Author : Vassilis Fouskas
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 32,80 MB
Release : 2003-02-20
Category : History
ISBN :
Shows how transnational corporations use lobby groups to shape EU policy. New updated edition
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Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 39 pages
File Size : 16,26 MB
Release :
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ISBN : 1428914722
Author : David Fromkin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 28,67 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Balkan Peninsula
ISBN : 0684869535
An engrossing, clear-eyed look at the conflict in Kosovo and what it reveals about the limits of America's power to shape the world and impose democratic and humane values in countries under the control of ruthless dictators. 4 maps.
Author : Gazmen Xhudo
Publisher : Springer
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 40,93 MB
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1349249475
Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, observers and players of American foreign policy have been wrestling with what US policy is and, more importantly, what it should be in the post-Cold War era. The breakdown of communism in the East has coincided with the outbreak of warfare in the former Yugoslavia to add a new sense of urgency for those seeking a direction for US foreign policy. This work seeks to demonstrate how reactive rather than proactive measures by the US, in both democracy promotion and in crisis management have been short-sighted, resulting in the present failure.
Author : Roger D. Petersen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 18,3 MB
Release : 2011-09-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1139503308
Conflicts involve powerful experiences. The residue of these experiences is captured by the concept and language of emotion. Indiscriminate killing creates fear; targeted violence produces anger and a desire for vengeance; political status reversals spawn resentment; cultural prejudices sustain ethnic contempt. These emotions can become resources for political entrepreneurs. A broad range of Western interventions are based on a view of human nature as narrowly rational. Correspondingly, intervention policy generally aims to alter material incentives ('sticks and carrots') to influence behavior. In response, poorer and weaker actors who wish to block or change this Western implemented 'game' use emotions as resources. This book examines the strategic use of emotion in the conflicts and interventions occurring in the Western Balkans over a twenty-year period. The book concentrates on the conflicts among Albanian and Slavic populations (Kosovo, Montenegro, Macedonia, South Serbia), along with some comparisons to Bosnia.
Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 41,70 MB
Release : 2020-07-07
Category :
ISBN : 9264701184
Government at a Glance: Western Balkans presents information on public governance in the Western Balkan region – covering Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Serbia, and compares it to OECD and OECD-EU countries.
Author : Oya Dursun-Özkanca
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 19,44 MB
Release : 2019-11-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1108488625
Explains the trajectory of Turkish foreign policy behavior vis-...-vis the West, identifying the major factors behind intra-alliance opposition.
Author : Svetozar Rajak
Publisher : Springer
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 37,27 MB
Release : 2017-02-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1137439033
Positioned on the fault line between two competing Cold War ideological and military alliances, and entangled in ethnic, cultural and religious diversity, the Balkan region offers a particularly interesting case for the study of the global Cold War system. This book explores the origins, unfolding and impact of the Cold War on the Balkans on the one hand, and the importance of regional realities and pressures on the other. Fifteen contributors from history, international relations, and political science address a series of complex issues rarely covered in one volume, namely the Balkans and the creation of the Cold War order; Military alliances and the Balkans; uneasy relations with the Superpowers; Balkan dilemmas in the 1970s and 1980s and the ‘significant other’ – the EEC; and identity, culture and ideology. The book’s particular contribution to the scholarship of the Cold War is that it draws on extensive multi-archival research of both regional and American, ex-Soviet and Western European archives.
Author : Lenard J. Cohen
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,18 MB
Release : 2011-11-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781421404332
2012 Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Magazine Embracing Democracy in the Western Balkans offers a comparative, cross-regional study of the politics and economics of Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Kosovo, and Albania from 1999 to the present. It was during this period that the first wave of post-communist regime transition ended and the region became more deeply involved in the challenges of democratic consolidation. Lenard J. Cohen and John R. Lampe explore the legacies of communist rule, the impact of incentives and impediments on reform, and the magnetic pull of European Union accession. The authors ask whether the Western Balkans are embracing democracy by creating functional, resilient institutions—governmental, administrative, journalistic, and economic—and fostering popular trust in the legitimacy of those institutions.
Author : Mark Biondich
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 12,43 MB
Release : 2011-02-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0199299056
Examines the origins of political violence in the Balkans since the 19th century, while treating the region as an integral part of modern European history, reminding us that political violence and ethnic cleansing are hardly unique to this region.
