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Occasional Papers
Chapter-length reports on completed research projects or works-in-progress. Submitted by resident staff, scholars or visiting speakers, these papers are often longer than the standard journal articles and usually address specialized themes representing contemporary research on topics of historical and current interest by leading scholars in the field.

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Occasional Papers 2005


74. Changes in the Constitutional Structure of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Author: Henry Clark, former Supervisor of Brcko District, 2001-2003
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Occasional Papers 2004


73. The Presidential Crisis in Lithuania: Its Roots and the Russian Factor
Author: Richard J. Krickus, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Mary Washington College
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72. Privatization in Brcko District: Why It Is Different and Why It Works
Author: Henry L. Clarke
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Occasional Papers 2003


71. Between a Rock and a Hard Place: How the US-EU Battle over Article 98 Played Out in Croatia and Macedonia
Author: Mieczyslaw P. Boduszynski, Lecturer, University of San Diego, and Kristina Balalovska Researcher, Ecole Doctorale, Institute d'Etudes Politiques de Paris
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Occasional Papers 2002


70. Mobility in Bulgaria and the European Union: Brain Drain, Bogus Asylum Seekers, Replacement Migration, and Fertility
Author: Kristen Ghodsee, Assistant Professor of Women's Studies and Eurasian and East European Studies, Bowdoin College, ME
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69. U.S. Policy Toward the Former Yugoslavia
Author: Steven E. Meyer , Professor of Political Science in the Industrial College of the Armed Forces at National Defense University, DC
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68. NATO as a Factor of Security Community Building: Enlargement and Democratization in Central and Eastern Europe
Author: Corneliu Bjola , Doctoral Recipient of the International Relations and European Studies Program at Central European University, Hungary
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67. The Politics of European Enlargement: NATO, the EU and the New U.S.-European Relationship
Author: Howard J. Wiarda , Professor of Political Science and Comparative Labor Relations and Leonard Horwitz Chair of Iberian and Latin American Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, and Wilson Center Senior Scholar
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Occasional Papers 2001


66. The Third Yugoslavia, 1992 - 2001
Author: Sabrina P. Ramet , Professor of Political Science at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway and a former Wilson Center Fellow
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65. Violence Against Women in Post-communist Societies: Benefits and Changes
Author: Vesna Nikolic-Ristanovic , Senior Researcher at the Institute for Criminological and Sociological Research in Belgrade, Yugoslavia
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64. The Poles and Their Past: Society, Historiography and the Legislation Process
Author: Andrzej Paczkowski , Professor in the Institute of Political Studies at the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, Poland, and a Wilson Center Fellow
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63. Decentralization and Regionalization after Communism: Lessons from Administrative and Territorial Reform in Poland and the Czech Republic
Author: Jennifer Yoder , Assistant Professor, Department of Government, Colby College, ME, and Former EES Short-term Scholar
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62. The Limits of Conditionality: Nuclear Reactor Safety in Central and Eastern Europe, 1991 - 2000
Author: John Van Oudenaren , Chief, European Division, Library of Congress, and Adjunct Professor, Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, DC
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61. MAP Reading: NATO's and Russia's Pathways to European Military Integration
Author: Stephen Blank , Professor, Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College
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60. Governed by Accession? Hard and Soft Pillars of Europeanization in Central and Eastern Europe
Author: Elena Iankova , Research Fellow, Institute for European Studies, Cornell University, NY, and Former EES Short-term Scholar
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Occasional Papers 2000


59. Kosovo: A Solvable Problem
Author: Louis Sell , Former Representative of the International Crisis Group, Pristina, Kosovo, and a Former Wilson Center Fellow
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58. NATO's Membership Action Plan (MAP) and Prospects for the Next Round of Enlargement
Author: Jeffrey Simon , Senior Fellow, Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University, DC
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57. Civil Society Development in Post-war Kosovo and in Post-war Serbia
Author: Pavol Demes , Director for Central and Eastern Europe, German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMFUS); Former Executive Director, Slovak Academic Information Agency-Service for the Third Sector (SAIA), Slovakia; and Former Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center
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56. Comparing Clans in Hungary and Russia
Author: Natalia Dinello , Research Associate, Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, The George Washington University, D.C.
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Occasional Papers 1999


