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6. April 2011 - CALL FOR PAPERS - ESPRi invites scholars working on environmental politics and
governance in Central-Eastern Europe, as well as those based in or originating from CEE, and interested
in any aspect of environmental politics, to submit papers to the Institute's Working Paper Series. Find out
more here.
30. March 2011 - Two ESPRi Affiliates were invited to present papers at the
6th ECPR General Conference in Reykjavik, Iceland, in August 2011. More
about the Conference on the ECPR's website.
1. February 2011 - The registration process is now complete. On 15. 12. 2010 the Court in Wroclaw
confirmed the registration of the Institute under the name "ESPRI - Instytut Studiów nad Srodowiskiem i
Polityka". Other procedures were also completed. See the Contact for details of the Foundation.
22. October 2010 - ESPRi is now formally established as a foundation under the Polish law.
An application was filed before the Regional Court in Wroclaw.
10. September 2010 - Philipp Pattberg and Kacper Szulecki presented a paper entitled "The Good, the
Bad, and the Even Worse: Explaining Variation in the Effectiveness of Transnational Energy
Partnerships" at the 7th Pan European conference of the ECPR Standing Group on International
Relations (SGIR) in Stockholm. See an earlier version of the paper here.
13. June 2010 - A special issue of the popular weekly "Kultura Liberalna" on the limits and perspectives
of environmental policy and politics in Poland was prepared by ESPRi affiliates. The articles include
Julia Zieminska's case study of an attempt to save the endangered salamander in the Sudety mountains
(and how local, regional and national bureaucracy can effectively block such initiatives); Kacper
Szulecki's general reflection on the possible apolitical 'environmental consensus', as well as a piece by
the leader of Poland's major green party, Zieloni 2004. See the full issue here.
21. May 2010 - A research report on "Environmental Peacebuilding" was
prepared by ESPRi's Julia Zieminska and Kacper Szulecki for the conference
"Advanced Conflict Prevention" at the Warsaw School of Social Sciences and
Humanities (SWPS). The full paper is forthcoming in the volume on ACP
edited by prof. Wojciech Kostecki. More on the conference here.
20. January 2010 - The first working paper in the newly launched ESPRi
Working Paper Series (EWP) - "The River that Divided a Nation: Rhetoric,
Environmental Activism and the Political Controversy Over the Rospuda
River Valley in Poland" by Julia Zieminska and Kacper Szulecki
is now available.