Co Directors of the School are: Prof. Vukasin Pavlovic, Dean of the Faculty of Political Science and Prof. Margaret Blunden, Provost of the University of Westminster.

The School has a Council composed of two co directors and additional four members: Prof. Vojislav Stanovcic, Correspondent member of the Serbian Academy, Dr. Richard Whitman, Director of the Centre for the Study of Democracy, Slobodan Markovich, Executive Director of the Summer School, and Prof. Joseph Julian of Maxwell School of Citizenship of Syracuse University.

The Background of the Idea
The School is organised by the Faculty of Political Science of the University of Belgrade and the
University of Westminster, in collaboration with the Anglo-Yugoslav Society. This is an annual summer
school that has been organised since 1998.
The group of professors from the Faculty of Political Science (FPS), University of Belgrade led by Prof. Vukasin Pavlovic, and The Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster, London (CSD), led by Prof. John Keane, have established International Summer School for Democracy, which is going to be organised every year. It was originally named Yugoslav-British Summer School for Democracy but was later re-named to International Summer School for Democracy.
This School has been established after several years of successful academic co-operation between scholars from CSD and FPS. Results of the joint research project THE SUPPRESSED CIVIL SOCIETY (during 1994 and 1995), as well as joint meetings on CIVIL SOCIETY, WAR AND PEACE (London, February 1996), and UNIVERSITY, SOCIETY AND DEMOCRACY (Budva, March 1997) have proved that there are interests, willingness and capacities for joint efforts, to improve and develop co-operation in teaching and research processes in the field of political science with the special stress on problems of democracy and political and social changes. The International Summer School for Democracy is going to be one of the possible and very important forms of this co-operation.
The 1998 course was: DEMOCRACY AND SOCIAL CHANGE,
The 1999 course was: MODERNITY AND THE STATE – EAST, WEST
(CIVIL SOCIETY AND GOOD GOVERNANCE),
The 2000 course was: DEMOCRATIC RECONSTRUCTION OF SOUTH-EASTERN EUROPE,
The 2001 course was: GOOD GOVERNANCE - GLOBALISM AND LOCALISM,
The 2002 course is: CONSOLIDATION OF NEW DEMOCRACIES

The Mission of the School
(1) To promote continuing education and to enhance teaching capacity in political science;
(2) To improve junior faculty education in modern democratic theory;
(3) To create networks of young scholars, political and NGO activists in SEE dealing with democratic theory;
(4) To analyse conditions and possibilities for democratic social changes, especially in so called transition
societies;
(5) To support teaching, research and academic co-operation between the United Kingdom and FR
Yugoslavia, as well as in the region of South-Eastern Europe.
(6) To develop and promote academic exchange between USA and Canada with Serbia and Montenegro.