Frontiers of Democracy

Frontiers of Democracy is a far-reaching CEU initiative that aims to promote open debate, discussion, and exchange of ideas with a diversity of views about the nature of democracy today. Scroll down for news on upcoming and past events in the series. Click here for CEU faculty and student research related to this initiative.

Strengthening European Bonds: Ukraine Towards the European Union, a panel discussion co-hosted by CEU’s Center for European Enlargement Studies and Friedrich Ebert Stiftung aimed to find ways for the EU and the V4 countries to contribute to the enhancement of a common European Ukraine strategy. The March 24 event was part of CEU’s Frontiers of Democracy series.

The current government is the most capable Ukraine has ever had, and the readiest to reform, said CEU Adjunct Professor Kalman Mizsei, who heads the European Union Advisory Mission on Civilian Security Sector Reform in Ukraine. His March 23 lecture at CEU was organized as part of the Frontiers of Democracy series by the Department of Public Policy.

In 1989, there was hope that democracy, open society, and globalization would advance together – that liberty was indivisible. Professor Michael Ignatieff discussed how these propositions turned out March 16.