Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_10044475_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: George Kassimeris Author-X-Name-First: George Author-X-Name-Last: Kassimeris Title: Fighting for revolution? The life and death of Greece's revolutionary organization 17 November, 1975–2002 Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 259-273 Issue: 3 Volume: 6 Year: 2004 X-DOI: 10.1080/1461319042000296813 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/1461319042000296813 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:6:y:2004:i:3:p:259-273 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_10044476_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Jeanie Bukowski Author-X-Name-First: Jeanie Author-X-Name-Last: Bukowski Title: Multi‐level networks as a threat to democracy? The case of Portugal's Vasco da Gama bridge Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 275-297 Issue: 3 Volume: 6 Year: 2004 X-DOI: 10.1080/1461319042000296822 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/1461319042000296822 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:6:y:2004:i:3:p:275-297 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_10044477_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Aleksandar Pavković Author-X-Name-First: Aleksandar Author-X-Name-Last: Pavković Title: Why did Yugoslavia disintegrate? Is there a conclusive answer? Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 299-306 Issue: 3 Volume: 6 Year: 2004 X-DOI: 10.1080/1461319042000296831 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/1461319042000296831 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:6:y:2004:i:3:p:299-306 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_10044478_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: The Editors Title: Book reviews Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 307-324 Issue: 3 Volume: 6 Year: 2004 X-DOI: 10.1080/1461319042000296840 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/1461319042000296840 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:6:y:2004:i:3:p:307-324 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_10044471_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: The Editors Title: Editorial Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 209-210 Issue: 3 Volume: 6 Year: 2004 X-DOI: 10.1080/1461319042000296778 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/1461319042000296778 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:6:y:2004:i:3:p:209-210 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_10044472_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: R.J. Crampton Author-X-Name-First: R.J. Author-X-Name-Last: Crampton Title: Balkan communist leaders Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 211-225 Issue: 3 Volume: 6 Year: 2004 X-DOI: 10.1080/1461319042000296787 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/1461319042000296787 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:6:y:2004:i:3:p:211-225 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_10044473_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Gëzim Alpion Author-X-Name-First: Gëzim Author-X-Name-Last: Alpion Title: Media, ethnicity and patriotism—the Balkans ‘unholy war’ for the appropriation of Mother Teresa Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 227-243 Issue: 3 Volume: 6 Year: 2004 X-DOI: 10.1080/1461319042000296796 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/1461319042000296796 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:6:y:2004:i:3:p:227-243 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_10044474_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: John Sakkas Author-X-Name-First: John Author-X-Name-Last: Sakkas Title: The Greek dictatorship, the USA and the Arabs, 1967–1974 Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 245-257 Issue: 3 Volume: 6 Year: 2004 X-DOI: 10.1080/1461319042000296804 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/1461319042000296804 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:6:y:2004:i:3:p:245-257 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1801246_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Cengiz Gunes Author-X-Name-First: Cengiz Author-X-Name-Last: Gunes Author-Name: Veli Yadirgi Author-X-Name-First: Veli Author-X-Name-Last: Yadirgi Title: Introduction: The Transformations in Kurdish Politics and Society in Turkey Since 2000 Abstract: This special issue focuses on the main actualities taking place in Kurdish politics in Turkey during the 2000s and 2010s and critically evaluates their various dimensions and features. In more concrete terms, it investigates and sets out the following themes: the ideological transformation of the PKK; the rise of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (Halkların Demokratik Partisi, HDP) since 2012 and the success it had in the general elections in 2015; the transformation of the Kurdish Islamist Hizbullah movement; 2009 and 2015; and the political economy of Turkey's Kurdish question. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 717-729 Issue: 6 Volume: 22 Year: 2020 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2020.1801246 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2020.1801246 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:22:y:2020:i:6:p:717-729 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1801241_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Ahmet Hamdi Akkaya Author-X-Name-First: Ahmet Hamdi Author-X-Name-Last: Akkaya Title: The PKK’s Ideological Odyssey Abstract: The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has been the dominant actor in Kurdish politics in Turkey since the early 1980s. During the 1980s and 1990s, the PKK organized a guerrilla insurgency against the Turkish state and managed to mobilize many Kurds. However, in 1999, after its leader Abdullah Öcalan was captured by Turkey, the PKK began to undergo a radical ideological transformation that has significantly altered the movement’s long-term objectives and the demands for the Kurds. This article will focus on the ideological evolution of the PKK and discuss the reasons behind the transformation in its political objectives from national liberation through armed struggle to radical democracy and the resolution of the Kurdish question through ‘democratic confederalism’ and ‘democratic autonomy’. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 730-745 Issue: 6 Volume: 22 Year: 2020 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2020.1801241 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2020.1801241 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:22:y:2020:i:6:p:730-745 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1801245_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Cengiz Gunes Author-X-Name-First: Cengiz Author-X-Name-Last: Gunes Title: The Transformation of Turkey’s Pro-Kurdish Democratic Movement Abstract: In the past decade, the pro-Kurdish democratic movement in Turkey managed to build an extensive organizational network and, with the rise of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) since 2012, has established itself as a key political actor in Turkey. This article discusses its emergence and transformation since 1990 by firstly reflecting on the movement’s key political demands to highlight the type of political project it seeks to develop in Turkey, and secondly providing an account of the movement’s organizational evolution during the 1990s and 2000s. Finally, it provides an explanation of the HDP’s rise and discusses the challenges it has been facing in an increasingly authoritarian Turkey since the summer of 2015. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 746-761 Issue: 6 Volume: 22 Year: 2020 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2020.1801245 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2020.1801245 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:22:y:2020:i:6:p:746-761 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1801244_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Mehmet Kurt Author-X-Name-First: Mehmet Author-X-Name-Last: Kurt Title: A Conversion to Civil Society? The Incomplete Reconfiguration of the Hizbullah Movement in Turkey Abstract: This article examines the incomplete transformation of the Kurdish Hizbullah from an illegal underground organization to a social and political movement influent in the Kurdish Turkey. The article contextualizes Hizbullah’s transformation within the broader social and political developments after the 2000s. After a critical evaluation of the reconfiguration of the Kurdish political sphere in Turkey, the article critically addresses the Hizbullah’s conversion to civil society. It analyses the Hizbullah’s strategies of reorganization and mobilization through associations, political activism and public celebrations under the AKP rule. While acknowledging the political and social impact of this reconfiguration, this article also underlines the limits of this process, with a special focus on the Kurdish question and the ambivalent approach to Kurdish identity and martyrdom promoted by the political leaders and supporters of the movement. Relying on boundary making theory, the article argues that the Hizbullah’s attempt to rearticulate religion and ethnicity to broaden its political and social base remains circumscribed by the hegemonic aspirations of the Turkish state on the one hand, and the ongoing antagonism with the Kurdish national movement on the other. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 762-776 Issue: 6 Volume: 22 Year: 2020 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2020.1801244 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2020.1801244 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:22:y:2020:i:6:p:762-776 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1801243_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Arin Savran Author-X-Name-First: Arin Author-X-Name-Last: Savran Title: The Peace Process between Turkey and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, 2009–2015 Abstract: This article examines the 2009–2015 peace process between Turkey and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). It draws from conflict resolution literature to present the five transformers framework that is used to analyse the main transformations the Kurdish conflict in Turkey has undergone during the past two decades. The article argues that the peace process was not an outcome of external intervention but was an organic process derived of powerful, post-nationalist intellectual leadership where strategic calculations about the benefits of peace motivated dialogue. It concludes that the peace process collapsed due to context and structural transformations following war in Syria and Iraq that empowered the Kurdish PKK movement in a sudden, rapid and large fashion. The result caused strong Turkish fears about implications to status quo. In the end, the parties returned to war in order to gain more control and concessions from future negotiations. Concurring with the authors of the five transformers framework, the personal tranformation of a leader strengthens potential for dialogue when they have a change of heart about how to resolve the conflict. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 777-792 Issue: 6 Volume: 22 Year: 2020 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2020.1801243 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2020.1801243 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:22:y:2020:i:6:p:777-792 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1801242_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Veli Yadirgi Author-X-Name-First: Veli Author-X-Name-Last: Yadirgi Title: Turkey’s Kurdish Question in the Era of Neoliberalism Abstract: This article studies the linkages between economic development, or lack thereof, in the predominantly Kurdish provinces in Eastern and Southeastern Anatolia (ESA) and Turkey’s Kurdish question in the era of neoliberalism. It critically examines Turkey’s much lauded development trajectory and strategy in the first quarter of the twenty-first century, which, until very recently, was widely contended to have created auspicious conditions for the resolution of Turkey’s multifaceted Kurdish question. Its central argument is that there is a symbiotic relationship between the Kurdish question in Turkey and the peculiar form of underdevelopment witnessed in ESA, which is accurately captured by the notion of de-development. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 793-809 Issue: 6 Volume: 22 Year: 2020 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2020.1801242 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2020.1801242 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:22:y:2020:i:6:p:793-809 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1935073_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Ioannis N. Grigoriadis Author-X-Name-First: Ioannis N. Author-X-Name-Last: Grigoriadis Author-Name: Z. Aslı Elitsoy Author-X-Name-First: Z. Aslı Author-X-Name-Last: Elitsoy Title: Inside Outsiders: Comparing State Policies Towards Citizens of Palestinian and Kurdish Descent in Israel and Turkey Abstract: This study compares state policies of Israel and Turkey regarding their citizens of Palestinian and Kurdish descent, respectively. It then explores the reasons for the differences and points at the consequences for Israel’s and Turkey’s democracy. Israel’s citizens of Palestinian descent and Turkey’s citizens of Kurdish descent have faced systematic discrimination. While Israel never considered assimilating its Palestinian citizens into mainstream Israeli national identity, considering Jewishness as its essential and indispensable element, Turkey engaged in assimilation policies vis-à-vis its Kurdish citizens, which met with limited success. While applying different methods in defining the boundaries of Israeli and Turkish ethnicity, both Israel and Turkey have refused to view members of these groups as equal citizens. Awarding full citizenship rights has been questioned on accounts of Jewish sovereignty-dilution fears in Israel and of Kurdish self-determination and partition in Turkey. Failing to distinguish their citizens from their trans-border ethnic kin groups and viewing them as part of a transnational community threatening Israeli and Turkish sovereignty, Israel’s citizens of Palestinian descent and Turkey’s citizens of Kurdish descent have been turned into ‘inside outsiders’. This has deprived them of fundamental constitutional rights and limited the prospects of democratic consolidation in both states. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 750-767 Issue: 5 Volume: 23 Year: 2021 Month: 09 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2021.1935073 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2021.1935073 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:23:y:2021:i:5:p:750-767 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1935079_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Sevtap Demirci Author-X-Name-First: Sevtap Author-X-Name-Last: Demirci Author-Name: Nevin Coşar Author-X-Name-First: Nevin Author-X-Name-Last: Coşar Title: Modernisation through Railways: Economic and Social Change in the Ottoman Empire in the Nineteenth Century Abstract: In the nineteenth century, significant developments in transport and transport infrastructure technologies led to drastic changes not only in countries’ economies but also in their societies. The European world economy absorbed the Ottoman Empire into its ambit and railway construction initiated by Europeans also shaped the nature and direction of social and economic changes in the vast territory that the Empire had controlled. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the impact of railways on Ottoman society modernization. The paper investigates how economic and social changes took place in traditional life in the empire and how and to what extent the lives and consumption patterns of Anatolian people were changed by the construction of railways. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 684-694 Issue: 5 Volume: 23 Year: 2021 Month: 09 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2021.1935079 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2021.1935079 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:23:y:2021:i:5:p:684-694 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1935067_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Carlos González-Villa Author-X-Name-First: Carlos Author-X-Name-Last: González-Villa Title: Out of Place? Making Sense of the Mismatch between the Post-Cold War Transition and the Yugoslav State Crisis Abstract: Throughout 1990, an attempt at federal transition in Yugoslavia was intended to keep up with global and regional transformations based on the establishment of liberal democracies and the geographical expansion of US influence and neoliberalism in Central and Eastern Europe. Paradoxically, republican and interrepublican developments in Yugoslavia, which deepened the country’s crisis and halted the transition process, were adapted in a more effective way to the new international order, marked by the US pretension of global unipolar hegemony. Drawing on Robert Cox’s method of historical structures, this paper argues that the failure of Yugoslav transition was a consequence of decreasing consistency between federal reformist efforts and the emerging post-Cold War world order and discusses the pertinence of approaching Yugoslav dissolution through the neo-Gramscian approach. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 732-749 Issue: 5 Volume: 23 Year: 2021 Month: 09 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2021.1935067 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2021.1935067 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:23:y:2021:i:5:p:732-749 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1945195_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Mina Toksoz Author-X-Name-First: Mina Author-X-Name-Last: Toksoz Title: Turkey in the Global Economy; Neoliberalism, Global shift and the Making of a Rising Power Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 813-817 Issue: 5 Volume: 23 Year: 2021 Month: 09 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2021.1945195 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2021.1945195 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:23:y:2021:i:5:p:813-817 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1935072_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Laurent Tournois Author-X-Name-First: Laurent Author-X-Name-Last: Tournois Author-Name: Gordana Djeric Author-X-Name-First: Gordana Author-X-Name-Last: Djeric Title: Who You are and Who You Want to Be: Exploring Symbolic, Spatial and Cultural Levels of Identity in Contemporary Serbia/Belgrade Abstract: This study focuses on the attitudes of Serbian citizens towards individual, local, national, regional, and supranational identity self-categorizations. Several layers of identification, grounded in history, politics, economics, spatial, and socio-cultural aspects of life are considered. The article aims to broaden and deepen the understanding what citizenship means for inhabitants that have faced important discontinuities since the break-up of Yugoslavia. 466 permanent Belgrade residents were surveyed. The results of the research show that national identity dominates, while being recognized as a human being plays a crucial role in addition to the identification with the city. The European identity and, to some extent, cosmopolitanism, are of much less importance. Participants also expressed very little nostalgic emotional attachment to the Yugoslav identity. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 709-731 Issue: 5 Volume: 23 Year: 2021 Month: 09 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2021.1935072 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2021.1935072 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:23:y:2021:i:5:p:709-731 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1935077_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Christopher Kinley Author-X-Name-First: Christopher Author-X-Name-Last: Kinley Title: The Balkan War in Epirus: Religious Identity and the Continuity of Conflict Abstract: The scholarship about the Balkan Wars is a vast corpus that has expanded our knowledge of war experiences, violence, ethnic cleansing, state building, and has stressed the conflict as a point of rupture. While scholars have transcended national narratives in our quest for historical realities, we have typically painted the conflict broadly as a monolithic experience of two wars within the rigid timeframe of 1912–1913. Given its historical background, Epirus provides a unique case study for the Balkan Wars. By examining the conflict through the lens of religion, this essay argues that in the case of Epirus, the Balkan Wars magnified an already developing schism that led to a violent and briefly successful separatist movement. Furthermore, rather than two brief wars, within the context of Epirus, it was one Balkan War that lasted until the outbreak of the First World War. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 667-683 Issue: 5 Volume: 23 Year: 2021 Month: 09 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2021.1935077 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2021.1935077 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:23:y:2021:i:5:p:667-683 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1935069_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Ödül Celep Author-X-Name-First: Ödül Author-X-Name-Last: Celep Title: A Contemporary Analysis of Intra-Party Democracy in Turkey’s Political Parties Abstract: Despite Turkey’s long-standing history of inter-party democracy, its political parties have remained distant from intra-party democracy (IPD). This study investigates the quality and level of Turkey’s four big parties’ IPD culture with a systematic, quantitative survey data collected from parties’ district members in 2015. The data analysis demonstrates that despite its anti-systemic left-radicalism and alleged association with the armed groups, the Kurdish left (HDP) is relatively the most internally democratic party. The centre-left CHP has some edge owing to its limited use of primaries for candidate selection, yet it often comes secondary after the HDP. The two parties of the Turkish-Islamic right, AKP and MHP, are relatively more autocratic, sometimes indistinguishable. Despite the overwhelming effects of the failed coup and the system change with the 2017 referendum, the birth of new splinter parties such as the Good Party (İYİ), Future Party and DEVA still points to potential future in-party dynamics that can help improve the IPD culture in Turkey. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 768-794 Issue: 5 Volume: 23 Year: 2021 Month: 09 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2021.1935069 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2021.1935069 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:23:y:2021:i:5:p:768-794 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1935080_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Yunus Turhan Author-X-Name-First: Yunus Author-X-Name-Last: Turhan Title: Turkey’s Foreign Aid to Africa: An Analysis of the Post-July 15 Era Abstract: The volume of Turkish aid and its geographic coverage have undergone a process of change following the Arab Uprisings and the foiled coup d’état of July 15. This article primarily addresses the latter event, as with the former’s influence foreign aid relations became more tight-knit with Turkey’s immediate neighbours yet fell apart in areas such as sub-Saharan Africa. Considering the period between 2013 and 2018, this paper seeks the key determinants behind Turkish foreign aid behaviour in sub-Saharan Africa by asking whether the (non)existence of Gülenist schools in recipient states exerted agency in the disbursement of Turkey’s aid flow. Based on bilateral foreign aid disbursement and the Turkish Maarif Foundation’s educational landscape in sub-Saharan Africa, this paper has found that although the recipient state’s cooperation with Turkey on the matter of Gülenist schools is a variable of moderate importance in gauging the volume of Turkish aid, there is no monolithic Turkish foreign aid orientation towards the countries collaborating with Turkish authorities to transfer the management of these schools and those that do not. This orientation has been firmly motivated by humanitarianism and has thus assured continuity in the context of humanitarian aid following July 15. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 795-812 Issue: 5 Volume: 23 Year: 2021 Month: 09 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2021.1935080 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2021.1935080 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:23:y:2021:i:5:p:795-812 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1935075_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Tamara Banjeglav Author-X-Name-First: Tamara Author-X-Name-Last: Banjeglav Title: The Alphabet War: Language, Collective Memory and National Identity in Contemporary Debates over National Minority Rights in Croatia Abstract: This paper discusses a crisis regarding Serb national minority rights in the city of Vukovar. The crisis was caused by the government’s attempt to introduce Serbian language and Cyrillic alphabet in the official use in Vukovar. The paper examines which symbolic meanings of the Cyrillic alphabet were used with the aim of consolidating national identity and collective memory of the war in Croatia. The paper argues that the use of a minority language and script was discursively framed as a means of aggression of one ethnic community over another, rather than as an issue of minority rights. The paper is theoretically grounded in Michele Foucault’s theory about the ‘discourse of perpetual war’. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 695-708 Issue: 5 Volume: 23 Year: 2021 Month: 09 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2021.1935075 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2021.1935075 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:23:y:2021:i:5:p:695-708 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1497750_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Nikos Christofis Author-X-Name-First: Nikos Author-X-Name-Last: Christofis Title: The state of the Kurds in Erdoğan’s ‘new’ Turkey Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 251-259 Issue: 3 Volume: 21 Year: 2019 Month: 5 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2018.1497750 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2018.1497750 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:21:y:2019:i:3:p:251-259 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1497751_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Joost Jongerden Author-X-Name-First: Joost Author-X-Name-Last: Jongerden Title: Conquering the state and subordinating society under AKP rule: a Kurdish perspective on the development of a new autocracy in Turkey Abstract: The 2016 post-coup attempt measures in Turkey have been evaluated as a process of backsliding on civic rights and freedoms. This contribution takes a slightly different approach. The so-called ‘democratic breakdown’ or ‘backsliding’ in rights and the rule of law should not be regarded as a (mere) attribute of the post-coup aftermath. The idea that a process of democratization in Turkey derailed or became disrupted after the coup only feeds the myth that there had been such a process of pre-coup democratization. In this article, it is argued that the reforms often held up as a ‘democratization’ were rather instruments opportunistically employed in the Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi (Justice and Development Party, AKP) struggle to conquer the state, to take it from a Kemalist elite and to roll back and contain a Kurdish movement that made pleas for a pluralistic citizenship and the strengthening of civil rights. These have now morphed into an overt authoritarianism, in which a regime of exceptions, not unknown to the Kurds and the Kurdistan region in Turkey, has become the norm, the particular generalized. This is what is referred to here as an ‘organizational coup’. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 260-273 Issue: 3 Volume: 21 Year: 2019 Month: 5 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2018.1497751 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2018.1497751 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:21:y:2019:i:3:p:260-273 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1497752_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Seevan Saeed Author-X-Name-First: Seevan Author-X-Name-Last: Saeed Title: The dilemma of the Kurdish struggle in Turkey Abstract: In 2013, after two years of Öcalan’s isolation and revelations of secretive Oslo meetings between the Turkish state and the PKK; the state agreed to open a new series of meetings with the Kurdish movement. Due to this relatively peaceful atmosphere, the Kurdish movement has started various activities to promote cultural nationalism and nation building. Yet, the Kurdish spring did not last long. Suddenly, the state has ended meetings with Öcalan. Thousands of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, HDP members are detained under the allegedly KCK operations. Guerrilla warfare started again, this time in the cities even. Part of the cities were destroyed and about a million civilians were displaced. This paper seeks to make sense of this policy revanchism: why after acknowledging that the military approach to the Kurdish question would never work and moving relations towards peaceful resolution instead has the Turkish state returned to the failed policy models of the past? I try to elaborate why the Kurdish movement found it hard to resist the Turkish state’s entreaty to join the so-called peace process. In addressing these questions, the paper sheds much-needed light on the complicated contemporary relations between the Turkish state and the Kurdish movement. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 274-285 Issue: 3 Volume: 21 Year: 2019 Month: 5 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2018.1497752 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2018.1497752 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:21:y:2019:i:3:p:274-285 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1497753_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Kumru F. Toktamış Author-X-Name-First: Kumru F. Author-X-Name-Last: Toktamış Title: (Im)possibility of negotiating peace: 2005‒2015 peace/reconciliation talks between the Turkish government and Kurdish politicians Abstract: The attempt by the Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi (Justice and Development Party, AKP) to negotiate with the Partiya Karkerên Kurdistan (Kurdistan Workers’ Party, PKK)and Kurdish politicians was presented as a resolution process by the government and perceived as a possibility to end violence by the peace-oriented segments of the Turkish and Kurdish populations in Turkey. Robust studies of this period that stretched from clandestine talks to the end of semi-public talks with Öcalan at the Imralı Prison argue that the AKP’s goals were disarmament of the PKK and instrumentalizing the process for domestic electoral support and regional power. The same period corresponds to the deterioration and eventual breakdown of the relationship between the AKP and Cemaat, its steadfast ally. Following the conceptualization of claim-making as performance in a contentious politics perspective, this study surveys the looming narrative on Cemaat as the impediment to peace and threat for democracy as it appears in the only available records of the process between 2005 and 2015, to conclude that the possibility of non-violence might have been overshadowed by the ongoing conflict within the religious alliance that had originally carried AKP to power. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 286-303 Issue: 3 Volume: 21 Year: 2019 Month: 5 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2018.1497753 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2018.1497753 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:21:y:2019:i:3:p:286-303 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1497754_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Nadje Al-Ali Author-X-Name-First: Nadje Author-X-Name-Last: Al-Ali Author-Name: Latif Taṣ Author-X-Name-First: Latif Author-X-Name-Last: Taṣ Title: Clashes, collaborations and convergences: evolving relations of Turkish and Kurdish women’s rights activists Abstract: This article discusses the various ways the Kurdish women’s movement has impacted feminism in the Turkish context. Against the background of the problematic historical relationship between Turkish and Kurdish women’s rights activists, the article explores the shift in perceptions of, attitudes towards and relations of feminists in Turkey with the Kurdish women’s movement. The article shows that a ‘new generation of feminists’ in Turkey appreciates and is inspired by the Kurdish women’s movement, and rejects the Kemalist and nationalist undertones of earlier generations. Without wanting to belittle on-going nationalism and the rise of women’s cadres linked to the authoritarian Turkish regime, the article analyses the various ways the intersectional long-term struggle of Kurdish women is being perceived, recognized and critically engaged with by many Turkish feminist activists. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 304-318 Issue: 3 Volume: 21 Year: 2019 Month: 5 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2018.1497754 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2018.1497754 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:21:y:2019:i:3:p:304-318 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1497755_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Rosa Burç Author-X-Name-First: Rosa Author-X-Name-Last: Burç Title: One state, one nation, one flag—one gender? HDP as a challenger of the Turkish nation state and its gendered perspectives Abstract: The societal project proposed by the Halkların Demokratik Partisi (Peoples’ Democratic Party, HDP), is an attempt at circumventing authoritarian statism in Turkey by (1) participating in representative politics as an alliance of systematically marginalized groups in Turkish politics and achieving significant electoral success, (2) developing grassroots structures based on civil liberties and women’s liberation put into practice by bottom-up radical democratic structures. While the narrative under the Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi (Justice and Development Party, AKP) after the June 2015 elections can mainly be described as a political re-emphasis of the republic’s factory settings—one nation, one flag, one state, one language—the recent authoritarian shift under nationalist parameters is analysed as the government’s attempt to restore hegemony through the re-securitization of the Kurdish issue as a response to HDP’s success as an anti-status quo and women’s party. