13th South-East European Summer School for Democracy, Serbia

The Anglo Serbian Society is glad to announce: The Thirteenth South-East European Summer School for Democracy Entitled Enlargement Fatigue and EU Prospects of the Western Balkans to be held in Belgrade, Serbia from 5st till 12th September 2010

Organisers
The School is organized by the Hellenic Observatory and LSEE (LSE Research on South East Europe) of the London School of Economics and Political Science and the Anglo-Serbian Society, Belgrade The Co-Directors of the School are: Prof. Vukasin Pavlovic, Faculty of Political Science, Belgrade and Dr. Spyros Economides, Hellenic Observatory/LSEE, LSE, London.

The School's Council is composed of two co-directors and additional five members: Prof. Margaret Blunden, former Provost of the University of Westminster, Prof. Vojislav Stanovcic, Corresponding member of the Serbian Academy, Prof. Christopher Coker, London School of Economics, Prof. Kevin Featherstone, Hellenic Observatory/LSE and Prof. Slobodan G. Markovich, Executive Director of the Summer School.

The Background of the Idea
The School was established in 1998 and was originally organised by the Faculty of Political Science of the University of Belgrade and the University of Westminster. This annual summer school has been held since 1998. The School was originally called The Yugoslav-British
Summer School for Democracy, but was later re-named The International Summer School for Democracy. Due to the repressive Bill on Education enacted during the reign of former Yugoslav dictator Slobodan Milosevic, the School was placed under organisational control of the Anglo-Yugoslav Society and the Centre for the Study of Democracy, who have directed it since 1999. The AYS and the CSD co-organised the Summer School till 2007. In 2004 the Anglo-Yugoslav Society changed its name to the Anglo-Serbian Society. Since 2005 scholars from LSE have lectured at the School and since 2008 the School has been co-organised by the Hellenic Observatory of the London School of Economics and the Anglo-Serbian Society under a new name and a modified format.

The Mission of the School

- To improve junior faculty skills in modern democratic theory;
- To create networks of young scholars, political and NGO activists in SEE dealing with democratic theory;
- To analyse conditions and possibilities for democratic social changes, especially in so-called transition societies;
- To develop and promote academic exchange between Western universities with Serbia and SEE countries.
- To improve regional academic co-operation and to overcome mutual stereotypes and preconceptions.

Participants and Lecturers

The main target group of participants are junior faculty, young political and NGO activists. There will be up to 30 participants altogether. Fifteen participants are to be selected from Serbia and an
equal number will come from elsewhere in the region of South-Eastern Europe (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Hellenic Republic, (F.Y.R.) Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania and Slovenia). Participants should have at the very least a BA degree, and preferably an MA degree in the social sciences or humanities. All other nationals are welcome to apply but the organisers can contribute only partially to their transportation costs.

All accommodation costs and all transportation costs within the region of SEE for selected participants are covered by the Summer School through donations.

The course lecturers (resource persons) are professors and associates from the Hellenic Observatory/LSEE of the London School of Economics, from the University of Westminster, and occasionally professors from other SEE countries, Western Europe, and the United States.

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