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PECOB's Papers series

"PECOB's papers" series is a collection of papers on various topics related to Central, Eastern and Balkan Europe, and the post-Soviet space written by prominent scholars, researchers, PhD candidates and promising students. Because of their relevance and scientific innovation all papers in this series are assigned the ISSN.

Papers can be published in English or in any other language of Central Eastern Europe and the Balkans. They can address one or more disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, such as politics, economics, history, society, langugage, literature, culture and media. Many authors employ a multi-disciplinary and comparative approach.

Recent papers published in the PECOB's papers series include works on Hungarian and Soviet foreign policy, the European integration of Southeast Europe, policy making in the Western Balkans, Censorship in Yugoslavia in the 1940s and 1950s.

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Title: PECOB's papers series
Publisher: Portal on Central Eastern and Balkan Europe
Language: multilinguistic (English and original languages of the countries considered on PECOB)
Topics: Politics; Economics; History; Society; Languages, Literature and Culture; Media
Monthly ISSN: 2038-632X
Editorial Assistant: Ms Luciana Moretti

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December 2011| #18 | Ancient Russian as an intermediate stage in the drift of Italian and modern Russian | by Edgardo T. Saronne

(published in: Dec, 2011)

The evolution of genetically related languages may sometimes result in a radical modification and differentiation of their structures. The author of this article uses the term shift to designate this kind of structural changes. The relevance of the shift may be increased by geographical and temporal distance. There is a chronological asymmetry in the establishment and development of Italian and Russian. The forefathers of the two modern languages...
November 2011| #17 | Bulgarian highly skilled labour migration to Italy | by Gianfranco Brusaporci

(published in: Nov, 2011)

Nowadays, a strategic highly-skilled migration policyis crucial for every country. A knowledge based economy represents a realbusiness and a long term investment for the future; a highly skilled labourforce is the true added value to each market, Italy is still working onimplementing a new strategy for a more flexible and more internationalisedsociety to adapt its labour force to the real global competitiveness. Althoughin the last decades the number of migrants in Italy has widely grown - thereare around...
October 2011 | #16 | Changes in Russian foreign policy discourse and concept of "Russian World" | by Oleksii Polegkyi

(published in: Oct, 2011)

The present paper will focus on the analysis of changes in Russian foreign policy discourse and the conception of Russian world as an instrument of new Russian soft power strategy. According to a wide topic of this paper we will have to deal with two main concepts here. One is the concept of discourse or even discursive practice which is theoretical and methodological background for this study, whilst the other...
September 2011 | #15 | Bilingualism and migration in different Russian speaking settings | by Monica Perotto

(published in: Sep, 2011)

The aim of this research project ("Bilingualism and migration in different Russian speaking settings") is analyzing contemporary Russian speaking communities in different social and linguistic settings in order to identify divergent or common features, concerning language maintenance vs. decay, group integration (or assimilation) vs. insertion without integration. The method of Linguistic Landscape, which is here applied to these two settings, gave interesting results.
August 2011 | #14 | A Thorny Path of Economic Recovery: Case of Macedonia | by Yoji Koyama

(published in: Aug, 2011)

With the disintegration of former Yugoslavia, Macedonia became an independent state. Similar to other Republics of the former Yugoslavia, Macedonia had to carry out double transitions, i.e. transition to a market economy and transition from a regional economy to a national economy. For a newly independent small country to survive the environment of market economy, it is required to settle domestic conflicts, establish good relationship with neighboring countries and secure economic independence. Western Balkan countries, which have experienced ethnic conflicts and still have domestic ethnic problems, would not be assured of their survival as long as they remain outside the European Union. This paper examines how Macedonia has been tackling the above mentioned problems, proceeding toward EU accession in the context of EU’s Stabilization and Association Process. In the discussion a successful small country Slovenia, which consisted of the former Yugoslavia, is utilized as a benchmark.
July 2011 | #13 | The Serbs: Nurtrured by defeat | by David B. Kanin

(published in: Jul, 2011)