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 319-334 Issue: 3 Volume: 21 Year: 2019 Month: 5 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2018.1497755 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2018.1497755 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:21:y:2019:i:3:p:319-334 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1497756_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Omer Tekdemir Author-X-Name-First: Omer Author-X-Name-Last: Tekdemir Title: Left-wing populism within horizontal and vertical politics: the case of Kurdish-led radical democracy in agonistic pluralism Abstract: In the post-political period, the Kurdish-led Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) has offered a radical democratic political project by adopting a left-leaning populism to challenge the political establishment (elites) through the construction of a new concept of ‘the People’ (underdog) in a new political grammar. This article outlines the feasibility of applying Laclau’s populist discursive in analysing the notion of radical democracy, which is conceptualized in terms of Mouffe’s agonistic approach, as a ‘real’ alternative in the organic crisis of the ‘new Turkey’. The inclusive populism of the HDP mobilizes the collective passion in politics, with its common affects, in order to create a counter-hegemonic bloc. This left-wing populist ontology aims to reform the existing democratic institutions in terms of an egalitarian and libertarian rhetoric to challenge the Justice and Development Party's(AKP) right-wing conservative populism that has recently transformed into authoritarianism, majoritarianism and illiberalism in the post-democracy era. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 335-349 Issue: 3 Volume: 21 Year: 2019 Month: 5 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2018.1497756 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2018.1497756 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:21:y:2019:i:3:p:335-349 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1497757_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Mehmet Kurt Author-X-Name-First: Mehmet Author-X-Name-Last: Kurt Title: ‘My Muslim Kurdish brother’: colonial rule and Islamist governmentality in the Kurdish region of Turkey Abstract: This article critically examines the role of Islamist state discourse and policies in the Kurdish region of Turkey. Academic works on Islamism often address settings where Islamist movements and political parties operate as anti-colonial and oppositional entities. However, this article discusses how Islamist ideology has become an instrument of governmentality to maintain and legitimize colonial rule in the Kurdish region of Turkey under the Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi (Justice and Development Party, AKP). After contextualizing the Kurdish issue as an internal colonization process since the beginning of the Turkish Republic, the paper focuses on the AKP period to analyse the use of an Islamic discourse of unity and brotherhood and attempts to foster the rise of a loyal conservative civil society among the Kurds. Thus, it argues that the internal colonial paradigm remains fully relevant to analysis of the Kurdish issue during the last decade and that neoliberal Islamist governmentality should be understood as a strategy complementary to repression, to increase popular support for the government and marginalize opposition. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 350-365 Issue: 3 Volume: 21 Year: 2019 Month: 5 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2018.1497757 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2018.1497757 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:21:y:2019:i:3:p:350-365 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2143850_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Yücel Güçlü Author-X-Name-First: Yücel Author-X-Name-Last: Güçlü Title: Selahattín Ülkümen: The Turkish Righteous Among the Nations Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 458-483 Issue: 3 Volume: 25 Year: 2023 Month: 05 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2022.2143850 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2022.2143850 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:25:y:2023:i:3:p:458-483 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2143839_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: David Kaufman Author-X-Name-First: David Author-X-Name-Last: Kaufman Title: The “One Guilty Nation” Myth: Edith Durham, R.W. Seton-Watson and a Footnote in the History of the Outbreak of the First World War Abstract: This paper will investigate the development of the War Guilt Question in interwar Europe through an examination of the dispute between two of Britain’s leading experts on the Balkans, Mary Edith Durham and R.W. Seton-Watson. The locus of their disagreement centred on the question of Serbian complicity in the plot to murder Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo in June 1914, and the subsequent debate over their responsibility for the outbreak of War. The dispute was prompted by revelations published by Ljuba Jovanović, former Serb Minister of Public Instruction. The debate over the Serb complicity in the Sarajevo crime, fundamentally shifted the debate over responsibility for the failure of peace in 1914, moving the focus away from Berlin, back to the Balkans. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 297-321 Issue: 3 Volume: 25 Year: 2023 Month: 05 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2022.2143839 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2022.2143839 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:25:y:2023:i:3:p:297-321 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2143862_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Betül Özyilmaz Kiraz Author-X-Name-First: Betül Author-X-Name-Last: Özyilmaz Kiraz Title: Multidirectionality(ies) in the Turkish Foreign Policy: Compensatory, Complementary and Reactive Multidirectionality Abstract: This article is concerned with multidirectionality in the Turkish foreign policy (TFP). It discusses how multidirectionality attempts in the TFP in different times, with different purposes and instruments can be differentiated and conceptualized. It is argued that there have been three waves of multidirectionality in the TFP: compensatory multidirectionality in the 1960s and 1970s; complementary multidirectionality from the end of the Cold War approximately till 2015; and reactionary multidirectionality since 2015. They are analysed through a comparative perspective in terms of the causative role of the Western factor, the main motivation behind and foreign policy instruments employed. It is further argued in the article that contrary to the conventional wisdom states can adopt multidirectionalism as a mean to further enhance their relations with the ‘direction’ state or alliance. In this sense, beyond its contribution to the TFP literature, the article makes contribution to the Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA) in general. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 558-581 Issue: 3 Volume: 25 Year: 2023 Month: 05 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2022.2143862 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2022.2143862 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:25:y:2023:i:3:p:558-581 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2143860_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Pavlos I. Koktsidis Author-X-Name-First: Pavlos I. Author-X-Name-Last: Koktsidis Title: Turkey’s ‘Soft Power Interventionism’ in the Turkish Cypriot Community: Agents, Objectives, and Implications Abstract: This article explores the rationale and modus operandi of Turkey’s soft power projection in north Cyprus [‘TRNC’] with the aim to better understand its effects on the Turkish Cypriot political and social spheres. The study explores the recorded activities carried out by Turkey’s most prominent soft power agencies in north Cyprus and cross-checks findings with field-notes collected from 2018 to 2021. While acknowledging that under AKP’s rule, religion, history, and humanitarian ideals have constituted the backbone of Turkey’s soft power agenda in areas important to its foreign policy interests, the analysis demonstrates that Turkish soft power does not simply rest on the attractiveness and persuasiveness of its ‘message value’ alone. Turkey exercises a centrally coordinated and multi-dimensional soft power that capitalizes heavily on dependencies and local vulnerabilities. With the use of subtle and direct forms of coercion and interference, understood as part of a legitimate exchange of ‘influence for security’, Turkey’s soft power content and methodologies have become particularly problematic, as they do not presume the purely voluntary, independent, and co-opting nature of relations between the powerholder and the receptor community. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 522-539 Issue: 3 Volume: 25 Year: 2023 Month: 05 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2022.2143860 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2022.2143860 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:25:y:2023:i:3:p:522-539 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2143855_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Klearchos A. Kyriakides Author-X-Name-First: Klearchos A. Author-X-Name-Last: Kyriakides Title: The Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant in Turkey: Some Causes for Concern Abstract: This article focuses on the Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant in Turkey. Its thesis is that its construction marks a turning point in the history, character, dynamics and risk profile of both Turkey and the Greater Middle East. The construction of the Plant reflects a number of emerging phenomena with unmistakable geopolitical implications. These encompass the nuclearization of Turkey, the nuclearization of the Greater Middle East and what appears to be an increasingly intimate Russo-Turkish bilateral relationship at odds with Turkey’s membership of NATO. Against this background, the article pinpoints several causes for concern. Among these is the detachment of Turkey from a string of international conventions that seek to promote nuclear safety or to protect the sea, the wider environment, workers or other people. Other causes for concern include the absence in Turkey of a deep-rooted culture steeped in transparency, press freedom, whistleblowing and other potential facilitators of nuclear safety. The article ends with five sets of recommendations directed towards the Government of Turkey plus the Governments and inhabitants of other states in the Greater Middle East and the EU, two of whose member states, the Republic of Cyprus and Greece, are situated in relatively close proximity to the Plant. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 340-377 Issue: 3 Volume: 25 Year: 2023 Month: 05 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2022.2143855 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2022.2143855 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:25:y:2023:i:3:p:340-377 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2143846_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Gokhan Bacik Author-X-Name-First: Gokhan Author-X-Name-Last: Bacik Title: Informal Application of Islamic Rules in Turkey: The Imposition by RTÜK of Islamic Ethics on Television Broadcasting Abstract: This article studies Islamisation in Turkey by analysing some performances of the Supreme Council of Radio and Television (RTÜK), the state agency with the duty of licensing and supervising the various media organizations. As the article demonstrates, Islamisation at RTÜK occurs with its informal incorporation of Islamic ethical principles in its professional decisions. This instance of Islamisation is significant, for it operates informally by engaging Islamic rules directly. RTÜK demonstrates neatly how a state agency can reference Islamic principles in the very act of justifying the rationale of its official decisions about the content of the media organ under its review. It is with such analyses that this article aims to propose a more rigorous conceptualisation and explanation of Islamisation in Turkey than the ones commonly available in the literature: It provides an in-depth analysis of Islamisation in the news media, a field that Islamist political actors know full well to be strategic in the transformation of a society; and by demonstrating that Islamisation endeavours in Turkey are not confined to the obvious organs of propagandisation like the news media, but they penetrate informally also the supposedly neutral statutory rules and regulations. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 378-398 Issue: 3 Volume: 25 Year: 2023 Month: 05 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2022.2143846 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2022.2143846 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:25:y:2023:i:3:p:378-398 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2143859_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Bayram Balci Author-X-Name-First: Bayram Author-X-Name-Last: Balci Title: Islam and Politics in Turkey: Alliance and Disunion Between the Fethullah Gülen Movement and the Justice and Development Party of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Abstract: Both coming from conservative Anatolia, Fethullah Gülen and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan have, respectively, set up a movement and a political party that continue to make their mark on Turkey. Based upon the same vision of Islam and with a strategy of neutralizing their common opponent, the Kemalist establishment, an alliance, was founded between the two in 2002 when the AKP came to power. However, as it had been ambiguous from the start, this alliance did not resist the gradual emergence of numerous political and social differences between the two leaders. Less than 10 years after it was founded, the alliance between the two cracked and then shattered in 2013. Since then, the Gülen movement has been banned in Turkey and its representatives exiled abroad, particularly in Western countries. Under Gülen’s leadership, still based in the United States, they are trying to reorganize themselves into a new political structure. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 506-521 Issue: 3 Volume: 25 Year: 2023 Month: 05 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2022.2143859 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2022.2143859 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:25:y:2023:i:3:p:506-521 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2143849_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Ezgi Pinar Author-X-Name-First: Ezgi Author-X-Name-Last: Pinar Author-Name: Axel Gehring Author-X-Name-First: Axel Author-X-Name-Last: Gehring Title: ‘They Cannot Herd a Sheep’ Populist Politics and Its Struggles for and Against Education in Turkey Abstract: Instruments of direct suppression and tight control are widely discussed parts of education politics in Turkey. They are often perceived as parts of a wider political struggle that is crucial to produce imaginaries and memories supporting the populist narrative of the ruling AKP. The important role of higher education in the reproduction of a professional labour force does, however, indicate that these instruments cannot be reduced to that function. Ideological objectives and economic interests are often in a contradictory relationship, hindering the AKP’s ability to formulate a coherent strategy for higher education. Analysing the contradictions of the AKP’s higher education policies offers significant insights into the limits of populist politics that are in conflict with aspects of the economic order. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 440-457 Issue: 3 Volume: 25 Year: 2023 Month: 05 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2022.2143849 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2022.2143849 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:25:y:2023:i:3:p:440-457 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2143864_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Hamidreza Azizi Author-X-Name-First: Hamidreza Author-X-Name-Last: Azizi Author-Name: Amir Hossein Vazirian Author-X-Name-First: Amir Hossein Author-X-Name-Last: Vazirian Title: The Role of Armed Non-State Actors in Iran’s Syria Strategy: A Case Study of Fatemiyoun and Zainabiyoun Brigades Abstract: Over the past two decades, there has been a growing tendency among Middle Eastern states to use armed non-state actors (ANSAs) as proxies, making them a constant feature of regional conflicts. Fatemiyoun and Zainabiyoun brigades are two recent examples of state-sponsored ANSAs, which have played a significant role as Iran’s proxies in the course of the Syrian conflict. This article seeks to answer the question as to what role the Fatemiyoun and Zainabiyoun brigades have played in Iran’s military strategy in Syria and how effective they have been in securing Tehran’s strategic interests in the war-torn country. The article argues that following the outbreak of the Syrian crisis—as the most critical challenge to Iran’s foreign policy in the Middle East over the past decade—and due to Iran’s restraints in sustaining a large-scale direct military presence in Syria, the two Afghan and Pakistani brigades acted as Iran’s ground forces, reducing human and financial costs of a direct military engagement for Tehran. The effective role played by the two brigades was mainly reflected in the four strategic battles of Aleppo, Southern Syria, Palmyra, and Eastern Syria. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 540-557 Issue: 3 Volume: 25 Year: 2023 Month: 05 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2022.2143864 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2022.2143864 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:25:y:2023:i:3:p:540-557 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2143852_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Berdal Aral Author-X-Name-First: Berdal Author-X-Name-Last: Aral Title: Turkey’s Voting Preferences in the UN General Assembly During the AK Party Era as a Counterchallenge to Its ‘New’ Foreign Policy Abstract: This article traces the Turkish voting preferences in the UN General Assembly during the AK Party era between 2002 and 2020. It seeks to understand as to whether there is a congruence between Turkey’s critical view of international society as epitomized by Tayyip Erdoğan’s motto, 'The World is Bigger Than Five', and the way Turkish representatives voted during the same period in the UN General Assembly on questions such as nuclear disarmament, self-determination, search for a new international order, and human rights. Based on primary materials, this paper concludes that there exists an undisputable contradiction between Turkey’s anti-establishment posture and behavioural attitude towards the outside world since 2002 on the one hand and it’s voting orientation in the UN General Assembly on the other. The latter is largely the outcome of the ‘Europeanization’ of Turkish foreign policy based on Turkey’s candidacy for EU membership and its NATO commitments. Hence, during the period under investigation, Turkey was broadly allied to the European position in the context of its voting pattern in the UN General Assembly which was conspicuous with its aloofness towards calls for substantial changes intended to bring about a more just and peaceful international order. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 399-439 Issue: 3 Volume: 25 Year: 2023 Month: 05 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2022.2143852 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2022.2143852 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:25:y:2023:i:3:p:399-439 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2143853_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Nurhan Davutyan Author-X-Name-First: Nurhan Author-X-Name-Last: Davutyan Title: The Penetration of European Banking into Ottoman Lands During the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century Abstract: We discuss the development of ‘modern’ banking in core Ottoman lands during the latter half of nineteenth century. We present evidence showing considerable local financial sophistication prior to European entry around 1856. Drawing on the ‘constitutional commitment’ literature we maintain its success was related to enhanced security of life and property European financial ties provided to Ottoman decision-makers. We argue international relations substituted for missing domestic institutions. We describe the conflictual process ending around 1900, with the domination of Ottoman capital markets by European banks, particularly the Banque Impériale Ottomane, or BIO. The competition pitting BIO against ethnically based local banking networks opens a different window into the economic and fiscal occurrences of that epoch. We consider the role of London based ‘South African Gold Panic of Autumn 1895’ and its interactions with the unfolding ‘Armenian Crisis’ of Istanbul and Anatolia in bringing about this final outcome. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 322-339 Issue: 3 Volume: 25 Year: 2023 Month: 05 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2022.2143853 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2022.2143853 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:25:y:2023:i:3:p:322-339 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2143841_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Mustafa Yetim Author-X-Name-First: Mustafa Author-X-Name-Last: Yetim Author-Name: İ̇smail Numan Telci Author-X-Name-First: İ̇smail Numan Author-X-Name-Last: Telci Title: Another “Third Way” to Narrate the Existing Alliances in the Middle East: Turkey-Qatar, Saudi Arabia-UAE, and Iran-Syria Abstract: For some time, the three-alliance reality consisting of Turkey-Qatar, Saudi Arabia-United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Iran-Syria shaped the socio-political relations in the Middle East region. Therefore, tracking the principal factors behind the emergence and recent stability of these dominant alliances informs the theoretical and empiric dimensions of this study. In this context, this study displays the different motivations of the mentioned countries in these three alliances by drawing primarily on the challenging approach of May Darwich. Darwich’s analysis of the alliances with the recognition of equal weight on the ideational and material forces, albeit their varying impacts on the decision-making process, and her subsequent four-case scenario enabled intriguing and required elucidation of the divergent concerns of the countries in the formation of these alliances. Accordingly, this study finds that while some countries like Iran and Syria privilege material threats over ideational ones, other allied countries like the UAE and Saudi Arabia mostly concentrate on the elimination of ideational threats. Furthermore, Darwich’s approach helps us to find out mainly material-first orientation of Turkey’s partnership with Qatar, whereas Qatar’s case implies a somewhat unique example with its equal consideration of both concerns. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 484-505 Issue: 3 Volume: 25 Year: 2023 Month: 05 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2022.2143841 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2022.2143841 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:25:y:2023:i:3:p:484-505 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_994283_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Birgül Demirta¸ Author-X-Name-First: Birgül Author-X-Name-Last: Demirta¸ Title: Turkish Foreign Policy towards the Balkans: A Europeanized Foreign Policy in a De-Europeanized National Context? Abstract: There has been an increasing number of studies in the international relations literature discussing the rising salience of regionalism and regional powers in global politics. Due to its economic prowess, geographical size, demographic credentials as well as foreign policy activism, Turkey can be considered as one of the contemporary regional actors. This paper critically examines the impact of the Europeanization process on Turkish foreign policy towards the Western Balkan states and its rising status in regional politics. It argues that although Turkey is currently experiencing de-Europeanization in its domestic politics, the impact of Europeanization on its Balkans policy continues. This paper shows, among others, that it is not the internalizaton, but the instrumentalization of ‘Europe’ that has been the driving force of Turkey's domestic and foreign policy. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 123-140 Issue: 2 Volume: 17 Year: 2015 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2014.994283 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2014.994283 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:17:y:2015:i:2:p:123-140 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_993258_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Shampa Roy-Mukherjee Author-X-Name-First: Shampa Author-X-Name-Last: Roy-Mukherjee Title: Connecting the Dots: The Washington Consensus and the ‘Arab Spring’ Abstract: This paper investigates the socio-economic causes that have led to the recent political instability in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. The MENA region is characterized as one which holds massive hydrocarbon resources and yet suffers from low economic growth and development and high levels of unemployment. This paper shows that the Arab uprisings are linked to the inequalities created by the opening up of the Arab countries to foreign capital and financial agencies, a project that is commonly referred to as the Washington Consensus. This neo-liberal globalization programme has been highly diverse in its effectiveness throughout the MENA region. However, the state still remains the dominant economic player in this region and the Arab population still regards it as the primary provider. The state has been able to hold on to its power by limiting the role of private enterprise and also by maintaining an exclusive nexus between itself and the few prominent private sector companies. Although the wave of disillusionment and frustration amongst the Arab youth washed over the entire region with the same passion and propensity, the reaction of individual governments has been very varied. The future of the region lies in how effectively and efficiently the interim or newly elected governments are able to move their country beyond the pincers of, on the one hand, the Washington Consensus and, on the other, the old, state-centric and inefficient developmental regime. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 141-158 Issue: 2 Volume: 17 Year: 2015 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2014.993258 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2014.993258 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:17:y:2015:i:2:p:141-158 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_997487_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Kursat Cinar Author-X-Name-First: Kursat Author-X-Name-Last: Cinar Author-Name: Tekin Kose Author-X-Name-First: Tekin Author-X-Name-Last: Kose Title: Economic Crises in Turkey and Pathways to the Future Abstract: This paper investigates the Turkish economy within a comparative historical framework. In light of a thorough discussion of Turkish economic crises in the post-1980 period, the paper explores Turkey's contemporary strengths and weaknesses in the global economic arena by comparing it with its peers and developed nations. The paper also highlights Turkey's extant economic vulnerabilities, especially its current account deficit, volatile international capital flows and ongoing banking sector problems. Along with other policy recommendations regarding these vulnerabilities, the paper proposes the introduction of capital controls to enhance economic institutions and cope with future hardships. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 159-180 Issue: 2 Volume: 17 Year: 2015 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2014.997487 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2014.997487 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:17:y:2015:i:2:p:159-180 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_993259_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Istvan Egresi Author-X-Name-First: Istvan Author-X-Name-Last: Egresi Author-Name: Fatih Kara Author-X-Name-First: Fatih Author-X-Name-Last: Kara Title: Foreign Policy Influences on Outward Direct Investment: The Case of Turkey Abstract: Turkish outward foreign direct investments (FDIs) have increased considerably over the last two decades. While the bulk of them were invested in Western European countries, neighbouring regions, such as the Balkans, have also increased their share. The aim of this study is to discuss the geographical dynamics and characteristics of Turkish FDI in the Balkans, and to explain Turkish companies' increased interest in the Balkan markets. Upon evaluating the factors that have influenced the direction of Turkish FDI, we conclude that economic factors have played a lesser role and, for the most part, countries were selected for cultural and political reasons. We argue that the pattern of Turkish investments in the Balkans should be understood as part of the strategic depth doctrine of Turkish foreign policy. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 181-203 Issue: 2 Volume: 17 Year: 2015 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2014.993259 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2014.993259 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:17:y:2015:i:2:p:181-203 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_997488_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Veland Ramadani Author-X-Name-First: Veland Author-X-Name-Last: Ramadani Title: The Woman Entrepreneur in Albania: An Exploratory Study on Motivation, Problems and Success Factors Abstract: This paper is about women entrepreneurs in Albania, conditions for women entrepreneurship, perspectives for development and an array of problems that women entrepreneurs are facing. In order to gain a better picture of current motives, problems and perspectives of Albanian women in entrepreneurship, a survey was conducted during May–June 2014 to complement secondary sources. Respondents were asked about their motives for starting a business, the size of the business they run, revenues, their family status, management problems and the necessary capabilities as perceived by them. We used Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) reports to compare the indicators of entrepreneurial activity between countries in the region. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 204-221 Issue: 2 Volume: 17 Year: 2015 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2014.997488 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2014.997488 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:17:y:2015:i:2:p:204-221 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_993260_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Dimitrios E. Akrivoulis Author-X-Name-First: Dimitrios E. Author-X-Name-Last: Akrivoulis Title: Metaphors Matter: The Ideological Functions of the Kosovo–Holocaust Analogy Abstract: The Kosovo–Holocaust analogy is normally examined either as a rhetorical tool of deception and propaganda, or as an argumentative device employed to serve diverse purposes with often conflicting meanings. Political objections are thus normally limited to disclosing the distortions that served the national interests of the intervener. Following Paul Ricoeur, the paper moves beyond mere distortion to the ideological functions (social integration, legitimization and distortion) of a wider social imaginary, a Holocaust metanarrative for understanding the war, evaluating the facts and ethically assessing the proper US response. Findings are based on exhaustive research into (a) public remarks and statements made by Secretary Albright and leading figures of the Department of State (1997–2001), (b) the Congressional Record during the Clinton and G. W. Bush's administrations, and (c) the public papers of the US Presidents during the same period (1993–2009). Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 222-242 Issue: 2 Volume: 17 Year: 2015 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2014.993260 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2014.993260 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:17:y:2015:i:2:p:222-242 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_932615_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: William Mallinson Author-X-Name-First: William Author-X-Name-Last: Mallinson Title: The Same Things Return with Different Colours Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 243-248 Issue: 2 Volume: 17 Year: 2015 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2014.932615 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2014.932615 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:17:y:2015:i:2:p:243-248 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_864180_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Başak Alpan Author-X-Name-First: Başak Author-X-Name-Last: Alpan Author-Name: Thomas Diez Author-X-Name-First: Thomas Author-X-Name-Last: Diez Title: The Devil is in the ‘Domestic’? European Integration Studies and the Limits of Europeanization in Turkey Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 1-10 Issue: 1 Volume: 16 Year: 2014 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2013.864180 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2013.864180 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:16:y:2014:i:1:p:1-10 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_864181_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Gözde Yılmaz Author-X-Name-First: Gözde Author-X-Name-Last: Yılmaz Author-Name: Diğdem Soyaltın Author-X-Name-First: Diğdem Author-X-Name-Last: Soyaltın Title: Zooming into the ‘Domestic’ in Europeanization: Promotion of Fight against Corruption and Minority Rights in Turkey Abstract: Since the credibility of the European Union (EU) conditionality for Turkey has significantly weakened after 2005, compliance with the EU requirements has become less likely. However, we observe continuing reforms in the fight against corruption and minority rights, which is rather puzzling. Given the limited impact of the EU incentives, this paper brings back the ‘domestic’ into the analysis by exploring the role of various domestic actors, such as Turkish state elites, civil society and the media. Yet, as the empirical evidence suggests, policy change in the fight against corruption and minority rights has been driven by the domestic agenda of the governing party, the Justice and Development Party, and its political preferences based on strategic calculations. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 11-29 Issue: 1 Volume: 16 Year: 2014 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2013.864181 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2013.864181 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:16:y:2014:i:1:p:11-29 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_864182_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Alper Kaliber Author-X-Name-First: Alper Author-X-Name-Last: Kaliber Title: Europeanization in Turkey: In Search of a New Paradigm of Modernization Abstract: This study suggests that for the countries of Southern and Eastern Europe, that is, ‘the semi-periphery of Europe’ (Turkey, Greece, Portugal and the Central and Eastern European countries (CEECs)), Europeanization/modernization runs at the deeper sphere of the societal and in direct relation to the change in the nature of domestic politics. In those countries, Europeanization corresponds to a quest for a new paradigm of political modernity. This paper also reveals some inexorable methodological and epistemological parallels between the modernization theory of the 1950s and the current Europeanization literature. The aim is to reveal how the essentialist, top-down, universalist and evolutionist approach to development and social change adapted by the modernization school has been reproduced by the current scholarship on Europeanization. