http://www.pecob.eu/flex/ PECOB's feed: Latest publication in the PECOB's papers series en http://www.pecob.eu/Territorializing-Minorities-Policies-Central-Eastern-Europe 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). Fri, 24 May 2013 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.pecob.eu/When-education-help-peacebuilding-process-discussion-curriculum-textbooks-content-post-conflict-Kosovo 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. Tue, 14 May 2013 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.pecob.eu/flex/cm/pages/ServeBLOB.php/L/EN/IDPagina/3834 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. Thu, 28 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.pecob.eu/energia-fattore-fondamentale-crescita-analisi-relazioni-sviluppo-umano-poverta-energetica-modello-mercato-quadrante-balcanico 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. Thu, 31 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.pecob.eu/ruolo-slobodan-milosevic-luce-teorie-dissoluzione-sfrj-breve-critica-attuali-teorie What was Slobodan Milosevic’s role in the Yugoslav dissolution? Is it possible to contextualize, in a better way, from the historical point of view Milosevic’s ascent to power? Which research paths could be followed? Much of the current scholarly literature about Yugoslavia tend to express a methodological point of view who underplay the importance of the historical circumstances. Mon, 31 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.pecob.eu/comunita-energetica-sud-est-europa-regole-istituzioni-prospettive-modello-funzionalista-cooperazione-balcani Il lavoro cerca di valutare il possibile ruolo della Comunità Energetica del Sud Est Europa quale fattore di stabilità nell’area Balcanica. Il Trattato fondativo della Comunità assegna a questa l’obiettivo di condurre una cooperazione in campo energetico al fine diffondere istituzioni e normative condivise, quali elementi di superamento del conflitto: tuttavia, sono molti gli ostacoli posti su questo cammino sia di natura interna alla regione che esterna, per l’influenza di fattori e poteri internazionali interessati all’area. Sat, 22 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.pecob.eu/trilogia-ivan-klima-storia-primi-amori-dissenso Questo lavoro propone un’analisi per la lettura guidata di "Miriam", un racconto di Ivan Klíma, nella traduzione in italiano. "Miriam" è il primo dei sei racconti della raccolta I miei primi amori che con I miei allegri mattini e I miei mestieri d’oro costituisce un "trittico" interamente autobiografico... Thu, 15 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.pecob.eu/relazioni-repubblica-popolare-polacca-repubblica-italiana-periodo-legge-marziale-luce-documenti-polacchi-diplomatici La proclamazione della legge marziale in Polonia, il 13 dicembre 1981, provocò una reazione alquanto moderata da parte del governo italiano, limitatasi alla manifestazione di “ansia e preoccupazione” per la situazione in Polonia, espressa dal ministro degli affari esteri Emilio Colombo... Tue, 30 Oct 2012 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.pecob.eu/storia-fantasia-antichita-slavo-orientale Le byline (dal russo byliny) sono composizioni epiche (quindi in versi) tramandate oralmente. La lingua in cui si esprimono è ibrida, essendo caratterizzata da tratti arcaici e anche dialettali, assorbiti in varie località e in varie epoche. Il termine bylina (ormai comunemente pluralizzato all’italiana) deriva dal passato del verbo “essere”, bylo “[ciò che] è stato, [ciò che] è avvenuto”. In origine le byline cantavano un fatto vero, probabilmente registrato anche nelle Cronache. Tuttavia.... Thu, 30 Aug 2012 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.pecob.eu/establishment-organization-regional-development-macedonia-challenges The establishment of the regional policy in Macedonia was needed mainly for two reasons. Firstly, the high level of disparities between the regions i.e. between the capital and the rest of the country plus the lack of integral approach aiming towards improvement of the development indexes of the less developed regions and secondly, the country received the EU candidate status... Thu, 26 Jul 2012 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.pecob.eu/flex/cm/pages/ServeBLOB.php/L/EN/IDPagina/3666 Although there were several kinds of cruelty during the Second World War, Yugoslavia and Hungary had close relations from 1945 to June 1948. However, everything was changed after the decision of the second meeting of Cominform. It had a great inference on Hungarian diplomacy toward Yugoslavia and Hungary took the lead in active anti-Yugoslav propaganda by Stalin during the late 1940’s and the first 1950’s. Thu, 19 Jul 2012 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.pecob.eu/hatred-cooperation-stalinist-foreign-policy-lithuanian-polish-debate-emigration Stalin’s regime left a deep scar in the memories of Lithuanians and Poles in emigration and brought about a change in their geopolitical imagination. In the real threat, Lithuanian-Polish relations were reviewed anew. Concentration camps and massive murders - the signs of Stalin policy - caused disagreements and mutual offenses to be forgotten. After very strong hostility, mistakes were… Tue, 01 May 2012 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.pecob.eu/Balkans-the-South-Eastern-gateway-to-a-New-Europe The Balkans’ economic relations with European Union countries have been particularly intense during the last decades. Geographical reasons together with political and economical links can explain why the process of development and integration of Balkan’s countries is of paramount interest for the European Union: this area represents the South - Eastern gateway to a new and more integrated Europe... Fri, 27 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.pecob.eu/how-to-improve-economic-policy-making-western-balkans-Renzo-Daviddi Pre-crisis high growth rates of the Western Balkans were fuelled by domestic demand financed through capital inflows from abroad. This, coupled with low domestic savings, increased vulnerability to the external shocks that followed. Four main external transmission mechanisms… Fri, 30 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.pecob.eu/semiotics-nationalism-slovenian-spring-1987-1992 This paper analyzes social and political movements that emerged in Slovenia in the last years of socialist Yugoslavia. Explicitly or impliedly, any of them was contesting the inability of the Federation to find a solution to the problems Yugoslav peoples were experiencing: lack of... Fri, 24 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.pecob.eu/censorship-yugoslavia-1945-1952 This research is based on the fundaments of somewhat nonsystematic historical and culturological investigation of censorship as an important factor in the shaping of cultural identity of people of former Yugoslavia. It starts from the past studies conducted in the fields of book history, archivistics and journalism. It takes Croatia and Serbia for referent countries as base fields for explaining censorship methodologies in the period of Yugoslav WWII aftermath, through the year of IB resolution in 1948 until 1952 and slowly coming out from so called Agitprop cultural period of Yugoslavia.The gap which is to be filled is... Sat, 28 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.pecob.eu/ancient-russian-intermediate-stage-drift-italian-modern-russian 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... Fri, 30 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.pecob.eu/bulgarian-highly-skilled-labour-migration-italy 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... Fri, 25 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.pecob.eu/changes-russian-foreign-policy-discourse-concept-russian-world 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... Fri, 28 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.pecob.eu/bilingualism-migration-different-russian-speaking-settings 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. Fri, 30 Sep 2011 15:00:00 +0200