Pustaka Studi Slavia

Sunday, April 26, 2009

Balkans Security

Authors: Harold J. Johnson, Jr., Judith A. McCloskey

Edition: illustrated

Publisher: DIANE Publishing, 2000

ISBN 0756703220, 9780756703226

90 pages

Since 1992, the international community has responded to a series of armed conflicts in the Balkans region by establishing numerous, complex military and civilian peace operations there. The United States and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) significantly increased the active participation of the military forces in resolving the region's conflicts in late 1995, when they deployed the first NATO-led peace enforcement operation to Bosnia. Their involvement deepened again in 1999 with the start of NATO bombing campaign against Yugoslavia and after Yugoslavia decided in June 1999 to withdraw its security forces from Serbia's province of Kosovo, with the deployment of another NATO-led peace enforcement operation to the province.

Making Markets

Authors: Shafiqul Islam, Michael Mandelbaum

Contributors: Shafiqul Islam, Michael Mandelbaum

Publisher: Council on Foreign Relations, 1993

ISBN 087609129X, 9780876091296

238 pages

The collapse of communism in Europe and the former Soviet Union has produced one of the most daunting tasks of the twentieth century: the construction of market economies out of the wreckage of central planning. While there is a lively debate among economists on this transformation, little has reached a non-specialist audience. In Making Markets, Shafiqul Islam and Michael Mandelbaum call on four eminent economists to summarize the state of current thinking. Richard Portes, Centre for Economic Policy Research in London, surveys the process of transition, examining its primary features and the problems that will be faced in light of Western economic theory and international economic practice. Paul Marer, Indiana University, gives a detailed account of the transition already underway in Central Europe. Robert Campbell, Indiana University, discusses the special problems confronting the Soviet Unions successor states, particularly Russia. Jeffrey Sachs, Harvard University and adviser to the Russian and Polish governments, considers the role of the West, citing episodes in economic history in which external support made success possible. Nor would a Central European or Russian authoritarian ruler necessarily carry out liberal economic policies. The alternative is not a return to full-fledged communist planning, but the retention of some communist practices als ofpund in many contries in the Third World.

The long-term prospects for these countries depend on their estabilishing, and keeping, the opposite combination: democratic politics and liberal economics. Success will be slow in coming and modest at first. Thus, tangible Western support also has a political role to play by contributing to public confidence in the prospects for a successful transition. And without confidence, the policies of political authoritarianism and economic populism will have their day.

Services trade in the Balkans

Author: Constantine Michalopoulos, Vasileios Panousopoulos

Publisher: World Bank Publications, 2002

ISBN 0821353365, 9780821353363

34 pages

Building Competitive Firms: Incentives and Capabilities explains how firms become competitive in language suitable for both technical and non-technical readers. A simple analytical framework integrates elements such as competition policy, corporate governance, foreign direct investment, innovation readiness, intellectual property rights, e-commerce and supply chain management. These 'behind-the-border' elements are pivotal to shaping the investment climate in any country and enhancing the benefits of trade liberalization. Each of these themes is discussed in detail with a focus on policy design and international best practice in implementation.

This study was prepared in support of the Working Group on Trade Liberalization and Facilitation of the Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe, with the objective to provide an overview of policies affecting srvices trade in seven countries of the Balkan region that signed in June 2001 the Memorandum of Understanding on Trade Liberalization and Facilitation. These countries - Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Romania, and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia - have embarkeed in a process of broad liberalization of their merchandise trade.

The Drama in Former Yugoslavia

Author Anton Zabkar

Edition: reprint

Publisher: DIANE Publishing, 1995

ISBN 0788139444, 9780788139444

119 pages

The collapse of the former Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the role of its army ,the YNA, in this process, and the progress of the war in Slovenia, Croatia, and Bosnia-Herzegovina, have been the subjects of may symposiums and roundtables. Political scientists, lawyers, sociologists, psychologist, criminologist, economists, and military and other specialists, have described in great deal and analysed from their own points of view the event which accompanied this process of collapse.

