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The End of Communist Rule in Albania

Author : Shinasi A. Rama
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429516142
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (295 download)

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Book Synopsis The End of Communist Rule in Albania by : Shinasi A. Rama

Download or read book The End of Communist Rule in Albania written by Shinasi A. Rama and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-30 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive examination of the Albanian Student Movement of 1990–1991. To date, there are no thorough studies of the first year of the post-Communist transition in Albania, which constitutes the most critical period of transition. The lessons to be learned are vast and of great importance to the debates on social movements, mobilization, and transition. Renowned scholars of modern Albanian history, led by the former leader of the Albanian Student Movement, Shinasi A. Rama, provide a study of the critical role played by this movement in the political transformation of Albania from a totalitarian cult-state to a multiparty political system during 1990–1991. Their informed analyses combined with first-hand knowledge of the events during a key period of Albanian history shed light on the Student Movement, its ideology, values, contributions, and its relationship to the system and to the ruling caste. The authors come to the core conclusion that the Student Movement remained an independent player that achieved change in the political system at a crucial juncture. The End of Communist Rule in Albania is a much-needed contribution in the fields of social movements, democratization studies, Communist and Post-Communist politics, and Albanian Studies.

Albanian Journal of Politics

Author : Ada Huibregtse
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780980189674
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (896 download)

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Download or read book Albanian Journal of Politics written by Ada Huibregtse and published by . This book was released on 2009-12 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Albanian Journal of Politics (AJP) is a peer reviewed academic publication of the Albanian Political Science Association (ALPSA). The purpose of the Journal is to provide a publication venue and an academic forum for the study of Albanian politics and society. AJP seeks to provide political insight on important problems as it emerges from rigorous, broad-based research and integrative thought. AJP is published by Globic Press in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Volume V (2009) includes contributions from: Gezim Selaci, Zacharoula Karagiannopoulou, Dorjan Tozaj, Rene Mullen, Enis Sulstarova, Gezim Alpion, Satoshi Machida, on subjects such as ethnic politics in Kosovo, causes of civil war onset, instrumentalization of Albanian religious cleavages by the Great Powers, relationship between globalization and peace, and recast of an anti-Oriental Albanian identity in order to fit the European identity, as well as book reviews by Michael Ardovino, Catherine Speiser, Elton Skendaj, and Fatmir Haskaj.

Mother Teresa

Author : Gezim Alpion
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113416369X
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)

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Download or read book Mother Teresa written by Gezim Alpion and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-10-16 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mother Teresa was one of the most written about and publicised women in modern times. Apart from Pope John Paul II, she was arguably the most advertised religious celebrity in the last quarter of the twentieth century. During her lifetime as well as posthumously, Mother Teresa continues to generate a huge level of interest and heated debate. Gëzim Alpion explores the significance of Mother Teresa to the mass media, to celebrity culture, to the Church and to various political groups. A section explores the ways different vested interests have sought to appropriate her after her death, and also examines Mother Teresa's own attitude to her childhood and to the Balkan conflicts in the 1980s and 1990s. This book sheds a new and fascinating light upon this remarkable and influential woman, which will intrigue followers of Mother Teresa and those who study the vagaries of stardom and celebrity culture.

Encounters with Civilizations

Author : Gezim Alpion
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351311867
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)

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Download or read book Encounters with Civilizations written by Gezim Alpion and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encounters with Civilizations is a broad-ranging work, uniting sweeping themes such as history, culture, the media, social issues, and politics. Building around comparative analyses of aspects of Albanian, Egyptian, British, and Indian cultures, Alpion addresses the problems people experience in their encounters with civilizations different from their birth cultures.The course of history has made the confrontation and comingling of different cultures inevitable. It has also engendered ambivalence toward the cultures involved, including a desire to emulate the new culture, or resentment, or conflicting attitudes toward the relative strength or weakness of both birth and new cultures. Alpion describes how Egyptian culture and politics have been shaped by foreign domination while retaining ancient customs at the social level. In comparison, Great Britain has been an imperial power whose cultural preeminence has shaped the images of smaller countries in the eyes of the world. Alpion writes of English images of his native Albania and offers a penetrating analysis of Mother Teresa as a Christian missionary in Hindu and Muslim India, focusing on her cultural presentation via the media and the cult of celebrity.Whether discussing the customs of Egyptian coffee houses or Alexander the Great as a defining figure in Western and Eastern culture, Alpion grasps the impact of these cultural encounters. He makes us aware that understanding and resolving such differences involves considering ultimate issues of life and death.

