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BALKAN STUDIES

acropolis15Prof. Anis H. Bajrektarevic
(Professor in international law and global political studies, based in Austria. His recent book Is There Life after Facebook? is published by the New York's Addleton Academic Publishers)

Copyright: Research Institute for European and American Studies (www.rieas.gr)
Publication Date: 20 October 2014

A freshly released IMF's World Economic Outlook brings (yet again, for the sixth year in a row, and for the third time this year only) no comforting picture to anyone within the G-7, especially in the US and EU. Will the passionately US-pushed cross-Atlantic Free Trade Area save the day? Or, would that Pact-push drag the things over the edge and mark an end of the unionistic Europe? Is the extended EU conflict with Russia actually a beginning of the Atlantic-Central Europe's conflict over Russia, an internalization of mega geopolitical and geo-economic dilemma – who accommodates with whom, in and out of the Union? Finally, does more Ukrainian (and Eastern Europe) calamities pave the road for a new cross-continental grand accommodation, of either austerity-tired France or über-performing Germany with Russia, therefore the end of the EU? For whose sake Eastern Europe has been barred of all important debates such as that of Slavism, identity, secularism and antifascism? Why do we suddenly wonder that all around Germany-led Central Europe, the neo-Nazism gains ground while only Russia insists on antifascism and (pan-)Slavism?....  Read more

romania14Claudiu-Nicolae Sonda
(Postgraduate student in the M.A. Program - the International and European Relations-in the Linkoping University, Sweden)

Copyright: Research Institute for European and American Studies (www.rieas.gr) Publication Date: 15 October 2014

Introduction

In this short paper we will put into context the Romanian perspective on the wider Black sea region. First of all, we will try to define and understand what is the wider Black Sea region, who are the states which form it, and what sort of cooperation projects are taking place around this area of the globe. This step is elementary in setting the background on which any further analysis could be developed.....  Read more

competitive1Stathis Katopodis, M.A.
(RIEAS Research Associate)

Nikos Vassiliadis
(M.Sc. Candidate at Grenoble Ecole de Management, France)

Copyright: Research Institute for European and American Studies (www.rieas.gr),Publication Date: 27 August 2014)

This paper is focused on adapting the concept of Competitive Intelligence (CI) on governmental level. More particularly, in the case of Greece and the lessons that can be learned from the global state "competition" on the entrepreneurship sector in order to boost the country's challenged economy. We live in a world of constant changes, the global economic environment, commerce and technological innovations shift the trends of competition day after day. However, states are forced to compete in an ever ending competition that tips the scales of the regional and global balances of power... Read more

Ia Pozovi
(RIEAS Senior Analyst)

Copyright: Research Institute for European and American Studies (www.rieas.gr) Publication Date: 27/07/2014

Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) was the most multi-ethnic and multi-faith republic of former Yugoslavia, where three main ethnic groups – Bosnian Muslims (or Bosniaks), Croats and Serbs used to live next to each other peacefully during the centuries; this is why BiH was rightly described as the ‘Yugoslavia in miniature.’ .... Read more

Peny Sotiropoulou
(Master's student in the MSc of Ethnicity and Multiculturalism in the Department of Sociology of the University of Bristol, UK)

Copyright: Research Institute for European and American Studies (www.rieas.gr), Publication Date on 19 July 2014

Introduction

Prof. Anis Bajrektarevic famously claimed that “…the conglomerate of nation-states/EU has silently handed over one of its most important debates – that of European identity – to the wing-parties, recently followed by the several selective and contra-productive foreign policy actions.” Elaborating on these actions he went further as to claim that: “…sort of Islam Europe supported in the Middle East yesterday, is the sort of Islam that Europe hosts today. (…) and “…that Islam in Turkey (or in Kirgizstan and in Indonesia) is broad, liberal and tolerant while the one in Northern Europe is a brutally dismissive and assertive.”...Read more

Alexandros Niklan
(Security Consultant/CEO, IISCA group)

Copyright: Research Institute for European and American Studies (www.rieas.gr) (Publication Date: 31 May 2014)

On March of 2011, many believed that this was indeed the “fat’s lady song” on terrorism in Greece. A simple camera device and a long, in duration, surveillance and forensics data analysis, resulted to the arrest of multiple core members, of the terrorist group Fire Nuclei Conspiracy which was thought as the continuous stage of former group 17N [ ]. But facts since then changed and lead now to a different direction.... Read more

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