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Author(s): Muharem Bazdulj / Language(s): Bosnian

Muharem Bazdulj was born 1977 in Travnik, where he completed his high school education. He graduated from Sarajevo University with a major in English (English and American literature). He regularly writes cultural and general interest articles for the Sarajevo weekly ”Dani” (Days) and for the Belgrade weekly ”Vreme” (Time), and occasionally for the Zagreb-based “Zarez” (Comma), the web site http://www.pescanik.net, Skopje-based “Forum” and for other publications within the space of former Yugoslavia. He has published nine books of prose fiction, poetry, and essays. The most recent of them, a collection of short stories, entitled “Magic” was published in 2008 by the publishing house Gradac from Čačak (Serbia). His books have been translated into English, German, and Polish. He is an editor at the Zagreb-based magazine for culture ”Tvrđa” (Fortress) as well as at the Sarajevo daily newspaper ”Oslobođenje”(Liberation). Filigree Pavements consist of fifty articles published in Bazdulj’s column of the same title in the Sarajevo weekly ”Dani” (Days).

KRAJE ROZWIJAJĄCE SIĘ WE WSPÓŁCZESNEJ GOSPODARCE ŚWIATOWEJ

Author(s): Katarzyna A. Nawrot / Language(s): Polish

Za największą czy najważniejszą zaletę tego opracowania uważam interdyscyplinarne podejście do analizy krajów rozwijających się, co w przypadku rozpraw ekonomicznych należy raczej do rzadkości, a w warunkach zglobalizowanego świata, a zwłaszcza różnorodności jego części składowych jest warunkiem niezbędnym, jeśli chce się zrozumieć nie tylko charakter barier rozwojowych, stopień konfliktogenności, ale także możliwe drogi ich przezwyciężania, a co najmniej łagodzenia. (…) Praca może pełnić liczne funkcje, od poznawczo-informacyjnych, aż po dydaktyczne na wyższych uczelniach czy studiach podyplomowych, (…) przede wszystkim ma wielką wartość jako jedna z nielicznych rozpraw o charakterze interdyscyplinarnym, poświęconych problematyce krajów rozwijających się. Tego typu rozprawy na rynku czytelniczym w Polsce –  jak dotąd – brakuje. /// Z recenzji prof. dr. hab. Jerzego Kleera.

Ми смо Немци. Етнички идентитет припадника немачке националне мањине у Војводини на почетку 21. века

Author(s): Aleksandar Krel / Language(s): Serbian

The presence of a German population in the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, in the north of the Republic of Serbia, is the result of historical circumstances. They were settled there at the time of the mass colonisation of Southern Hungary and the Middle Danube region in the eighteenth and nineteenth century. This colonisation—aimed at boosting the economic and defensive military capacities of the territories annexed to the Habsburg Monarchy as a result of a series of Austro-Ottoman wars— changed noticeably the ethnic map of that part of Europe. During this highly complex migratory process, large numbers of crafts men, farmers, public servants and army veterans, attracted by enticing benefits, left the German lands/principalities to settle and make a home in the Pannonian Plain. Until the twentieth century most settlers lived in rural areas, functioning as small and rela tively closed agricultural communities. Their members lived abiding by religious principles and observing customs, which helped them to preserve their local German dialects and develop distinctive cultural features. Some of those settled in urban areas made a significant contribution to the economic and cultural de velopment of present-day Vojvodina. After the First World War and the disintegration of the Habsburg Monarchy, the Germans in Vojvodina, Croatia, Slove nia and Bosnia became citizens of the newly-created Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (SCS) and were soon recognised as a national minority. In the interwar Kingdom of SCS (renamed Kingdom of Yugoslavia in 1929) the German minority made every effort to preserve its ethnic and cultural distinctiveness: many cultural and political organisations were active and productively participated in the public and political life of the country. The defeat of the Third Reich in the Second World War caused much trouble for the German community in Vojvodina. As was the case with the German minority in all of South-East Europe, the participation of many Yugoslavs of German origin in military, paramilitary and police forces which had fought on the side of the defeated Germany led to almost all members of the German minority being labelled as collaborationists and incurring widespread odium as such. For the purpose of punishment, Yugoslav authorities set up camps for mass internment of German Yugoslavs who had not fled before Yugoslav partisan and Soviet Red Army troops. Pursuant to newly-adopted regulations, the internment was combined with the loss of property and civil rights. Only a few thousand members of the German community were exempted from the sanctions and allowed to keep their citizenship and property, usually on account of their own or a family member’s participation in the People’s Liberation Movement (NOP). In the early 1950s the process of dissolving the camps and repatriation took place. As most members of the German minority chose to emigrate to Germany or Austria, in the mid-1960s there remained in Yugoslavia only a small number, and mostly concentrated in Vojvodina. Their position was gradually improving, but the hardships they had experienced and the strong antiGerman sentiment in the wake of the war led them to opt for the strategy of ethnic mimicry. In that period, the Germans of Vojvodina consciously concealed their own and publicly demonstrated ethnic identity symbols of the ethnic communities that enjoyed an advantageous social status. Their ethnic mimicry strategy was made much easier by the markedly multiethnic, multicultural and multilingual character of Vojvodina, and the transfer of ethnic identity symbols was also bolstered by a high rate of ethnic exogamy and their shared religious affiliation with members of neighbouring ethnic communities.

