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Beyond Serb-Croat Apologies: Testing a Model of Political Reconciliation in Post-war Croatia Southeastern Europe (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-28 Klaus Bachmann, Vjeran Pavlaković
One of the key themes in the three decades after the wars of Yugoslav dissolution has been reconciliation between Croatia and Serbia, two former Yugoslav republics that participated in the bloody fighting between 1991–1995 after Croatia declared independence. The recent inflation of the use of the term reconciliation requires a narrow and precise definition, which enables researchers and practitioners
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Democratic Continuity or Regression?: Croatia’s Post-EU Political Trajectory Southeastern Europe (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-28 Davor Pauković, Višeslav Raos
This article deals with the level of democracy in Croatia after EU accession. The first part presents key events, processes, and actors which have shaped the trajectory of democratic development. The second part discusses the Croatian case in the context of current research on democratic backsliding. The third part tests the idea about democratic backsliding in Croatia by running regression models
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“Don’t Dig in the Graveyard”: The Cultural Representations of the Homeland War in Croatia Southeastern Europe (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-28 Nikolina Židek
This article fills the gap on the research of memory of the Croatian War of Independence (1991–1995) in film and theatre and demonstrates that so far the arts have been the main channel of the emancipatory narrative, challenging the mainstream collective memory of a victim and victorious nation and serving as a space of fostering debate on the country’s recent past. The article focuses on the cultural
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The Land of Milk and Honey?: Young Croatians’ Identities and Perceptions as Drivers of Migration Desire Southeastern Europe (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-28 Filip Fila, Marita Grubišić-Čabo
Taking up the Croatian case and the gap in the literature concerning non-economic, micro-level drivers of migration, this article explores young peoples’ identity, and the perceptions of their country and the European Union. Survey data is analysed by means of hierarchical linear regression, aiming to answer the question to what extent the selected non-economic variables play a role in youth migration
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Political Modernization and Democratization in Croatia: Facilitating and Inhibiting Factors Southeastern Europe (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-28 Pero Maldini
This article deals with Croatian democratization as the most important process of its political modernization and identifies the main facilitating and inhibiting factors and their influence on its outcomes. The analysis is carried out at the sociostructural, institutional-political and sociocultural levels, while the outcomes of democratization are evaluated in relation to the features of a consolidated
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Critical Junctures in the Croatian Media System: Privatisation, Liberalisation and Commercialisation between 1990 and 2020 Southeastern Europe (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-07-28 Viktorija Car, Paško Bilić
At the very end of the 1980s, Croatia had a good starting position to develop accountable media because Yugoslavian media markets developed within a decentralised paradigm controlled by republics, not by the Federal Government. In this article, the authors focus on changes in the Croatian media development between 1990 and 2020. Framed by McChesney’s theory on critical junctures (2007) they focus on
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A Crisis of Political Solidarity in the European Union and the Western Balkans: Reactive vs. Institutional Solidarity Southeastern Europe (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-02-06 Jelena Vasiljević
While the narratives of democratization and Europeanization had significant mobilizing potential in the Western Balkans during the 1990s and early 2000s, their relevance has been largely undermined by recent political developments in the region and growing crises of solidarity within the EU. This article offers a novel perspective for understanding the prospects of an EU future for the Western Balkans
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Dismantling European Values: ‘Refugee Crisis’ and Discriminatory Attitudes in Greek Online News Portals Southeastern Europe (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-02-06 Dimitris Serafis, Stavros Assimakopoulos
Since 2015, the mobilization of refugee and migrant populations towards the European Union has at times monopolised public debate, and the so-called ‘refugee crisis’ has put fundamental European values, such as solidarity, to the test. In this article, the authors focus on Greece with the aim of examining the extent to which manifestations of discriminatory discourses crop up in the discussion of the
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Europeanisation and the Dialectics of Crisis and Solidarity in the Croatian and Serbian Broadsheet Press between 2007 and 2017 Southeastern Europe (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-02-06 Piotr Mirocha
This article explores representations of European solidarity in the aftermath of crisis-like events between 2007 and 2017 in the Croatian and Serbian broadsheet press, as well as their resonance with the discursive construction of Europe and Europeanisation. In order to achieve this goal, corpus-based discourse analysis is performed over a large collection of ca. 20,000 articles, originating in four
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Grassroots European Solidarity: Italian Solidarity Movements in the Western Balkans in the 1990s and 2020s and Their Visions of Europe Southeastern Europe (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-02-06 Chiara Milan, Luisa Chiodi
