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The 31th NISPAcee Annual Conference

Conference 2023 Beograd, Serbia, May 25-27, 2023

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IV. Working Group on Regional Development and Inter-regional Cooperation

WG Programme Coordinators:

Alexey Barabashev, Professor, Research University-Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia

E-mail abarabashev@hse.ru

Prof. Alexey G. Barabashev teaches courses at the Research University - Higher School of Economics - on the civil service, including civil service reforms in Russia. His research interests are concentrated in the area of the theory of bureaucracy and applications of the theory towards Russian practical needs and methodology of reflexive systems. From 2004 until the present he has served as President (from 2011) and Dean (2004-2011) of the School of Public Administration and Managementand as the Chair of the Department of Civil and Municipal Service at Higher School of Economics. From 1997 to 2014 he served as a member of the advisors’ expert group forpublic service reformunder the Administration of the President of Russia. He is a member of several attestation commissions and expert councils for federal governmental bodies. He was a Woodrow Wilson (Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies) scholarin 1992 and 2013,President of the Kennan Russian Alumni Association (1992-1996), and President-elect of the Alumni Association for Russia-US Academic Exchange Programmes(1996-2000). From 2015 till the present he has served as a member of the Advisory Council of the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies.

WG Assistant Coordinator:

Carolina de Stefano, PhD Candidate on Post-Soviet Russian Institutions, Political Analyst, Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy

The proposed section of the conference will concentrate on:

·best practices in regional cooperation

·innovative regional development strategies in periods of crisis and rapid change

·the evaluation of regional and municipal cooperation effects

·cooperative regional clusters in Europe and neighbouring countries.

The relevant papers should contain recommendations, including practical points for practitioners or points relating to the EU or its integration, or address wider issues within public administration or public policy.