(Н)и овде (н)и тамо: Етнички идентитет Срба у Мађарској на крају XX века

Author(s): Mladena Prelić / Language(s): Serbian

Етнички односи Срба са другим народима и етничким заједницама

Author(s): / Language(s): English,Slovenian,Serbian

Delokalizacja a konkurencyjność przedsiębiorstw. W poszukiwaniu mechanizmu wpływu

Author(s): Marlena Dzikowska / Language(s): Polish

W książce skupiono się na zagadnieniach koncepcyjnych odnoszących się do kwestii konkurencyjności przedsiębiorstwa i delokalizacji modułów łańcucha wartości. W związku z tym książka ma charakter interdyscyplinarny. Do istotnych subdyscyplin naukowych zajmujących się omawianym obszarem badawczym należy zaliczyć m.in. teorie przedsiębiorstwa, ekonomię branży, zarządzanie strategiczne, internacjonalizację przedsiębiorstw, biznes międzynarodowy, międzynarodowe stosunki gospodarcze oraz zarządzanie łańcuchem dostaw. W szczególności w książce kompleksowo przedstawiono autorski schemat analityczny wpływu delokalizacji modułów łańcucha wartości na konkurencyjność relokującego przedsiębiorstwa.

Југословенска дипломатија 1945-1961.

Author(s): / Language(s): Croatian,Russian,Serbian

У српској/југословенској и светској историографији већ је уочен значај изучавања спољне политике и позиције социјалистичке Југославије. Научници су обраћали пажњу на важност југословенско-совјетских сукоба 1948. и 1958. године, велику улогу Југославијеу стварању покрета несврстаних земаља, стварање Балканског пакта 1953/54, проучавање односа Југославије и великих сила (блокова) и позиције Југославије у хладном рату, на место које је имао Јосип Броз као државник у послератном свету, улогу Југославије у великим кризама хладноратовског периода (тршћанска криза, Корејски рат, догађаји у Мађарској 1956, окупација Чехословачке 1968), свестрану научну, културну и техничку сарадњу Југославије са иностранством... [...]

Migrants Unbound

Author(s): Paolo Ruspini / Language(s): English

This book includes a selection of papers written in the last ten years (2009-2019) in affiliation to Swiss academic institutions. They have been updated and edited for this publication. The idea behind the present collection is to make full value of comparative research carried out both from a theoretical or empirical perspective on different categories of migrants from the elderly to second generation and from low to highly skilled, originating from a variety of regions and geographical contexts. They come from the Sub-Saharan African region as well as Western and Eastern Europe presently living on the European continent. Paolo Ruspini is a political scientist who has been researching issues of international and European migration and integration since 1997 with a comparative approach and by drawing on mixed methods. His current research deals with transnational migration from a theoretical and empirical perspective.

Readings in European Security. Volume 2

Author(s): / Language(s): English

This second volume of Readings in European Security vividly reflects the continuing changes that profoundly affect the factors shaping the security of the European continent. For a historian in the future, thework undertaken by the CEPS-IISS European Security Forum since 2001will appear in sharp contrast to the sort of issues that were at the heart of security concerns during the 1970s and 1980s, dominated by East-West confrontation.This second volume of Readings in European Security contains the complete set of working papers commissioned by the CEPS–IISS European Security Forum in 2003 (Nos. 10-15), during a period of profound change in the international security environment. These papers illuminate the big issues in European security such as the recently unveiled European security strategy, pre-emptive military action and the future of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. In-depth analysis is provided on Europe’s approach to regions such as Turkey and the Greater Middle East. Independent experts present EU, US and Russian viewpoints on each topic. Each set of papers is prefaced by an Introduction by the Chairman, François Heisbourg, Director of the Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique in Paris.

