Research Overviews ¬ Social Sciences in Southeastern Europe.

Social Sciences in Southeastern Europe
Nicolai Genov, Ulrike Becker (Eds.)

Paris/ Bonn 2001, 266 pages
ISBN 3-8206-0133-3
15,-- EUR

This volume is a joint project of the International Social Science Council, Paris, and the Social Science Information Centre, Bonn/ Berlin. It offers contributions on the state of the social sciences in eight Southeastern European countries.

The social sciences in Southeastern Europe are little known to the German colleagues as well as to the social scientists from Western Europe. This gap has been made more evident by the latest developments in the region of the former Yugoslavia as well as by the prospects of the enlarging of the European Union in the direction of Southeastern Europe (Slovenia, Bulgaria, Romania). On the other hand, the social scientists from Southeastern Europe are bad-informed about the research of their colleagues from the subregions. The time has come for a stocktaking effort of how the social sciences have fared and evolved in this part of the world.

The science system in Southeastern Europe was and in part is still organised very different from the more pluralistic, university-centred model in the West. In addition, regular involvement in the international social science discourse in the East took place under vastly differing national circumstances. The political development affected the social sciences in Southeastern Europe deeply, but certainly not in a unison way.

The volume intends to establish an information basis for a reliable assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of present-day social sciences in this region for scholarly as well as for practical purposes.

The collection of country reports on research projects, research results and research problems of the social sciences reported by well-known colleagues delivers a comprehensive picture of the social sciences in Southeastern Europe.

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Research Overviews ¬ Social Sciences in Southeastern Europe