55. National Identity and Cultural Self Definition: Modern and Postmodern Romanian Artistic Expression
Author: Sabina A.- M. Crisen , Program Associate/Editor, East European Studies, Woodrow Wilson Center, and Former Fulbright Scholar to Romania (1998-1999)
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54. Liberal Humanism Abandoned: The Paradox of the Post-Communist Czech Republic
Author: John E. Osborn , Former Special Assistant to the Legal Adviser, U.S. Department of State, and Former Visiting Scholar, East European Studies, Woodrow Wilson Center
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53. Do Legacies Matter? Patterns of Postcommunist Transitions in Eastern Europe
Author: Grzegorz Ekiert , Professor of Government, Center for European Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA


52. Stratified Stability: NATO's New Strategic Concept?
Author: James Gow , Reader in War Studies, King's College, University of London, and Wilson Center Public Policy Scholar


51. Romania: One Year Into the Constantinescu Presidency
Author: Peter Gross, Brad Minnick, Jonathan Rickert, and Karen Zietlow


Occasional Papers 1998


50. Memory and Experience: Anti-Roma Prejudice in Eastern Europe
Author: Zoltan Barany , Associate Professor, Department of Government, University of Texas, Austin, TX


49. Russia and the Baltic States in the Age of NATO Enlargement
Author: Stephen Blank , Douglas MacArthur Professor of Research, Strategic Studies Institute (SSI), U.S. Army War College, Carlisle, PA


48. The De-Germanization of the Budapest Stage
Author: Alice Freifeld , Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL


Occasional Papers Pre-1998 Archive


47. Christianity and Islam in Southeastern Europe
Author: Charles Frazee, Eve Levin, and Drago Roksandic


46. Hierarchies of Eastern Europe: East-Central Europe Versus the Balkans
Author: Maria N. Todorova , Professor, Department of History, University of Florida, Gainsville, FL


45. The Bulgarian Economy: Transition in the Transition
Author: Roumen Lubenov Avramov , Programming Director for Economic Research, Centre for Liberal Studies, Sofia, Bulgaria


44. Populations and Powderkegs: The Macedonian Census of 1994 in Historical Perspective
Author: Victor A. Friedman , Professor, Department of Balkan and Slavic Linguistics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL


43. The Economics of State-Building in the Former Yugoslavia
Author: Ivo Bicanic , Professor, Department of Economics, University of Zagreb, Croatia


42. Civil Society Endangered: The Perils of Post- Communism
Author: Daniel N. Nelson , Professor, Department of International Studies, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia


41. Western Aid to Eastern Europe: What We Are Doing Right, What We Are Doing Wrong, How We Can Do It Better
Author: John Harper and Janine Wedel


40. "External Transformation" in the Post-Communist Economies: Overview and Progress
Author: Ben Slay , Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont


39. Baltic Options: Ethnic Rivalry or Regional Cooperation?
Author: Andrejs Plakans, Andrus Park, Rasma Karklins, and Alfred Erich Senn


38. Transition to What? Publics Confront Change in Central and Eastern Europe
Author: Mary E. McIntosh and Martha Abele Mac Iver


37. An Antidote to Shock Therapy: An Evolutionary Approach to the East European Economic Transition
Author: Peter Murrell , Professor, Department of Economics, University of Maryland, College Park


36. Wrestling with Ghosts: Poles and Jews Today
Author: Madeline G. Levine , Professor, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Chair, Joint Committee on Eastern Europe of the American Council of Learned Societies/Social Science Research Council


35. Jews and Hungarians: A View after the Transition
Author: Maria M. Kovacs , Member, Institute of History, Hungarian Academy of Sciences; Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison


34. Poland and Germany
Author: Jan Nowak , Director, Polish American Congress


33. Romania's Unfinished Revolution
Author: Anneli Ute Gabanyi , Scholar, Romanian Affairs, Sudost-Institut, Munich, Germany


32. The Significance of Political Elites in Post-Communist Poland
Author: Wlodzimierz Wesolowski , Professor, Department of Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland


31. Lessons of the East European Revolutions of 1989
Author: Gale Stokes, et al.


30. Czechs and Germans: Yesterday and Today
Author: Milan Hauner , Visiting Professor, Department of History, Georgetown University


