Global Connections – Central Europe

 

Wednesdays, 3:30-6:30pm, GSB 3.138

 

Professor:  David Spence

Office:  CBA 5.210

Office Ph: 471-0778

Email: david.spence@mccombs.utexas.edu

GRA:  Rich Walker Richard.Walker@mba08.mccombs.utexas.edu

 

MBA Program Office liason:  Susan Masson

Susan.Masson@mccombs.utexas.edu

 

SESSION #3:   Czech Culture & Central Europe, 1989-present

 

TOPICS

READINGS

 

Czech Culture

 

 

  • Ivan Klima handout

 

Hungary’s transition to markets            

 

 

 

 

 

·  James Arnold, “Hungary’s Very Free Markets” (BBC News, December 5, 2002).

·  Online Video:  Listen to remarks of Hungarian Foreign Minister Laszlo Kovacs on Hungarian integration into the EU (September 2002)(requires free RealOnePlayer, downloadable from real.com).  (If link doesn’t work, try this link.)

 

 

 

 

Introduction to the European Union

 

 

 

·        Fontaine, Pascal “Europe in ten points” (read all)