and Balkan Europe
by IECOB & AIS Università di Bologna
This area collects and offers a wide range of scientific contributions and provides scholars, researchers and specialists with publishing opportunities for their research results
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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July 2013|#37| The main reasons that led to the dissolution of Yugoslavia and short explanation of failed project of the Yugoslav Nation.
(published in: Dec, 2013)
The project of Yugoslavia has failed. The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia has been broken down into seven new states in the bloody civil war in the beginning of the nineties of the twentieth century. Many experts were searching for the reason of disintegration of Yugoslavia. Was the authoritarian rule of Josip Broz Tito the main reason that was preventing the aspirations for breaking the Yugoslavia? -
June 2013|#36| The renaming of public space in Budapest: The divided politics of contemporary Hungarian Identity.
(published in: Dec, 2013)
This paper examines the changes to street names and squares in Budapest since 2011, and the significance of those changes. The topics of national identity and the significance of public space in forming an identity will be examined in general, then as they apply in Hungary, and more specifically in Budapest. -
May 2013|#35|The EU’s “policy of engagement” in Belarus: another failure?
(published in: Aug, 2013)
The paper entitled "The EU’s “policy of engagement” in Belarus: another failure? " will focus on the most recent stage of EU-Belarus relations, from 2008 until 2012. -
April 2013 | #34 | Territorializing Minorities Policies in Central-Eastern Europe
(published in: May, 2013)
The paper "Territorializing Minorities Policies in Central-Eastern Europe" starts from a historical analysis of the first postwar period; then, the success of the self-determination principle and its application in Central-Eastern Europe brought to the creation and consolidation of old and new National States (Greece, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia). -
March 2013|#33| When education does not help the peacebuilding process: the discussion over curriculum and textbooks’ content in post-conflict Kosovo.
(published in: May, 2013)
Education and education systems are commonly seen to have a positive impact on countries or regions they serve. But in fact education systems may contribute to create or intensify societal tensions and conflicts, and in particular animosities related to some aspects of communities´ identity, such as ethnicity. -
February 2013 |#32| Z ziemi włoskiej do Polski - Polsko-włoska współpraca gospodarcza w latach 1970-2010
(published in: Feb, 2013)
Poland and Italy have a long history of cooperation in several domains. Much has been written about cooperation in the field of arts and politics, much less about economic relations. This paper aims to contribute to fill this gap in literature. The paper analyses the last 40 years of Polish-Italian economic relations starting from the rise to power of Edward Gierek in 1970, who in the attempt to modernize Polish socialist economy looked Westward in order to acquire capitals and technology to boost growth in the country. -
January 2013 | #31| L’energia fattore fondamentale di crescita: un'analisi delle relazioni tra sviluppo umano, povertà energetica e modello di mercato nel quadrante balcanico
(published in: Jan, 2013)
The paper aims to analyze the current Balkans electricity market dynamics, considering the latest policies and trends related to the transition process in the area.
Actually, a very close relation among economic development, human development and electricity availability is evident. Therefore, it seems necessary to verify the effectiveness of a free market based on utility’s free price and orientated just towards market conditions.
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