This paper attempts to fill in these blank spots, and is composed of three sections: the first describes aspects of the normative standardisation of civil-military relations in the newly formed federation; the second describes the disharmony beween these standards and reality, and the third gives some concluding thoughts on the possible development of these relations in the coming short-term period.

HIV/Aids in the western Balkans

Authors: Joana Godinho, World Bank, Dorothee Eckertz, Nedim Jaganjac

Edition: illustrated

Publisher: World Bank Publications, 2005

ISBN 0821363948, 9780821363942

195 pages

This study was undertaken to enable regional decisionmakers and Bank management to agree on the priorities for early action in the Western Balkans to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS - and its potential human and economic costs - in the framework of the UN "Three Ones": one national AIDS Strategy that drives alignment of all partners; one national AIDS authority to coordinate it; and one nationally-owned monitoring and evaluation system.

The study also aimed at informing the Bank's policy dialogue and operational work to control HIV/AIDS in the Balkans; and contributing to building up the regional partnership between governments, civil society, UN agencies, and multilateral and bilateral agencies to prevent HIV/AIDS, sexually-transmitted infections and TB; and to improve public health in this region.

The most striking feature in the Balkans is the high-risk environment. All major factors that could serve as contributing factors for the breakout an HIV/AIDS epidemic are present in the Balkans. Severe political instability, wars and consequent economc crisis and migration in this region over the last 10 years have generated poverty and presented overwhelming challenges which have affected all countries in varying degrees

Promoting Sustainable Economies in the Balkans

Authors: Steven Rattner, Michael B. Froman, Council on Foreign Relations

Contributor: Steven Rattner

Publisher: Council on Foreign Relations, 2000

ISBN 0876092679, 9780876092675

73 pages

After two wars, thousands of deaths,hundreds of thousands of displaced persons, and billions of dollars in destruction, the importance of stability in the Balkans cannot be ignored. Historical grievances, ethnic rivalries, and the political ambition of misguided leaders have all played important roles in triggering these conflicts. But the region's many economic problems - poverty, unemployment, stagnating economies, and pervasive lack of hope for a better future - have contributed to an environment that made such conflicts possible, Creating sustainable economic growth and increasing standards of living cannot solve the region's political and ethnic problems. But they can contribute to stability in the region and create incentives to avoid conflict. At issue is whether the ecoomies of this region will be sustainable over time or whether they will become or remain largely dependent on foreign assistance. Drawing in a broad range of expertise in international business and investment, the Task Force has sought to provide practical recommendations that will keep help policy makers in and outside the region meet this challenge.

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Western Approaches to Eastern Europe

Authors: James F. Brown, Robert D. Hormats, William H. Luers, Ivo J. Lederer

Publisher: Council on Foreign Relations, 1992

ISBN 0876091303, 9780876091302

107 pages

As early as the spring of 1990, barely a few months after the Czechoslovak "velvet" revolution, a Prague daily newspaper was already registering an unease that was felt throughout Eastern Europe: "The Revolution euphoria is fading fast. The public is beginning to ask - what now?" Now, at the end of 1991, the "Revolution euphoria" has disappeared completely. The exhilaration and sense of purpose of 1989 has been replaced by impatience, anxiety, even disillusion. This essay is an attempt to analyze the reasons for this dramatic change of mood, to put developments in the Eastern European states in perspective, and to describe the most significant external factors affecting their present and their future.

All the Soviet Union's erstwhile satellites - even Romania, the slowest and least sure - have moved definitively away from communism. But the touchstone of progress has long since become not moving away from communism, but moving toward democracy. The goal of a Western-type liberal democracy had looked relatively simple as communism was being overturned, but in the following months the Eastern Europeans were to learn how difficult and apparently thankless their chosen task was to be.