This article investigates how the idea of European solidarity and the vision of Europe changed over time amongst Italian groups and individuals engaged in solidarity actions in support of Internally Displaced Persons (idp s) and refugees in the Western Balkans in the 1990s and 2020s. By means of document analysis and in-depth qualitative interviews, the article shows that individuals partaking in solidarity
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Building Connectivity Infrastructures in the Cold War Balkans: National Political Objectives and Transnational Technocratic Cooperation Southeastern Europe (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-10-31 Michael Charokopos
The article explores the development of energy and transport networks in the Cold War Balkans by bringing three case studies of cross-border connectivity into focus: the Yougelexport project, the Djerdap hydropower station and the Circular Highway. In this endeavour networks are not treated as neutral physical infrastructures, but as social phenomena with political, cultural and economic impact. Hence
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The European Union’s Economic Conditionality and Europeanization of the Western Balkans: The Case of Bosnia and Herzegovina Southeastern Europe (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-10-31 Nedim Hogic
This article evaluates the role that the economic conditionality of the European Union (EU) toward the six Western Balkan countries may play in the transformation of these countries as a part of their EU accession process. The article is a case study of a temporary policy shift that occurred in 2014 in relation to conditions that Bosnia and Herzegovina must fulfill to qualify for opening negotiations
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Reversibility of Illiberalism: The Case of North Macedonia Southeastern Europe (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-10-31 Islam Jusufi
From 2006 to 2016, North Macedonia experienced a period of democratic backsliding and illiberalism. Following the elections of 2016 and the rise of the opposition Social Democrats to power, these tendencies seem to have reversed, and the country seems headed towards a liberal democratic path. The expectation that illiberalism is resilient and difficult to eradicate has been proven wrong. Various sources
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Foreign Direct Investment and Backward Spillovers in the Western Balkans: The Context, Opportunities and Barriers to the Development of Regional Supply Chains Southeastern Europe (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-05-03 Besnik Krasniqi, Jasmina Ahmetbasić, Will Bartlett
This article investigates how regional supply chains support the Western Balkans’ economic growth. It first identifies the role of the cefta free trade agreement in expanding the size of the local market and opening up regional trading opportunities. It recounts how the larger market and specific industrial policies have attracted foreign direct investment (fdi) to the region in recent years. It analyses
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Spatial Change in Bulgaria’s Political Elite, 1878–2014 Southeastern Europe (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-05-03 Kaloyan Stanev
The question of who should, and who actually does, govern has long been at the centre of empirical and theoretical analyses. This article focuses on the evolution of regional inequality in Bulgaria in terms of political representation. A specially created gis data set facilitated the assessment of changes in the composition of different Bulgarian governments during a long period of political transformation
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Art and Memory as Reconciliation Tool? Re-Thinking Reconciliation Strategies in the Western Balkans: An Introduction Southeastern Europe (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-12-21 Maja Savić-Bojanić, Ilir Kalemaj
The violent demise of Yugoslavia and the bloody period that marked most of the 1990s in this region have sparked academic interest in the peacebuilding and reconciliation initiatives which emerged after the conflict. Scholarly literature on the subject went in the directions of transitional justice, social psychology and socio-political approaches. However, an unexplored alley of scholarly interest
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A Battle for Sovereignty: Who Owns Cultural Heritage in Kosovo? Southeastern Europe (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-12-21 Aleksandar Pavlović, Gazela Pudar Draško, Jelena Lončar
This article examines the role, status and perceptions of the Serbian cultural heritage in Kosovo from both Kosovo Albanian and Serbian perspectives. The analysis focuses on two cases, which attracted particular resistance on each of the two sides: the passing of legislation in the Kosovar parliament in 2012 that aimed to protect Serbian cultural heritage and the 2015 unsuccessful Kosovo bid for unesco
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Different Voices and Luminosities: Encouraging Reconciliation through Museum Practices Southeastern Europe (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-12-21 Sarina Bakić
The author of this article will put an emphasis on museum practices that have encouraged the reconciliation process and dialogue in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Western Balkans. Moreover, this article will contribute to the ongoing discussions in museum and cultural studies expressing the need for reconsidering the values and roles of museum practices. It is about the comprehensive range of innovative
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(Not) Dealing with War Crimes on Film: Post-Yugoslav Cinema as a Method of Fostering Reconciliation and Peace Southeastern Europe (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-12-21 Rimantė Jaugaitė
