IAPSS, the International Asociation for Political Science Students, built up the Bridges Network and invites now to participate at the international conference New Europe. Who's afraid of democratization? which will take place between 5th - 11th of September 2005 in Bucharest, Romania.

emerged as a specialized network of and for political science students from Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe; an appropriate answer to the necessity of having professional cooperation between members of the academic political science community from this region.

Pål Kolstø, Professor in the Department of East European Studies at the University of Oslo, edited a new book on Myths and Boundaries in South-Eastern Europe (357pp., June 2005).