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A Free City in the Balkans

Author : Matthew Parish
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 085771273X
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)

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Download or read book A Free City in the Balkans written by Matthew Parish and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2009-10-30 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the brutal wars which raged in the former Yugoslavia in the early 1990s, Bosnia and Herzegovina was awkwardly partitioned into two governing entities: the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Republika Srpska. But there was one part of the country which could not be fitted into either category: the Brcko District, a strategically critical land-bridge between the two parts of the Bosnian Serb territory. This region was the subject of a highly unusual experiment: placed under a regime of internationally supervised government, Brcko became a 'free city', evoking the memory of Trieste or Danzig over fifty years ago. What has this experiment in state-building revealed about the history of this troubled corner of the Balkans - and its future? What lessons can be applied to conflict resolution in other parts of the world? And was the experiment successful or have the citizens of Brcko suffered further at the hands of the international community? "A Free City in the Balkans" investigates the rise and fall of Brcko and post-war Bosnia and investigates what lessons can be learned for international peacekeeping missions elsewhere.

Greece in the Balkans

Author : Othon Anastasakis
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527556654
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Greece in the Balkans written by Othon Anastasakis and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-07-13 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together young researchers in an interdisciplinary study of Greek interaction with other Balkan states over the past two hundred years. The thirteen chapters of the volume reflect the diversity of a long and complex relationship between Greece and its Balkan neighbours. They thus shed refreshing light on its persistent attributes of opportunity and risk, attraction and enmity, exchange and exclusion, through exploration of historical, anthropological, literary, political and economic perspectives.

Multinational Federalism in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Author : Soeren Keil
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317093437
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Multinational Federalism in Bosnia and Herzegovina written by Soeren Keil and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1995 none of the political parties representing the peoples of Bosnia preferred a federal option. Yet, Bosnia became a federal state, highly decentralised and with a complex institutional architecture. This solution was imposed on them by international actors as a result of peace negotiations following the Yugoslav wars. Political parties in post-war Bosnia were not willing to identify with or accept the federation. The international community intervened taking over key decisions and so Bosnia and Herzegovina became the first state to experience a new model of federalism, namely ’imposed federalism’ and a new model of a federal state, that of the ’internationally administered federation’. By combining comparative politics, conflict analysis and international relations theory Soeren Keil offers a unique analysis of federalism in post-Dayton Bosnia and Herzegovina. By exploring this model of ’imposed federalism’ not only does this study greatly contribute to the literature on developments in Bosnia and Herzegovina it also re-evaluates comparative federalism in theory and practice. This study also offers important conclusions for similar cases, both in the Western Balkans region and the wider world, where international involvement and federalism as a method of conflict resolution in diverse societies becomes ever more prevalent and important.

Europeanization of the Western Balkans

Author : Adam Fagan
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137319054
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book Europeanization of the Western Balkans written by Adam Fagan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-08-02 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book analyses the changing roles of international agencies, governmental bodies, non-governmental organisations, and local communities around major road-building environmental impact assessment processes in order to examine whether the influence of the European Union has transformed environmental governance in Bosnia-Herzegovina and in Serbia.

Can Intervention Work? (Norton Global Ethics Series)

Author : Rory Stewart
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393082156
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Can Intervention Work? (Norton Global Ethics Series) written by Rory Stewart and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-08-15 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best-selling author Rory Stewart and political economist Gerald Knaus examine the impact of large-scale interventions, from Bosnia to Afghanistan. “A fresh and critically important perspective on foreign interventions” (Washington Post), Can Intervention Work? distills Rory Stewart’s (author of The Places In Between) and Gerald Knaus’s remarkable firsthand experiences of political and military interventions into a potent examination of what we can and cannot achieve in a new era of nation building. As they delve into the massive, military-driven efforts in Bosnia, Iraq, and Afghanistan, the authors reveal each effort’s enormous consequences for international relations, human rights, and our understanding of state building. Stewart and Knaus parse carefully the philosophies that have informed interventionism—from neoconservative to liberal imperialist—and draw on their diverse experiences in the military, nongovernmental organizations, and the Iraqi provincial government to reveal what we can ultimately expect from large-scale interventions and how they might best realize positive change in the world. Author and columnist Fred Kaplan calls Can Intervention Work? “the most thorough examination of the subject [of intervention] that I’ve read in a while.”