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 30-46 Issue: 1 Volume: 16 Year: 2014 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2013.864182 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2013.864182 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:16:y:2014:i:1:p:30-46 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_864183_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Defne Günay Author-X-Name-First: Defne Author-X-Name-Last: Günay Author-Name: Kaan Renda Author-X-Name-First: Kaan Author-X-Name-Last: Renda Title: Usages of Europe in Turkish Foreign Policy towards the Middle East Abstract: Europeanization of foreign policy is often studied from the perspective of the impact of European Union (EU) membership on national foreign policies. What go largely unnoticed are the numerous usages of the EU in presenting, justifying and implementing foreign policy at home and abroad. This paper addresses this lacuna in the literature by exploring how Turkish foreign policy actors have construed and used the EU to justify and explain Turkey's foreign policy towards the Middle East in the domestic and the Middle Eastern context. We draw upon a sociological approach to Europeanization and argue that the usages of the EU in the construction of Turkish foreign policy towards the Middle East vary according to the context. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 47-67 Issue: 1 Volume: 16 Year: 2014 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2013.864183 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2013.864183 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:16:y:2014:i:1:p:47-67 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_864184_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Başak Alpan Author-X-Name-First: Başak Author-X-Name-Last: Alpan Title: ‘Europe-as-Hegemony’ and Discourses in Turkey after 1999: What has ‘Europeanization’ Got to Do with It? Abstract: This paper focuses on the significance of the discourses and the notion of ‘hegemony’ to understand the process of Europeanization within the Turkish political landscape. By applying the poststructuralist theoretical framework of Laclau and Mouffe to the analysis of the shifting discourses on ‘Europe’ in Turkey after 1999, the paper identifies the different ways in which the concept has shaped domestic political debates and the political struggle detectable in the utterances of key political elites. I call this phase, ‘Europe-as-hegemony’. The overall claim is that a hegemonic approach permits us to see the changing landscape of the Turkish discourse in terms of a political struggle over ‘Europe’ and, finally, how ‘Europe-as-hegemony’ vanishes after 2005. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 68-85 Issue: 1 Volume: 16 Year: 2014 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2013.864184 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2013.864184 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:16:y:2014:i:1:p:68-85 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_864185_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Beken Saatçioğlu Author-X-Name-First: Beken Author-X-Name-Last: Saatçioğlu Title: AKP's ‘Europeanization’ in Civilianization, Rule of Law and Fundamental Freedoms: The Primacy of Domestic Politics Abstract: The literature on European Union (EU)–Turkey relations has mostly focused on explaining the general slowdown in the Justice and Development Party (AKP)'s post-2005 Europeanization rather than analysing the more puzzling question of why some reforms persisted as opposed to others despite the falling credibility of EU membership in the same period. To fill this gap, the paper studies the AKP's differential ‘Europeanization’ concerning civilianization, rule of law and fundamental freedoms. While reforms targeting civilianization persisted over the years, democratic progress in the other two areas rather stalled after 2007. It is argued that this variation is induced by AKP's changing domestic political empowerment needs. Specifically, AKP used the EU reform process as an instrument of political survival followed by power consolidation after 2007. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 86-101 Issue: 1 Volume: 16 Year: 2014 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2013.864185 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2013.864185 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:16:y:2014:i:1:p:86-101 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_864186_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Hanna Mühlenhoff Author-X-Name-First: Hanna Author-X-Name-Last: Mühlenhoff Title: Funding Democracy, Funding Social Services? The European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights in the Context of Competing Narratives in Turkey Abstract: Within the process of Turkey's European Union (EU) accession, the EU aims to strengthen Turkey's democratization through various programmes focusing on the role of civil society. By funding non-governmental organizations (NGOs), the EU intends to empower NGOs to take on a self-responsible role in Turkey's democratization process. In this article, I argue that the EU indeed aims to support a liberal narrative through the European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights (EIDHR) yet by the means of neo-liberal governmental power. Through this it renders the NGOs rather technical instead of political and thus misses the chance of strengthening a liberal narrative that could pose an alternative to the reoccurring hegemonic struggle between a Kemalist and a pro-Islam narrative in Turkey. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 102-118 Issue: 1 Volume: 16 Year: 2014 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2013.864186 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2013.864186 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:16:y:2014:i:1:p:102-118 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_864187_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Burcu Özdemir Author-X-Name-First: Burcu Author-X-Name-Last: Özdemir Title: The Role of the EU in Turkey's Legislative Reforms for Eliminating Violence against Women: A Bottom-Up Approach Abstract: This paper analyses Turkey's legislative reforms on violence against women (VAW) with particular focus on the European Union (EU) role and impact in triggering the reform process. By using a bottom-up Europeanization approach, the paper traces the reform process from the 1980s up until 2005 in terms of the interaction of external and domestic factors. The empirical evidence shows that the impact of external factors (be it the EU accession process or the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)) has been conditioned by the domestic factors and processes and it is hard to grasp the EU impact without considering its interaction with other domestic and external factors. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 119-136 Issue: 1 Volume: 16 Year: 2014 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2013.864187 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2013.864187 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:16:y:2014:i:1:p:119-136 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1280976_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Leila Simona Talani Author-X-Name-First: Leila Simona Author-X-Name-Last: Talani Title: The ECB and the Quest for Competitiveness of the Eurozone: From the Competitive Devaluation of the Euro to QE Abstract: That the lack of competitiveness of EU member states in the wake of the globalization era was a problem from the start of EMU is clear from the various interventions on this issue by the European institutions. These started from the White Paper on Growth, Competitiveness and Employment, of 1993, up to the various versions of the Lisbon agenda and agenda 2020. It might even be possible to hypothesize, in line with Colin Crouch and the literature on the political economy of competitiveness, that the establishment of EMU was an attempt to regain some of the competitiveness lost with the advent of the era of globalization. Accordingly, the role of the ECB to save the Eurozone dominant socio-economic sectors has been divided into two phases. In the first phase, the strategy was to rely on the depreciation of the euro vis-à-vis the dollar, which indeed gave some results in the first years of life of the European currency. With respect to the present phase, it is undeniable that the burden of the costs of the global financial crisis fell on the weakest countries of the system, through the two related phenomena of the sovereign debt crisis and the ensuing austerity programmes. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 351-365 Issue: 4 Volume: 19 Year: 2017 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2017.1280976 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2017.1280976 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:19:y:2017:i:4:p:351-365 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1280978_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Dimitrios E. Akrivoulis Author-X-Name-First: Dimitrios E. Author-X-Name-Last: Akrivoulis Title: Memory, Forgiveness and Unfinished Justice in the Former Yugoslavia Abstract: Drawing its examples from the case of the former Yugoslavia, the paper explores the difficult intersections of justice, memory and forgiveness where the present bears the traces of a violent past of inter-communal conflict and mass crimes. It specifically delves into the limits of institutional attempts to respond in a redemptory and permanent manner to the claims for justice in a political community scarred by such a tormenting past. It examines three judicial or semi-judicial manifestations of memory based on how they relate to the past(s) of the former Yugoslavia: (a) the punishment of the perpetrators, (b) the recognition of the crimes committed, and (c) forgetfulness in the name of peace and progress. Promoting reconciliation, governments often qualify a plea for forgiving as the last recourse to the impasse of institutional justice. At this fragile moment, forgiveness presents itself as a remedy for the impossibilities of institutional justice, without however fully evading the dangers of political expedience or the Western metaphysics of a ‘universal’ (Christian) ethos. Discussing memory as a dimension of justice, the paper concludes that if this intricate bond remains unexamined, the possibility of forgiveness in the former Yugoslavia could hardly attain any political meaning or vigour. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 366-387 Issue: 4 Volume: 19 Year: 2017 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2017.1280978 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2017.1280978 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:19:y:2017:i:4:p:366-387 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1280979_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Kenneth Hemmerechts Author-X-Name-First: Kenneth Author-X-Name-Last: Hemmerechts Author-Name: Kevin Smets Author-X-Name-First: Kevin Author-X-Name-Last: Smets Author-Name: Christiane Timmerman Author-X-Name-First: Christiane Author-X-Name-Last: Timmerman Title: Perceived Human Rights in Van Merkez, Eastern Turkey Abstract: The Kurdish population in Turkey and its human rights situation have been a major issue in Turkey’s foreign and domestic politics. There is a need for large-scale empirical evidence on perceptions of human rights or how people judge their own life situation and obstacles to greater empowerment and freedom of choice in the predominantly Kurdish eastern part of Turkey. Providing such empirical input, this study offers insight into the perceived human rights of people living in Van Merkez, an area that has been shaped by the Kurdish conflict. The data are part of the EUMAGINE project on human rights and migration-related perceptions, and consist of survey questions about human rights conditions among a representative sample of 500 respondents aged 18‒39. The results show that the differences in perceptions between Kurds and Turks are partially explained by the life satisfaction, perceptions of corruption and safety of respondents. The largest part is explained by the perception of language discrimination by the government. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 388-402 Issue: 4 Volume: 19 Year: 2017 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2017.1280979 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2017.1280979 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:19:y:2017:i:4:p:388-402 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1280981_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Jelena Džankić Author-X-Name-First: Jelena Author-X-Name-Last: Džankić Author-Name: Soeren Keil Author-X-Name-First: Soeren Author-X-Name-Last: Keil Title: State-sponsored Populism and the Rise of Populist Governance: The Case of Montenegro Abstract: Ever since it became independent in 2006, Montenegro has steadily progressed in its ambition to accede to the European Union. Even so, a new form of populism, dominated by neither a far-right nor a far-left discourse, but controlled by leading political elites in the country’s government has developed in Montenegro. This form of populism is not a mechanism of ensuring the dominance of the Democratic Party of Socialists (Demokratska Partija Socijalista Crne Gore, DPS) in Montenegro per se. Instead it is used as a tool to support and enhance other mechanisms that the party utilizes in order to stay in power and remain the dominant force in the country. Hence, we can observe the growth of a new kind of populism, a state-sponsored populist discourse that is very different from populism as understood in Western Europe. What we find in Montenegro is a government that uses populist language and messages to support a clientelistic state system. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 403-418 Issue: 4 Volume: 19 Year: 2017 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2017.1280981 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2017.1280981 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:19:y:2017:i:4:p:403-418 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1280986_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Zlatan Begić Author-X-Name-First: Zlatan Author-X-Name-Last: Begić Title: One More Attempt by the US Administration in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Constitutional Reform of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina—Mission Impossible or Back to the Future? Abstract: The Constitution of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina is a part of the Washington Peace Agreement which was the first step in establishing the sustainable peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina. This Constitution established a complex constitutional arrangement of this entity, which consists of 10 federal units—cantons. In the post-war period it turned out that the Constitution of the Federation of BH contains a number of inconsistent, contradictory and vague solutions that seriously affect the functionality of the entire system of government. This is particularly evident in the European integration process, which requires the effective fulfillment of the commitments derived from this process. Given the above, the US Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina Mr. Patrick Moon formed an independent Expert Group consisting of local experts, with the aim to propose concrete recommendations to establish a more efficient, more functional and cheaper system of government in the interest of citizens. This paper provides analysis of the most important system problems in the functioning of government in the Federation of BH and the solutions that, within the Draft of the new Constitution of the Federation of BH, were offered by the Expert Group in the realization of the set project task. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 419-445 Issue: 4 Volume: 19 Year: 2017 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2017.1280986 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2017.1280986 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:19:y:2017:i:4:p:419-445 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1280988_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Jonathan W. Keller Author-X-Name-First: Jonathan W. Author-X-Name-Last: Keller Author-Name: Bernd Kaussler Author-X-Name-First: Bernd Author-X-Name-Last: Kaussler Author-Name: Yi Edward Yang Author-X-Name-First: Yi Edward Author-X-Name-Last: Yang Title: American Power and Security during the Bosnian War (1993–1995): National Identity, Credibility, and the ‘Stalemate Machine’ Abstract: This manuscript uses recently declassified documents to examine the factors shaping US policy toward Bosnia from 1993 to 1995. Drawing upon IR theoretical insights from constructivism and realism, these documents reveal that the halting and inconsistent nature of US actions during this period can be explained by a mismatch between US identity-driven goals and the constraints of the post-Cold War world. Having committed themselves to bold yet largely unattainable objectives in the region, US officials feared a loss of credibility and, for much of the period under investigation, did just enough not to ‘lose’ Bosnia without taking the kinds of decisive actions that would have made a difference on the ground. Eventually, atrocities in Sarajevo and Srebrenica convinced the US that more forceful action was necessary to preserve US and NATO credibility. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 446-460 Issue: 4 Volume: 19 Year: 2017 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2017.1280988 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2017.1280988 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:19:y:2017:i:4:p:446-460 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_844587_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Will Bartlett Author-X-Name-First: Will Author-X-Name-Last: Bartlett Author-Name: Ivana Prica Author-X-Name-First: Ivana Author-X-Name-Last: Prica Title: The Deepening Crisis in the European Super-periphery Abstract: In this paper we argue that the Western Balkans form part of a ‘super-periphery’ of Europe, being highly vulnerable to the effects of the Eurozone crisis, yet lacking support from the European Union (EU) bail out funds and policy instruments that are available to ease the impact of the crisis on the ‘peripheral’ EU member states. In the Western Balkans the crisis has been transmitted through several channels including exports, remittances, foreign investment and bank credit flows. The paper investigates the impact of the Eurozone crisis on the region and questions whether the EU accession process continues to offer hope of economic prosperity in the future or whether the countries of the super-periphery should rely more on their own resources, new alliances and regional cooperation to support future economic growth. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 367-382 Issue: 4 Volume: 15 Year: 2013 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2013.844587 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2013.844587 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:15:y:2013:i:4:p:367-382 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_844589_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: V. Necla Geyikdaği Author-X-Name-First: V. Necla Author-X-Name-Last: Geyikdaği Author-Name: Filiz Karaman Author-X-Name-First: Filiz Author-X-Name-Last: Karaman Title: Foreign Direct Investment and Profit Transfers: The Turkish Case Abstract: Turkish businessmen, politicians and most academicians tend to see foreign direct investment (FDI) as a remedy for the chronic lack of capital accumulation in Turkey. The meagre FDI inflows which followed the Customs Union Agreement with the European Union, in 1995, created a deep disappointment among these people. Efforts to attract foreign capital have intensified since 2005 and inflows have soared. However, the greater part of the increase is the result of the Turkish government's privatization programme of publicly owned companies, and the acquisition of private firms by large multinational companies, rather than greenfield investments. This research investigates FDI inflows to Turkey and tries to estimate the transfer of profits. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 383-395 Issue: 4 Volume: 15 Year: 2013 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2013.844589 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2013.844589 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:15:y:2013:i:4:p:383-395 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_844586_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Evangelos Gr. Avdikos Author-X-Name-First: Evangelos Gr. Author-X-Name-Last: Avdikos Title: Memory and Identity on the Greek–Bulgarian Border Abstract: This paper explores the relation between memory and national identity. It is based on the hypothesis of whether—and to what degree—local memory, the cultural identity of a region as expressed by collective memory, serves the constitution of national identity or is a threat to the materialization of this objective, because of its cultural ‘polyphony’ and different discourse. In order to investigate these questions, research focused on the village of Petrota in northern Evros, Greece, and its relation with the village of Malko Gradishte, on the other side of the Greek–Bulgarian border. The relations and the manner of their representation by the inhabitants, before and after the 1940s, when Bulgaria joined the communist camp, are discussed. The paper underlines the importance of collective memory for understanding official histories and identities. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 396-411 Issue: 4 Volume: 15 Year: 2013 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2013.844586 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2013.844586 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:15:y:2013:i:4:p:396-411 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_844588_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Doğan Gürpinar Author-X-Name-First: Doğan Author-X-Name-Last: Gürpinar Title: Historical Revisionism vs. Conspiracy Theories: Transformations of Turkish Historical Scholarship and Conspiracy Theories as a Constitutive Element in Transforming Turkish Nationalism Abstract: This paper discusses the surge of neo-nationalism and conspiratorial thinking in tandem with the rise of the Turkish revisionist historiography highly critical of Turkish nationalism and its legacy in the 20th century in the 2000s. The paper also examines the demonization of these historiographical deviations by proponents of Kemalist nation-statism. Because these revisionists challenged nation-statist assumptions, such as the innocence of the Turkish nation and its self-victimization, their academic output was perceived as blasphemy against the common values of Turkish society, further fomenting neo-nationalist sentiment. Thus, the paper argues that the genesis of a revisionist historiography and the rising popularity of conspiracy theories among the public cannot be disassociated from each other.1 Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 412-433 Issue: 4 Volume: 15 Year: 2013 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2013.844588 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2013.844588 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:15:y:2013:i:4:p:412-433 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_844585_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Spyros Arvanitis Author-X-Name-First: Spyros Author-X-Name-Last: Arvanitis Author-Name: Euripidis Loukis Author-X-Name-First: Euripidis Author-X-Name-Last: Loukis Author-Name: Vasiliki Diamantopoulou Author-X-Name-First: Vasiliki Author-X-Name-Last: Diamantopoulou Title: New Technologies and Traditional Innovation Determinants in the Greek Economy Abstract: It is widely recognized that the recent economic crisis in Greece is due not only to excessive government spending and tax evasion, but also to the low competitiveness of its economy. Innovation has become of critical importance for the competitiveness of firms, sectors and countries in the modern economy. This paper presents an empirical study of the ‘new’ innovation determinants based on information and communication technologies (ICT) and also of the ‘traditional’ innovation determinants in the Greek economy. In particular, it investigates the impact of three different ICT (internal information systems (IS), e-sales and e-procurements) and also of six important traditional innovation determinants identified by previous relevant research (four ‘external’ ones—demand expectation, price and non-price competition, market concentration—and two ‘internal’ ones—investment in research and development (R&D) and firm size), on the innovation performance of Greek firms. It is based on firm-level data collected through a survey of 271 Greek firms before the start of the economic crisis, which have been used for the estimation of regression models. It is concluded that in the Greek ‘innovation-averse’ national context (characterized by low level of innovation and uncertainty avoidance culture) none of the examined external (market-related) traditional innovation determinants has an impact on product or process innovation of firms, while on the contrary the internal ones, R&D expenditure per employee and size, affect positively both. Furthermore, the examined new technologies seem to be important drivers of innovation: it is concluded that the internal IS have a positive impact on both product and process innovation, the e-sales only on process innovation, but the e-procurement on none. Our results indicate the high potential of ICT as innovation drivers even in such innovation-averse and lower economic development contexts, which, however, vary between different types of ICT. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 434-458 Issue: 4 Volume: 15 Year: 2013 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2013.844585 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2013.844585 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:15:y:2013:i:4:p:434-458 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_844584_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: F. Murat Özkaleli Author-X-Name-First: F. Murat Author-X-Name-Last: Özkaleli Author-Name: Mehmet Hasgüler Author-X-Name-First: Mehmet Author-X-Name-Last: Hasgüler Title: The Cyprus Game: The Evolutionary Approach to Conflict Resolution Revisited Abstract: The Cyprus conflict has usually been treated as a simple Prisoner's Dilemma game in which players (i.e. leaders) are encouraged to develop cooperative policies based on the United Nations framework. However, a Prisoner's Dilemma constitutes only the first level of the Cyprus negotiations, which, in fact, more closely resemble a sequential two-level (and a simultaneous nested) game. Still, the democratic setting that prevails in Cyprus poses particular challenges, forcing leaders to apply manipulative political tactics to appease their constituencies. Taking the Cyprus negotiations' complex characteristics into consideration, this paper discusses the importance of multi-level game structure and heresthetics in the Cypriot setting. Then, an evolutionary conflict resolution model for Cyprus is presented, improving its earlier application on theoretical grounds by supporting the evolutionary model's basic premises with functionalism. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 459-477 Issue: 4 Volume: 15 Year: 2013 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2013.844584 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2013.844584 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:15:y:2013:i:4:p:459-477 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_870400_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: The Editors Title: Editorial Board Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: ebi-ebi Issue: 4 Volume: 15 Year: 2013 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2013.870400 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2013.870400 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:15:y:2013:i:4:p:ebi-ebi Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_10020039_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Marina Lobo Author-X-Name-First: Marina Author-X-Name-Last: Lobo Author-Name: Pedro Magalhães Author-X-Name-First: Pedro Author-X-Name-Last: Magalhães Title: From 'Third Wave' to 'Third Way': Europe and the Portuguese Socialists (1975–1999) Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 25-35 Issue: 1 Volume: 3 Year: 2001 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190120050458 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190120050458 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:3:y:2001:i:1:p:25-35 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_10020037_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Philippe Marlière Author-X-Name-First: Philippe Author-X-Name-Last: Marlière Title: Introduction Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 5-9 Issue: 1 Volume: 3 Year: 2001 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190120050430 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190120050430 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:3:y:2001:i:1:p:5-9 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_10020038_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Gerassimos Moschonas Author-X-Name-First: Gerassimos Author-X-Name-Last: Moschonas Title: The path of modernization: PASOK and European integration Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 11-24 Issue: 1 Volume: 3 Year: 2001 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190120050449 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190120050449 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:3:y:2001:i:1:p:11-24 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_10020044_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: The Editors Title: Book Reviews Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 83-104 Issue: 1 Volume: 3 Year: 2001 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190120050502 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190120050502 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:3:y:2001:i:1:p:83-104 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_10020042_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Tobias Abse Author-X-Name-First: Tobias Author-X-Name-Last: Abse Title: From PCI to DS: How European integration accelerated the 'social democratization' of the Italian Left Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 61-74 Issue: 1 Volume: 3 Year: 2001 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190120050485 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190120050485 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:3:y:2001:i:1:p:61-74 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_10020043_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Ton Notermans Author-X-Name-First: Ton Author-X-Name-Last: Notermans Title: The first one hundred years of socialism Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 75-82 Issue: 1 Volume: 3 Year: 2001 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190120050494 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190120050494 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:3:y:2001:i:1:p:75-82 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_10020040_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Robert Ladrech Author-X-Name-First: Robert Author-X-Name-Last: Ladrech Title: Europeanization and French social democracy Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 37-47 Issue: 1 Volume: 3 Year: 2001 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190120050467 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190120050467 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:3:y:2001:i:1:p:37-47 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_10020041_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Paul Kennedy Author-X-Name-First: Paul Author-X-Name-Last: Kennedy Title: Spain's 'Third Way'?: The Spanish Socialist Party's utilization of European integration Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 49-59 Issue: 1 Volume: 3 Year: 2001 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190120050476 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190120050476 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:3:y:2001:i:1:p:49-59 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_10044046_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: The Editors Title: Introduction Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 91-95 Issue: 2 Volume: 6 Year: 2004 X-DOI: 10.1080/1461319042000241994 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/1461319042000241994 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:6:y:2004:i:2:p:91-95 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_10044047_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Dejan Jović Author-X-Name-First: Dejan Author-X-Name-Last: Jović Title: ‘Official memories’ in post‐authoritarianism: an analytical framework Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 97-108 Issue: 2 Volume: 6 Year: 2004 X-DOI: 10.1080/1461319042000242001 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/1461319042000242001 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:6:y:2004:i:2:p:97-108 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_10044048_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Miloš Ković Author-X-Name-First: Miloš Author-X-Name-Last: Ković Title: From persecutors to saviours: the Italian occupation forces of the Second World War in post‐1989 Serbian historiography Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 109-123 Issue: 2 Volume: 6 Year: 2004 X-DOI: 10.1080/1461319042000242010 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/1461319042000242010 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:6:y:2004:i:2:p:109-123 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_10044049_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Davide Rodogno Author-X-Name-First: Davide Author-X-Name-Last: Rodogno Title: Italian soldiers in the Balkans. The experience of the occupation (1941–1943) Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 125-144 Issue: 2 Volume: 6 Year: 2004 X-DOI: 10.1080/1461319042000242029 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/1461319042000242029 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:6:y:2004:i:2:p:125-144 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_10044050_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Pamela Ballinger Author-X-Name-First: Pamela Author-X-Name-Last: Ballinger Title: Exhumed histories: Trieste and the politics of (exclusive) victimhood Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 145-159 Issue: 2 Volume: 6 Year: 2004 X-DOI: 10.1080/1461319042000242038 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/1461319042000242038 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:6:y:2004:i:2:p:145-159 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_10044051_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Ilaria Favretto Author-X-Name-First: Ilaria Author-X-Name-Last: Favretto Title: Italy, EU enlargement and the ‘reinvention’ of Europe between historical memories and present representations Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 161-181 Issue: 2 Volume: 6 Year: 2004 X-DOI: 10.1080/1461319042000242047 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/1461319042000242047 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:6:y:2004:i:2:p:161-181 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_10044052_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Sabine Rutar Author-X-Name-First: Sabine Author-X-Name-Last: Rutar Title: Beyond the powder keg? Representations of the former Yugoslav countries in Italian history textbooks of the 1990s Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 183-204 Issue: 2 Volume: 6 Year: 2004 X-DOI: 10.1080/1461319042000242056 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/1461319042000242056 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:6:y:2004:i:2:p:183-204 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_10020028_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: The Editors Title: Editorial Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 139-140 Issue: 2 Volume: 2 Year: 2000 X-DOI: 10.1080/713683341 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/713683341 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:2:y:2000:i:2:p:139-140 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_10020029_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Stevan Pavlowitch Author-X-Name-First: Stevan Author-X-Name-Last: Pavlowitch Title: Europe and the Balkans in a historical perspective, 1804-1945 Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 141-148 Issue: 2 Volume: 2 Year: 2000 X-DOI: 10.1080/713683347 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/713683347 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:2:y:2000:i:2:p:141-148 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_10020035_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Charles Silva Author-X-Name-First: Charles Author-X-Name-Last: Silva Title: NATO: Growing pains or early retirement? Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 235-239 Issue: 2 Volume: 2 Year: 2000 X-DOI: 10.1080/713683344 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/713683344 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:2:y:2000:i:2:p:235-239 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_10020036_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: The Editors Title: Book Reviews Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 241-260 Issue: 2 Volume: 2 Year: 2000 X-DOI: 10.1080/713683345 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/713683345 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:2:y:2000:i:2:p:241-260 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_10020033_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: John Hickman Author-X-Name-First: John Author-X-Name-Last: Hickman Author-Name: Chris Little Author-X-Name-First: Chris Author-X-Name-Last: Little Title: Seat/vote proportionality in Romanian and Spanish parliamentary elections Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 197-212 Issue: 2 Volume: 2 Year: 2000 X-DOI: 10.1080/713683348 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/713683348 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:2:y:2000:i:2:p:197-212 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_10020034_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Andreas Theophanous Author-X-Name-First: Andreas Author-X-Name-Last: Theophanous Title: Cyprus, the European Union and the Search for a New Constitution Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 213-233 Issue: 2 Volume: 2 Year: 2000 X-DOI: 10.1080/713683342 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/713683342 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:2:y:2000:i:2:p:213-233 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_10020031_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Gavin Scrase Author-X-Name-First: Gavin Author-X-Name-Last: Scrase Title: The Balkans and international politics in the 1940s: On the Eden‐Gusev Pre-Percentages Agreement Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 163-176 Issue: 2 Volume: 2 Year: 2000 X-DOI: 10.1080/713683349 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/713683349 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:2:y:2000:i:2:p:163-176 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_10020032_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Giulio Sapelli Author-X-Name-First: Giulio Author-X-Name-Last: Sapelli Title: Alternatives to marginalization: New forms of social action in Mediterranean towns Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 177-195 Issue: 2 Volume: 2 Year: 2000 X-DOI: 10.1080/713683346 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/713683346 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:2:y:2000:i:2:p:177-195 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_10020030_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Triadafilos Triadafilopoulos Author-X-Name-First: Triadafilos Author-X-Name-Last: Triadafilopoulos Title: Power politics and nationalist discourse in the struggle for 'Northern Epirus': 1919-1921 Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 149-162 Issue: 2 Volume: 2 Year: 2000 X-DOI: 10.1080/713683343 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/713683343 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:2:y:2000:i:2:p:149-162 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_10044523_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Alec Rasizade Author-X-Name-First: Alec Author-X-Name-Last: Rasizade Title: The great game of Caspian energy: ambitions and realities Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 1-17 Issue: 1 Volume: 7 Year: 2005 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190000036669 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190000036669 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:7:y:2005:i:1:p:1-17 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_10044524_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Timothy Donais Author-X-Name-First: Timothy Author-X-Name-Last: Donais Title: A tale of two towns: human security and the limits of post-war normalization in Bosnia-Herzegovina Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 19-33 Issue: 1 Volume: 7 Year: 2005 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190500036693 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190500036693 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:7:y:2005:i:1:p:19-33 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_10044525_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Gavril Flora Author-X-Name-First: Gavril Author-X-Name-Last: Flora Author-Name: Georgina Szilagyi Author-X-Name-First: Georgina Author-X-Name-Last: Szilagyi Author-Name: Victor Roudometof Author-X-Name-First: Victor Author-X-Name-Last: Roudometof Title: Religion and national identity in post-communist Romania Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 35-55 Issue: 1 Volume: 7 Year: 2005 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190500036917 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190500036917 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:7:y:2005:i:1:p:35-55 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_10044526_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Dia Anagnostou Author-X-Name-First: Dia Author-X-Name-Last: Anagnostou Title: National interpretations in Bulgarian writings on the Pomaks from the communist period through the present Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 57-74 Issue: 1 Volume: 7 Year: 2005 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190500036941 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190500036941 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:7:y:2005:i:1:p:57-74 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_10044530_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Marcello Flores Author-X-Name-First: Marcello Author-X-Name-Last: Flores Title: Review Article: Turkey's entry into the EU: national identity, collective memory and the haunting ghost of the Armenian genocide Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 109-115 Issue: 1 Volume: 7 Year: 2005 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190500046262 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190500046262 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:7:y:2005:i:1:p:109-115 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_10044531_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Anna Triandafyllidou Author-X-Name-First: Anna Author-X-Name-Last: Triandafyllidou Title: Book Reviews Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 117-131 Issue: 1 Volume: 7 Year: 2005 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190500046304 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190500046304 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:7:y:2005:i:1:p:117-131 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_10044527_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Giuseppe De Arcangelis Author-X-Name-First: Giuseppe De Author-X-Name-Last: Arcangelis Author-Name: Giovanni Ferri Author-X-Name-First: Giovanni Author-X-Name-Last: Ferri Author-Name: Marzio Galeotti Author-X-Name-First: Marzio Author-X-Name-Last: Galeotti Author-Name: Giorgia Giovannetti Author-X-Name-First: Giorgia Author-X-Name-Last: Giovannetti Title: Policy-Making: EU trade links with developing neighbours: the case of SEECs, CEECs and the Mediterranean countries Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 75-96 Issue: 1 Volume: 7 Year: 2005 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190500041958 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190500041958 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:7:y:2005:i:1:p:75-96 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_10044528_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Eric Gordy Author-X-Name-First: Eric Author-X-Name-Last: Gordy Title: Review Articles: Milošević: malicious lunatic, faulty product, or baffling enigma? Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 97-101 Issue: 1 Volume: 7 Year: 2005 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190500046197 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190500046197 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:7:y:2005:i:1:p:97-101 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_10044529_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Robert McDonald Author-X-Name-First: Robert Author-X-Name-Last: McDonald Title: Review Article: Islamists to the fore in Turkey's pursuit of EU membership Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 103-108 Issue: 1 Volume: 7 Year: 2005 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190500046213 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190500046213 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:7:y:2005:i:1:p:103-108 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1888601_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Tuncay Bilecen Author-X-Name-First: Tuncay Author-X-Name-Last: Bilecen Author-Name: Ibrahim Sirkeci Author-X-Name-First: Ibrahim Author-X-Name-Last: Sirkeci Title: Sociocultural Conflicts and Ottoman Settlement Policies at the Balkan Wars Abstract: Migrations from Balkans to the Ottoman Empire continued for about 150 years; and peaked during the wars such as the 1877–78 Ottoman-Russian War and the Balkan Wars. Balkan immigrants with multi-ethnic, multicultural backgrounds and settling in with monocultural host communities faced hostility. We analysed these conflicts through official Ottoman archives, testimonies, and literary memoirs for the period of 1912 and 1917. Through the lenses of the conflict model of migration, we have explored the dynamic nature of migration processes in response to conflicts emerged between immigrants and local population in this period. We argue that Balkan immigrants faced insecurities arising from socio-cultural conflicts and this adversely affected the integration process. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 533-548 Issue: 4 Volume: 23 Year: 2021 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2021.1888601 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2021.1888601 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:23:y:2021:i:4:p:533-548 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1888599_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Ayca Arkilic Author-X-Name-First: Ayca Author-X-Name-Last: Arkilic Title: Turkish Populist Nationalism in Transnational Space: Explaining Diaspora Voting Behaviour in Homeland Elections Abstract: Turkey has seen a surge in populist nationalism over the last decade. How this has played out in transnational space through overseas Turkish citizens’ voting behaviour remains understudied, however. This article takes up this question, focusing on how the populist–nationalist appeals of the ruling AKP have been received by Turkish citizens in Europe. Specifically, it asks why such appeals have resonated highly with voters in some host countries but not in others. The study suggests that expatriates from Turkey facing more discrimination are more likely to be wooed by populist–nationalist discourse from the homeland. The findings draw on official statements and speeches, Turkish electoral data, the European Union Minorities and Discrimination Survey, newspaper articles, and secondary sources. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 586-605 Issue: 4 Volume: 23 Year: 2021 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2021.1888599 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2021.1888599 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:23:y:2021:i:4:p:586-605 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1888602_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Murat Kasapsaraçoğlu Author-X-Name-First: Murat Author-X-Name-Last: Kasapsaraçoğlu Title: Glocal Reflections of the Middle East Command (MEC) Project on the Regional Cold War Abstract: In the early 1950s, Western powers attempted to establish a regional alliance system with the participation of regional states to secure their interests. The Middle East Command (MEC) was the first project designed and imposed by the West. However, all actors in the region had different positions and policies towards such organizations. In this paper, the global and regional dynamics and developments affecting the creation of the MEC will be analysed from different perspectives using primary and secondary sources. The MEC project remained in the shadow of its successor, the well-known Baghdad Pact, and has received significantly less scholarly attention. By the same token, there is little literature on the MEC project and the existing literature is limited to the Western powers and Turkey. New studies reflecting the policies and positions of both global and regional actors are vital for the analysis of the Cold War in the Middle East. This paper mainly argues that global and local actors existed in two different worlds preventing their interests and priorities from overlapping. Therefore, under these circumstances, the MEC project and other alliances in the region failed and caused a tension shaping regional politics. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 566-585 Issue: 4 Volume: 23 Year: 2021 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2021.1888602 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2021.1888602 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:23:y:2021:i:4:p:566-585 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1888600_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Hakan Yavuzyılmaz Author-X-Name-First: Hakan Author-X-Name-Last: Yavuzyılmaz Title: When local becomes general: Turkey's 31 March 2019 elections and its implications for dynamics of polarization and sustainability of competitive authoritarianism Abstract: Following the snap general elections in 2018, Turkish voters again went to ballot-box to cast their verdict on local elections on 31 March 2019. While the electoral playing field remained heavily skewed to the benefit of the incumbent bloc as it has been during the recent rounds of electoral contestation, the opposition, for the first time, broke the winning series of the incumbent AKP and won nearly all the major metropolitan municipalities including Ankara and Istanbul. This article aims to delineate the dynamics of polarization/depolarization in a competitive authoritarian setting. Through an analysis of political and economic context and campaign discourses of main parties in recent local elections, this article argues that under a regime level cleavage, performance failure of incumbent enabled the opposition to initiate a depolarizing and inclusive campaign discourse while captivating its core constituency. Secondly, this article assesses the possible ramifications of recent electoral loss for the sustainability of competitive authoritarian regime in Turkey through an analysis of AKP’s politics of patronage and clientelism and party organization. Such an analysis demonstrates that despite its local character, the recent elections will have important ramifications for the sustainability of competitive authoritarianism in Turkey. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 622-642 Issue: 4 Volume: 23 Year: 2021 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2021.1888600 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2021.1888600 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:23:y:2021:i:4:p:622-642 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1888598_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Feryal Tansuğ Author-X-Name-First: Feryal Author-X-Name-Last: Tansuğ Title: ‘Native Foreigners’ of Turkey: The Non-Muslim Minority as An Instantiation of Homo Sacer Abstract: Non-Muslims of the Ottoman Empire took part in the nascent Turkish Republic with minority status in accordance with the Lausanne Treaty in 1923. The Law of Wealth Tax (Varlık Vergisi), as an exceptional law, was imposed on Turkish citizens between 1942 and1943 at the expense of non-Muslim Turkish nationals. Non-Muslims who could not pay the tax were taken to labour camps. Non-Muslims’ treatment by the Turkish state generally has been discussed in terms of exclusion as ‘foreigners’, mentioning the racist elements in nation-state building process. But this article argues distinctly that their inclusive exclusion from the social space and political society produced what Giorgo Agamben calls ‘bare life’, wherein they were subjected to the violence of the sovereign as homo sacers. It critically examines the problematic of sovereignty, using Agamben’s analysis of sovereignty on power and its relationship to the state of exception, depending on the diary of a Greek Turkish citizen written in a labour camp. