CALL FOR PAPERS The 9th Annual

The Kokkalis Program on Southeastern and East-Central Europe, John F. Kennedy School of Government, and the Southeast European Study Group, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University, will hold the nineth annual Kokkalis Graduate Student Workshop on February 2, 2007.

Doctoral students are invited to submit proposals for papers to be delivered at the workshop. Proposals should be a maximum of 500 words and should fall into one of the thematic units listed below, relative to one or more of the countries specified to the right:

Thematic units:

I. Secularism, Fundamentalism and Pluralism in Southeast Europe
Papers should explore trends in secularism, fundamentalism and/or pluralism at the sub-state, inter-state and/or transnational level(s) in Southeast Europe. Papers can explore topics such as the constitutional and legal relationship between religion and the state; the organization, regulation and transformation of religion in public life; the links between religion and nationalism; democratic institution-building and religious human rights; and related subjects.

II. Nontraditional Security Threats in Southeast Europe
Countries have faced security threats stemming from military action, politics and diplomacy. Increasingly, however, conflict and instability in Southeast Europe and, indeed, globally are being generated by nontraditional security threats such as terrorism, drug trafficking, health crises, environmental security, illegal immigration, economic and financial security, failures in governance, and information security. Papers should examine these and/or other nontraditional security issues in the region. Preference will be given to papers providing recommendations to improve policymaking to combat these new threats at the local, national and regional levels.

III. Innovative Governance and Entrepreneurship in Southeast Europe
Papers should explore experiments in new forms of governance, partnerships and entrepreneurship in the public/private sector in Southeastern Europe and analyze the circumstances under which they emerged. Papers could, for example, focus on new entities, innovative projects, cross-sector partnerships and the circumstances (institutional, managerial, leadership, political, etc) in which they emerged as well as the challenges, dilemmas, and solutions facing the realization of such initiatives. Papers may stem from the domains of public policy, administration and/or management; entrepreneurship in the public, private or NGO sectors; or others.

Proposals and CVs should be submitted online here.

If you have any problems submitting your materials via the link above, please contact us at: Kokkalis_Program@ksg.harvard.edu



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