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 Symposium
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Symposium
Materials- Milada Vachudova
Symposium
Materials- James Piazza
CES
Contact Information
Background and Objective
"Globalization, Democratization,
and the European Union" is a one-day seminar for college teachers examining
the European Union as a political and economic actor on the world stage.
Presenters included Milada Anne Vachudova (UNC-CH) and James Piazza (Meredith
College), both of whom teach comparative politics courses at the undergraduate
level. Sessions will include a discussion on how to teach about the EU
in college level classes. Attendees will also receive free EU materials
for classroom use.
Presenters
Milada Vachudova, University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Vachudova specializes in the democratization
of post-communist Europe and the impact of international institutions on
domestic politics. She comes to Chapel Hill from Florence, Italy, where
she spent the last academic year as a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European
University Institute. She previously held fellowships and research grants
from the National Science Foundation, the Center for International Studies
at Princeton University, the Center for European Studies at Harvard University,
and the European Union Center of New York City at Columbia University.
She also taught at the Central European University and at Charles University
in Prague. As a British Marshall Scholar, she completed a D.Phil. in the
Faculty of Politics at the University of Oxford in 1997. Her book, Revolution,
Democracy and Integration, is forthcoming from Oxford University Press.
James Piazza, Meredith
College
Piazza received his Ph.D. in
1999 from the Department of Politics at New York University, his M.A. from
the Department of Middle East and North African Studies at the University
of Michigan in 1994 and his B.A. in Political Science from Loyola University
of Chicago. His research examines the effects of globalization on labor
unions, political parties and social democracy in industrialized countries.
He has also published and delivered papers on the subject of globalization,
economic reform, unions and social movements in the Middle East. His articles
have appeared in a variety of journals including Party Politics, the Southeastern
Political Review and the Digest of Middle East Studies. His is currently
working on a book on the effects of globalization on labor unions in the
United States, Germany and Sweden based on his dissertation. At Meredith,
Piazza teaches in the fields of Comparative Politics, International Political
economy and International Relations.
Milada
Vachudova, Symposium Materials
1. The Eastward Enlargement
of the EU
These articles and documents,
which will open in another window, were also in your packets:
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"The Trump Card of Domestic Politics:
Bargaining Over EU Enlargement," East European Constitutional Review10,
2 (Spring/Summer 2001): 93-97. (link)
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"EU Enlargement: An Overview,"
East European Constitutional Review 9, 4 (Fall 2000): 64-69. (link)
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Overhead
1 depicting countries in line for EU membership
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Overhead
2 documenting EU Member states' perceptions about the costs of enlargement
2. The Leverage of International
Institutions on Democratizing States: Eastern Europe and the EU
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This article was also in your packet.
To find it online, go to this search
engine, and type in Vachudova under author.
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Slides
that accompany with this paper
3. Central Europe after EU Enlargement
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"The Division of Central Europe"
The New Presence, Autumn 2002 (link)
4. The Balkans and the EU: CFSP,
ESDP. Borders and Enlargement
James
Piazza, Symposium Materials
Contact
Information
Dr. Ruth Mitchell-Pitts, Associate
Director
Center for European Studies
University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill
CB# 3449 Chapel Hill, NC 27599
Tel: 919 962-6765 Fax: 919.962.5375
email: europe@lunc.edu
Carrie Lovelace, Information
& Communications Specialist
Center for European Studies
University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill
CB# 3449 Chapel Hill, NC 27599
Tel: 919 962-2152 Fax: 919.962.5375
email: lovelace@unc.edu
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