Guida ai Paesi dell'Europa centrale, orientale e balcanica. Annuario politico-economico 2005

Luisa Chiodi is teaching East European Studies at the Faculty of Political Science of the University of Bologna and is researcher of the Istituto per l'Europa Centro Orientale e Balcanica of the University of Bologna. Her main research fields is civil society and transnational social dynamics in post-communism. She is completing her Phd at the European University Institute in Florence. She is author of a number of articles among which: with Rando Devole, (forthcoming), 'Conflicting memories and mutual representations: Italy and Albania since 1989' in Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans 'Promoted Civil Society: Local NGOs in the Balkans since the 90s', in Stefano Bianchini (ed), (2002), Post-Communist Transition as a European Problem, Longo Editore Ravenna; 'Cooperanti o Guerriglieri. Quando le ONG aiutano i violenti', Limes, (2001) n.2, pp.99-108; with Jean Blondel, 'Albania', in Ferdinand Müller-Rommel and Jean Blondel , (eds), (2001) Cabinets in Eastern Europe, Palgrave, Basingstoke: Hampshire:UK; 'Macedonia', in Silvia Matteucci (ed.), (2000), Gli altri Balcani - Associazionismo, media indipendenti e intellettuali nei paesi balcanici, Asterios; 'Gli accordi bilaterali italo-albanesi successivi alla conclusione dell'Operazione Alba', in Andrea de Guttry e Fabrizio Pagani (eds), (1999), La crisi Albanese del 1997. L'azione dell'Italia e delle organizzazioni internazionali: verso un nuovo modello di gestione delle crisi?, Franco Angeli, pp.314-332.

Political Study Area Coordinator, Francesco Privitera teaches History of Eastern Europe at the Advanced School of Modern Languages for Interpreters and Translators of the University of Bologna, in Forlì. He is an expert in Balkan matters and has dealt with the problems related to the emergence of nationalistic issues in Central Eastern and Balkan Europe during the post-communist transitions. He has written a number of volumes and essays, some of which have also been published abroad.