This article argues that contemporary post-Yugoslav cinema contributes to a better understanding of the deeply divided societies in the aftermath the Yugoslav Wars (1991–2001), in terms of stimulating empathy for the Other, and, more specifically, raising awareness of the loss of human lives, thus memorializing and commemorating these experiences. It also explores how film directors deal with social
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Orlanda Obad and Petar Bagarić (eds.), Devedesete: Kratki rezovi Southeastern Europe (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-12-21 Hajrudin Hromadžić
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Jelena Džankić, Soeren Keil and Marko Kmezić (eds.), The Europeanisation of the Western Balkans: A Failure of EU Conditionality? Southeastern Europe (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-12-21 Julija Sardelić
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Keith Doubt and Adnan Tufekčić, Ethnic and National Identity in Bosnia-Herzegovina: Kinship and Solidarity in a Polyethnic Society Southeastern Europe (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-12-21 Edin Dupanović
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Peter Gatrell, The Unsettling of Europe: The Great Migration, 1945 to the Present Southeastern Europe (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-12-21 Francesca Rolandi
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Aleksandar Mijatović, Temporalities of Post-Yugoslav Literature: The Politics of Time Southeastern Europe (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-12-21 Aljoša Pužar
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Balkan Migration Crises and Beyond Southeastern Europe (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-08-25 Anna Krasteva
This article has a threefold aim. First, to create a typology of Balkan migration crises. Second, to reflect on how migration is theorized in a crisis situation by analyzing the competing conceptual clusters and proposing new ones. Third, to measure the ratio between the region’s crisis and anti-crisis potential in the field of migration in regard both to agency and policies. The article is structured
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EU Transmigrants in Belgrade as Agents of Europeanisation from Below Southeastern Europe (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-08-25 Marija Brujić
Migration studies are usually concerned with involuntary or underprivileged migrants living in highly developed societies. In contrast, this article focuses on emigration from affluent to less developed countries, using the example of EU lifestyle women transmigrants living in Belgrade. Serbia is a Western Balkan EU candidate country with a high youth emigration rate. The aim of this study is to question
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(In)security and Immigration to Depopulating Rural Areas in Southern and Southeastern Europe Southeastern Europe (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-08-25 Jovana Mastilovic, Marco Zoppi
This article examines a migration pattern which has been overshadowed by the ‘security turn’ dominating European discourses: depopulation. Across Europe, emigration is responsible for significant demographic transformations, especially in rural and remote areas. Depopulation leads to the reduction of services provided to citizens, further diminishing the attractiveness of these territories. Against
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Charles D. Sabatos. Frontier Orientalism and the Turkish Image in Central European Literature Southeastern Europe (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-08-25 Jeremy F. Walton
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James Mark, Bogdan C. Iacob, Tobias Rupprecht and Ljubica Spaskovska. 1989: A Global History of Eastern Europe Southeastern Europe (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-08-25 Ruzha Smilova
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Carole Hodge. The Balkans on Trial: Justice vs. Realpolitik Southeastern Europe (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-08-25 Ana Ljubojević
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Anti-Establishment Parties in Government: syriza-anel Policy-Making Match between the Radical Left and the Radical Right Southeastern Europe (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-05-06 Vasiliki Georgiadou, Jenny Mavropoulou
Anti-establishment parties with either a left-wing or a right-wing ideological slant have been entering contemporary European Democracies with sizeable vote shares. During the Great Recession, the Greek party system could be perceived as a relevant case-study for the formation and breakthrough of anti-establishment parties. Given the fact that two deeply ideologically diverging anti-establishment parties
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Blessing or Curse?: The Impact of the Refugee Crisis on Organized Civil Society in Greece Southeastern Europe (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-05-06 Anastasios Valvis, Sotiris Petropoulos, Katerina Kaisari, Asteris Huliaras
Studies have identified variables that influence ngo objectives, organizational structures and activities, often related to the broader socio-economic context. Among the most important are the availability of funding and the density of networks. Both factors affect ngo s by driving them either to adjust priorities and widen or limit their operations and/or to become more or less extrovert. This article
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Do Small Powers Retrench?: Greece in the Western Balkans during the Era of syriza Governance Southeastern Europe (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-05-06 Ritsa Panagiotou, Nikolaos Tzifakis
This article analyses and develops the rationale behind the foreign policy of the syriza-led government towards the Western Balkans. It challenges the prevalent view in the academic literature that there was continuity between policies of the syriza government and its predecessors. By analysing the track record of Greek foreign policy towards the region from 2009 to 2019, it argues that from mid-2016
