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Diasporas and secessionist conflicts : the mobilization of the Armenian, Albanian and Chechen diasporas [PDF]

, 2010
This article examines the impact of diasporas on secessionist conflicts, focusing on the Albanian, Armenian and Chechen diasporas and the conflicts in Kosovo, Karabakh and Chechnya during the 1990s. How do diasporas radicalize these conflicts?
Anderson Benedict, Byman Daniel, Carment David, Chazan Naomi, De Waal Thomas, Della Porta Donatella, Fair Christine, Gall Carolotta, Gamson William, George Alexander, Hess David, Hockenos Paul, Horowitz Donald, Jenne Erin, Judah Tim, Keck Kathryn, Libaridian Gerard, Lieven Anatol, Maria Koinova, Murphy Paul, Panossian Razmik, Saideman Stephen, Schelling Thomas, Sikkink Kathryn, Skrbic Zlatko, Smith Hazel, Sullivan Stacey, Suny Ronald, Taras Ray, Tilly Charles, Tishkov Valery, Trenin Dmitri, Williams Brian   +32 more
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La fragmentation de l’espace urbain postsocialiste en Albanie

Belgeo, 2019
After 30 years of controlled and decentralized urban development, the Albanian urban space has gone through a brutal transition. At the fall of the regime in 1991, the network of small and medium-sized cities set up during communism initially survived ...
Alain Jarne
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The morphosis of the Albanian socialist cityscape. A reaction to buildings with high-energy consumption

Ri-vista: Ricerche per la Progettazione del Paesaggio, 2019
For more than 45 years, Albania went through the toughest experience of communism among the Eastern Bloc countries. The ideology strongly influenced the urban character of the cities, which had an intensive development during this period.
Gjergji Islami, Denada Veizaj, Giorgio Verdiani   +2 more
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Can conflict-generated diasporas be moderate actors during episodes of contested sovereignty? Lebanese and Albanian diasporas compared [PDF]

, 2011
Conflict-generated diasporas are considered likely to maintain radical behaviours. This article seeks to explain why and how they nevertheless adopt moderate claims, especially when advocating highly sensitive issues such as state sovereignty.
Koinova, Maria
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Physics Education in Decline: A Two-Decade Mixed-Methods Investigation of Trends and Factors Influencing Albanian Students' Interest [PDF]

EPJ Web of Conferences
Over the past two decades, Albania has witnessed a notable decline in the interest of primary and secondary school students in studying physics. Physics, once considered a prestigious discipline, studied by the best and offering an intellectually ...
Kociaj Inva, Gjestila Marinela
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The Albanian-American Community in the United States

, 1973
This essay offers some insights into the sociohistory of the Albanians in America, their location, community life and ethnic organizations, with a particular stress on the changes brought by the opening of Albania's borders after 1990, and the crisis in Kosovo that culminated at the time of the NATO air strikes in March-June 1999. Both events paved the
Ragaru, Nadège, Dymi, Amilda
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An Anthropological Perspective on Vlachs in Southeast Albania

ACROSS
This research gives an overview of the Vlach identity in southeast Albania within the pattern of self-designation. I try to identify identity aspects of the place and people under the influence of border and transnationalism, during communism and ...
Inis SHKRELI
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TALES OF THE ‘ORTHODOX NATION’ AND ‘MACEDONIAN FAITH’ EASTER AT MACEDONIANS IN PORECHE IN SCOPE OF REGIME, ETHNIC AND SOCIAL CHANGES IN THE REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA

EtnoAntropoZum, 2018
This paper is based on my fieldwork in Poreche Region (Republic of Macedonia), in 2010, 2011, 2013 and 2014. My research focused on the meaning of the Easter holiday for the local community in Makedonski Brod during Macedonian post-communism ...
Mirella Makurat
doaj   +1 more source

Of Pyramids and Dictators: Memory, Work and the Significance of Communist Heritage in Post-Socialist Albania

AP, 2017
The communist regime that governed Albania between 1944 and 1991 has left considerable architectural remains. These however, are rapidly dissapearing, as a result of recent development. This paper explores the perception of the monumental heritage of the
Francesco Iacono, Klejd L. Këlliçi
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Demystifying Non‐Western Administrative Traditions: An Empirical Comparison of Administrative Systems in Asia, Eastern Europe, and Latin America

Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article analyzes public administration systems in 29 non‐Western countries. Country‐level data is presented for 10 core aspects of administrative systems: managerialism versus legalism, politicization, personnel system, civil society participation, accountability, service orientation, public expenditure share, decentralization, legal ...
Marlene Jugl
wiley   +1 more source