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 Volumes
This section collects original scientific documents such as Master's theses and doctoral dissertations, selected through peer review process and published online as "PECOB's Volumes". Each volume is assigned an ISBN code.
The volumes may focus on the political, economic, historical, social or cultural aspects of a specific country or region covered by PECOB, that is Central Eastern Europe and the Balkans, considered as a single case-study or from a comparative perspective.
The Portal on Central Eastern and Balkan Europe has already published two PECOB's Volumes. The first is a selection of contributions in Slavic Languages and Literatures from the ICCEES Congress held in Stockholm in 2010. In this volume, most contributions focus on Russian literature of the XIX-XX century, Jewish-Russian poetry and other topics such as translation, media and culture.
The second volume is a collection of Master's dissertations that include the works of three students whose academic curricula demonstrate a deep knowledge and understanding of political and cultural processes of Central Eastern Europe and the Balkans. Giorgio Comai's thesis deals with change of power in countries belonging to the Community of Independent States, while Irene Dioli's work addresses queer theatrical performance and social action in Belgrade. Finally, Tatiana Warner analyze social corporate responsibility in Hungary and Macedonia.
Editorial information
Title: PECOB's Volumes
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
Editorial Assistant: Ms Luciana Moretti
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The Energy Security Debate in the Baltic Sea Region: A Comparison between Energy Policies in Poland and the Baltic States
(published in: Feb, 2018)
The object of this research is the energy security situation and possible future developments in the Baltic Sea Region. -
Sarajevo in the Wilderness of Post-Socialist Transition: the Neoliberal Urban Transformation of the City
(published in: Oct, 2017)
The topic of this thesis is the post-war and post-socialist urban development of the City of Sarajevo. After four years of a draining siege in the mid-1990s, Sarajevo underwent a reconstruction sponsored mainly by international donations and run by the international community in a fragmented political panorama constituted of political parties divided along ethnic lines. -
The Socialist camp, the USSR, and the Greek Political Refugees. An unsettled historical issue
(published in: Feb, 2017)
One of the most controversial issues in contemporary Greek history has been the Greek Civil War and its consequences. The two sides at conflict were the Democratic Army of Greece (DSE) headed by the Greek Communist Party (KKE) and backed by the Socialist countries and the Greek National Army, headed by the Greek government and backed by Great Britain and later the United States. -
The Gezi Park Movement: Forming of a New Political Opposition in Turkey?
(published in: Dec, 2016)
During spring and summer 2013, Turkey witnessed a series of protests followed by the police violence. When a small, environmental sit-in protest for the protection of Gezi Park in the center of Istanbul was brutally smashed down by the police forces in the end of May 2013, a massive number of people took to the streets in over sixty Turkish cities, which, over the night, turned into a nationwide protest - the biggest one in modern Turkish history. -
Bridge between East and West: Organized Crime and the Balkan Route
(published in: Nov, 2016)
The main focus of the present research is on the recent developments that have taken place among different forms of organized crime in the South- Eastern European region, on the origins of such developments, on the contemporary situation and possible future perspectives. -
Innovation through integration in territorial policies for the Adriatic-Ionian region. Ideas for reflection from a local and regional perspective
(published in: Oct, 2016)
The work reports about the experience of the Regional Laboratory on macro-regional issues run by the Emilia-Romagna Region from 2012 onwards. This is a publicly-driven think tank, participated by Universities and researchers and local and regional institutions, and it intends to set the basis for the promotion of a new cultural approach to research, innovation and qualification for the territorial policies of the local and regional entities. -
Stigmatized Melodies: Comparative Analysis of Turkish and Greek Policies Regarding “National Music”
(published in: Aug, 2016)
Modern idea of nationalism narrates us similar stories with different actors in diverse geographies. Even though each case has its own particularities and it is really hard to generalize any social reality, such narratives mainly point out the power relations between certain groups, institutions and nations. -
“Bringing back images”: The Discursive Representation of Audiovisual Documents in the Outreach Programme of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
(published in: Jul, 2016)
Audiovisual documents have become a pivotal part of every aspect of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia daily work. -
Pro Aris et Focis: the Roman Catholic Church and the Independent State of Croatia
(published in: Jul, 2016)
This thesis examines the behaviour of the Catholic Church in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina during World War II. Political regimes will usually seek for internal legitimisation from religious institutions -
Democracy and Human Rights in South-East Europe: Selected Comparative Studies
(published in: Dec, 2015)
The Volume, which is the result of the joint cooperation between the Institute for Central-Eastern and Balkan Europe (IECOB) and the European Regional Master in Democracy and Human Rights in South-East Europe, will be of interest to students and researchers in the aforementioned fields of democracy development and human rights advancement in the post-Yugoslav space and the Balkan region, and aims at representing a solid contribution of ideas and critical analyses, based on its multidisciplinary and original comparative approach.
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