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Economic Governance of a Populist Government: From the Fear of Grexit to Continued Instability Southeastern Europe (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-05-06 Panagiotis Liargovas, Nikolaos Apostolopoulos
The focus of this article is on the main aspects of economic governance in Greece during the period 2015–19 where the syriza-anel coalition party was in power. In August 2015, the syriza-anel government faced the dilemma either to accept a new agreement with the EU partners (as eventually happened) or go bankrupt and leave the Eurozone, becoming detached from EU solidarity mechanisms. A third program
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Higher Education Reform in Time of Crisis: Between Politicisation and Coalition of Radical Left and Radical Right Southeastern Europe (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-05-06 Foteini Asderaki
This study examines the transformation of the Greek higher education system at a time of crisis focusing on syriza/anel governance (2015–19). It aims to contribute to the literature on coalition governments’ policy choices. It also intends to enrich the research on the new party cleavages triggered by the economic crisis which hit both Europe and Greece in 2008/9, across pro- vs anti-Europeans/Eurosceptic
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Left-Wing Populism: The Rise of syriza and Its Consolidation as a Pillar of the Greek (Post-Crisis) Political System Southeastern Europe (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-05-06 Panagiotis Liargovas, Nikolaos Tzifakis
The transformation of syriza from a minor party struggling to enter parliament into a major governing party within a short period of time, its rule in the context of an economic crisis, and its resilience following four and a half years of governance make a very interesting story. syriza has been the only radical left populist party that has governed an EU country in recent times. This introductory
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Nicolae Iorga, with an introduction and notes by Andrei Pippidi, ed. Jurnalul ultimilor ani: 1938–1940, Inedit Southeastern Europe (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-05-06 Silviu Miloiu
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Marko Grdešić. The Shape of Populism: Serbia before the Dissolution of Yugoslavia Southeastern Europe (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-05-06 Uroš Prokić
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Ian Bancroft, Dragon’s Teeth: Tales from North Kosovo Southeastern Europe (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-05-06 Denis Ermolin
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Mila Dragojević. Amoral Communities: Collective Crimes in Time of War Southeastern Europe (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-05-06 Ivor Sokolić
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The Role of the EU in Facilitating a Hard Implementation Dialogue: Normalization of Kosovo-Serbia Relations Southeastern Europe (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-02-01 Bardhok Bashota, Afrim Hoti
The European Union (EU) plays a facilitating role in the normalization of relations between Kosovo and Serbia. The EU has applied a proactive approach to normalization through several agreements, initially of a technical and later of a political nature. This gradual approach has produced a relative success in the easing of relations between the parties and in creating the conditions for a final agreement
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Sabrina Ramet, Ola Listhaug and Albert Simkus (eds.), Civic and Uncivic Values in Macedonia: Value Transformation, Education and Media Southeastern Europe (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2020-12-21 Josef M. Djordjevski
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Sara Bernard, Deutsch Marks in the Head, Shovel in the Hands and Yugoslavia in the Heart: The Gastarbeiter Return to Yugoslavia (1965–1991) Southeastern Europe (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2020-12-21 Mate Nikola Tokić
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Sanja Simper, Židovi u Rijeci i liburnijskoj Istri u svjetlu fašističkog antisemitizma (1938. - 1943.) Southeastern Europe (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2020-12-21 Milovan Pisarri
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Ethnopolitics and the Mobilisation of Collective Identities across Regimes and Generations: The Case of the Republic of North Macedonia Southeastern Europe (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2020-12-21 Arianna Piacentini
Acknowledging the saliency ‘ethnonationality’ has acquired in the post-Yugoslav scenario, this article analyses the ‘evolution’ of the meanings and functions of the term ethnonational belonging in the context of Macedonia, and it does so from both macro-structural and micro-individual perspectives. Alongside providing an overview of how ethnonationality has evolved from a political-institutional perspective
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The Shape of Feminism to Come: The Networked Politics of Feminist and lgbt Movements in Slovenia Southeastern Europe (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2020-12-21 Mojca Pajnik, Žiga Vodovnik, Živa Humer, Boris Mance
This article explores the networked politics of feminist and lgbt movements in Slovenia, focusing on the organizational (“actional”) and the thematic (content-related) credo of the movements during the “All-Slovenian Uprisings” of 2012–2013. Analysing the movements’ “repertoires of contention”, the authors argue that the movements are driven by cross-movement and cross-issue (i.e. connective) alliances
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International Courts and Mass Atrocity: Narratives of War and Justice in Croatia, written by Ivor Sokolić Southeastern Europe (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2020-07-20 Tamara Banjeglav
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Framing the Nation and Collective Identity in Croatia: Political Rituals and Cultural Memory of Twentieth-Century Traumas, edited by Vjeran Pavlaković and Davor Pauković Southeastern Europe (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2020-07-20 Christina Koulouri
