Activities

2010/11
Conferences
Post-Soviet Space: Twenty Years after Collapse of Communism
International Conference
16 - 17 May, 2011
Program

Working Papers
Two Decades of the Russian Federation’s Foreign Policy in the Commonwealth of Independent States: The Cases of Belarus and Ukraine
Helena Yakovlev Golani, The Swiss Center for Conflict Research, Management and Resolution
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2008/9
Conferences
1989-2009: Taking Stock of East-West EUnification
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Konrad Adenauer Conference Centre at Mishkenot Shaananim and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
14 - 15 June,.2009
Conference Rationale
Program

Working Papers
The Idea of Eurasia
Max Ostrovsky, Department of History
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2006/7
Research Projects
Modern Geopolitical Circumstances as the Factor of the Russian Eurasianism
and the Western Geopolitics of Eurasia
Max Ostrovsky, Department of General History

Intensive Courses
European Integration in the Age of Globalization
Dr. Jiri Dienstbier, 30.10-9.11.2006
Re-Shaping of (Post Socialist) Eurasia:
Dynamics of Identities and Proximities between the Times of "Velvet" and "Colored" Revolutions
Prof. Christian Haerpfer, 16-29.4.2007

Guest Lectures
Former YU Countries in the Waiting Room: Local Issues and EU Interventions
Prof. Ivo Papparella. University of Dubrovnik, Croatia
11.11.2006
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bernd Papenkort, Oxford Academy of Leadership
14.12.2006
Romania ’s and Bulgaria ’s Accession to the EU
Dr. Geoffrey Harris, Head of Human Rights Unit, European Parliament
21.12.2006
The Idea of European Union. Romania and the Varieties of Federalism
Dr. Catalin Avramescu, University of Bucharest
18.1.2007, The European Forum
EU Common Foreign and Security Policy. Romania 's Possible Contribution
Sever Voinescu, Institute for Public Policy
18.1.2007
Victims, executioners, scapegoats, or judges?
On the roles ascribed to the Jews in the process of coming to terms with the Communist past in Romania
Dr. Andrei Cornea, University of Bucharest
18.1.2007

International Simulations
The EU South-Eastern Enlargement: The Role of Austria
Mr. Tamir Sinai, CAP Munich
17-18.6.2007

2005/6
International Symposia and Workshops
The EU South-Eastern Enlargement
Simulation Workshop
Mr. Tamir Sinai, University of Munich
Participants: M.A. and PhD students of the European Forum at the Hebrew University
and guests from Austria, Germany and Romania.
March 2006

Insiders, Outsiders and Modern East European Jewry
International Conference in honor of Prof. Ezra Mendelsohn
In cooperation with the Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry and the Leonid Nevzlin Research Center
for Russian and East European Jewry at the Hebrew University
3-5.1.2006

Guest Lectures
The Common Enemy of Mankind: THE PIRATE in the Natural Law Tradition
Dr. Catalin Avramescu, University of Bucharest
11.11.2005
Identity Discourse in US, Europe and Russia after the Cold War
Prof. Ilya Prizel ( University of Pittsburgh and Editor-in-Chief of “East European Politics and Societies”)
March 8, 2006

Research Projects
European Neighbourhood Policy: A Door Wide Shut? Case Studies of Israel and the Ukraine
Evgeny Finkel, Hadas Greenglass , Liron Gur, Maya Simon
European Forum and Department of Political Science

Ideological Origins of Anti-Zionist Ideology in Western Europe and USSR                         
Evgeny Finkel, M.A. thesis in Political Science, specialization in European Studies

Working Papers
Defending Rights, Promoting Democracy: The Institution of Ombudsman in Poland , Russia and Bulgaria
Evgeny Finkel, Department of Political Science, specialization in European Studies
The Visegrad Cooperation Model: Making Accession to the European Union Easier?
Hadas Greenglass, Department of Political Science, specialization in European Studies
An Inquiry into Wealth of Nations: The Significance of Libertarian and Entrepreneurial Values for Central and Eastern European Economic Convergence with the EU
Shai Moses, Department of International Relations, specialization in European Studies

2004/5
Research Projects
Lessons from Visegrad Cooperation Model for Ukraine and Belarus:
Making Accession for the European Union Easier?
Hadas Gringlass, Departments of International Relations and Political Science, specialization in European Studies

The Impact of Cultural and Democratic Values on the Integration of Central and Eastern Europe in the EU
Shai Moses, Department of International Relations, specialization in European Studies

Ombudsman Institution and the Process of Democratization in the New Democracies of Central and Eastern Europe
Evgeny Finkel, Department of Political Science, specialization in European Studies

Intensive Courses
The Emerging European Constitution
Prof. Andras Sajo, Central European University , Budapest
3-10.4.2005

Working Papers
When Deepening encounters Widening: Supranational Governance in the Enlarged European Discourse. The Case of the Constitutional Discourse, in preparation
Shai Moses, Department of International Relations, specialization in European Studies