The files contains the minutes (also handwritten) of the Working group meetings held on 09-12/07/1980 and on 29-30/10/1982 in Bern and on 1/12/1983 in Strasbourg including the list of participants and correspondence
The working documents enclosed for the meetings: papers "Some suggestions for Centre-Periphery Analysis" and "Some reflections on the Dynamics of International Systems (in Sociological Inquiry 49, n. 4, 1979) and "Cultural Orientations and Center-Periphery in Europe in a Comparative Perspective" (Truman Institute Reprints, 1981) by Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt, "Centre and Periphery Spatial Variation in politics" by Jean Gottmann (London, 1980); Preliminary report based on the questionnaire survey "State of the art of Center-Periphery Research" and some result of the survey; Interim report of Centre-Periphery WG and the brief description of proposed Projects, minutes of a meeting convened to discuss the proposal for the development of comparative database for European social science research held on 05/11/1982 Strasbourg. report of the seminar "The Construction and Reconstruction of Centres and of Centres and Peripheries" held on 28/05 – 01/06/1984 at the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Jerusalem.

Also included a set of position papers and notes: "Suggestions for the comparative study of the development of Centre-Periphery Relations in Europe" and "Center construction, Protest movements and Class formation in Europe" by Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt, "Cultural and Structural Continuities in situations of change and Development: Persistence and Transformation of patron-Client Relations" by Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt and L. Roniger; Notes on cases studies in Belgium, Sweden, Bern (Switzerland), "Ethnicity and Centre-Periphery Studies" by Ellen Luterbacher-Wiegandt.

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