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Challenging assumptions of the enlargement literature : the impact of the EU on human and minority rights in Macedonia [PDF]

, 2011
This article argues that from the very start of the transition process in Macedonia, a fusion of concerns about security and democratisation locked local nationalist elites and international organisations intoa political dynamic that prioritised security
Ackermann A., Axelrod R., Balalovska K., Belloni R., Bose S., Checkel J., Daskalovski Z., Deets S., Dolowitz D., Franck T., Friedman E., George A., Gjurcilova P., Grillot S., Haas P., Hayden R., Hislope R., Jupille J., Kelley J., Kemp W., Koinova M., Lingescu O., Lund M., March J., Maria Koinova, Moravcsik A., Nikolovski Z., Noutcheva G., Ortakovski V., Rechel B., Risse T., Risse T., Rose R., Schimmelfennig F., Sedelmeier U., Stavrova B., Stavrova B., Tuerkes M., Vachudova M., Vaknin S., Vermeersh P.   +40 more
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Collision, Competition or Cooperation? China's BRI and the EU's Development Policies Towards Eastern Europe

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Against the backdrop of China's growing engagement in Eastern Europe, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) appears to challenge the European Union (EU) approach to promoting development in the region. We take issue with this claim by making three interrelated arguments.
Tanja A. Börzel, Julia Langbein, Lunting Wu, Valentin Krüsmann   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

On Electoral Processes in the Western Balkan Countries

Interdisciplinary Journal of Research and Development, 2022
This paper presents the results of the comparative analysis on the level of meeting the standards in the electoral processes held in the countries of the Western Balkans. The analysis is based on the evaluations published for the Election Integrity Perception Index, for elections held in the period 2011-2021.
Andon Kume, Linert Lireza
openaire   +1 more source

A Stranger in the Night: Canadian Assistance to Southeastern Europe (1990-2005) [PDF]

, 2006
Official Development Assistance to the Balkans in the 1990-2005 period seem to reflect two different and contradictory donor 'geopolitical visions'. Some countries (like Greece and France) tended to consider the Balkans as a homogenized 'aid space'.
Huliaras, Asteris
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How did Japan catch‐up with the West? Some implications of recent revisions to Japan's historical growth record

Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Revised GDP data suggest that Japan was more than one‐third richer in 1874 than suggested by Maddison, and that Meiji period growth built on earlier development. Despite trend GDP per capita growth during the Tokugawa Shogunate, the catching‐up process only started after 1890 with respect to Britain, and after World War I with respect to the ...
Stephen Broadberry, Kyoji Fukao, Tokihiko Settsu   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

ASSESSING RUSSIAN IMPACT ON THE WESTERN BALKAN COUNTRIES’ EU ACCESSION: CASES OF CROATIA AND SERBIA [PDF]

Journal of Liberty and International Affairs, 2017
The matter of EU enlargement to the Western Balkans has become overshadowed by pressing issues such as Brexit, the rise of the radical right and international terrorism.
Bojana Zoric
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Analysis of the Impact of Macroeconomic Stability on the Level of Global Competitiveness of Western Balkan Countries [PDF]

, 2021
Nikola Milović, Mijat Jocović, Nikola Martinović   +2 more
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Promoting prosperity and stability: the EMU anchor in candidate and potential candidate countries [PDF]

This paper analyses the euro as external anchor in the Western Balkans and their process of fiscal consolidation in the context of future EU accession.Promoting wealth and stability: the EMU anchor in candidate and potential candidate countries, Euro as ...
DG ECFIN
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The nation‐state, non‐Western empires, and the politics of cultural difference

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract While empires have been central to political theory, they almost always refer to Western forms of imperialism and colonialism to which non‐Western societies are subject. But precolonial empires have ruled much of the world for much of known history. Building on recent International Relations (IR) scholarship, this article reconstructs an ideal
Loubna El Amine
wiley   +1 more source

Molecular IgE Reactivity Profiling With Micro‐Arrayed Allergens Reveals Distinct Interregional Patterns of Sensitization and a Hypoallergenic Region in Türkiye

Allergy, EarlyView.
A prospective, systematic and cross‐sectional population study was performed involving 1000 adult subjects from five centers representing different climatic areas of Türkiye (Turkey). Molecular IgE profiling demonstrated substantial interregional variation and identified a hypoallergenic region in the easternmost area with a continental climate.
Alp Kazancioglu, Huey‐Jy Huang, Sengul Aksakal, Ismet Bulut, Maria‐Roxana Buzan, Kuan‐Wei Chen, Monica Daniela Cotarcă, Alexandra Dubovets, Pia Gattinger, Okan Gulbahar, Ali Fuat Kalyoncu, Alexander Karaulov, Evgenii Kozlov, Carmen Panaitescu, Thomas Schlederer, Daria Trifonova, Mikhail Tulaev, Murat Turk, Susanne Vrtala, Milena Weber, Lauriana‐Eunice Zbîrcea, Bulent Enis Sekerel, Rudolf Valenta   +22 more
wiley   +1 more source