Macedonian Migration Policy and the Future of Europe
This year-end analysis draws in unique facts and previews of the migrant crisis in the Balkans, and how it is likely to affect Macedonia and Europe in general.
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This year-end analysis draws in unique facts and previews of the migrant crisis in the Balkans, and how it is likely to affect Macedonia and Europe in general.
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Our annual year ahead risk assessment covers the most likely and often underreported security trends to watch,
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This article details the potentil for migrant route diversification following the closure of the Balkan Route, and especially Italy and Albania.
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This exclusive interview with Edith Harxhi provides insight on the challenge and opportunities facing Albania as it aspires to a larger regional role.
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This article explores the potential regional security risks from terrorism and the migrant crisis following weaks of border violations and protests.
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This exclusive article examines the potential for a breakdown in European security along the Balkan and Italian migration routes.
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This exclusive article with accompanying Defense Ministry photos is the best analysis of the reasons for poor security cooperation between Macedonia and local EU staff on migration response, required reading for all scholars on the issue.
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The first series article, dating from mid-June 2016, explores EU behavior concerning Macedonia, diplomatic preference for the opposition, and chronic media avoidance tactics meant to protect high-level officials from public accountability.
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This contextual article, first appearing in mid-June 2016, narrates the local situation in which the EU's crisis response occurred, discussing the main players- and main mischaracterizations of reality that would affect the project.
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The series' third part examines how the EU came to understand the Macedonian crisis as a 'rule-of-law' issue, and explores previously unavailable internal EU documentation referencing Macedonian SIGINT capacity from 2010.
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The explosive fourth part of the series is a detailed investigation of every detail of the June 2015 Priebe Report, that effectively set the rules for reform in Macedonia and became the 'official history' of the crisis. This exclusive report, complemented by inside interviews, exposes the massive flaws of the entire endeavor, and the EU's complicity in the scheme.
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The explosive conclusion of the series (identical to the same text in 2016 Issue 13 on Italian security) concerns the possible role of Italian intelligence and diplomacy before and during the Macedonian crisis, based on original interviews and close analysis.
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Heimerl "Nordafrikanische Sigillata, Küchenkeramik und Lampen aus Augusta Vindelicum/Augsburg."; Münchner Beiträge zur Provinzialrömischen Archäologie 6. Reichert Verlag, Wiesbaden 2014. 2184 S., 115 Abb., 32 s/w-Abb., 4 Farbabb.
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Forests play a key role in the rural area landscape. One of the types of information which determines their social function are local names (geographical names, toponyms). The research was focused on forest toponyms the names of forest areas and objects related to forest management. The aim was to choose several sets of spatial data (topographic maps, tourist maps, forest maps and the State Register of Geographical Names) and then to compare them in terms of the number of forest toponyms they contain. The study area covers three forest districts (Daleszyce, Write, Tuchola) located in different parts of Poland. In total, more than 120 toponyms were found, which were divided into 8 categories. It was found that the compared sets of data are diverse both in terms of the number and categories of presented forest toponyms. Generally, good tourist maps, despite their smaller scale, include a slightly larger number of such names than modern topographical maps.
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This paper is an attempt to answer the questions: Is it possible to use entropy to determine the quantity of information for the purpose of analysis and spatial planning of rural areas? Is it possible to predict the directions of settlement around cities by analysing the entropy of built-up areas and determining the quantity of information? The paper presents a theoretical attempt to determine the quantity of information according to Shannon. The data used in the paper consists in the records of the built-up areas of Stawiguda commune (the Warmińsko-Mazurskie Voivodeship).
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Since 1990, rural Lithuania has experienced a transformation due to a change in the agricultural model, when social and economic reforms were launched towards creating a market economy. Agricultural activity started concentrating in territories with the best social and physical conditions. A type of latifundium agrarian structure has formed in northern and central Lithuania. The transition from the collective model into the family farming model in western and south-western Lithuania developed faster than in other regions by the active formation of medium and large family farming. Small family farming has overtaken the collective agricultural exploitation in eastern, southern and coastal regions. Landscape structure analysis supported the results of socio-geographical research in rural spaces. During 19952009, the decline of the agrarian land area was the most intensive and an increase in the average size of land plot was the least visible in the morainic hill landscape (eastern Lithuania), the most unproductive compared to the other investigated landscape types: clayey plains and downy clayey plains (central and northern Lithuania).
