The Annual Report of the WG "Transformations in the World System - Comparative Studies in Development" (2004)
The Annual Report of the WG "Transformations in the World System - Comparative Studies in Development" (2004)
The total number of the active WG participants - 12, including the formal members of EADI - 10, 6 of them represent the institutional members.
List of the WG participants:
Surnames & names | Membership | Affiliation | Country | Field of research |
CASTEL Odile | Individual | Université de Rennes | France | Social (Des)integration: the case of Brazil |
CASULA Philipp | -- | Free University Berlin | Germany | Comparative studies of development in East Europe and Latin America |
DESPINEY Barbara | Institutional | Université Paris-1 GEMDEV | France | Development of Eastern & Central Europe |
GIRI Ananta Kumar | Institutional | Centre for Development and International Relations, Aalborg University | Denmark | Development and post-modernity, problems of methodology |
INOZEMTSEV Vladislav | Institutional | The Centre for Study of Post-Industrial Society | Russia | Post-Industrial Trends |
KRASILSHCHIKOV Victor | Individual | Inst. of World Economy & International Relations | Russia | Development of Latin America, Russia and East Asia |
KOMLOSY Andrea | -- | Vienna University | Austria | Comparative studies of development in EAst Europe, history of development |
LEVAI Imre | Individual | Institute for Political Science | Hungary | Hungary Globalisation and East Europe |
LI Xing | Institutional | Centre for Development and International Relations, Aalborg University | Denmark | Globalisation and Human Security/Insecurity in developing countries |
MULLER Katharina | Institutional | German Development Institute, Bonn | Germany | Transition in East European countries |
PLA Isabel | -- | University of Valencia | Spain | Transition in East European countries (Russia) |
ROCESKA Slavica | Individual | University of Bitola, Faculty of Economics Prilep | Macedonia | Integration in Southeast Europe |
SCHMIDT Johannes Dragsbaek | Institutional | Centre for Development and International Relations, Aalborg University | Denmark | Development and Globalisation, East Asian countries |
Conveners:
Victor Krasilshchikov (Krassilchtchikov)
The Centre for Development Studies
Institute of World Economy and International Relations (Russian Academy of Sciences)
23, Profsoyuznaya str.
Moscow GSP-7 117997
Russia
phone: (+7)-(095)-1208232
fax: (+7)-(095)-1206575
e-mail: f1victor(AT)mtu-net.ru victor_ias2004(AT)yahoo.co.in
Imre Levai
Institute for Political Science (Hungarian Academy of Sciences),PF 694/115
1399 Budapest
Hungary
phone: (36)-(1)-2246732
fax: (36)-(1)-2246733
e-mail: hl3695lev(AT)ella.hu levai(AT)mtapti.hu
In 2004, one new participant representing institutional member of EADI (The Centre for Development and International Relations, Aalborg University, Denmark), Ananta Kumar Giri, joined the working group. Two scholars, Andrea Komlosy (Austria) and Philipp Casula (Germany) are requested to become the formal members of EADI. At the same time, three former participants, Isabel Pla (Spain), François Ruegg (Switzeland, Romania), and Pavle Sicherl (Slovenia) left the working group because of non-desire to become the formal members of EADI and cancelling regular contacts with conveners.
In 2004, the workshop of the WG was held in Budapest on September 24-25. The workshop was hosted by two research institutes of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences: the Centre for Social Studies (the umbrella institution for academic institutes of social sciences) and the Institute for Political Science. These units of the Hungarian Academy sponsored accommodation at the academic guesthouse and full board for the workshop participants. The topic of the workshop was defined as "Social Disintegration and Decline in (Semi)-Peripheral Regions: An Alternative Pattern of Development in the World System?" (The brief report is applied, the full-length report comprising enlarged abstracts of the papers presented and overview of the discussions at the workshop sessions will be submitted by mid-December.) During the period under review, conveners were keeping regular contact with all members of the WG.
As regards the academic issues, the activity of the WG members was mainly focused on the following problems:
Position of the developing and East/Central European countries in the world system under the conditions of globalisation (B. Despiney, Li Xing, S. Roceska);
Regional development in East Europe and its prospects after EU enlargement (in particular, case studies of Hungary, Poland, Russia and the Balkan countries) (B. Despiney, I. Lévai, S. Roceska);
Cycles of modernisation, modernisation trap and drift of some countries towards the world periphery (A. Komlosy, V. Krasilshchikov, K. Müller);
Global instability and its humanitarian/social aspects (J. D. Schmidt, A.K. Giri) and rise of new forms of civil society (O. Castel).
After the workshop in Budapest, the participants were requested to revise the text of their papers for publication in EJDR. The possible contribution of the WG to the 11th General Conference of EADI was discussed, too.
Despite all efforts, the papers by WG members translated into Russian (with the aim at spreading new ideas on development among the Russian scholars - see previous report of the WG for 2003) could not, unfortunately, be published because of worsened conditions of funding.
Prospects of the working group.
1) The WG intents to participate in the General Conference with a possible contribution to one of the panel sessions. Negotiations with the WG "Europe and Latin America" concerning a joint contribution are in progress.
2) The participants of the workshop were requested to prepare their papers for publication in EJDR, and this work is in progress.
3) The WG is considering a joint research project as continuation of discussions at the workshop in Budapest.
On behalf of the working group,
Victor Krasilshchikov, Imre Lévai, conveners.
