Newsletter - Social Science in Eastern Europe 2001- 2
POLAND
ul. Koszarowa 3
51-149 Wroclaw
Tel.: +4871 3755137, or +4871 3261004
Fax: +4871 3261004
Management: Wolanski, Marian Prof. (execut. dir.), Stadtmüller,
Elzbieta Prof. (dep. dir. for teaching), Ociepka, Beata Ass. Prof. (dep. dir.
for scientific matters and foreign contacts)
Year of foundation: 1998/99
Historical development: 1974 the Centre of German Studies came into
being; 1978/79 the Department of Research on Germany was established as one of
the departments subordinate to the Institute of Political Science in Wroclaw;
1988 the Department converted into Chair of Research on Germany; 1995 the Chair
was restructured into an Institute of German and European Studies (GES); 1997/98
the Department of Nationality Matters and Problems concerning Polish Minorities
Abroad and department of research on Eastern Europe became additional
specialisms in the Institute; In 1998/99 IGES has provided specialization for
the Master's degree in three disciplines: European Integration, German Studies
and East European Studies; in 2000 the Senate of the University of Wroclaw
passed a resolution on restructuring of IGES into the Institute of International
Studies.
Staff: 23
Departments:
Dept. of International Economic Relations and European Integration; Dept. of
German 19th and 20th Centuries History; Dept. of European
Union Studies; Dept. of Research on Eastern Europe;
Dept. of Nationality Matters and Problems concerning Polish Minorities Abroad
Research:
* Dept. of International Economic Relations and European Integration: on
European economic integration processes with special respect to problems of
transborder co-operation and connections between the European Union and Central
Europe; contemporary world economy
* Dept. of German 19th and 20th Centuries History:
German and Austrian history of the 19th and 20th
Centuries, contemporary political and economic relations in this area,
development of German political thought towards Germany, German external
affairs, Polish-German political relations and political culture of the German
speaking countries
* Dept. of European Union Studies: broadly understood issues concerning
research on the European Union - its development, policy, co-operation with
other states and regions as well as on research on their member states. European
problems are analyzed in the context of global processes and phenomena like
globalization, regionalization. Polish foreign policy, including security
constitutes another important research area. Issues related to international
communication, media systems and multicultural questions in societies are
treated as separate research areas
* Dept. of Research on Eastern Europe: current political phenomena and
problems in East European countries as well as international relations within
this region with special respect to Polish foreign policy towards East European
countries
* Dept. of Nationality Matters and Problems concerning Polish Minorities
Abroad: nationality processes in Europe, problems of national minorities their
legal, political and social situation as well as matters related to national
identity and nationalism. Matters of national minorities in Poland and of Polish
minorities in the world, German minority and nationality problems in former
Soviet Union countries
Publications/ papers:
* Library edition "Niemcoznawstwo" (German Studies), since 1992
* Jubilee publications (three extensive volumes) periodical entitled:
"Zblizenia. Polska - Niemcy" (Close-ups. Poland-Germany), since 1991
trice a year, scientific articles, interviews, reviews, reports, works of
debuting young researchers, calendar of events and information on meetings and
conferences published.
Teaching: Erasmus/Sokrates programme, programme of full-time courses
and programme of part-time courses
Co-operations: Institute of Political Sciences and the Institute of
Sociology at the University of Leipzig; the Free University of Berlin; the
University of Jena; the University of Plymouth, the University of North London;
the University of Bradford.
Place of publication: Cracow and Stockholm
Publication dates: since 1994 (quarterly)
Published by: jointly Stockholm University's School of Business and
Cracow University of Economics
Edited by University Council for Economic and Management Education
Transfer (UCEMET)[2]
Dr. Pestoff
Södertörns högskola, Box 4101
141 04 Huddinge, Sweden
Tel.: +468 58 58 80 59
Fax: +468 58 58 80 80
E-mail: Victor.Pestoff@sh.se
Internet: http://www.emergo-journal.pro.onet.pl/
Editor-in-chief: Dr. Victor A. Pestoff; Dr. Olga Brezinova
(co-editor); Prof. Jerzy Hausner (co-editor)
Subject area: industrial policy, regional dimensions of economic
transformation, the redesign of fiscal systems, reorganisation of social
welfare, company valuation in the privatisation process, the emergence of real
estate markets, public administration in transition economies, and the
environment in the Baltic Region. These topics refer mainly to the following
countries: Russia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, The Czech Republic,
Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria.
Headings: Articles
The journal appears in English.
Contents of Vol.7, No.2, Spring 2001 as an example:
Articles:
Cain, Michael J. G.: Globalising Tendencies in Public Policy
Hunya, Gabor: International Competitiveness. Impacts of Foreign Direct
Investment in Central and East European Countries
Magas, Istvan: A Communications Model of International Capital Flows
Reberioux, Antoine: Financial Globalisation and Competing Modes of
Corporate Governance: Continental Europe Facing Anglo-Saxon Institutional
Investors
Vlahiniæ-Dizdareviæ, Nela: Characteristics of Trade Liberalisation
in Central and Southeast European Countries
The first German speaking issue of "Karta", a Polish historical
quarterly journal has been published in 2000. It consists of articles (240 p.)
on experiences of people of the 20th century in the German and Polish
parts of Europe. "Karta" in the Polish language has been published
since 1982. If the German edition proves to attract a sufficient audience, a
permanent German edition will be established.
Edited by:
Fundacja Osrodka KARTA
ul Narbutta 29
02536 Warsaw
Tel.: +4822 8480712
Fax: +4822 6466511
E-mail: ok@karta.org.pl
Internet: http://karta.icm.edu.pl
Editor- in-chief: Zbigniew Gluza
Editor of German issue: Anna Zinserling
KARTA
Post Box 652126
13316 Berlin
Tel.: +4930 49912569
Fax: +4930 49912568
E-mail: karta@t-online.de
[2] UCEMET comprises the Faculties of
Economics or Departments of Business Administration at the following eleven
universities:
1.Varna University of Economics, Bulgaria
2.Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
3.Tartu University, Estonia
4.Budapest University of Economic Sciences, Hungary
5.Latvian University, Riga, Latvia
6.Vilnius University, Lithuania
7.Cracow University of Economics, Poland
8.Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania
9.Moscow State University, Russia
10.St Petersburg University, Russia 11.School of Business, Stockholm
University, Sweden
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