International Aid, Administrative Reform and the Politics of EU Accession

Author : Artan Karini
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319978349
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)

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Book Synopsis International Aid, Administrative Reform and the Politics of EU Accession by : Artan Karini

Download or read book International Aid, Administrative Reform and the Politics of EU Accession written by Artan Karini and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-09-11 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a detailed analysis of the dimensions and dynamics of the role of international aid in the reform and capacity development of public service in post-communist Albania. It challenges the technocratic, results-based management frameworks used by aid organizations and reports of official donors operating in the country context, and offers a qualitative and critical assessment of the role of aid in administrative reform and capacity building. Secondly, the book highlights the specificity of the national politico-administrative context and its ability to modify the process of policy transfer from aid organizations to the Albanian bureaucracy. In doing so, it illustrates the domestic challenges in the transfer process towards policy learning and makes a valuable contribution to the debate over the (voluntary vs. coercive) administrative reform in Southeast Europe in relation to the politics of EU accession.

Contested Borders

Author : Ilir Kalemaj
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
ISBN 13 : 9783034317849
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Book Synopsis Contested Borders by : Ilir Kalemaj

Download or read book Contested Borders written by Ilir Kalemaj and published by Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that power struggles between internal and diasporic elites play a central role in building political agendas that shift national borders. It takes Albania as the primary case study, examining how the understanding of the Albanian nation has taken on different geographical borders over time and among different communities.

Albania on the Move

Author : Julie Vullnetari
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
ISBN 13 : 9089643559
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (896 download)

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Download or read book Albania on the Move written by Julie Vullnetari and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This academic and personal journey into Albania's post-communist society examines the links between internal and international migration in one of Europe's poorest countries. The author follows rural migrants to urban destination both within Albania and in neighboring Greece. Their lives and experiences are captured in 150 interviews, alongside group discussions and the ethnographic observations. This rich empirical material is analysed with reference to an extensive body of literature. The author's own experience as migrant and reflections as a researcher studying her own communities of origin add valuable insights. The result is a demonstration of the complexity of the links between internal and international migration, especially from a development perspective."--back cover.

Psychology and Politics

Author : Anna Borgos
Publisher : Central European University Press
ISBN 13 : 9633862825
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (338 download)

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Download or read book Psychology and Politics written by Anna Borgos and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psy-sciences (psychology, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, pedagogy, criminology, special education, etc.) have been connected to politics in different ways since the early twentieth century. Here in twenty-two essays scholars address a variety of these intersections from a historical perspective. The chapters include such diverse topics as the cultural history of psychoanalysis, the complicated relationship between psychoanalysis and the occult, and the struggles for dominance between the various schools of psychology. They show the ambivalent positions of the "psy" sciences in the dictatorships and authoritarian regimes of Nazi Germany, East European communism, Latin-American military dictatorships, and South African apartheid, revealing the crucial role of psychology in legitimating and "normalizing" these regimes. The authors also discuss the ideological and political aspects of mental health and illness in Hungary, Germany, post-WW1 Transylvania, and Russia. Other chapters describe the attempt by critical psychology to understand the production of academic, therapeutic, and everyday psychological knowledge in the context of the power relations of modern capitalist societies.

Rethinking Serbian-Albanian Relations

Author : Aleksandar Pavlović
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351273159
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)

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Book Synopsis Rethinking Serbian-Albanian Relations by : Aleksandar Pavlović