Slovenia

Author: OECD, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, SourceOECD (Online service)

Edition: illustrated

Publisher: OECD Publishing, 2002

ISBN 9264196978, 9789264196971

148 pages

Slovenia became eligible for adherence to the OECD Declaration on International Investment and Multinational Enterprises on 20 December 2001. This Declaration promotes national treatment of foreign direct investment, encourages voluntary standards of behavior to multinational enterprises and encourages moderation and restrant in the use of investment incentives and conflicting regulatory requirements.

The OECD has invited Slovenia to join the Declaration in view of the liberal orientation of Slovenia's policies, notably as regards foreign direct investment (FDI). Since it declared its independence in 1991, Slovenia has made impressive progress in developing and implementing policies for its transition to a market economy and preparing for EU accession. The encouragement of FDI is a central element of Slovenia's current internationalisation strategy. It is crucial to the success of privatisation of the financial and utilities sectors currently underway. Slovenia has a strategic position between established European markets and developing former Yugoslav economies. Its knowledge of these markets make it a competitive platform for investment into its region.

Sunday, April 19, 2009

Serbian Sturgeon: Journal of a Visit to Belgrade

Author: Anthony Howell

Edition: illustrated

Publisher: Routledge, 2001

ISBN 9057551233, 9789057551239

137 pages

In the seventies the Yugoslav avant-garde contributed key players to the international arena of art. The work of Marina Abramovic and Ulay, Bratso Dimitrevic and and many important figures such as Joseph Beuys, Joseph Kossuth and Simone Forti made contact with the art scene in Belgrade or performed at its progressive Student Cultural Centre.

Since those heady days Belgrade has become an isolated city and Serbs are ostracised by the international community. What has happened to the art scene in Serbia? How do artists survive in an economy ruined by war and by sanctions?

In this free-wheeling journal, Anthony Howell, a frequent visitor to Serbia, describes the intellectual life which continued to flourish in Belgrade (at least until his last visit in the Spring of 1997), lectures by Victor Burgin and by the British Ambassador, exhibitions, theatre festivals and events by Serb artists, his own performances and how they were received, his excursions to historical sites and his intimate relationships.

The Balkans

Authors: Nevill Forbes, Arnold J. Toynbee

Edition: large print

Publisher: BiblioBazaar, LLC, 2008

ISBN 0554240238, 9780554240237

332 pages

We hope we have dealt fairly with all these peoples. Mediaeval history is mostly a record of bloodshedding and cruelty and the Middle Age has been prolonged to our own time in most parts of the Balkans and is not yet over in some parts.

The whole what may be called the trunk of 'massif' of the Balkan peninsula, bounded on the north by the rivers Save and Danube, on the west by the Adriatic, on the east by the Black Sea, and on the south by a very irregular line running from Antivari (on the coast of the Adriatic) and the lake of Scutari in the west, through lakes Okhrida and Prespa (in Macedonia) to the outskirts of Salonika and thence to Midia on the shores of the Black Sea, following the coast of the Aegean Sea some miles inland, is prepondereatingly inhabited by Slavs. These Slavs are the Bulgarians in the east and centre, the Serbs and Croats (or Serbians and Croatians or Serbo-Croats) in the west, and the Slovenes in the extreme north-west, between Trieste and the Save; these nationalities compose the southern branch of the Slavonic race. The other inhabitants of the Balkan peninsula are, to the south of the Slavs, the Albanians in the west, the Greeks in the centre and north, and the Turks in the south-east, and, to the north, the rumanians. All four of these nationalities are to be found in varying quantities within the limits of the Slav territory roughly outlined above, but great numbers of them are outside it; on the other hand, a therea are considerable number of Serbs living north of the rivers Save and Danube, in Southern Hungary.

History of the Balkans: Eighteenth and nineteenth centuries

Author: Barbara Jelavich

Edition: reprint, illustrated

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1983

ISBN 0521274583, 9780521274586

400 pages

This narrative concerns the history of the people in five modern Balkan states - Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, and Yugoslavia - over approximately three centuries. Although the Balkan peninsula has played a major role in history, the area has been subject to less intensive study tha any other European region. To the outside observer the Balkans often appear to be puzzle of confusing complexity. A geographic region inhabited by seven major nationalities, speaking different languages, it has usually impinged on the Western consciousness only when it has become the scene of wars or acts of violence.

