EVENIMENTE | EVENTS

INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP >> 5.06.2023

Southeast Europe After Three Good Decades of Democratic Transition

Event organized in partnership with the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy (TFD) and the Taiwan Journal for Democracy (TJD)

Participation by invitation only

PROGRAM

09:30-12:00 Panel I European Integration, Value Changes and Democratic Revolution

Chair: Tun-jen CHENG, Taiwan Journal of Democracy and College of William and Mary (US)
Discussant: Laurence WHITEHEAD, University of Oxford (UK)

Constructing and Destructing Democracy: Informality and the Limits of Institutionalist Approach
András BOZÓKI, Central European University (AUSTRIA & HUNGARY)

Religion, Church and Democracy in Post-communist Central and South-Eastern Europe: Recalibrating Perceptions of Regional Similarities
Bogdan Mihai RADU, Babeș-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca (ROMANIA)

When does it make sense to compare neighbours? Democratization Processes, EU Integration and Foreign Policy Outlooks in Post- communist Bulgaria and Romania
Luciana Alexandra GHICA, University of Bucharest (ROMANIA)

12:00-12:20 Coffee break
12:20-13:00 Open discussion
13:00-14:00 Lunch

14:00-16:00 Panel II Forces and Trends Shaping the Course of Democratic Development

Chair: Luciana Alexandra GHICA, University of Bucharest (ROMANIA)
Discussant: Laurence WHITEHEAD, University of Oxford (UK)

‘Mediated’ Populism in Bulgaria: Rhetoric, Style, or Presentation?
Gergana DIMOVA, Florida State University, London Program (UK)

Does the Sheri Berman thesis hold for Southeast Europe?
Daniel SMILOV, Center for Liberal Strategies and University of Sofia (BULGARIA)

16:00-16:10 Coffee break
16:10-17:00 Open discussion

Also attending

Allen PENG, Taiwan Foundation for Democracy & Taiwan Journal of Democracy
Dana TRIF, Babeș-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Logistic support team

Viktor CHORBADZIEV, MA in International Public Affairs (MIPA), Faculty of Political Science, University of Bucharest
Maria LEUȘTEAN, MA in International Public Affairs (MIPA), Faculty of Political Science, University of Bucharest
Siyawash OBAIDY, MA in International Public Affairs (MIPA), Faculty of Political Science, University of Bucharest
Sebastian SPRÎNCEANĂ, MA in International Public Affairs (MIPA), Faculty of Political Science, University of Bucharest