Who’s walking on the Silk Road? EU’s Policy at the Black Sea Region: from Bilateral to Regional Approach [PDF]
Black Sea region is today the geopolitical attraction for both the United States and the European Union after being under the Soviet Union for more than 4 decades.
Anca Gabriela Ilie +1 more
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MIGRATION PANORAMA | The Western Balkans migratory route: perspectives and persisting challenge. EPC Report December 2016 (2nd Edition) [PDF]
, 2016 In the past few years, the EU’s capacities have been stretched thin as it grappled with multiple challenges, leaving the Western Balkans and the EU membership aspirations of the countries in the region somewhat marginalised.
Anderson, Kristine +5 more
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Differences in characteristics between naturalized threatened plants and other threatened plants
Conservation Biology, EarlyView.Abstract Many non‐native plant species introduced by humans have become naturalized. At the same time many species are threatened in their native range. However, the number of plant species threatened in their native range that are naturalized elsewhere remains unknown.
Weihan Zhao +10 more
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Western Balkans in the Light of Regional Security Complex Theory
Vestnik RUDN. International Relations, 2016 This article analyzes an acute international security issues of Western Balkans sub-complex using Regional Security Complex Theory (hereinafter RSCT) as an advanced theoretical approach.
Jndiana Pejic
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The Role of EU Integration in Accelerating Structural Reforms in the Western Balkans: Evidence, Theory and Policy. LEQS Paper No. 140/2019 January 2019 [PDF]
, 2019 Integration with the European Union has been an important driver of economic, political and social transformation in the Western Balkans. In recent years, however, the pace of structural reforms in the region has decelerated and the trend of economic ...
Besimi, Fatmir, Monastiriotis, Vassilis
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Representation of obligate groundwater‐dwelling copepod diversity in European protected areas
Conservation Biology, EarlyView.Abstract Groundwaters sustain diverse surface ecosystems and are populated by metazoan species, mostly invertebrates, that provide fundamental ecological functions and are often of prominent conservation value due to narrow endemism and high phylogenetic rarity.
Francesco Cerasoli +7 more
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PARTIAL PRODUCTIVITY OF AGRICULTURE IN THE WESTERN BALKAN COUNTRIES – IMPLICATION FOR COMPETITIVENESS OF THE RURAL ECONOMY [PDF]
The process of transition and, within it, the agricultural transformation in the Western Balkan countries resulted, in the first phase, in the weakening of the developmental performances in agriculture.
Gajic, Milivoj +2 more
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Long‐lasting health effects of Soviet education
Economica, EarlyView.Abstract Education systems serve various purposes, including the enhancement of later‐life health, though effects can differ by sociopolitical regime. This paper examines the effect of communist education, which exposed children to a distinct curriculum and ideological content, on later‐life health.
Joan Costa‐Font, Anna Nicińska
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Open Government, Social Media and Western Balkan Countries
Central European Public Administration Review, 2018 This article analyses the presence and activity on the field of social media in the countries that belonged to the same state in the past: Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIH), Kosovo, Montenegro, Serbia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia – these named as Western Balkan Countries (WBCs) – and, Slovenia and Croatia as EU member states.
Mirela Mabić, Dražena Gašpar
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Leadership competencies among male health professionals in a Western Balkan country
, 2023 Klevis Caushaj +3 more
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