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power is genuinely shared and the resilience of the administration in the face of political shocks, from a Balkan comparison Macedonia emerges – at least until the stalemate with Greece over the name of the country – as somewhat more successful than Northern Ireland, with continuous power-sharing post-Ohrid rather than suffering repeated suspensions, while B-H represents a failed state. A closer look at the
MUP FINAL PROOF – <STAGE>, 01/16/2014, SPi 3 Historical legacies of the Balkan Far Right This chapter looks at the Second World War predecessors of current formations on the Far Right and presents the overall context which existed during the 1980s and 1990s in the former Yugoslavia at the height of nationalism. The historical chapter is essential in understanding the overall context of nationalism in the Balkans and the rise of the Far Right formations. The Croatian Far Right The historical legacies of the Croatian Far Right date back to the nineteenth century
In this chapter our focus will be wider. It will include other aspects of humanitarian intervention and not only diplomatic exchanges and the views of major protagonists. We will attempt to pinpoint the elements of a rising Russian and European sense of identification and empathy with the suffering. Moreover, we will trace the links and vehicles through which the suffering of ‘strangers’ in the unknown Balkans (the ‘Christian East’ of the Asian
8 Neolithic and Copper Age stamps in the Balkans: a material and processual account of image making Agni Prijatelj Stamps are some of the strangest tools from Neolithic and Copper Age settlements across the Balkans: whilst more than 430 have been preserved across some 175 sites (Makkay 1984, 2005), their imprints remain absent from the archaeological record. Indeed, whilst the absence of materials with stamp impressions remains the central problem in any study of these artefacts, I argue here that the tools themselves are far from mute. Imbued with thing
Introduction While much of the EU peacebuilding capacities and mechanisms are relatively new, the EU has acted as a crisis response actor in the Western Balkans since the mid-1990s. 1 This region, now part of the enlargement area, has long been an incubator and a test ground for the EU peacebuilding toolkit. The Western Balkans is the region where the EU has not only
factors explain this state of affairs. Before moving to the three case studies, the chapter provides an overview of the EC’s role in the conflict during the period 1991–95. European responses to the conflict in Yugoslavia Relations between the EU and the Western Balkans date back to the Cold War. During this period, ties between the EC and the Yugoslavian Federation were closer
Introduction: components of stability in the Balkans Why is it the case that two Balkan states have weathered their historic crises and become valued members of the two alliances? After all, each was part of a region that conflict and controversy nearly tore apart in the period between 1914 and 1991. The catalytic events that led to the start of war in 1914 resulted from an
Introduction Yeltsin and Clinton. Different choices. One key crisis that involved both Russia and America shortly after the end of the Cold War was the violent ethnic conflict that accompanied the break-up of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s. Russia had historically been deeply involved in the Balkans from the time of Catherine the Great. The common Slavic bond between Russians and Serbs as well as between Russians and Bulgarians was a strong one, and a protective attitude had been displayed by the larger Slavic brother towards the smaller one
MUP FINAL PROOF – <STAGE>, 01/16/2014, SPi 4 An overview of Far Right political parties in the Balkan region and political party selection The aim of this chapter is to describe the overall Far Right scene in the region and indicate cases for further analysis. In order to be preselected for further investigation, the party must have been depicted by researchers as a Far Right party and must have gained at least one seat during parliamentary elections in the 2000–2010 period. The Far Right in Croatia In 1999, Ivan Grdešić noted that the presence of the Croatian
8 Transnational guerrillas in the ‘shatter zones’ of the Balkans and Eastern Front Franziska Zaugg and Yaacov Falkov with Enrico Acciai, Jason Chandrinos, Olga Manojlović Pintar, Srdjan Milošević and Milovan Pisarri Having been a vast battlefield during the First World War and suffering smouldering conflicts in the postwar era, the Balkans’ newly built countries sought to abstain from further international conflicts. They also built regional alliances to guard both against the return of the German, Austro-Hungarian or Russian empires, whose collapse had allowed