The Austro-Hungarian creation of a “humanitarian” pretext for the planned invasion of Serbia in 1912-1913: Facts and counter-facts [PDF]
This paper argues that reporting on the Balkan Wars by some of the Austro- Hungarian media and state officials on the ground was not impartial, but rather aimed to obtain international public support for the planned military intervention against
Bjelajac Mile
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ABSTRACT What role has the state played in the establishment of the current food regime in a post‐socialist setting? Focusing on Croatia, I undertake a critical discourse analysis of the national agricultural strategies enacted during the neoliberal transition between 1991 and 2013.
Alexander Gavranich
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Ethnic Conflicts, Civil War, and Economic Growth: Region‐Level Evidence From Former Yugoslavia
ABSTRACT This paper studies the long‐term effects of the Yugoslav civil war (1987–1995) on subnational economic growth across 78 regions in five former Yugoslav republics from 1950 to 2015. We construct counterfactual growth trajectories using a robust region‐level donor pool from 32 conflict‐free countries.
Aleksandar Kešeljević +2 more
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Western Balkans Integration into European Union: Challenges and Consequences [PDF]
This paper is intended to analyze the challenges and consequences of the integration of Western Balkans to the European Union. Specifically, in the first case, challenges of this integration path and in the second case the consequences as a result of ...
Halili, Zenun
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From Masada to Sarikamis: Trauma and Defeat Turns Into Heroic Resistance and Ontological Security
ABSTRACT This article traces the characteristics of the political discourse in the post‐modern era, which sees the necessity of using traumas and defeat to create national‐religious narratives. Through a critical discourse study of two case studies—the Battle of Masada (73 CE) and the Battle of Sarikamis (1914–1915), this article presents an analytical
Tarik Basbugoglu +3 more
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Practicing Power‐Sharing: How Political Adversaries (Fail to) Rule Jointly
ABSTRACT Why does power‐sharing lead to peace and effective governance in some cases but not others? Whereas the current literature on this question predominantly focuses on institutional design, this article argues that more attention should be given to the everyday activities, routines and processes through which power‐sharing is operated.
Alexandre Wadih Raffoul
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Polityka Turcji wobec narodów i państw bałkańskich na przełomie XIX i XX wieku
Turkey’s policy towards the Balkan nations and states at the turn of 19th and 20th century Turkey’s policy towards the Balkan peoples, since the attack on the Peninsula, was characterized by a desire to dominate and the total subordination of the local ...
Jarosław Rubacha
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Between and Beyond: Negotiating Belonging Within Queer Borderlands
ABSTRACT Belonging is an affective, social and biopolitical phenomenon which is relationally negotiated and which produces material and symbolic ‘borders’. Subsequently, the politics of belonging refers to the construction, maintenance and policing of the borders of belonging.
Meg Poff
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Medical and Social Aspects of Syphilis in the Balkans from the mid-19th Century to the Interwar
The current study presents some aspects of syphilis in the Balkan Peninsula from the 19th century until the Interwar. Ever since the birth of modern Balkan States (Greece, Bulgaria, Turkey and Serbia), urbanization, poverty and the frequent wars have ...
Tsiamis Costas +5 more
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What is a Multi‐Ethnic Party and How to Spot a Fake One?
Abstract Multi‐ethnic parties have been variously defined: as those which do not champion the interests of, or mobilize against, any specific ethnic group; as those with a recognisably cross‐communal leadership or membership; and as those which acquire some distribution of support across groups.
Jon Fraenkel
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