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Ethnic Conflicts, Civil War, and Economic Growth: Region‐Level Evidence From Former Yugoslavia
Journal of Regional Science, EarlyView.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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, 2019 During April and May 2019, approximately 120 surveys were distributed to high-level individuals involved in political, economic and cultural spheres in ...
Shehu, Romario
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Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While political leaders increasingly combine populist and secessionist appeals, systematic evidence remains lacking regarding their effectiveness in mobilizing public support. Drawing on original survey data from Republika Srpska in Bosnia and Herzegovina, where leader Milorad Dodik employs populist‐secessionist rhetoric, this study finds that
Semir Dzebo
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ISIL’s Western Balkan Caliphettes [PDF]
, 2017 The establishment of a ‘Caliphate’ in territories of Iraq and Syria, announced by the self-proclaimed Caliph and leader of Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) Abu Bakr al- Baghdadi in June 2014, and his appeal to all Muslims to migrate from lands of infidels to holy Muslim lands, has been highly recognized among Muslims in the Western Balkans as a ...
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Between and Beyond: Negotiating Belonging Within Queer Borderlands
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.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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A Tale of Two Choices: Son Preference and Reproductive Outcomes in Uzbekistan
Review of Development Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In this study, we use data from the recent round of the Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS) conducted between 2021 and 2022 to estimate the effect of son preference on reproductive behavior in Uzbekistan. We find strong evidence for differential stopping and spacing behavior among Uzbek women.
Khilola Dushamova +3 more
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Digital Transformation of Companies in the Western Balkans
International Journal of Management, Knowledge and LearningPurpose: The purpose of this research is to assess the state of digital transformation among companies in the Western Balkans and identify key opportunities and barriers.
Teodora Kelečević, Dušan Lesjak
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COVID - 19 in two dialysis centers situated in two neighbouring states of the Western Balkans. [PDF]
BMC Nephrol, 2023 Mesic E +5 more
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Insider/Outsider/Transsiders of Transnational Migration
Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Migration is individually and collectively a challenging but also a transformative praxis and process. In my proposal, I present these in the context of transnational migration of two multigenerational families whose pioneers originally migrated from Turkey to Germany.
Halil Can
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Western Balkans: Between Europe and Balkanization.
, 2013 Western Balkans IS an area relieving continuous fluidity inside the layers of histories and their respective products. Always in between East and West, following up the proper vocations, some of them visible and some other hidden, which in every moment in history have been translated in simple words: "Where to go?!" Today's reality in Western Balkans ...
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