Polish Studies at American University

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Government 532 Politics of East-Central Europe @

COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course is designed to provide an introduction to East-Central European politics. Rather than taking a country-by-country approach to studying the region, the course focuses on major topics of interest across the region. After examining the failure of East-Central European democracy during the interwar period, the course turns to the catclysm of World War II and then the Communist period. The second half of the course focuses on problems of the post-Communist period. How can the nations of East-Central Europe best reform their economies? What type of institutions and electoral system have these newly democratic nations established? Which parties have thrived in these new democracies? How strong is support for freedom and democratic institutions? How have minority groups fared under these newly democratic regimes?
COURSE INSTRUCTOR: Lublin, D.

Carmel, Erran , Associate Professor ,Kogod School of Business, American University @

Ph.D., Arizona University
Phone: (202) 885-1928 / Fax: (202) 885-1992 / E-Mail: carmel@american.edu.
MAJOR INTERESTS: Global software development
POLAND RELATED SCHOLARSHIP:
BOOKS

• Global Software Teams:Collaborating Across Borders and Time Zones, Prentice Hall PTR 1999 @

COURSES

• Impacts of National Information Technology Environments on Business, which contains studies of various countries , including Poland @

Linowes, Richard G. , Assistant Professor of Mangement, Kogod School of Managment, Amrican University, Washington, D.C. @

D.B.A., Harvard University, 1984
Phone: 202-885-1990 / Fax: 202-885-1916 / E-Mail: rlinow@american.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: Case tudies from emerging markets; Issues in global leadership; Managing cultural interfaces in global organizations
POLAND RELATED SCHOLARSHIP:
ARTICLES AND PROCEEDINGS

• "Changing Mindsets in Successful Transition Economy: Using Associative Group Analysis to Study Changes in Cognitive Patterns in Poland from 1989 to 1999" with T. Mroczkowski and a. Nowak in Journal of East-West Management, 8(1) . 5-40. 2002.
• "Opportunity Comes with Stress: Changing Career Orientations in Post-Communist Poland," with T. Mroczkowski et al. in Proceedings of the International Society for Study of Work and Organizational Values, Jerusalem, June 2000.
• "A Polish Mental Transformations: Using Associative Group Analysis to Study Cognitive Patterns in Poland 1989-1997", in Proceedings of the European International Business Academy (EIBA) Conference, Jerusalem, Israel, December 1998.
• "Changing Career Orientation in Post-Communist Poland," with T. Mroczkowski et al. in Proceedings of EGOS Conference, Lyons, France, July 2001.
• "Opportunity Comes with Stress: Changing Career Orientations in Post-Communist Poland," with T. Mroczkowski et al. in Proceedings of the International Society for Study of Work and Organizational Values, Jerusalem, June 2000.

MONOGRAPH

• Differing Interpretations of Key Management Terms: Old versus New Poland. Working Paper No. 27. with T. Mroczkowski & A. Nowak Copenhagen: Center for East European Studies, Copenhagen Business School, 1999.

Lublin, David D. , Associate Professor, Department of Government, School of Public Affairs, American University @

Ph.D., Harvard University, 1994
Phone: (202) 885-2913 / Fax: (202) 885-2967 / E-Mail: dlublin@american.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: Government, politics, voting behavior, campaigns, elections
POLAND RELATED SCHOLARSHIP:
COURSES

• Politics of East-Central Europe

Mroczkowski, Tomasz , Professor & Chair of the International Business Department, Kogod School of Business, American University, Washington, D.C. @ @

Ph.D., Academy of Economics, Krakow
Phone: 202 885-1917 / Fax: . . . / E-Mail: mrocz@american.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: International business, specifically comparative restructuring and its impact on employment and management reform in transition economies.
POLAND RELATED SCHOLARSHIP:
ARTICLES AND PROCEEDINGS

• "Opportunity Comes with Stress: Changing Career Orientations in Post-Communist Poland," with R. Linowes et al. in Proceedings of the International Society for Study of Work and Organizational Values, Jerusalem, June 2000.

MONOGRAPH

• Differing Interpretations of Key Management Terms: Old versus New Poland. Working Paper No. 27. with R.. Linowes & A. Nowak Copenhagen: Center for East European Studies, Copenhagen Business School, 1999.

ACTIVITIES

• Special advisor to the Minister of Foreign Trade, National Government of Poland

Turaj, Frank , Professor of Literature and American Studies, American University @

Ph.D., Brown University
Phone: (202) 885-2992 / Fax: (202) 885-2938 / E-Mail: fturaj@american.edu.
MAJOR INTERESTS: American Conservatism, the Cinema
POLAND RELATED SCHOLARSHIP:
BOOKS

• The Modern Cinema of Poland with B. Michalek, Indiana University Press, 1988

CHAPTERS

• "Poland" In Post New Wave Cinema in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, D.J. Goulding ed., Indiana University Press, 1989

Poland-related Resources

• Film Directors Mediagraphy - Andrej Wajda: The Amerocan University' Library annotated listings of videorecordings of films by Polish film director Andrzej Wajda. @

• Slavic Feature Films, American University Library American University Library annotated listing of 46 Polish feature films in the Salvic Feature films section. @