Publications

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    Reclaiming Democracy

    Civil Society and Electoral Change in Central and Eastern Europe

    Postcommunism, with its daunting power of the economy, politics, law enforcement, justice and media, from a present view, can be considered as replaying the period of communism. The patience of the inhabitants in Central and Southeastern Europe has [...]

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    Long-Term Care in Central and South Eastern Europe

    Status Quo - Challenges – Perspectives (Accessible Report)

    Ageing has become on of the major socio-economic concerns in Europe and beyond in the last years. This study is a cooperation between ERSTE Stiftung and the Institute of Social Policy at the University of Economics Vienna, within the project “Generations [...]

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    6th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art. Catalogue & Reader

    was draußen wartet - what is waiting out there

    How can the relationship between contemporary art and reality be described; what stance does artistic praxis take on the present? Can it make the disparate realities of our present perceivable, and aid the viewer in assuring him/herself of his/her [...]

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    Continuing Dialogues. A Tribute To Igor Zabel

    The Slovenian curator, art critic, writer and theorist Igor Zabel (1958–2005) was largely responsible for putting Slovenian art on the map of the international art scene. As senior curator of Moderna galerija in Ljubljana, he was engaged in establishing [...]

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    Power Struggle

    Meeting Global Energy Challenges in the Balkans

    Few words have altered their meaning in the light of economic change as much as 'energy'. Once a term that defined the physical or spiritual power of human beings, since the Industrial Revolution it has come to denote forms of power that mankind has [...]

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    The Balkans - A Future in Present Tense

    With this speech, the Serbian author Biljana Srbljanović opened the Balkan Case Challenge 2009 held in Vienna from 6 to 11 July 2009. This annual competition, supported by ERSTE Foundation, aims at opening up opportunities and new perspectives for [...]