Yet this area, because of both its past contributions and its present importance, certainly deserves a larger place in modern historical studies. Part of former ancient Greek, Roman, Byzantine, Ottoman, and Habsburg lands, and situated at the convergence of Europe, Africa, and Asia, the peninsula has felt the weight of convergence alternate imperial drives and cultural borderline have intersected - for instance, the boundaries between Eastern (Byzantine) and Western Roman empires, between Islam and Christianity, between Orthodoxy and Catholicism, and between the military blocs of the North Atlantic Treaty and the Warsaw Pact.

Saturday, April 18, 2009

South Eastern Europe

Author: Centre for Co-operation with Non-members, Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development, OECD Staff, Centre for Co-operation with Non-members, SourceOECD (Online service

Edition: illustrated

PublisherOECD Publishing, 2003

ISBN 9264100717, 9789264100718

380 pages

Education is one of the priorities identified in the Stability Pact adopted in 1999 to strengthen the economic and social development of countries in the south eastern Europe region. This is the first volume of an OECD thematic survey of national education systems in the region which seek to address policy issues and barriers to reform, as well as providing individual country overviews and a regional outlook. The countries covered in this volume are Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia and Kosovo. The evaluations are based on four main characteristics: availability, accessibility, acceptability and adaptability.

Genocide After Emotion

Author: Stjepan Gabriel Meštrović

Edition: illustrated

Publisher: Routledge, 1996

ISBN 0415122945, 9780415122948

225 pages

The failure to adequately respond on the part of the major Western superpowers to the atrocities in the Balkans constitutes a major moral and political scandal. In Genocide After Emotion Mestrovic and the contributors thoroughly interrogate the war, its media coverage and response in the West. The result is alarming, both for the progress of the war and for the condition of our society today: the authors argue that the West is suffering from a 'postemotional' condition - we are beyond caring about anything anymore.

This book contains contributions from Philip J. Cohen, Norman Cigar, Slaven Letica, James J. Sadkovich, C.G. Schoenfeld, Thomas Cushman and Igor Primoratz.

The Balkans since 1453

Author: Leften Stavros Stavrianos

Edition: 2, illustrated

Diterbitkan oleh C. Hurst & Co. Publishers, 2000

ISBN 1850655510, 9781850655510

970 pages

First published in 1958, The Balkans since 1453 is recognized as one of the most important critical accounts of Balkan history. In it, Stavrianos synthesizes fundamental information and describes the development of the Balkans, its people, and its nascent nation-states in a manner essential to a reasoned understanding both of Greek history, and the importance of the Balkans in European and world history.

As Greeks, we celebrate our heritage: the Golden Age of Athens and the Greek city states; Alexander the Great and his conquest of Persia and spread of Hellenism; Byzantium, which though Roman at its inception, was transmuted by a synthesis of Greek Orthodoxy and Hellenism; Greek Orthodoxy, the faith that sustained Hellenism through the Ottoman subjugation; the day, March 25 th , that commemorates the war of independence and creation of the first modern Greek state; and, OXI, Premier Metaxas’ response to Mussolini in 1940, when the Italians sought to occupy Greek territory. These, all, deserve celebration.

However an appreciation of Greek history can be much richer when it is considered in the context of the history of the Balkans, where late nineteenth and twentieth century conflicts followed two thousand years of migration and settlement by disparate peoples. The result was an eventual consolidation of ethnic groups and the formation of national states. All this transpired under Roman, Byzantine, and Ottoman rule, strongly influenced by the Eastern Orthodox faith, and subject to pressures exerted by actions of the powerful states of Europe.

