Karen Buerkle, PhD Cand. in Sociology, University of California-San Diego

   "Do Civic Associations Produce a 'Civic' Society? An Analysis of Voluntary

        Associations in Slovakia  1919-1938"

Victor Gomez, free-lance writer/editor,

contributor to Transitions, RFE/RL, Cesky Dialog, Prague

   "Testing the Institutionalization of the Civic Democratic Party"

Tim Haughton, PhD Cand. in SSEES, University of London, London

   "Vladimir Meciar's Impact on Democratic Development in Slovakia"

Catriona Menzies, PhD Cand. in SSEES, University of London, London

   "Democracy and the HZDS"

Steven Saum, independent scholar, Jan Hus Education Foundation and Masaryk

University, Brno

   "Making World History in Philanthropy:

    Creation of the Czech Foundation Investment Fund"

Marcel Tomasek, PhD Cand., Graduate School for Social Research,

Polish Academy of Sciences

   "Premature Consolidation Tendencies in the Context of the Czech Republic's

   Access to the European Union"