Minorities in the Balkans

Author : Vladimir Ortakovski
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900447899X
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Minorities in the Balkans written by Vladimir Ortakovski and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-10-25 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique book examines the international law of minority rights as it has been applied in the Balkans since the First World War, contending that this region, where minority rights issues are acute and abundant, holds the promise of an enforceable regime of international minority rights that would promote both human rights law and peace in the Balkans. Published under the Transnational Publishers imprint.

the Great Powers and the Balkans 1875-1878

Author : Mihailo D. Stojanović
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book the Great Powers and the Balkans 1875-1878 written by Mihailo D. Stojanović and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1939 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Transforming Heritage in the Former Yugoslavia

Author : Gruia Bădescu
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303076401X
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Transforming Heritage in the Former Yugoslavia written by Gruia Bădescu and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-08-11 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heritage became a target during the Yugoslav Wars as part of ethnic cleansing and urbicide. Out of the ashes of war, pasts were remodelled, places took on new layers of meaning, and a wave of new memorialization took hold. Three decades since the fall of Vukovar and the end of the siege of Sarajevo, and more than a decade since Kosovo’s Declaration of Independence, conflict has shifted from armed confrontations to battles about the past. The former Yugoslavia has been described on the one hand as a bastion of plurality and multiculturalism, and on the other, as a territory of antagonism and radical nationalisms, echoing imaginaries and narratives relevant to Europe as a whole. With Croatia having entered the EU in 2013 and the continuous political contestation in the region, wounds in the memory fabric of the former Yugoslavia have once more come to the world’s attention. Thus, there is the question what will happen when the former republics are ‘reunited’ once more under the EU umbrella, itself beset by increasing populisms, nationalisms, and the looming prospects of territorial fragmentation. This collection scrutinizes the role of heritage in ‘conflict-time’, inquires what role the past might have in creating new identities at the local, regional, national, and supra-national levels, and investigates the dynamics of heritage as a process.

The Gaza of Winter

Author : Donald Revell
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780820309897
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book The Gaza of Winter written by Donald Revell and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Donald Revell’s poems, the present is often little more than an instant caught between the sadness of memory and the need to face the future’s blank expanse. Even the best dreams recall happiness that cannot be retrieved, while the worst memories bend past love into a crazy line through darkness: "Anything can turn furious. The crazy / line through wreckage that wears my face and all / the faces seems not to end. And on the way, / even the most damaged things have one / surface glazed, a sudden distorting mirror / that I can’t help finding. There, I look as I did / stalled in hours or places it is shame / to remember. The Eumenides are slow / vengeance, meted out by anywhere love fails / in the collapse and angry dealing of self-love. / The light presses. The air presses hard and no / story of mine if good enough to hold out." When there is escape, calm in these poems it is often in thoughts of distant lands and pasts, in the works of other writers and artists--the bands of light and changing shadows of Cezanne’s canvases, the suburban desire and deep green lawns of Cheever’s fiction. It is art, stories, the urge to tell that brings hope in these lines.

Peacebuilding in Practice

Author : Adam D. Moore
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801469554
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Peacebuilding in Practice written by Adam D. Moore and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In November 2007 Adam Moore was conducting fieldwork in Mostar when the southern Bosnian city was rocked by two days of violent clashes between Croat and Bosniak youth. It was not the city's only experience of ethnic conflict in recent years. Indeed, Mostar’s problems are often cited as emblematic of the failure of international efforts to overcome deep divisions that continue to stymie the postwar peace process in Bosnia. Yet not all of Bosnia has been plagued by such troubles. Mostar remains mired in distrust and division, but the Brcko District in the northeast corner of the country has become a model of what Bosnia could be. Its multiethnic institutions operate well compared to other municipalities, and are broadly supported by those who live there; it also boasts the only fully integrated school system in the country. What accounts for the striking divergence in postwar peacebuilding in these two towns?Moore argues that a conjunction of four factors explains the contrast in outcomes in Mostar and Brcko: The design of political institutions, the sequencing of political and economic reforms, local and regional legacies from the war, and the practice and organization of international peacebuilding efforts in the two towns. Differences in the latter, in particular, have profoundly shaped relations between local political elites and international officials. Through a grounded analysis of localized peacebuilding dynamics in these two cities Moore generates a powerful argument concerning the need to rethink how peacebuilding is done—that is, a shift in the habitus or culture that governs international peacebuilding activities and priorities today.

Everyday Boundaries, Borders and Post Conflict Societies

Author : Renata Summa
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030558177
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Everyday Boundaries, Borders and Post Conflict Societies written by Renata Summa and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-10-01 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an in-depth analysis of border and boundary enactments in post-war and “deeply divided” societies. By exploring everyday places in post-conflict societies, it critically examines official narratives of how ethno-national divisions arise and are sustained. It challenges traditional accounts regarding the role that international intervention has in producing and/or weakening boundaries in such societies, while questioning clear-cut distinctions between the local and the international.