Balkan idols: religion and nationalism in Yugoslav states

Author: Vjekoslav Perica

Edition: illustrated

Publisher: Oxford University Press US, 2002

ISBN 0195148568, 9780195148565

332 pages

Reporting from the heartland of Yugoslavia in the 1970s, Washington Post correspondent Dusko Doder described "a landscape of Gothic spires, Islamic mosques, and Byzantine domes." A quarter century later, this landscape lay in ruins. In addition to claiming tens of thousands of lives, the former Yugoslavia's four wars ravaged over a thousand religious buildings, many purposefully destroyed by Serbs, Albanians, and Croats alike, providing an apt architectural metaphor for the region's recent history.

Rarely has the human impulse toward monocausality--the need for a single explanation--been in greater evidence than in Western attempts to make sense of the country's bloody dissolution. From Robert Kaplan's controversial Balkan Ghosts, which identified entrenched ethnic hatreds as the driving force behind Yugoslavia's demise to NATO's dogged pursuit and arrest of Slobodan Milosevic, the quest for easy answers has frequently served to obscure the Balkans' complex history. Perhaps most surprisingly, no book has focused explicitly on the role religion has played in the conflicts that continue to torment southeastern Europe.

Based on a wide range of South Slav sources and previously unpublished, often confidential documents from communist state archives, as well as on the author's own on-the-ground experience, Balkan Idols explores the political role and influence of Serbian Orthodox, Croatian Catholic, and Yugoslav Muslim religious organizations over the course of the last century. Vjekoslav Perica emphatically rejects the notion that a "clash of civilizations" has played a central role in fomenting aggression. He finds no compelling evidence of an upsurge in religious fervor among the general population. Rather, he concludes, the primary religious players in the conflicts have been activist clergy. This activism, Perica argues, allowed the clergy to assume political power without the accountablity faced by democratically-elected officials.

What emerges from Perica's account is a deeply nuanced understanding of the history and troubled future of one of Europes most volatile regions.

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Slovenia: from Yugoslavia to the European Union

Oleh Mojmir Mrak, Matija Rojec, Carlos Silva-Jàuregui, World Bank

Edition: illustrated

Diterbitkan oleh World Bank Publications, 2004

ISBN 0821357182, 9780821357187

446 halaman

In the only book of its kind, the contributors--many of them the architects of Slovenia's current transformations--analyze the country's three-fold transition from a command to a market economy, from a regionally based on a national economy, and from a part of the Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia to a member of the European Union.

Bosnia: Country Handbook

Author: Diane Publishing

Edition: illustrated

Publisher: DIANE Publishing, 1997

ISBN 0788147986, 9780788147982

530 pages

Designed as a ready reference to provide U.S. military forces with unclassified information necessary for effective operations in Bosnia. Contains information on the General Framework Agreement on Peace; regions of interest; climate, terrain, transportation, and telecommunications; culture and history; language; health and disease; first aid/hot and cold weather survival; military forces, infantry weapons, and night vision devices of the former warring factions (FWF); civil forces; mines; rank insignia and uniforms; FWF and SFOR armor, anti-armor, artillery, air defense, aircraft, and misc. equipment. B&W photos and illustrations.

This handbook has been designed as a ready reference to provide US military forces with unclassified information necessary for effective operations in Bosnia. This document also has been authorized for release to the military forces to other nations participating in the Peace Stabilization Force (SFOR). This document supersedes DOD-1540-17-96, dated May 1996.

Sunday, April 5, 2009

Bosnia and Herzegovina 2001 - 2004

Oleh ERWIN R. TIONGSON
Diterbitkan oleh World Bank Publications

This pape takes tock of labor market development in Bosnia and Herzegovina over the period 2001-2004, using the panel "Living Standards Measurement Study/Living in Bosnia and Herzegovina Survei". The analysis estimates a multinomial logit model of labor market transitions by state of origin (employment, unemployment, and inactivity) following the specification of widely used models of transition probabilities, and analyzes the impact of standard covaraites. The results provide strong evidence that there are indeed significant differences in labor market transitions by gender, age, education, and geographic location.

