion Ratiu Democracy Lecture: Are There Democracy Lessons Arabs Can Learn From Eastern Europe?
Thursday, November 30 2006, 4:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Lecture by Dr. Saad Ibrahim, American University in Cairo, Recipient of the 2006 Ion Ratiu Democracy Award; Introduction by Ambassador Akbar Ahmed, American University
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Radicals Resurgent: Accounting for the SRS's Success in Serbia's 2004 Elections
Wednesday, November 15 2006, 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Andrew Konitzer, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Austin College
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"Migration" Icons: Politics and Serbian Cultural Heritage in Bosnia and Herzegovina before and after 1992
Wednesday, November 08 2006, 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Svetlana Rakic, Associate Professor of Art, Franklin College, Indiana
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Status with Standards: Analysis of the Progress of the Kosovo Status Talks
Friday, October 20 2006, 10:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Christopher Hoh, Director for South Central European Affiars in the Department of State; Steven Meyer, National Defense University, A. Ross Johnson, Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution and Wilson Center Senior Scholar, Vladimir Matic, Clemson University, Avni Mustafaj, Executive Director of the National Albanian American Council, Veton Surroi, President of the ORA party and member of the Kosovar negotiation team
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Reds, Greens, Blues and Browns: Party Development, Electoral Volatility and On-Going Surprises in East European Elections
Wednesday, October 18 2006, 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Stephen Deets, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Babson College
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The Increased Salience of Corruption in East and Central Europe: The Role of International Organizations
Wednesday, October 11 2006, 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Alexandru Grigorescu, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Loyola University Chicago
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East European Studies
Woodrow Wilson Center
One Woodrow Wilson Plaza
1300 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20004-3027
Email: ees@wilsoncenter.org
Tel: 202/691-4222
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