Working Paper Series

NB The Contemporary Europe Research Centre was closed at the end of 2009 and therefore the CERC Working Paper series was discontinued. Paper copies are no longer available but the entire series is available in pdf format below.

The Contemporary Europe Research Centre (CERC) aims to publish high-quality original research, based on work in progress, on issues related to Europe. The CERC Working Papers Series is peer-reviewed. Papers cost Au$10.00 (+ postage) - please contact CERC to place an order.

Guidelines for submitting a Working Paper

Archive of CERC Working Papers

The papers below are now available online in pdf format.

Note - these papers are free for private or educational use, they may not be reproduced or transmitted for commerical purposes nor may they altered. Copyright rests with CERC and the authors. Printing multiple copies for distribution, reproduction, or posting requires permission from CERC.

2009

• Matt Killingsworth, 'Lustration in Poland: Coming to terms with a totalitarian past' CERC Working Papers Series, no.1/2009 (23pp)
• Val Colic-Peisker, 'The Balkan frog prince and princess Europe: Undoing ‘Tudjman's decade’2 for Croatian accession to the EU' CERC Working Papers Series, no.2/2009 (41pp)

2008

• Frank Delmartino and Ana Maria Dobre, 'The External and Internal Evolution of European Integration' CERC Working Papers Series, no.1/2008 (30pp)
• Ivan Dodovski, 'Imagining the West: Representations of Europe and America in Contemporary Balkan Drama' CERC Working Papers Series, no.1/2008 (50pp)
• Peter Gerrand, 'The worldwide diaspora of Spain's regional communities: its reach, its history and its modern relevance' CERC Working Papers Series, no.3/2008 (64pp)

2007

• Georg Wiessala, 'CATALYSTS AND INHIBITORS - The Role and Meaning of Human Rights in EU-Asia Relations' CERC Working Papers Series, no.1/2007 (44 pp)
• Milos Vaskovic, 'The Complexity of Remembering - Beyond the Logic of "Identity" in a Complex Europe' CERC Working Papers Series, no.2/2007 (55pp)
• Åse Berit Grødeland and Aadne Aasland, 'Informality and Informal Practices in East Central and South East Europe' CERC Working Paper Series No.3/2007 (48pp)
  

2006

• Michael Longo, 'The Global Challenge of Europes Constitutional Evolution: Whats in it for us?' CERC Working Papers Series, no.1/2006 (27 pp)
• Michael Kelly, 'The Italian Resistance in Piedmont: The Myth of Unity' CERC Working Papers Series, no.2/2006 (67 pp)
• Vladimir Zoric, 'Metaphoric Aspects of Exile: Modern Reverberations of aquae et ignis interdicto' CERC Working Papers Series, no.3/2006 (41 pp)

2005

• Jonathan Clarke, 'Language and the Construction of Identity in Russia' CERC Working Papers Series, no.1/2005 (44 pp)
• Peter Lentini, 'Campaigning Under the Shadow of Martyrdom? The 2004 Chechen Elections and the Cult of Kadyrov' CERC Working Papers Series, no.2/2005 (70 pp)
• Thomas Edward Sandys Bamforth, 'Bely and the Mongols: Geopolitical Visions in Andrei Bely's Petersburg' CERC Working Papers Series, no.3/2005 (56 pp)

2004

• Richard Sakwa, 'The Australasian Contribution To Soviet, East European And Russian Studies' CERC Working Papers Series , no.1/2004 (33 pp)
• Natalia Chaban & Jessica Bain, 'Peripheral and Invisible? The European Union in the New Zealand Media 2000-2002, CERC Working Papers Series, no.2/2004 (34 pp)
• Cas Mudde: 'Globalisation, The Multi-Faced Enemy?' CERC Working Papers Series, no.3/2004 (22 pp)
• Dietmar Braun, 'Delegation in territorially-divided polities: Lessons for the European Union?' CERC Working Papers Series, no.4/2004 (44 pp)

2003

• Zoe Knox, 'Russian Orthodoxy and Religious Pluralism: Post-Soviet Challenges', CERC Working Papers Series , no.1/2003 (65 pp)
• Yuri Tsyganov, 'Russian Policy Toward Northeast Asia: In Search of a New Approach', CERC Working Papers Series, no.2/2003 (67 pp)
• Andrea Benvenuti, 'Lying Low and Saying Nothing: Australia's Policy Towards Britain's Second Application to the European Economic Community, 1966-67' CERC Working Papers Series, no.3/2003 (42 pp)
• Harald Sander and Stefanie Kleimeier, 'Towards a Single European Banking Market? New Evidence from Euroland on the Role of the Euro' CERC Working Papers Series, no.4/2003 (33 pp)

2002

• Jan Teorell, 'Political Culture and Democracy in Post-Communist Russia: A Tale of Three Region', CERC Working Papers Series , no.1/2002 (60 pp)
• Greg Burgess, 'The Human Rights Dilemma in Anti-Nazi Protest: The Bernheim Petition, Minorities Protection, and the 1933 Sessions of the League of Nations', CERC Working Papers Series , no.2/2002 (60 pp)
• Axel Hadenius, 'The Development of Political Parties: Russia in Perspective', CERC Working Papers Series , no.3/2002 (57 pp)

2001

• Rosella Dossi, ' Italy's Invisible Government ', CERC Working Papers Series , no.1/2001 (50 pp)
• David Lockwood, ' Border Economics Versus Border Mentality: The Politics of Russia/China Border Trade ', CERC Working Papers Series , no.2/2001 (35 pp)
• Michael Longo, ' The European Union's Search For A Constitutional Future ', CERC Working Papers Series , no.3/2001 (76 pp)

2000

• Martine Piquet, 'Cold War in Warm Waters: Reflections on Australian and French Mutual Misunderstandings in the Pacific, CERC Working Papers Series , no.1/2000 (41 pp)
• Remy Davison, 'Re-evaluating EU Integration: An Economic Assessment of the Impact of the Single European Market', CERC Working Papers Series , no.2/2000 (48 pp)
• Annemarie Elijah, Philomena Murray and Carolyn O'Brien, 'Divergence and Convergence: The Development of European Union-Australia Relations', CERC Working Papers Series , no.3/2000 (49 pp)
• Rafis Abazov, 'Foreign Policy Formation in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan', CERC Working Papers Series , no.4/2000 (62 pp)

Working Papers International Advisory Board

• Philomena Murray , Leslie Holmes and Peter Shearman (University of Melbourne) (Editors)
• Wladimir Andreff (University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne)
• Michael Bradshaw (University of Leicester / University of Birmingham)
• Renaud Dehousse (Institute of Political Science, Paris / European University Institute, Florence)
• Maurizio Ferrera (University of Pavia / Universita Boccona)
• Stephen Fortescue (University of New South Wales)
• Graeme Gill (University of Sydney)
• Paul Hainsworth (University of Ulster)
• Simon Hix (London School of Economics)
• Robert Horvath (University of Melbourne)
• Elizabeth Meehan (Queen's University of Belfast)
• Andrew Moravcsik (Harvard University)
• Kirill Nourzhanov (Australian National University)
• Marko Pavlyshyn (Monash University)
• William Tompson (University of London)
• J. H. H. Weiler (Harvard University)
• Stephen Wheatcroft (University of Melbourne)