This paper is a product of the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Sector Unit, Europe and Central Asia Region.

Bosnia and Herzegovina: post-conflict reconstruction

Oleh Alcira Kreimer, Robert Muscat, World Bank. Operations Evaluation Department, Ann Elwan, Margaret Arnold
Kontributor Alcira Kreimer
Diterbitkan oleh World Bank Publications, 2000
ISBN 0821346814, 9780821346815
109 halaman

Bosnia and Uganda received comprehensive reconstruction support from the Bank. In Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Bank helped start the reconstruction effort in 1996, without waiting for financial normalization and membership in the Bank. Sixteen emergency projects for the country addressed all major infrastructure and social sectors. They also incorporated a focus on employment generation and support for institutional development.

Patronage Or Partnership

Patronage Or Partnership: Local Capacity Building in Humanitarian Crises
Oleh Ian Smillie
Edition: illustrated
Diterbitkan oleh IDRC, 2001
ISBN 0889369445, 9780889369443
212 halaman

Patronage or Partnership: Local Capacity Building in Humanitarian Crises grew out of the research of the Humanitarianism and War Project, an independent policy-research initiative now based at the Feinstein International Famine Center in Tufts University's School of Nutrition Science and Policy. The book was designed to test assumptions and to investigate relationships between humanitarian agencies and local civil society in complex emergencies. In this book, the author said that Bosnia represented what might be loosely termed post-Soviet space, in which formalized civil sector predated the conflict.

Bosnia-Herzegovina

Bosnia-Herzegovina: The End of a Legacy

Oleh Neven Andjelic

Edition: illustrated

Diterbitkan oleh Routledge, 2003

ISBN 071465485X, 9780714654850

228 halaman

The Muslim-Croat civil war in Central Bosnia

The Muslim-Croat civil war in Central Bosnia: a military history, 1992-1994

Oleh Charles R. Shrader

Edition: illustrated

Diterbitkan oleh Texas A&M University Press, 2003

ISBN 1585442615, 9781585442614

223 halaman

n this volume, Charles R. Shrader offers the first full-scale military history of a crucial conflict in Bosnia between two former allies. When the Bosnian Serbs and their Serbian allies attacked Bosnia-Herzegovina in March 1992, the Bosnia Croats and Muslims collaborated to defend themselves. As Serbian pressure increased and it became clear that the West would not intervene, the two allies began to stake out their own claims. Drawing from cases presented before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, Shrader describes the organization and tactical doctrine of the Croatian Defense Forces and the Muslim-led Army of Bosnia-Herzegovina. He analyzes the strengths and weaknesses of the two sides in such fields as communications, training, and logistics. Far from being the attackers, Shrader concludes, the Bosnian Croats in Central Bosnia were clearly outnumbered, outgunned, and on the defensive. Although Shrader's work is a meticulous analysis by a neutral expert, not everyone will find his conclusions comfortable. But every serious student of the conflict in Bosnia will have to take his history into account.

Russia, the Soviet Union, and Eastern Europe

Russia, the Soviet Union, and Eastern Europe: a survey of holdings at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace

Oleh Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace, Joseph D. Dwyer

Diterbitkan oleh Hoover Press, 1980

ISBN 0817950117, 9780817950118

233 halaman

Macedonia and the Macedonians

Macedonia and the Macedonians: A History

Oleh Andrew Rossos

Edition: illustrated

Diterbitkan oleh Hoover Press, 2008

ISBN 0817948821, 9780817948825

367 halaman

Throughout history, every power that aspired to dominate the Balkans-from the ancient Romans to Bulgaria, Greece, and Serbia in the age of imperialism and nationalism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries-has sought to control Macedonia. But although Macedonia figured prominently in history, it remained a little-known land until the nineteenth century. This detailed volume surveys the history of Macedonia from 600 B.C. to the present day, with an emphasis on the past two centuries. It reveals how the so-called Macedonian question has long dominated Balkan politics, and how for well over a century and a half, it was the central issue dividing Balkan peoples, as neighboring nations struggled for possession of Macedonia and denied any distinct Macedonian identity-territorial, political, ethnic, or national. The author concludes that Balkan acceptance of a Macedonian identity, nation, and state has become a necessity for stability in the Balkans and in a united Europe. Book jacket.