Download or read book Rethinking Serbian-Albanian Relations written by Aleksandar Pavlović and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-13 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Identifying and explaining common views, ideas and traditions, this volume challenges the concept of Serbian-Albanian hostility by reinvestigating recent and historical events in the region. The contributors put forward critically oriented initiatives and alternatives to shed light on a range of relations and perspectives. The central aim of the book is to ‘figure out’ the problematic relations between Serbs and Albanians – that is, to comprehend its origins and the actors involved, and to find ways to resolve and deal with this enmity. Treating the hostility as a construct of a long-running discourse about the Serbian or Albanian ‘Other’, scholars and intellectuals from Serbia, Kosovo and Albania examine the origins, channels, agents and mediums of this discourse from the 18th century to the present. Tracing the roots of the two ethnic groups' political divisions, contemporary practices and actions allows the contributors to reconsider mutually held negative perceptions and identify elements of a common, shared history. Examples of past and current cooperation are used to offer a critical analysis of all three societies. This interdisciplinary publication brings together historiographical, literary, sociological, political, anthropological and philosophical analyses and enquiries and will be of interest to researchers in the fields of sociology, politics, cultural studies, history or anthropology; and to academics working in Slavonic and East European studies.

Albanian Journal of Politics

Author : Arolda Elbasani
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780980189650
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (896 download)

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Download or read book Albanian Journal of Politics written by Arolda Elbasani and published by . This book was released on 2008-12 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Albanian Journal of Politics (AJP) is a peer reviewed academic publication of the Albanian Political Science Association (ALPSA). The purpose of the Journal is to provide a publication venue and an academic forum for the study of Albanian politics and society. AJP seeks to provide political insight on important problems as it emerges from rigorous, broad-based research and integrative thought. AJP is published by Globic Press in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Volume IV (2008) includes contributions from: Luisa Chiodi, Gezim Alpion, Fatmir Haskaj, Pinar Akcali and Enis Sulstarova on subjects such as civil society in Albania, on how brain drain has affected most countries in Central, South-East and Eastern Europe and especially Albania, Kosovo independence and sovereignty, and Albanian nationalist discourse in modern history of Albania, as well as book reviews by Ada Hyso, Henriette Riegler, Claire Smetherham, Dejan Stjepanovi .

Political Science in Central-East Europe

Author : Rainer Eisfeld
Publisher : Verlag Barbara Budrich
ISBN 13 : 384741383X
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (474 download)

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Book Synopsis Political Science in Central-East Europe by : Rainer Eisfeld

Download or read book Political Science in Central-East Europe written by Rainer Eisfeld and published by Verlag Barbara Budrich. This book was released on 2010-07-21 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book will survey the recent development and current “state of the art” of political science in post-communist Central and Eastern Europe. It will comprise (a) three comparative overviews: Political Science and Regime Change in East-Central Europe from the 20th to the 21st Century; Analytical and Normative Elements in Political Science Approaches: Is there a Specific Central-East European Pattern?; Political Science Associations in East-Central Europe: How Important, how much International Cooperation?; (b) 20 detailed and comparable country reports: Albania, Armenia, Belarus, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, and Ukraine; (c) a chapter on the European Confederation of Political Science Associations. The country reports will include tables on political science faculty, students with political science as a major, and sub-fields taught at both state and private universities (as per the end of 2008). They will cover the following topics: Institutionalization of the discipline; achievements, deficits, prevailing approaches, and funding of research in the discipline’s sub-fields; curricula, admission regulation, and degree system in political science teaching; national representation and international cooperation (major journals and published books, political science associations, international links); public impact of the discipline, labor market, challenges and opportunities.

A Discourse Analysis of Corruption

Author : Blendi Kajsiu
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317188349
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book A Discourse Analysis of Corruption written by Blendi Kajsiu and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-16 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why did Albania enjoy some of the most successful anti-corruption programs and institutions along with what appeared to be growing levels of corruption during the period 1998-2005? Looking at corruption through a post-structuralist discourse analysis perspective this book argues that the dominant corruption discourse in Albania served primarily to institute the neoliberal order rather than eliminate corruption. It did so in four interrelated ways. First, blaming every Albanian failure on corruption avoided a critical engagement with the existing neoliberal developmental model. Second, the dominant articulation of corruption as abuse of public office for private gain consigned it to the public sector, transforming neoliberal policies of privatisation and expanding markets into anticorruption measures. Third, international anticorruption campaigns reproduced an asymmetric relationship of dependency between Albania and the international institutions that monitored it by articulating corruption as internal to the Albanian condition. Finally, against corruption international and local actors could articulate a neoliberal order that was free of internal contradictions and fully compatible with democratization. As a rare example of post-structuralist discourse analysis of corruption this book can be useful for future research on discourses of corruption in other countries of the region and beyond.

