http://www.netvouz.com/ipfwgweb/tag/workinggroups?feed=rss ipfwgweb's bookmarks tagged "workinggroups" on Netvouz http://pdc.ceu.hu/archive/00001819/01/Bieber.pdf By Florian Bieber. The paper compares minority rights situation in the countries of Former Yugoslavia with the overall improvement in human rights protection in the last decade and a half. Minority rights remain largely undefined and international standards in this sphere - vague and evasive. In addition to protection from discrimination, linguistic and educational rights, the concept of minority rights should encompass political participation. The paper proceeds with a review of international legislation which endorses the above claim, and substantiates it with empirical evidence from Bosnia-Herzegovina and Macedonia which demonstrates that political re-presentation alone is not sufficient to protect the rights of minorities x2006 Fellows-ALL > 2006 Fellows - Wider Europe > Beáta Huszka ipfwgweb Wed, 11 Oct 2006 16:25:16 GMT http://pdc.ceu.hu/archive/00002624/01/4_years_of_transition_in_Serbia.pdf By Begovic, Boris and Mijatovic, Bosko (eds.); Center for Liberal-Democratic Studies. The book evaluates the ground covered in Serbia's independence and identifies obstacles to be expected on the road to a liberal-democratic system, a market economy and the rule of law x2006 Fellows-ALL > 2006 Fellows - Wider Europe > Beáta Huszka ipfwgweb Wed, 11 Oct 2006 16:22:58 GMT http://nourl On the basis of the observation that political change in Russia has coincided with worsening physical security for many citizens, Weiler asks why Western observers have generally spoken of human rights abuses there only in relation to atrocities committed by soldiers in Chechnya and very occasional persecution of environmentalists and scientists for allegedly sharing classified information. He looks specifically at the conditions of prisoners, both those in overcrowded pre-trial detention and those already in labor camps, at attitudes toward domestic violence, and at treatment of draftees and others at the mercy of faltering state institutions. x2006 Fellows-ALL > 2006 Fellows - Wider Europe > Elena Klitsounova ipfwgweb Wed, 11 Oct 2006 16:34:15 GMT http://pdc.ceu.hu/archive/00001829/01/Djuric.pdf In transition countries, up until now researchers focused more on the area of industrial relations and social dialogue in the countries - candidates for the accession to the European Union, among other things because social dialogue in them is more developed. The main social partners participating in social dialogue became clearly defined, while tripartite bodies have been institutionalized with the main role to contribute through active dialogue between the social partners and the government to reducing the cost of transition changes and to the creation of social consensus in the implementation of the necessary economic and social reforms. x2006 Fellows-ALL > 2006 Fellows - Wider Europe > Beáta Huszka ipfwgweb Wed, 11 Oct 2006 16:29:41 GMT http://nourl The role of the Russo-Chechen conflict in shaping the European Union's relations with Russia is of interest to analysts and policy makers. An analysis of the EU's rhetorical and substantive responses to human rights abuses in Chechnya will reveal the limitations of human rights as a central organizing principle within the CFSP when it is applied to its external relations. Article argues that over the last decade, the EU has sacrificed a coherent and systematic advancement of its normative agenda in favor of strengthening its relations with the Russian Federation, a key strategic partner x2006 Fellows-ALL > 2006 Fellows - Wider Europe > Elena Klitsounova ipfwgweb Wed, 11 Oct 2006 16:38:28 GMT http://pdc.ceu.hu/archive/00001146/01/The_union_of_S+M.pdf The paper is a proposal for the constitutional reconstruction ofSerbiaandMontenegro. It starts with overview of the present constitution, claiming its invalidity, and defines Basic principles of the state union ofSerbiaandMontenegrowith overview of fundamental rights and freedoms, distribution of authority between the federal units and the federation, economic system and state institutions x2006 Fellows-ALL > 2006 Fellows - Wider Europe > Beáta Huszka ipfwgweb Wed, 11 Oct 2006 16:30:33 GMT http://www.worldbank.org/wbi/governance/pdf/contribution.pdf By the World Bank. Along with the increasing understanding in the world of the horrific impact of corruption on economic development and social stability, there has also been a radical increase in the demand for practical strategies for elimination of corruption. This report uncovers various types of corruption, identifies this problem and compares its expressions in the various transition period countries. That is followed by conclusions regarding the development of various anti-corruption strategies that would take into account the differences in the region thereby ensuring the effectiveness of reforms x2006 Fellows-ALL > 2006 Fellows - Wider Europe > Vesna Pesic ipfwgweb Wed, 11 Oct 2006 17:34:32 GMT http://www.worldbank.org/mdf/mdf4/papers/fergany.pdf#search=%22labor%20migration%20in%20Gulf%20countries%22 By Nader Fergany, Almishkat Center for Research. Migration has become internalized as a structural feature of the political economy of many Arab countries. As a result, the loss of information on the phenomenon is unfortunate and needs to be corrected. The center of attention of the paper is migration shifts to countries of destination outside the Arab region, especially Europe, which are, with some exceptions that intensify the brain drain out of the region1, apprehensive of additional migration inflows. x2006 Fellows-ALL > 2006 Fellows - Islam > Nazila Ghanea-Hercock ipfwgweb Wed, 18 Oct 2006 15:51:04 GMT http://www.cambridge.org/us/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521839505&ss=exc By Kathleen Collins. This book is a study of regime transition, transformation, and state building in Central Asia, from Soviet colonization to decolonization; in particular, the book explores the informal politics that shapes these processes, the political systems that emerge, and the durability of these systems. Creating a democratic regime and creating a durable one are two issues that should be linked, yet most scholars and practitioners of the "third wave" of democracy have focused on building democratic regimes while neglecting the fundamental issue of regime stability x2006 Fellows-ALL > 2006 Fellows - OSThreats > Azamat Temirkulov ipfwgweb Mon, 06 Nov 2006 16:49:52 GMT http://pdc.ceu.hu/archive/00001402/01/Coalition_Building.pdf By the Center for the Study of Democracy. Once an "exotic" issue in the diplomatic exchanges, corruption became a constant part of the agenda of the international community in the early and mid-1990s. In recent years, corruption has evolved into one of the priority problems of transition societies. At the same time different approaches have been elaborated both to counter corruption and to take its dimensions, survey the background factors, and the multitude of meanings it has been attributed with by public opinion. In this respect the work of Coalition 2000, which combines civil society pro-active anticorruption measures and monitoring instruments, has emerged as a unique advocacy and research tool leading to practical results x2006 Fellows-ALL > 2006 Fellows - Wider Europe > Vesna Pesic ipfwgweb Wed, 11 Oct 2006 17:22:27 GMT