Bosnia

Bosnia: Faking Democracy After Dayton

Oleh David Chandler

Edition: 2

Diterbitkan oleh Pluto Press, 2000

ISBN 0745316891, 9780745316895

268 halaman

The Dayton Accords brought the Bosnian war to an end in November 1995, establishing a detailed framework for the reconstitution of the Bosnian state and its consolidation through a process of democratization. In Bosnia David Chandler makes the first in-depth critical analysis of the policies and impact of post-Dayton democratization. Drawing on interviews with key officials within the OSCE in Bosnia and extensive original research exploring the impact of policies designed to further political pluralism, develop multi-ethnic administrations, protect human rights and support civil society, Chandler reveals that the process has done virtually nothing to develop democracy in this troubled country. Political autonomy and accountability are now further away than at any time since the outbreak of the Bosnian war.The Afterword to this new edition updates Bosnian developments and adds an analysis of the structures and problems of the international protectorate in Kosovo.

International Public Opinion and the Bosnia Crisis

International Public Opinion and the Bosnia Crisis

Oleh Eric Shiraev

Diterbitkan oleh Lexington Books, 2003

ISBN 0739104802, 9780739104804

364 halaman

International Public Opinion and the Bosnia Crisis examines--through U.S., Canadian, and European case studies--how public reaction impacted democratic governments' response to the ethnic and religious conflict in Bosnia, 1991-1997.

Building market institutions in South Eastern Europe

Building market institutions in South Eastern Europe: comparative prospects for investment and private sector development

Oleh Harry G. Broadman

Edition: illustrated

Diterbitkan oleh World Bank Publications, 2004

ISBN 082135776X, 9780821357767

365 halaman

Building Market Institutions in South Eastern Europeża study of impediments to investment and private sector development in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Moldova, Romania, and Serbia and Montenegrożyields fundamentally new insights for improving the regionżs business environment, economic development, and prospects for growth. It focuses on four core topics: Business competition and economic barriers to entry and exit Access to regulated utilities and services Corporate ownership, transparency of business accounts, and access to finance Mechanisms for commercial dispute resolution Each topic is empirically investigated across all eight South Eastern European countries through the systematic use of data from multiple sources: Official data from each country in the region Results from two annual rounds of quantitative, firm-level surveys covering 1,600 firms Results from 40 originally developed enterprise-level business case studies The result is an innovative analysis of cross-country comparisons and the development of key policy challenges from a regional perspective. Building Market Institutions in South Eastern Europe, a collaborative effort between the World Bank and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, offers important practical insights for all policymakers and observers concerned with the future of South Eastern Europe. It makes concrete recommendations for reforms that would ease the constraints on domestic and foreign investment, an essential step in sustaining growth and reducing poverty in the region.

Gender politics in the Western Balkans

Gender politics in the Western Balkans: women and society in Yugoslavia and the Yugoslav successor states

Oleh Sabrina P. Ramet

Diterbitkan oleh Penn State Press, 1999

ISBN 027101802X, 9780271018027

343 halaman

he first book in English to discuss the politics of gender relations in both socialist Yugoslavia and its post-socialist successor states.

Gender Politics in the Western Balkans traces the development of women's consciousness in the lands of the South Slavs from the early years of the twentieth century, on the eve of the creation of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes, to the situation during and after the Serbian Insurrectionary War of 1991-95. The book embraces historical chapters, contemporary political analyses, and cultural studies (focusing on literature and religion).