Mobilizing for Democracy

Author : Donatella della Porta
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191003514
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Mobilizing for Democracy written by Donatella della Porta and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2014-03-06 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strangely enough, while the pictures used to illustrate the most recent wave of protests for democracy in North Africa represent mass protest, research on social movements and democratization have rarely interacted. This volume aims to fill this gap by looking at episodes of democratization through the lens of social movement studies. Without assuming that democratization is always produced from below, the author singles out different paths of democratization by looking at the ways in which the masses interact with the elites, and protest with bargaining: eventful democratization, participated pacts and troubled democratization. The main focus is on the first of the paths: eventful democratization, that is cases in which authoritarian regimes break down following-often short but intense-waves of protest. Recognizing the particular power of some transformative events, the analysis locates them within the broader mobilization processes, including the multitude of less visible, but still important protests that surround them. Cognitive, affective and relational mechanisms are singled out as transforming the contexts in which dissidents act. In all three paths, mobilization of resources, framing processes and appropriation of opportunities will develop in action, in different combinations. The comparison of different cases within two waves of protests for democracy, in Central Eastern Europe in 1989 and in the Middle East and North Africa in 2011, allows the author to theorize about causal mechanisms and conditions as they emerge in mobilizations for democracy.

Radical Approaches to Political Science: Roads Less Traveled

Author : Rainer Eisfeld
Publisher : Verlag Barbara Budrich
ISBN 13 : 3866495366
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (664 download)

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Download or read book Radical Approaches to Political Science: Roads Less Traveled written by Rainer Eisfeld and published by Verlag Barbara Budrich. This book was released on 2012-06-27 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ground breaking volume offers a range of alternative approaches to political science, highlighting problems too rarely confronted by “mainstream” political scientists. Ranging from Gunfighter Sagas to the changing faces of an imaginary Mars, the innovative chapters introduce whole new ways of rethinking politics, stirring up the all too conventional ways of the discipline. “Klaus von Beyme, one of the most erudite members of our profession, in his introduction conclusively demonstrates the book’s crossdisciplinary merits. I believe this valuable work will be a powerful boost to an international, comparatively informed, pluralist political science.” Theodore J. Lowi (Cornell University), former President, International Political Science Association

Albanian Journal of Politics

Author : Altin Ilirjani
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780977666263
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (662 download)

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Download or read book Albanian Journal of Politics written by Altin Ilirjani and published by . This book was released on 2006-12 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Albanian Journal of Politics (AJP) is a peer reviewed academic publication of the Albanian Political Science Association (ALPSA). The purpose of the Journal is to provide a publication venue and an academic forum for the study of Albanian politics and society. This volume includes contributions from: Antonia Young, Aleksandra Djajic-Horvath, Nicola Nixon, and Arbnora Dushi on intertwining of gender, history, politics and migration in Albanian society; Adrian Brisku on European identity of Albanians; Raim Beluli on Southeastern Europe as a historical region, as well as review essays by Besnik Pula, Gezim Alpion, Blendi Kajsiu and Renis Prifti.

Handbook of Organised Crime and Politics

Author : Felia Allum
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786434571
Total Pages : 529 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Organised Crime and Politics written by Felia Allum and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2019 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This multidisciplinary Handbook examines the interactions that develop between organised crime groups and politics across the globe. This exciting original collection highlights the difficulties involved in researching such relationships and shines a new light on how they evolve to become pervasive and destructive. This new Handbook brings together a unique group of international academics from sociology, criminology, political science, anthropology, European and international studies.

Conditioning Democratization

Author : Ridvan Peshkopia
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 0857283251
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (572 download)

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Download or read book Conditioning Democratization written by Ridvan Peshkopia and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2014-04-15 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes the effects of European Union membership conditionality on institutional reforms in Eastern Europe, building on concrete examples from four sectors in Albania and Macedonia, two postcommunist countries that have yet to join the EU. The author discusses the theory of “consociational democracy,” often considered the key to stabilizing deeply divided countries, and reapplies it on the international stage to argue for how the EU can better direct democratization.