There are worse things than defeat. If a community has the opportunity to inspect its setbacks its conqueror has stopped short of wiping out the vanquished group's memory and collective existence. If the defeated are a mobile community they might literally look for greener pastures. Sedentary winners and losers, on the other hand, remain in contact, and their paired experiences of victory and defeat affect future actions on both sides.
The Serbs are among those who have developed their identity by moving from defeat to defeat. Enemies have failed to (or refrained from) destroying them, inundating them with non-Serbian settlers, or banishing them to a destructive exile. The iconic battle of Kosovo Polje in 1389 remains an appropriate starting point for a discussion of Serbia's relationship to defeat, but the evolution of songs and memories adapted to the task of honing a Herderian nation, not the battle itself, informs the construction of collective defeat. The peripatetic remains of "Tsar" Lazar, continuing references to his heavenly kingdom, and mass commemorative rallies at the battlefield in 1889 and 1989 remain central, contemporary, touchstones. Serb poets and politicians folded defeats of the 18th and 19th centuries into the Kosovo memory.
June 2011 | #12 | Russian Foreign policy, 2000-2011: From Nation-State to Global Risk Shring. by Nicolai N. Petro

(published in: Jun, 2011)

Russian foreign policy thinking has evolved significantly in recent years. Defined throughout the 1990s by a notable lack of any clearly defined strategic course, there is now a clear vision of the type of global order that Russia wants. Russian foreign policy thinking is reaching far beyond traditional realism to embrace global risk sharing, although the extent to which the country ought to embrace a truly global security agenda is still hotly debated. Too little attention has been paid in the West to this intellectual evolution, and to what it says about Russia's long term foreign policy goals.
May 2011 | #11 | Рожден в сорочке из змеиного семени (“Nato con la camicia, dal seme del Serpente-Drago”). Leggende, fiabe, credenze popolari

(published in: May, 2011)

The paper deals with Slavonic folklore and its influence upon literature. Here the term “folklore" covers oral epics, fairy stories, popular traditions and superstitions; the meaning of "literature" is restricted to XII century chronicles and written epics and also to XV century pseudo-hagiographic compositions. The essay – addressed to non-initiated educated readers – is the result of an original contribution to the meeting "La terra dell'Uccello di fuoco" (Fire-bird Land) held in Bolzano (Italy) in May 2004.
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April 2011 | #10 | Party system and social cleavages: the case of the post-communist Albanian elections

(published in: Apr, 2011)

The article analyses in a comparative and qualitative prospective the Albanian party system in the twenty years of post-communist transition. It intends to give a detailed panorama and trace the process of Albanian electoral systems, and...
March 2011 | #09 | The European Union and Russia’s Integrationist Policies in thePost-Soviet Space

(published in: Mar, 2011)

Since 1991, Russia has been searching for a niche for itself in the new European (Western) system. The various integrationist projects it has pro-moted in the post-Soviet space (Commonwealth of Independent States, Eurasian Economic Community, Collective Security Treaty Organization, Shanghai Cooperation Organization) suggest that it also seeks to create a system of its own there. This regional design, however, clashes with the European Union’s regional policies such as the European Neighbourhood Policy and the Eastern Partnership. Tensions are heightened by the new in-dependent states as well, which often experienced periods of state weak-ness, economic instability and persistence of unresolved conflicts, exposing their vulnerability to external forces. The result of these dynamics is
February 2011 | #08 | Regional Cooperation in Western Balkans in Times of Political and Economical Uncertainty

(published in: Feb, 2011)

The paper focuses on the current impasse of regional cooperation in the Western Balkans, due to political and economical uncertainty. Special attention has been devoted on problems affecting the youngest actor of regional cooperation in South EastEurope, the Regional Cooperation Council, the role of the European Union as an “external actor” supporting regional cooperation, and the disputed status ofKosovo with its negative political and economical repercussions.
January 2011 | #07 | The European Social Model: Is There a Third Way?

(published in: Jan, 2011)

The search for a Third Way, intermediate between socialism and capitalism, began even before the birth of the Soviet Union, whose observed drawbacks encouraged a further search. There have been at least three alternative projects within this approach: (1) Market Socialism, combining public ownership, market allocation and socialist values of high employment, growth and equality. This was the target of many failed attempts at reforming the Soviet-type model, in the 1960s to the 1980s. Its best, though partial, embodiment is the Chinese economy circa 1980-2000. (2) The New Labour paradigm...

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