University Seminars Program: Senior Visiting Scholars
Professor Dusan Sidjanski
Founder of the Department of Political Science at the University of Geneva, Dusan Sidjanski is Professor Emeritus at the Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences and at the European Institute in Geneva. From 1956, he worked in close collaboration with Denis de Rougemont at the European Cultural Centre (ECC) and he is currently the President of the European Cultural Center and special adviser to the President of the European commission.
He is the author of works on federalism and european integration, such as Fédéralisme amphictyonique, Eléments de système et tendance internationale, Paris and Lausanne, Pedone and Rouge & Cie, 1956, Dimensions européennes de la science politique, Paris, LGDJ, 1963 ; Europe Elections, de la démocratie européenne, Paris, Stanké, 1979, Union ou désunion de l’Europe ? La Communauté européenne à l’épreuve de la crise yougoslave et des mutations en Europe de l’Est, The University Institute of European Studies (IUEE) Geneva, 1991, L’Avenir fédéraliste de l’Europe, La Communauté européenne des origines au traité de Maastricht, Paris, PUF, 1992, 1993 which has been translated into Italian, Serbo-Croatian, Portuguese (Preface by José Manuel Barroso), Greek, Russian (Preface by Rector IO.H. Afanasiev), Spanish (Preface by J.M. Gil-Robles) and English. The revised English translation, The Federal Future of Europe was published by the University of Michigan Press, Introductory note by Jacques Delors, Foreword by Harold K. Jacobson, Ann Arbor, 2000; L’approche fédérative de l’Union européenne ou la quête d’un fédéralisme européen inédit, Notre Europe, 2001 translated into Portuguese (Principia, 2001), Italian (Franco Angeli, 2002), Serbo-Croatian (Galaxie Gutenburg, 2002) and German (Haupt, 2004); Une vision futurible de la Constitution fédérative européenne, dans : L’Europe en suspens (Europa in bilico), Dir. P.A. Baldocci et A. Gasparini, Quaderni di Futuribili, ISIG, Gorizia, 2007 ; Le dialogue des cultures à l’aube du XXIe siècl. Hommage à Denis de Rougemont par José Manuel Barroso (Editor in collaboration with F. Saint-Ouen), Bruxelles, Bruylant, 2007.
During his participation in the University Seminars Program (March 15- April 13), Professor Sidjanski is going to address topics relating to the New European Treaty, the Enlargement, as well as the Balkans.
Professor Sidjanksi will visit the following institutions:
The Woodrow Wilson Center: Program in East European Studies
George Mason University: School of Public Policy
Johns Hopkins University: School of Advanced International Studies
Georgetown University: Department of Government
Women’s Council on Energy and the Environment
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor: Institute for Social Research, European Union Center
Columbia University: Harriman Institute, Center for European Studies
The Graduate Center, CUNY: European Union Studies Center
Harvard University: Center for European Studies
Princeton University: Woodrow Wilson School, Center for European Studies