INTER-ETHNIC RELATIONS IN MACEDONIA: PEOPLE CENTRED ANALYSES
This analyses is a result of a large empirical research, held at early September 2009. The respondents, 943 of them, answered to the questions about several aspects of their life and the life of their household. Interethnic relations, analysed here, are one aspect of the survey “People Cantered Analyses”, supported by UNDP.
THE BORDERS OF OUR MINDS
The book that I held in my hands in the Princeton University library that day, some ten years ago, was a collection of maps of eastern Europe through the centuries. Holding the pages with my thumb, I let them turn one by one very rapidly. Suddenly, these seemingly fixed borders of states and nations became alive, moving back and forth, expanding and contracting, disappearing and reappearing again, as pages and centuries went by...
ON THE EDGE OF EUROPE: THE MARGINALISATION OF ALBANIA WITHIN THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY
his article explores the marginalisation of the Albanian state since its founding in 1913. It is an analysis that embraces the roles of stigmatization and argues how and why Albania has been traditionally viewed through a negative lens in contemporary times. The article begins by establishing three main points as the under-currents of Albanian marginalisation, and role of stereotyping and simple labeling is a prominent theme throughout...
Bosnia is in for a Shake-up
While the world is gripped by the crusade against terrorism a question mark hangs over Bosnia-Herzegovina. The UN is scheduled to leave Bosnia by 2002, potentially in the slipstream of a US withdrawal from SFOR and -- presumably -- a withdrawal by SFOR from Bosnia entirely. The task is done, the argument goes. There is peace in Bosnia and the need to arrest a conflagration in Macedonia has, at any rate, eclipsed the need to provide a "safe and secure environment" in Bosnia.
Кога ништо друго не успева
Сe до неодамна, постоеше речиси целосна согласност меѓу политичарите и академците, дека целта на справувањето со етничките конфликти треба да биде да се поддржат и да се зачуваат мултиетничките општества. Но, во последниве неколку години сe погласна станува една друга идеја, дека најдоброто решение за многу од најжестоките етнички конфликти веројатно е: раздвојување на завојуваните страни.