Who is a normative foreign policy actor? The European Union and its Global Partners

Author(s): Michael Emerson,Natalie Tocci,Daniel S. Hamilton,Radha Kumar,Andrey S. Makarychev,Brantly Womack,Hakim Darbouche ,Sandra Fernandes,Ruth Hanau-Santini,Ian Manners,Gergana Noutcheva,Clara Portela / Language(s): English

This publication investigates “Who is a normative foreign policy actor?” It forms part of a new project intended to explore fundamental aspects of foreign policy at the global level, against the backdrop of a proliferation of global actors in the 21st century, following half a century with only one undisputed global hegemon: the United States. The European Union is itself a new or emerging foreign policy actor, driven by self-declared normative principles. But Russia, China and India are also increasingly assertive actors on the global stage and similarly claim to be driven by a normative agenda. The fundamental question explored is how will these various global actors define their foreign policy priorities, and how they will interact, especially if their ideas of normative behaviour differ?

Composition and Drivers of Energy Prices and Costs: Case Studies in Selected Energy Intensive Industries – 2018

Author(s): Christian Egenhofer,Felice Simonelli,Andrea Renda,Antonella Zarra,William Schmitt,Aurélie Faure,Eleanor Drabik,Vasileios Rizos,Thomas Hähl,Michèle Koper,Angelica Afanador Pujol,Marian Bons / Language(s): English

The current report represents the final deliverable of the 2018 edition of the “Composition and Drivers of Energy Prices and Costs: Case Studies in Selected Energy Intensive Industries” (hereinafter “the Assignment”). The Assignment aimed to achieve two main objectives: 1. Providing well-grounded, bottom-up evidence of the composition and drivers of energy prices and energy costs faced by industrial operators in EU energy intensive sectors.2. Assessing the impact of energy prices and costs and of their components on the cost competitiveness and, where possible, international competitiveness of EU energy intensive sectors.

Convergence of bank regulations on international norms in the Southern Mediterranean

Author(s): Rym Ayadi,Emrah Arbak,Barbara Casu Lukac,Mohammed Yazid Boumghar,Jawad Kerdoudi,Moez Labidi,Sami Ben Naceur / Language(s): English

International standards and norms on banking regulations have, once again, leaped to the forefront of the policy discussion in developed nations due to the recent crisis in the world’s financial markets. This discussion is far from new, nor does it apply exclusively to the world’s most advanced economies. A sound and well-enforced regulatory regime can help developing nations to channel financial resources more efficiently into investments. For open economies, it can also act as a buffer, an important stability factor in today’s shaky market situation.

Artificial Intelligence. Ethics, governance and policy challenges

Author(s): Andrea Renda / Language(s): English

Like an unannounced guest, artificial intelligence (AI) has suddenly emerged from nerdy discussions in university labs and begun to infiltrate larger venues and policy circles around the globe. Everywhere, and particularly in Europe, the debate has been tainted by much noise and fear, as evidenced in the European Parliament’s resounding report on civil law rules for robotics, in which Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is evoked on the opening page (European Parliament, 2016). At countless seminars, workshops and conferences, self-proclaimed “experts” voice concerns about robots taking our jobs, disrupting our social interactions, manipulating public opinion and political elections, and ultimately taking over the world by dismissing human beings, once and for all, as redundant and inefficient legacies of the past.

QE in the euro area: has the PSPP benefited peripheral bonds?

Author(s): Ansgar Belke,Daniel Gros / Language(s): English

The asset purchase programme of the euro area, active between 2015 and 2018, constitutes an interesting special case of Quantitative Easing (QE) because the ECB’s Public Sector Purchase Programme (PSPP) involved the purchase of peripheral euro area government bonds, which were clearly not riskless. Moreover, these purchases were undertaken by national central banks at their own risk. Intuition suggests, and a simple model confirms, that, ceteris paribus, large purchases by a national central bank of the bonds of their own sovereign should increase the risk for the remaining private bond holders. This might seem incompatible with the observationthat risk spreads on peripheral bonds fell when QE in the euro area was announced. However, the initial fall in risk premiums may have been due to expectations of the bond purchases proving effective in lowering risk-free rates. When these expectations were disappointed, risk premiums returned to their initial level. Formal statistical tests confirm that indeed risk premiums on peripheral bonds did not follow a random walk (contrary to what is assumed inevent studies). Nor did the announcements of bond buying change the stochastics of these premiums. There is thus no reason to consider the impact effect to have been permanent.

