DISC - Center for the Study of Imperfections in Democracies

Due to a wider reorganization of CEU’s research centers and following a decision by CEU’s Senate, the Center for the Studies of Imperfections in Democracies (DISC) has been sunsetted.

The content of DISC's website and page remain online but no updates will be performed.

Thank you very much for your interest, engagement, and input over the past six years.

New blogpost on Kosovo's party nationalization by Artak Galyan, Olimpija Hristova Zaevska, and Roland Schmidt

Party Nationalization in Kosovo* | Center for the Study of Imperfections in Democracy Expectations were running high for the November 3 municipal elections in Kosovo. Following the Brussels Agreement brokered by the European Union between the Kosovo and Serbian governments, Belgrade exerted considerable pressure on Kosovo Serbs and called on to their participation in elections for th...

a few (mobile) shots from Marc Helbling's presentation on Islamophobia in Western Europe

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Building Sustainable Peace in the Western Balkans: A View From Practitioners | School of Public Poli Almost 20 years since the Dayton peace agreement, a decade after the Ohrid agreement, and five years since Kosovo's independence, the policy panel ‘Building Sustainable Peace in the Western Balkans: A View From Practitioners’ takes stock of the peace building efforts in the former Yugoslavia, identi...