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A History of Yugoslavia, written by Marie-Janine Calic Southeastern Europe (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2020-07-20 Natalija Dimić
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Enlargement by Stealth?: Bulgaria’s EU Negotiations between the Political and the Technical Southeastern Europe (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2020-07-20 Antoaneta L. Dimitrova
This article argues that the EU’s enlargement negotiations with Eastern European applicants have become possible to a large extent by the introduction of objective assessment by the Commission, which allowed integration to proceed despite the threat of deadlock. The process of negotiations and preparation, however, should be better seen as a constant switching between the technical parts of the acquis
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From Representative to Anti-Civic Populist Democracy?: Development and Forms of Civil Society in Contemporary Bulgaria Southeastern Europe (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2020-07-20 Petya Kabakchieva
This article analyses the emergence and development of different forms of civil society in Bulgaria from the late 1980s to the present day, focusing on ngos and the large anti-government protests in 1989–1991, 1997, and 2013–2014. It shows that civil society has been developing in ebbs and flows, its main actors having alt-civic and fake doubles: nationalist movements and fake counter-protests. Recent
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Living on the Periphery: Bulgaria’s Geopolitics Reconsidered Southeastern Europe (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2020-07-20 Dimitar Bechev
This article discusses Bulgaria’s geopolitical predicament and its impact on the country’s political development since 1989. It looks at Bulgaria’s accession to the EU and nato in the 1990s and 2000s, its role in both institutions, as well as at its relations with Russia and Turkey. The article contends that the state’s position – on the margins of the European institutional and spatial order – informs
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The Rule of Law in Bulgaria: State of Play and Trends (after 2010) Southeastern Europe (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2020-07-20 Velina Todorova
This article discusses to what extent Bulgaria has attempted to establish the Rule of Law in recent years and the reasons this aim has remain unattained. It outlines the “peripheral status” of law in Bulgarian society because of the society’s unaccomplished modernization. Next, the manifestation of deficiencies in the development of the Rule of Law is analyzed following Martin Mendelski’s conceptual
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Bulgaria’s Economy 1989–2019 Southeastern Europe (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2020-07-20 Georgy Ganev
Based on an analytical narrative, and utilizing macroeconomic and new institutional economic theory, this exposition studies the Bulgarian economy during the decades after 1989. The three decades are placed in the context of the century-and-a-half-long Bulgarian development and convergence dynamic. They are then presented in terms of clearly defined sub-periods, and each sub-period is analyzed in detail
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Tito and His Comrades, by Jože Pirjevec Southeastern Europe (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2020-03-18 Sabrina P. Ramet
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Everyday Life in the Balkans, edited by David W. Montgomery Southeastern Europe (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2020-03-18 Mišo Kapetanović,Sandra King-Savic
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Stalin’s Legacy in Romania: The Hungarian Autonomous Region, 1952–1960, by Stefano Bottoni Southeastern Europe (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2020-03-18 Zoltán Bretter
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Ending the Long-lasting “Difference over the Name”: The Prespa Agreement – Its Philosophy, Origins and Challenges Ahead Southeastern Europe (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2020-03-18 Sasho Georgievski, Irena Rajchinovska Pandeva
This article offers a broad analysis of the “name issue,” its origins, background and the challenges ahead in light of the Prespa agreement. It posits the historical perspective of both identities, assesses the positions maintained by the parties during the political and diplomatic dispute settlement process and presents the concerns of both parties regarding the agreement. Given the content of the
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The Long Road to Europeanization: North Macedonia’s Contentious Democratization between Its Democratic Deficit and External Involvement Southeastern Europe (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2020-03-18 Ivan Damjanovski, Nenad Markovikj
This article focuses on the relation between EU leverage and domestic elites related to the differential impact of conditionality in the case of the Republic of North Macedonia. The main focus is on the influence of the low credibility of the membership perspective on the effectiveness of EU political conditionality in North Macedonia. Additionally, it examines to what extent the legitimacy of the
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The Three Memory Regimes of Ilinden Commemorations (2001–2018): A Prolegomenon to the Study of the Official Memory in North Macedonia Southeastern Europe (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2020-03-18 Naum Trajanovski
This article aims to map and periodize memory regimes in North Macedonia, with the divergent set of Ilinden commemorations epitomizing the developments and critical changes in the period from 2001 to 2018. Ilinden is still by and large considered to be pivotal for Macedonian nation-building, structuring the long Macedonian 20th century and serving as the most prominent state holiday. The commemorative