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"Regional Public Goods or Philanthropy? A Critical Assessment of the EU-Balkans Economic Relations" [PDF]
This paper examines the European Union’s (EU’s) economic relations with the Western Balkans (WB) in the light of the emerging debate on international public goods.
Ugur, Mehmet.
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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
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"Fake, Partial and Imposed Compliance: The Limits of the EU's Normative Power in the Western Balkans." CEPS Working Document No. 274, July 2007 [PDF]
This paper examines the EU's external power through the prism of perceptions by non-EU countries of the aims of EU foreign policies, as shown in the Western Balkans.
Noutcheva, Gergana.
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Western Balkans as the Frontline of Russian Hybrid Warfare
ABSTRACT Hybrid warfare (HW) scholarship acknowledges the phenomenon's contextual and temporal specificity, yet its dominant conceptual framing has generated a literature largely centred on identifying and categorising hybrid activities. This focus has left the contextual vulnerabilities that enable hybrid threats (HTs) and shape an adversary's ...
Vesna Bojicic‐Dzelilovic
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Government and Governance on the Western Balkans: Policy Debate
With no direct exposure to ‘The Western Balkans Network on Territorial Governance,’ I take it to be a joint effort concerning a loosely-defined region for which there is no unitary government, nor will there be one.
Faludi, A.K.F. (author)
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ABSTRACT This article offers a macro‐overview of the reception and effectiveness of the European Union's (EU) Indo‐Pacific Strategy (IPS) released in April 2021. Drawing on research conducted across eight Indo‐Pacific locations—Australia, China, India, Japan, New Zealand, South Korea, Taiwan and Thailand—the study involved 111 semi‐structured ...
Nicholas Ross Smith, Martin Holland
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Analysis of the Effects of the EU Official Development Assistance to the Western Balkans
Official development assistance (ODA) implies the movement of capital with a minimum of one quarter of grant. It was established in the second half of the previous century, with the aim of getting developed countries to set aside a part of their gross ...
Ognjen Erić
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Risk Scenarios for European Rearmament
ABSTRACT Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the European Union has launched a flurry of initiatives to ramp up European defence spending. Efforts to bolster European defence have further intensified in response to the United States' increasingly hostile stance towards its erstwhile European allies.
Mette Eilstrup‐Sangiovanni
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Go West: The Western Balkans towards European integration [PDF]
When we talk about the Balkans we think of war, suffering, ethnic cleansing and hatred. And up to a rather recent point in time this was not a misleading idea. Unfortunately, this has been the reality in the Balkans.
Ninka, Eniel
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Endogenous and Exogenous Drivers of Refugee Policy of the Transit State: The Case of Indonesia
ABSTRACT Most studies on transit states emphasise exogenous influences on domestic refugee policymaking, with little consideration of endogenous factors to the state itself. Exploring literature from migration studies, refugee studies and international law studies, we identify and classify nearly identical endogenous and exogenous drivers of refugee ...
Anita Herlina +2 more
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