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Building
on the Graduate Faculty's interdisciplinary tradition, the Transregional
Center for Democratic Studies (TCDS) creates and conducts cross-departmental
research and training programs aimed at addressing special needs and
opportunities for graduate study and advanced scholarship in the new
global world.
Following the social and political transformations of the recent years,
when two contradictory processes-globalization and the increasing fragmentation
into ethnic enclaves-have come to dominate the imagination of both scholars
and policy-makers, TCDS's integrated set of activities draws on the
concept of a 'region' as a promising perspective from which to examine
the complex relations between the local and the global.
The Center's programs, designed to foster a better understanding of
how the concerns of “new” and “old” democracies are today beginning
to converge, focus on the problems of democratic institutional design
at the local, national and, above all, regional level, primarily in
the four regions targeted by its activities—Central and Eastern Europe,
Central Asia and the Caucasus; Sub-Saharan Africa; Latin America; and
North America. The various projects conducted by the Center are united
by their shared concentration on the issues of democratization, diversity,
civil society and civic life, globalization, development, and equity.
Utilizing these analytic Center's activities aim at bridging gaps between
theory and practice, between different social-science disciplines, and
between academia and the "real" world of politics and policy
making.
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