Welcome

Welcome to the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies.

The Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies promotes scholarship to better understand the conditions and policies facilitating historical, contemporary, and prospective transformations from authoritarian rule to democracies with more robust economies and vital civil societies. It also educates new generations of practitioners who can apply their learning and experience to help extend freedom. Initially focusing on transitions in Europe and Eurasia, it will subsequently expand its scope to other emerging democracies across the globe.

Inaugurated in 2008, WCED works alongside the Center for European Studies-European Union Center and Center for Russian and East European Studies and in association with the Ronald and Eileen Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia.

Announcements

Nines Conference at University of Michigan, Dec 3-5

Veton Surroi, journalist and activist, to speak about Kosovo War

U-M Professor to Erect Inflatable Monument to the Romanian Revolution in Ann Arbor and Romania

Former Polish president Aleksander Kwaśniewski to lecture in University of Michigan undergraduate course and give public talk titled "Where are Europe's Borders?"

WCED and other WCEE affiliates present the Fall 2009 series "The Nines," celebrating the iconic anniversaries in 2009

WCEE/WCED 2009-2010 Directors' Council announced

WCED and other WCEE affiliates issue 2008-09 Annual Report

Spring 2009 issue of the Journal of the International Institute addresses democracy

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