Political Science
George Klein Lectures
The annual George Klein lecture is named after Dr. George Klein, a longtime member of the WMU Department of Political Science and an internationally known expert on Balkan politics and Eastern European political systems. After his death in 1981, his widow, Dr. Patricia V. Klein, WMU associate professor emerita of science studies, created an endowment in his honor. That endowment funds the annual lecture, symposia, conferences and scholarships.
2010 George Klein Lecture
Democracy and European Integration:
Twenty Years after the Collapse of Communism
Dr. Milada Vachudova
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
7:00 pm, Fetzer Center, Putney Auditorium
Since the revolutions of 1989, post-communist Europe has experienced more than two decades of political and economic change. In Eastern Europe, the benefits combined with the requirements of EU membership set the stage for unprecedented leverage on the domestic politics of future members. But EU’s leverage worked less well in the Western Balkans, and EU citizens no longer support further enlargement. What accounts for the starkly different outcomes across the region? The most powerful and successful tool of EU foreign policy has turned out to be enlargement – but it may have reached its limits.
Milada Anna Vachudova studies the democratization of postcommunist Europe, the enlargement of the European Union and the impact of international actors on domestic politics. She is author of Europe Undivided: Democracy, Leverage and Integration After Communism (Oxford University Press, 2005). She received a BA from Stanford University in 1991 and a D.Phil. in the Faculty of Politics at the University of Oxford in 1997.
Past Speakers
| 2008-9 | Dr. Kevin Deegan-Krause | Wayne State University |
| 2007-8 | Dr. Ray Taras | Tulane University |
| 2006-7 | Dr. Leah Seppanen Anderson | Wheaton College |
| 2005-6 | Dr. Robert Hayden | University of Pittsburgh |
| 2004-5 | Dr. Kathleen Hill Hawk | University of Alabama, Huntsville |
| 2003-4 | Dr. Igor Luksic | University of Ljubljana, Slovenia |
| 2000-1 | Symposium: " Transitions in Process: Social,
Political and Cultural Dimensions of Change in Eastern Europe"
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| 1999-2000 | Dr Branko Horvat | University of Zagreb |
| 1998-9 | Dr Zarko Korac | University of Belgrade |
| 1997-8 | Dr. Robin Remington | University of Missouri, Columbia |