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Perspectives for the Balkans and a Wider European Order [PDF]

open access: yes
CEPS established a template for EU strategy towards the Balkans already during the Kosovo war, and this was refined in the Ljubljana Declaration by the think tanks of the region (with CEPS) in July before the Sarajevo Summit.
Michael Emerson
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‘The Tragedy of a Small Nation’: Alexander Devine and British Perspectives on the Montenegrin Question, 1918–24

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the pro‐Montenegrin political campaigns of Alexander Devine, a schoolmaster and journalist who became Montenegro's leading British advocate following its incorporation into the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes after the First World War.
ROSS CAMERON
wiley   +1 more source

The Balkans Since The Cold War: From Tyranny to Tragedy

open access: yes, 2007
NoAt the end of the Cold War, the Balkan states of South East Europe were in crisis. They had emerged from two decades of hardline communism with their economies in disarray and authoritarian leaders poised to whip up nationalist feelings so as to cling
Gallagher, Tom G.P.
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John I Tzimiskes and Basil II: Two approaches to the Byzantine policy in the Balkans [PDF]

open access: yesZbornik Radova Vizantološkog Instituta
The text analyzes different methods and principles implemented by emperors John I Tzimiskes and Basil II during the pacification and integration of the Balkans into the Byzantine political and legal framework.
Cvetković Miloš
doaj   +1 more source

Obligation, Exemption and Remission: The Multi‐Layered Functioning of the Poll Tax (Cizye) in Ottoman Governance during the Long Eighteenth Century

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the poll tax (Ottoman Turkish cizye; Arabic jizya) levied on non‐Muslim subjects of the Ottoman Empire, not as a fixed, one‐dimensional tax item within the Ottoman fiscal system but as a multi‐layered administrative instrument organized around obligation, exemption and remission.
ÖZLEM BAŞARIR
wiley   +1 more source

Seizing the Regno: Relics and the Politics of Aragonese Expansion in the Fifteenth‐Century Mediterranean

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract On 2 June 1442, Alfonso V of Aragon seized the throne of Naples after twenty years of violence, rivalry and warfare between the houses of Anjou and Trastámara over control of the Italian Regno. Over the span of his sixteen‐year reign, Alfonso used Naples as a tool to build his reputation as a new Roman and Imperial ruler in the Italian south ...
Jessica L. Minieri
wiley   +1 more source

The European Union and the Balkans: between Symbiosis and Integration? [PDF]

open access: yesRomanian Journal of European Affairs, 2010
The European Union continues to constitute an incomplete economic-political entity at intergovernmental and supranational level. The EU is seeking to establish appropriate functional superstructures extending beyond the narrow confines of trade, the ...
Kyriakos D. Kentrotis
doaj  

Introduction: Balkan Romance Within the Balkan Sprachbund

open access: yesLanguages
This article provides a short introduction to Balkan Romance, examining and exemplifying a number of its principal features. In particular, the discussion begins in §2 with a review of the main morphosyntactic features of the four principal sub-branches of Old Romanian spoken today within the Balkan Sprachbund (Daco-Romanian, Aromanian, Istro-Romanian,
Ledgeway, Adam, Hill, Virginia
openaire   +3 more sources

On the Forming and Reforming of Stability Pacts: From the Balkans to the Caucasus. CEPS Policy Brief No. 4, May 2001 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
[From the Introduction]. The Stability Pact approach overlaps with other forms of regional organisation and cooperation in the EU’s borderlands. In fact the whole of the EU’s periphery is now covered by regional initiatives which see the overlapping of ...
Emerson, Michael.
core  

Behavioral, Ecological, and Morphological Data Suggest a Close Relationship Between the Ant Colobopsis truncata and the Gall Wasp Aphelonyx cerricola

open access: yesIntegrative Zoology, EarlyView.
Aphelonyx cerricola and the different stages that make this gall colonizable by ants. ABSTRACT Wasps of the family Cynipidae are known to induce galls of a species‐specific morphology, which during senescence provide a refuge for secondary insect fauna, especially ants.
Daniele Giannetti   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

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