Research Handbook on Post-Conflict State Building

Author : Paul R. Williams
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1788971647
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (889 download)

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Download or read book Research Handbook on Post-Conflict State Building written by Paul R. Williams and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2020-08-28 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a conflict ends and the parties begin working towards a durable peace, practitioners and peacebuilders are faced with the thrilling possibilities and challenges of building new or reformed political, security, judicial, social, and economic structures. This Handbook analyzes these elements of post-conflict state building through the lens of international law, which provides a framework through which the authors contextualize and examine the many facets of state building in relation to the legal norms, processes, and procedures that guide such efforts across the globe. The volume aims to provide not only an introduction to and explanation of prominent topics in state building, but also a perceptive analysis that augments ongoing conversations among researchers, lawyers, and advocates engaged in the field.

Local Governance in Multi-Layered Systems

Author : Matteo Nicolini
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031417925
Total Pages : 485 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (314 download)

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Download or read book Local Governance in Multi-Layered Systems written by Matteo Nicolini and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-12-12 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book provides a comprehensive analysis of local government in federations. It fills the gap in current legal research and positions local government in federal studies through the lenses of comparative law, adopting a more nuanced approach to local government. The book considers the shortcomings between the black-letter constitution and its operational rules. Whether (and how) the regime of local government is implemented is more relevant than its formal-but-ineffective recognition. The comparative survey discloses the variety local institutions take in different federal contexts. Divided into three parts, the book comprises chapters investigating local government in systems that, to various degrees, have been examined and classified as federal. Scholars throughout the world have examined the federal-local connection in aggregative federations, (the USA, Canada, Switzerland, Germany, Australia, and Austria), devolutionary ones (Belgium, Bosnia Herzegovina, Italy, Spain, the UK, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, and the Russian Federation), as well as in federations beyond the West, where federalism-as-a-colonial-legacy has undergone a process of reinvention affecting the federal-local connection (South Africa, Ethiopia, India, Nigeria, Comoros, Democratic Republic of Congo, Nepal, Palau, Federated States of Micronesia; St. Kitts and Nevis; United Arab Emirates; and Pakistan).

The School

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 946 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (969 download)

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Download or read book The School written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 946 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Docu-Fictions of War

Author : Tatiana Prorokova
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496214463
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book Docu-Fictions of War written by Tatiana Prorokova and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2019-05-01 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical writing and fiction are not the same thing, though historians often creatively manipulate material in imposing plot structures, selecting starting and ending points, and fashioning compelling literary characters from historical figures. In Docu-Fictions of War, Tatiana Prorokova argues that the opposite is also true—war fiction offers a kind of history that both documents its subjects and provides a snapshot of the cultural representation of the United States’ most recent military involvements. She covers a largely neglected body of cinematic and literary texts about the First Gulf War, the Balkan War, the Afghanistan War, and the Iraq War to open a fresh analysis of cultural texts on war. Prorokova contends that these texts are not pure fiction, but “docu-fictions”—works of imagination that can document their subjects while disclosing the social, political, and historical link between war and culture during the last three decades. Docu-Fictions of War analyzes how these representational narratives have highlighted a humanitarian rationale behind American involvement in each war, whether the stated goals were to free the oppressed from tyranny, stop genocide, or rid the world of terrorism. The book explores the gap between history—what allegedly happened—and the cultural mythology that is both true and inexact, tangible and sensed, recognized and undocumented.

Austro-Hungarian War Aims in the Balkans during World War I

Author : M. Fried
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137359013
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book Austro-Hungarian War Aims in the Balkans during World War I written by M. Fried and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The conquest of Serbia was only one of the goals of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the First World War; beyond this lay the desire to control much of South-East Europe. Employing previously unseen sources, Marvin Fried provides the first complete analysis of the Monarchy's war aims in the Balkans and tells the story of its imperialist ambitions.

Balkan Transnationalism at the Time of Neoliberal Catastrophe

Author : Dušan I. Bjelić
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429594003
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (295 download)

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Download or read book Balkan Transnationalism at the Time of Neoliberal Catastrophe written by Dušan I. Bjelić and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-27 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a fresh look at the ways in which neoliberalism has claimed to cure the Balkan region of its ethnic particularities under the pretext of Europeanization, this book shows how the reconfiguration of the economic, political, and cultural landscape of the region has resulted in its functioning as Europe’s neocolony. The contributors to this volume engage in postcolonial analysis of the Balkans’ past and present coloniality by way of interrogating race, racism, trauma, film, and global capitalism. They challenge the idea of a United Europe that rests on the assumption that the European Union’s ‘newness’ represents both a clean slate and the right to shift ownership of its colonial histories to former colonial subjects and their national histories. Taken as a whole, the volume seeks to transform Europe’s colonial amnesia into postcolonial awareness and to speak from within the Balkans as a site of Europe’s neocolony. As it critically interrogates a neocolonial reconfiguration of the Balkans as a massive social overhaul, which includes at once global integration and local social disintegration, this book will be of interest to those studying the region, as well as postcolonialism in general. This book was originally published as a special issue of Interventions: Journal of Postcolonial Studies.