Recognizing the need for a book that surveys the experience of South Slav women during the twentieth century, Sabrina Ramet commissioned essays from leading scholars in East European/Yugoslav studies and women's studies for this volume. The resulting collection is arranged in rough chronological order, covering primarily Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, and Bosnia from before World War II until the present day. Topics covered include the structures of traditional society, gender relations in the interwar period, antifascist organizations, the socialist experience, and issues connected to post-socialist politics and the war, making this the most comprehensive and up-to-date book on the subject.

Women witnessing terror

Women witnessing terror: testimony and the cultural politics of human rights

Oleh Anne Cubilié

Diterbitkan oleh Fordham Univ Press, 2005

ISBN 082322435X, 9780823224357

286 halaman

A model of engaged scholarship, this book examinesfirst-person testimonials by women who have survivedabuse and atrocity in zones of conflict and terror.Drawing on a wide range of sources and settings, includinggenocide, state terror, ethnic cleansing, and war, Anne Cubiliéuses survivor testimony as theoretical invention, placing personalwitness in dialogue with work by philosophers, literary theorists,and others who study the space between victim and survivor,ethical witness and silenced observer, male and female.This nuanced example of ethical criticism demonstrates forcefullyhow ethical witnessing—listening to the voices of survivors—reformulates the language of human rights and enhances itsability to intervene against violence and oppression.

Saturday, April 4, 2009

The national question in Yugoslavia

The national question in Yugoslavia: origins, history, politics

Oleh Ivo Banac

Edition: reprint, illustrated

Diterbitkan oleh Cornell University Press, 1988

ISBN 0801494931, 9780801494932

452 halaman

Eastern Europe

Eastern Europe: An Introduction to the People, Lands, and Culture
Oleh Richard C. Frucht
Kontributor Richard C. Frucht
Edition: illustrated
Diterbitkan oleh ABC-CLIO, 2005
ISBN 1576078000, 9781576078006
928 halaman

An independent Polish State should be erected which should include the territories inhabited by indisputably Polish populations, which should be assured a free and secure access to the sea, and whose political and economic independence and territorial integrity should be guaranteed by international covenant.‎

One aspect of this movement was a growing dissatisfaction with the empty formalism of much educational content in the latter part of the nineteenth century and the early part of the twentieth century; with stultifying drill and catechism-like methods of teaching; with the curriculum's lack of relatedness to the everyday experience of the child, his physical world, and social environment; and with pupils' rote verbalization and memorization of ideas for which they had no adequate referents in experience.‎

Being Muslim the Bosnian Way

Being Muslim the Bosnian Way: Identity and Community in a Central Bosnian Village

Oleh Tone Bringa

Edition: illustrated

Diterbitkan oleh Princeton University Press, 1995

ISBN 0691001758, 9780691001753

281 halaman

Religious separation and political intolerance in Bosnia-Herzegovina

Religious separation and political intolerance in Bosnia-Herzegovina

Oleh Mitja Velikonja

Edition: illustrated

Diterbitkan oleh Texas A&M University Press, 2003

ISBN 1585442267, 9781585442263

365 halaman

The World and Yugoslavia's Wars

The World and Yugoslavia's Wars

Oleh Richard Henry Ullman

Diterbitkan oleh Council on Foreign Relations, 1996

ISBN 0876091915, 9780876091913

230 halaman

Western Balkan Integration and the EU

Author: Kathuria Sanjay, Sanjay Kathuria

Kontributor Sanjay Kathuria

Edition: illustrated

Diterbitkan oleh World Bank Publications, 2008

ISBN 0821374729, 9780821374726

224 halaman

The Western Balkans region is a key part of Eastern Europe. It comprises of a group of diverse countries at different stages of acession to the European Union (EU) - the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Croatia are candidate countries (with Croatia having started negotiations); Albania and Montenegro have signed Stabilization and Association Agreements (SAAs), an important step in the accession process; and Serbia, along with Bosnia and Herzegovina, has initiated a draft of SAA with the European Commission. The SAA process is also expected to be open to Kosovo, once its status issues are fully resolved.

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