The 2022 Annual Conference of the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies will investigate the current state of public health and its recent as well as historical development in the region from multiple perspectives. We want to highlight the economic, social and political...

The main conference theme is: The COVID pandemic: consequences on inequality within and between countries. The COVID pandemic has worked as a magnifier of old problems and an accelerator of structural change and modernization. On the one hand, the global economy has undergone a dramatic slump,...

Online Program (dienstags, 5.10., 12.10., 19.10.2021, jeweils um 16 Uhr): Panel: Impact on Trade and Growth – October 5 ; Panel: Infrastructure as Expression of State Socialist Modernity - October 12 ; Panel: Integration/Disintegration Effects of Infrastructure – October 19.

This conference will explore two particular issues. First, it will study social policies in relation to demographic dynamics and address social policy as a response to and at the same time attempt to manage demographic challenges. How do social policies in East and Southeast Europe respond to...

In der öffentlichen Diskussion dominiert die Einschätzung, dass die Ungleichheit der Einkommen, Löhne und Vermögen in Deutschland und in Europa zunimmt. Der Ruf nach stärkeren Institutionen, strikteren Regulierungen und staatlichen Umverteilungsmaßnahmen zur Schließung dieser...