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The paper has been aimed at finding agrotourism development opportunities in particular municipalities of Western Pomerania district. A Drzewiecki's method, comprising seven criteria scale for agro tourism attractiveness for each municipality, was used to valorise recreational space in there. According to Drzewiecki a rural or urbanrural municipality can be regarded as a rural recreational space only if three, out of seven criteria, are met. In case of Western Pomerania region, municipalities happen to meet the criteria of agrotourism attractiveness mainly due to small population density (89% of municipalities), high individual agriculture rate (52% of municipalities), and last but not least, high forest to overall area rate (47% of municipalities). Specifically, 41 municipalities shall be regarded as country recreational since they meet at last three, out of seven concerned, criteria. Country recreational space in the Western Pomerania district amounts to 10 700 km2 (47% of the total district area), which is inhabited by 206 000 people (12% of the district population). The area does not provide a compact space, though the agrotourism oriented municipalities tend to conglomerate in Drawskie Lakeland (namely Drawsko, Łobez, and Szczecinek counties), as well as in Goleniów county. Four criteria (maximum) are met, however, only by 14 municipalities of Western Pomerania (zachodniopomorskie) District, most frequently in Drawsko, Goleniów, and Stargard Szczeciński counties.
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From 20 to 27 August 2018, the International Slavic Congress took place in Belgrade. The pro-gram of the Commission held meetings that are accredited (affiliated) at the International Committee of Slavists. The congress of researches on emigration provided an opportunity to discuss the current state of research and their prospects for further development. The author of the article discusses the specifics of emigration research, paying particular attention to the achievements of Polish stud-ies, and points out the most important tasks facing the Board and the Bureau of the Commission. An important stage in the activities of the commission is the decision to move its headquarters to Olsztyn, which strengthens the Institute of Eastern Slavic studies as one of the Leading centers of emigration research, not only in Poland, but also in European science.
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The paper focuses on the mutual support provision between older peopleand their children. Intergenerational exchange is considered an empirical indicator offunctional solidarity, a core constituent of intergenerational solidarity (Bengtson andRoberts 1991). Types of support in this analysis include financial support, housework, caresupport and work assistance. Data from the 2011 Vietnam National Ageing Survey wereused for analysis with a sample of 2,700 participants aged 60 and older. Results suggestedthat older people with more resources tend to be involved in mutual intergenerationalsupport provision relationships, particularly financial support. Additionally, age, maritalstatus, living arrangements, number of children, and the health condition of older parentssignificantly contribute to encouraging mutual support provision. Future research couldfocus on reciprocity models and the relationship between the quality of intergenerationalrelationships and mutual support. Further, it could explore the outcomes of mutual support,which results in older people’s well-being in advanced age.
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Study was conducted to research the effect of “Jigsaw II Technique” to be one of the “Cooperative Learning Approach” on the students’ academic learning success and gains in the 10th classes geography lesson’s learning subject of “Turkey’s Population” located in the unit of “A Spatial Synthesis Turkey.” In this study Cooperative learning technique and traditional question-answer and explaining were compared and “Pretest-Posttest Control Group Experimental Research Method” was used. In the control group the choosen geography lesson was carried out by using traditional methods and in the experimental group the “Jigsaw II Technique” being one of the “cooperative Learning Approaches” was used. Achievement test and attitude scala were applied such as pretest and posttest. In the end of the study afew students having representation ability of representing the experimental group was selected and their ideas were defined by using semi stuructured interview forms. According to the applied interview results it was understood that the cooperative learning process was more effective in geography lesson for improving the learning success than the traditional teaching methods called question-answer and explaining methods. In other words it was understood that the cooperative learning method affected the students’ attitudes positively in geography lesson.
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