№60 Why come here if I can go there? Assessing the ‘Attractiveness’ of the EU’s Blue Card Directive for ‘Highly Qualified’ Immigrants

Author(s): Katharina Eisele / Language(s): English

This paper analyses the attractiveness of the EU’s Blue Card Directive – the flagship of the EU’s labour immigration policy – for so-called ‘highly qualified’ immigrant workers from outside the EU. For this purpose, the paper deconstructs the understanding of ‘attractiveness’ in the Blue Card Directive as shaped by the various EU decision-making actors during the legislative process. It is argued that the Blue Card Directive sets forth minimum standards providing for a common floor –not a common ceiling: the Directive did not, as originally envisaged by the European Commission, create one European highly skilled admission scheme. This raises questions regarding its concreteuse. A critical focus is placed on the personal scope of the Blue Card Directive and the level of rights offered, and a first comparative perspective on the implementation of the Directive in five member states is provided.

№74 The End of the Transitional Period for Police and Criminal Justice Measures Adopted before the Lisbon Treaty: Who monitors trust in the European Criminal Justice area?

Author(s): Katharina Eisele,Sergio Carrera,Valsamis Mitsilegas / Language(s): English

This study examines the legal and political implications of the recent end of the transitional period for the measures in the fields of police and judicial cooperation in criminal matters, as set out in Protocol 36 to the EU Treaties. This Protocol limits some of the most far-reaching innovations introduced by the Treaty of Lisbon over EU cooperation on Justice and Home Affairs for a period of five years after the entry into force of the Treaty of Lisbon (until 1 December 2014), and provides the UK with special ‘opt out/opt-in’ possibilities. The study focuses on the meaning of the transitional period for the wider European Criminal Justice area. The most far-reaching change emerging from the end of this transition will be the expansion of the powers if scrutiny by the European Commission and Luxembourg Court of Justice over Member States’ implementation of EU criminal justice law. The possibility offered by Protocol 36 for the UK to opt out and opt back in to pre-Lisbon Treaty instruments poses serious challenges to a common EU area of justice by further institutionalising ‘over-flexible’ participation incriminal justice instruments.

№80 The Criminalisation of Irregular Migration in the European Union

Author(s): Mark Provera / Language(s): English

This paper offers an academic examination of the legal regimes surrounding the criminalisation of irregular migrants in the EU and of acts of solidarity with irregular migrants, such as assisting irregular migrants to enter or remain in the EU, and other behaviour that is motivated by humanitarian instincts.The research analyses EU law and its relationship with national provisions regarding the criminalisation of irregular migration and of acts of solidarity vis-á-vis irregular migrants. A comparative analysis was made of the laws of the UK, France and Italy, supplemented by ananalysis of the laws of Germany, the Netherlands and Spain. By considering the role of public trust in fostering compliance with the law, the paper explores the impact of criminalisation measures on institutions’ authority to compel individuals to comply with the law (institutional legitimacy).

№52 Justice and Home Affairs Databases and a Smart Borders System at EU External Borders. An Evaluation of Current and Forthcoming Proposals

Author(s): Didier Bigo,Sergio Carrera,Ben Hayes,Nicholas Hernanz,Julien Jeandesboz / Language(s): English

This study examines current and forthcoming measures related to the exchange of data and information in EU Justice and Home Affairs policies, with a focus on the ‘smart borders’ initiative. It argues that there is no reversibility in the growing reliance on such schemes and asks whether current and forthcoming proposals are necessary and original. It outlines the main challenges raised by the proposals, including issues related to the right to data protection, but also to privacy and non-discrimination.

ARCTIC NARRATIVES AND POLITICAL VALUES: ARCTIC STATES, CHINA AND NATO

Author(s): Iona Mackenzie Allan / Language(s): English

The following research is based on discourse analysis of official statements, speeches and policy documents published by the governments of the eight Arctic states as well as China and the NATO alliance between January 2012 and June 2019. This document provides a brief summary of the key narratives promoted by each of these 10 Arctic actors, drawing particular attention towards how they frame their identity in the Arctic (self), how they conceptualise the region (region) and how they frame relations with other Arctic stakeholders (others). The narratives identified in the discourse were coded according to the different national power dimensions and political values that they communicate. This summary is intended to give an over-view of the narrative landscape of the Arctic as indication of key national interests and areas of strategic priorities for each of these 10 Arctic actors.

Gender and Identity

Author(s): / Language(s): English