and Balkan Europe
by IECOB & AIS Università di Bologna
This area gives access to a large collection of news resources, both printed and online, and offers information about academic journals, scholarly publications and books
News, analysis websites and blogs dealing with the Balkans
Here you can find basic information about news and analysis websites dealing with the Balkans, as well as websites of news agencies and blogs of scholars and academicians, with direct links.
Balkanalysis.com
Description: this is one of the leading independent news and analysis groups covering the Balkans today. With a forward-thinking approach that focuses on assessing local situations and trends within a larger regional or global context, we attempt to isolate and define the greater significance of today’s events and trends, and how they will impact on future developments and decision-making in the region and globally.
The Balkanalysis.com audience is richly-varied and includes representatives of the diplomatic corps and non-governmental sectors, the military, security and intelligence services of various states, foreign investors and others in the business world, local and international media bodies concerned with the Balkans, and members of diaspora communities, academia and other research institutions.
Language: English
Visit the website of Balkanalysis.com (in English)
Balkan Identities Project
Name in Bulgarian: Проект "Балкански идентичности"
Description: this analysis website was born from a multidisciplinary scholar’s project on all kinds of identities in Balkan cultures. Interdisciplinary scholar’s field is object for different scholars working in Literary criticism, History, Sociology, Linguistics, Anthropology, Folklore, Ethnology, etc.
There are different Projects within the overall framework: "Balkan Identities in Bulgarian Culture from the Modern Times (19th -20th centuries)", 2000; "Problems of National and Cultural Identities: Bulgaria and Neighbours (with the Institute of Slavonic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences), 2003-2005; "New Approaches in the University teaching of the issues of the Balkan Identities", 2004; "Identity and Historical Myths"; 2006.
"The category 'friend – stranger' in the literature and culture of the Balkans" is a joint research project carried out in 2005, with the Department of Slavic Languages and Literature of UAM in Poznań (Poland), the Institute of Literature and Arts (Belgrade), and the Department of Slavic Languages and Literature of University of Zagreb (Croatia).
"Emotional Content of Bulgarian National Identity: Historical Origins and Contemporary Dimensions" is a joint interdisciplinary project carried out by the Institute for Literature, with the Institute of Sociology and the Institute for Balkan Studies.
The main objectives that the Balkan Identities Project fulfils are: the advancement of the research in the field and distributing the results by print and on-line publications; the creation of a network of scholars from different spheres and countries; the transfer of the achieved results in the field of education; the information of the society and dissemination of the results of scholarship work.
Languages: Bulgarian, English
Visit the website of the Balkan Identities Project
Balkan Insight
Description: this portal provides news, analyses, opinions and comments abouth the Balkans as well as Southeast Europe.
Language: English
Visit the webiste of Balkan Insight (in English)
Gallup Balkan Monitor
Description: this website gives both news and views on the Western Balkans.
Language: English
Visit the website of Gallup Balkan Monitor (in English)
fbieber.wordpress.com/blog
Description: Florian Bieber's blog is a blog focused on the Western Balkans with analysis on the region's EU integration, the political system and larger questions of nationalism and democratic reforms in the region.
Language: English
Visit the blog by Florian Bieber
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