Events

Event

Title:: Elections in Romania: Challenges and Implications
When:: 12/03/2008 12:00PM - 01:00PM
Where:: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars - Washington
Category:: General

Description

The lecture "Elections in Romania: Challenges and Implications" will feature Vladimir Tismăneanu, Professor of Political Science, University of Maryland-College Park and WWICS Fellow.

Vladimir Tismăneanu is a Romanian and American political scientist, sociologist, and professor at the University of Maryland, College Park. A specialist in political systems and compared politics, he is chair of the editorial committee and editor of the East European Politics and Societies academic review and director of the University of Maryland's Center for the Study of Post-Communist Societies. Tismăneanu is a contributor to several periodicals, including Journal of Democracy, Studia Politica, Sfera Politicii, 22 and Cotidianul.

Venue

Venue:: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars - Website
Street:: 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
ZIP:: 20004
City:: Washington
State:: DC
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Description

Established by an act of Congress in 1968, the Wilson Center is our nation's official living memorial to President Woodrow Wilson. As both a distinguished scholar — the only American President with a Ph.D. — and a national leader, Wilson felt strongly that the scholar and the policymaker were "engaged in a common enterprise."

The Wilson Center is a nonpartisan institute for advanced study and a neutral forum for open, serious, and informed dialogue. It brings pre-eminent thinkers to Washington for extended periods of time to interact with policymakers through a large number of programs and projects. The Center seeks to separate the important from the inconsequential and to take a historical and broad perspective on the issues.