29. The Revolution of 1989: The Unbearable Burden of History
Author: Jerzy Jedlicki , Associate Professor, Department of History, Polish Academy of Sciences


28. The Risks of Privatization and the Polish Nomenklatura: The New Entrepreneurial Class
Author: Jacek Tarkowski , Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Warsaw


27. Political Justice in Post-Communist Societies: The Case of Hungary
Author: Gyorgy Bence, et al.


26. Anglo-American Diplomacy and the Montenegrin Question, 1914-21
Author: John D. Treadway , Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Richmond


25. Understanding National Stalinism: A Comparative Approach to the History of Romanian Communism
Author: Vladimir Tismaneanu , Advanced Assistant Professor, Department of Government and Politics, University of Maryland


24. Construction of the 'Folk Cultural Heritage' and Rival Versions of National' Identity in Hungary
Author: Tamas Hofer


23. Preventing the Spillover of Domestic Crises into the International Arena: New Thinking from Eastern Europe
Author: Corneliu Bogdan , Chairman, International Relations Section, Romanian Association of International Law and International Relations, Bucharest, Romania


22. Eastern Europe: Back to the Future?
Author: Thomas W. Simons, Jr. , Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, Bureau of European and Candian Affairs, US Department of State


21. The Ideology of Illiberalism in the Professions: Leftist and Rightist Radicalism among Hungarian Doctors, Lawyers, and Engineers,1918-45
Author: Maria M. Kovacs , Member, Institute of History, Hungarian Academy of Sciences


20. When Diplomats Fail: Austrian and Russian Reporting from Belgrade, 1914
Author: Barbara Jelavich , Professor, Department of History, Indiana University


19. Myth-Making in European Family History: The Zadruga Revisited
Author: Maria Todorova


18. In Search of the Drama of History or A Second Look at Communism and Nationalism
Author: Roman Szporluk, et al.


17. National Identity and Cultural Politics under Ceausescu: An Example from Philosophy
Author: Katherine Verdery , Professor, Department of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland


16. The 'Second Society': Is There an Alternative Social Model Emerging in Hungary?
Author: Elemer Hankiss, et al. , Hankiss: Director, Center for the Sociology of Values, Institute of Sociology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Tokes: Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Connecticut


15. The United States and Its Unknown Role in the Adriatic Conflicts of 1918-21
Author: Dragoljub Zivojinovic, et al.


14. The Polish Opposition since December 1981
Author: Aleksander Smolar


13. The Problems of Nationalism in Eastern Europe Past and Present
Author: Peter Sugar, et al. , Professor, Department of History, University of Washington


12. Approaching Relations with Eastern Europe in the Late 1980s
Author: Thomas W. Simons, Jr.


11. Soviet Economic Impact on Czechoslovakia and Romania in the Early Postwar Period: 1944-56
Author: Tamas Reti , Institute for World Economy, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest


10. The Dynamics of Dependency
Author: Jadwiga Staniszkis , University of Warsaw


9. Debating the Nature of Dissent in Eastern Europe
Author: Tony Judt, et al.


8. Toward a Framework for Considering Nationalism in Eastern Europe
Author: John A. Armstrong


7. The Political Articulation and Aggregation of Plural Interests in Self-Management Systems: The Case of Yugoslavia
Author: Najdan R. Pasi


6. The Political Leadership and the Armed Forces in Postwar Eastern Europe
Author: Dale R. Herspring


5. From Bolshevism to the Ideology of "Real Socialism"
Author: Svetozar Stojanovic , Center for Philosophy and Social Theory, Institute of Social Sciences, University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia


4. Is There a Central East European Identity?
Author: Peter Hanak , Institute of History, Hungarian Academy of Sciences


3. Religion and Nationalism in Eastern Europe
Author: Bohdan Bociurkiw, Dennis Dunn, and Pedro Ramet


2. Eastern Europe: A Question of Identity
Author: Peter Sugar, Ivan Berend, Charles Gati, and Josef C. Brada


1. Eastern Europe: Fifty Years of Changes and Constraints
Author: George W. Hoffman , Professor, Department of Geography, University of Texas, Austin, TX


 




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