With regard to the historic perspective of Vojvodina, we have distinguished several periods of time limited to historical events of higher importance, assuming, at the same time, that continuity in the interaction with newly established circumstances was subject to both changes and preservation of certain values. The first period deals with the establishment of Vojvodina  and its political life in the Habsburg/Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. In this time the recognition of Vojvodina identity was linked to the Serb national movement that oscillated within political amplitude from national romanticism to rigid national politics of the monarchy with frequent turns to the principality/Kingdom of Serbia. The second period in the history of defining Vojvodina...

The subject matter of this paper is the political system of Bosnia and Herzegovina - an ex-Yugoslav republic that was torn among its pro- and anti-independence citizens in the early 1990s, went through a devastating armed conflict that further distanced its mixed population and emerged in 1995 as a reconstructed federal polity with numerous political, social and economic difficulties to be overcome. The present work makes the case that the current political system of Bosnia and Herzegovina is ‘controlled democracy’ and assesses how it has been functioning so far and whether this has been conducive to consolidating the democratic enterprise throughout the polity. It is structured in three parts starting with a general theoretical discussion on democracy and two interrelated debates on its essence. The argument the paper advances is that....

The question as phrased is a direct challenge to all of European heritage precisely because it contains its own answer, an answer no one desires to express or hear, for it embodies a confession of a fundamental flaw in the fraying tapestry that is Europe today after Bosnia. To give voice to the answer, however circuitously, would be to confront head on the centrifugal danger that, if not neutralised, could unravel the process of European unification and integration. The question as put is a classic example....

The developmental disequilibrium in the Transcaucasus and ex-Yugoslavia was described as the consequence of an uneven and contradictory process of transition from traditional agrarian to industrial economy1. This process was characteristic of the communist type of modernisation 'from above' and of the related 'Pittsburgh' type of industrialisation, during which rural populations were brutally uprooted and called on to play social roles for which they were not prepared and to which they had difficulties adapting. In our parts the 'Pitts­burgh' technological peak was reached in few industrial sectors only....