Fear and Politics
While fear is inherent in every human society, it is not fear itself that frightens us so much as the overpowering fright that fear may arouse within. "It is fear I stand most in fear of; in sharpness it exceeds every other feeling" (Montaigne). Fear underlines the precarious edifice of the human condition: we fear death, gods, power, loss, strangers and the unknown. Both nations and individuals are often seized by fear and hysteria. There are many powerful reasons why a society in which fear does not exist is unknown and has never existed.
Could social sciences be a factor of democratic dialogue:the case of Macedonia
Why interethnic relations? Considering the Macedonian society in the past period, the most important conflicts were the interethnic ones. Fortunately, these conflicts were not always open conflict situations, but still throughout all that period they were more or less expressed through evident tensions between the ethnic Albanians and ethnic Macedonians, or more precisely, between the Macedonian nation and the Albanian ethnic minority in the state.
"Political Islam" and Bosnia and Herzegovina
The role and function of Islam (not only as religion and fate, but also as a civilization and cultural circle) in the context of modern, global political, economic, ideological, and cultural trends and its competitive intersection (particularly in the example of Bosnia and Herzegovina) is almost constantly impregnated by a large dose of negative attitudes and relationships on the side of "western" mankind - the Christian, that is, the Christian civilization and cultural circle.
Жените и децата на Балканот по Студената војна
Војните во рамките на една држава, како и оние меѓу државите, предизвикуваат долготрајни економски и општествени кризи, но и физички и психолошки нарушувања кај граѓаните кои живеат во нив, а често и кај оние од соседните земји. Иако физичкото оштетување, како што минува времето, може да биде се помалку видливо, психолошките, менталните и социјалните рани многу потешко заздравуваат. Група Корејки (таканаречени жени за утеха), кои служеа за сексуални задоволства на јапонските војници за време на Втората светска војна, се уште бараат правда. Дури и по три децении, голем број ветерани во САД се уште ги преживуваат траумите на Виетнамската војна, а децата-војници во неодамнешните војни во Сиера Леоне и во Мозамбик веројатно никогаш нема да имаат нормален живот.
Recurrent Challenges to the Implementation of Intrastate Peace Agreements: The Resistance of State Authorities
Since the end of the Cold War, most conflicts worldwide have been within states, and in most cases have erupted through ethnic or group mobilization over grievances. Some of the most massive and costly conflicts in human terms have involved the long?standing intrastate conflicts in Sri Lanka and Sudan, and the attempted genocide in the Great Lakes area in Central Africa.