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 643-666 Issue: 4 Volume: 23 Year: 2021 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2021.1888598 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2021.1888598 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:23:y:2021:i:4:p:643-666 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1888597_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Ayşegül Kars Kaynar Author-X-Name-First: Ayşegül Author-X-Name-Last: Kars Kaynar Title: Politics and Criminal Justice: Integrating Courts to Turkey’s Recent Kurdish Policy Abstract: This article deals with the role of judicial mechanisms in the JDP’s approach to the Kurdish issue. Specifically, it examines the KCK case, which began in April 2009 and is still continuing in some courts. The article places this criminal prosecution into a political setting and attempts to construct its political role and meaning. Studying the KCK case as a part of the JDP’s Kurdish policy shows how the government uses both repressive and peaceful means in parallel. Therefore, the article asserts that examining the political role of criminal justice can provide a more comprehensive picture of the JDP’s Kurdish policy in the last decade. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 606-621 Issue: 4 Volume: 23 Year: 2021 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2021.1888597 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2021.1888597 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:23:y:2021:i:4:p:606-621 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1888603_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Emmanuel Karagiannis Author-X-Name-First: Emmanuel Author-X-Name-Last: Karagiannis Title: Russian Surrogate Warfare in Ukraine and Syria: Understanding the Utility of Militias and Private Military Companies Abstract: Russia has traditionally maintained a large army to defend its borders. Now there is evidence that the Kremlin has utilized proxy militias and private military companies to launch operations abroad. The article will focus on the Russian interventions in Ukraine and Syria. It will claim that there are three reasons for the use of surrogate forces. Domestic developments, including new social attitudes, can explain why the Kremlin has been keen to hide casualties from the public. Concerns over legal and reputation repercussions mean that Moscow wants to minimize the Russian footprint in both countries. Finally, the use of militias and private contractors has certain military advantages for the Russian side. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 549-565 Issue: 4 Volume: 23 Year: 2021 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2021.1888603 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2021.1888603 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:23:y:2021:i:4:p:549-565 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2143773_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Hazal Papuççular Author-X-Name-First: Hazal Author-X-Name-Last: Papuççular Title: Contested Sovereignties: Turkish Diplomacy, the Straits Commission, and the League of Nations (1924–1936) Abstract: This article analyzes Turkey’s complex relationship with the Straits Commission in the interwar period. The Convention Relating to the Regime of the Straits that was signed in Lausanne in 1923 stipulated the formation of an international commission under the auspices of the League of Nations. This institution became a locus that Turkey, the other members of the Commission and the League of Nations negotiated the sovereignty of the Straits and discussed the authority over its administration. This article shows that Turkey perceived the Commission detrimental to its sovereignty. However, this article also portrays an interesting case study that Turkey conducted diplomacy with this intergovernmental organization in which it actually played a leading role. The vague relationship of the Commission with the League of Nations that Turkey was not a member of until 1932 further complicates the narrative which emphasizes the multiple layers that diplomacy was formed and performed, thereby necessitating new approaches to the study of foreign policy. In this regard, this study aims to transcend the traditional accounts on interwar Turkish diplomacy, which have been dominated by the interstate bilateral relations. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 207-221 Issue: 2 Volume: 25 Year: 2023 Month: 03 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2022.2143773 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2022.2143773 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:25:y:2023:i:2:p:207-221 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2143789_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Deniz Kuru Author-X-Name-First: Deniz Author-X-Name-Last: Kuru Title: ‘Diplomatic Courage’: A Turkish Ambassador in Sinj Abstract: This study deals with the surprising participation of the Turkish ambassador in Croatia at the country’s well-known annual Sinj Alka, an equestrian competition with a long tradition that relates to a famous victory over the Ottoman Turks in the 18th century. While the bilateral relations between Croatia and Turkey have developed since 1992 on a rather stable and positive level, the historical background has yet been marked by the legacy of the Ottoman occupation over large territories making up today’s Croatia. The 2012 attendance of a Turkish ambassador at the annual festivities in Sinj, themselves also marked by Croatian nationalist frames, was the first time that a Turkish representative was among the official guests. This study employs the concept of diplomatic courage and offers a history of the present in order to show how the lenses of new diplomatic history provide a useful means to approach this historical attendance, relying most importantly on the notion of diplomatic practices. It does this via an analysis of news reports and commentaries from Croatia and Turkey while underlining the historical dimension of the bilateral relationship. The conclusion pinpoints the limits of such practices in other contexts, depending on states’ foreign political choices. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 278-296 Issue: 2 Volume: 25 Year: 2023 Month: 03 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2022.2143789 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2022.2143789 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:25:y:2023:i:2:p:278-296 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2143783_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Hüseyin Sert Author-X-Name-First: Hüseyin Author-X-Name-Last: Sert Title: When Diplomats Lead to a War: The Role of the Turkish Diplomatic Bureaucracy in the Military Intervention in Cyprus Abstract: The Cyprus dispute has preoccupied the agenda of the Turkish diplomacy for almost seventy years. From the mid-1950s onwards, the Cyprus issue in the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs had been upgraded from a desk to its busiest department. Turkish diplomatic bureaucracy had been so much wrapped up in the Cyprus issue that a generation of Turkish diplomats were trained at this diplomatic battlefield. Consequently, they developed a specific policy formulation, which would in time transform Turkey’s position towards a more aggressive line. In this regard, this study scrutinizes the role of Turkish diplomats during the most decisive moment of the Cyprus dispute, namely the Turkish military campaign of July 1974. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 257-277 Issue: 2 Volume: 25 Year: 2023 Month: 03 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2022.2143783 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2022.2143783 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:25:y:2023:i:2:p:257-277 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2143776_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Carolin Liebisch-Gümüş Author-X-Name-First: Carolin Author-X-Name-Last: Liebisch-Gümüş Author-Name: Alp Yenen Author-X-Name-First: Alp Author-X-Name-Last: Yenen Title: Petitions, Propaganda, and Plots: Transnational Dynamics of Diplomacy During the Turkish War of Independence Abstract: The international recognition of Turkey through the Treaty of Lausanne is often seen as the foundational moment of Turkey in international diplomacy. This article approaches diplomatic history from a decentred perspective. It highlights the activities of various non-state actors and semi-official figures who became engaged in international politics during the Turkish War of Independence (1919–1923). They used citizen diplomacy, public propaganda, as well as other clandestine and public channels of transnational diplomacy to strive against the Allied peace terms. Notwithstanding their divergent political visions and agendas, these unofficial diplomats strengthened—though not always intentionally—the international recognition of the Turkish nation-state formation, only to be absorbed by the Ankara government’s growing monopoly on foreign policy. Informed by the New Diplomatic History approach, this article illustrates the important role of unofficial, transnational dynamics that escapes state-centred accounts of Ottoman-Turkish diplomacy during the aftermath of the First World War. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 185-206 Issue: 2 Volume: 25 Year: 2023 Month: 03 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2022.2143776 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2022.2143776 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:25:y:2023:i:2:p:185-206 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2143778_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Bahar Rumelili Author-X-Name-First: Bahar Author-X-Name-Last: Rumelili Author-Name: Senem Aydın-Düzgit Author-X-Name-First: Senem Author-X-Name-Last: Aydın-Düzgit Author-Name: Seçkin Barış Gülmez Author-X-Name-First: Seçkin Barış Author-X-Name-Last: Gülmez Title: Gendering Public Diplomacy: Turkey and Europe in the 1930s Abstract: This article scrutinizes the role of women’s rights and women actors in Turkey’s public diplomacy strategy in the 1930s and discusses whether and if so how it managed to change the long-standing European prejudices against Turkey. Accordingly, first, the article discusses the early reforms of the Turkish Republic and their European reception. Then, relying on critical discourse analysis, it examines two prominent cases; namely, Keriman Halis’ victory in the ‘Miss Universe’ beauty contest in 1932 and the organization of the 12th Congress of the International Alliance of Women in Istanbul in 1935, comparatively to observe how they resonated in Europe. The article will conclude by assessing whether the changing status of women in Turkish society has played a role in shifting the European perceptions of the newly established Turkish Republic. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 239-256 Issue: 2 Volume: 25 Year: 2023 Month: 03 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2022.2143778 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2022.2143778 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:25:y:2023:i:2:p:239-256 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2143781_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: E. Tutku Vardağlı Author-X-Name-First: E. Tutku Author-X-Name-Last: Vardağlı Title: Unconventional Diplomatic Initiatives of Nascent Turkish Republic: The Karadeniz Expedition in 1926 Abstract: This study analyzes an unconventional diplomacy initiative by the nascent Republic of Turkey. Upon the proposal of the President Mustafa Kemal [Atatürk], the ship Karadeniz (Black Sea) was transformed into a public diplomacy cruiser in 1926, sailing to western ports to promote Turkey’s newly established republican regime. After a long decade of wars and diplomatic hardships, the Revolutionary cadre in Turkey turned to unconventional means to generate a new identity for the country. This study examines the motives behind this unconventional diplomacy attempt over the Karadeniz Floating Fair case, which was a foresighted public diplomacy project. Karadeniz was furnished with a variety of exhibition items ranging from the popular products of the country to the newly developing artistic forms and displayed them in the port cities of Europe and the USSR. It is argued that this unconventional diplomacy formulation ensued from certain restraints of conventional diplomacy related to the national image. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 222-238 Issue: 2 Volume: 25 Year: 2023 Month: 03 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2022.2143781 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2022.2143781 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:25:y:2023:i:2:p:222-238 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2143771_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Deniz Kuru Author-X-Name-First: Deniz Author-X-Name-Last: Kuru Author-Name: Hazal Papuççular Author-X-Name-First: Hazal Author-X-Name-Last: Papuççular Title: Introduction to the Special Issue: New Diplomatic Histories of Turkey Abstract: This article provides an introduction to the special issue on ‘New Diplomatic Histories of Turkey’. Utilizing approaches that follow the rich pathways offered by the increasingly relevant new diplomatic history, we aim to go beyond traditional diplomatic history studies on Turkey, which usually focus on inter-state relations that mostly remain at the bilateral levels. In this regard, this introduction first analyses the recent turn taking place in diplomatic history. By portraying in detail the recent scholarly efforts to enhance the field, it becomes possible to pinpoint the multiple directions in which Turkey-pertinent diplomatic–historical studies could move ahead in novel ways. Upon this premise, second, we summarize the content of the special issue by emphasizing how the present articles connect studies on the diplomacy of Turkey to approaches enriched by new diplomatic history. In this regard, the studies in this special issue cover a wide range of topics, from transnationalism to public diplomacy. The last part deals with possible ways through which to widen the scope of Turkey’s diplomatic histories. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 167-184 Issue: 2 Volume: 25 Year: 2023 Month: 03 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2022.2143771 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2022.2143771 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:25:y:2023:i:2:p:167-184 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1375626_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Isabell Schierenbeck Author-X-Name-First: Isabell Author-X-Name-Last: Schierenbeck Author-Name: Gustav Rudd Author-X-Name-First: Gustav Author-X-Name-Last: Rudd Title: Defected Civilian Civil Servants: Perceptions of Regime Strength in Syria Abstract: This paper explores why Syrian civil servants decide to defect from the Syrian bureaucratic apparatus and how regime strength is perceived among these defectors. The paper contributes to existing studies on defection in which the main focus is often on military civil servants, by expanding the scope of the investigation to defections among civilian civil servants working in public administration. The analytical framework of ‘state infrastructural power’ guides the study. The results of the investigation indicate that defections take place, not as a result of perceived regime strength through military and territorial control, but rather as a result of perceived illegitimate rule by the regime. The material consists of semi-structured interviews with 13 high-level civilian civil servants that defected from the Syrian state apparatus between June 2011 and March 2013. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 1-14 Issue: 1 Volume: 20 Year: 2018 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2017.1375626 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2017.1375626 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:20:y:2018:i:1:p:1-14 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1375627_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Türkay Salim Nefes Author-X-Name-First: Türkay Salim Author-X-Name-Last: Nefes Title: The Sociological Foundations of Turkish Nationalism Abstract: Although Ziya Gökalp was one of the most important intellectuals to shape Turkish nationalism, scholarship has not systematically examined the links between his sociological perspective and nationalism. This study shows how Gökalp’s culture‒civilization theory, predominantly adapted from Emile Durkheim’s sociological perspective, provides a basis for his Turkish nationalism. Gökalp developed two central premises in line with Durkheimian sociology: (a) civilization is dependent on cultural unity; and (b) religion is the root of culture. Via the culture‒civilization duality, Gökalp constructed a Turkish nationalism that excluded non-Muslim and non-Sunni minorities. This article not only provides a comprehensive account of the roots of Turkish nationalism but also posits a fresh perspective on Gökalp’s trinity of Turkification, Islamization and modernization. In so doing, it underlines Durkheim’s indirect impact on the foundations of Turkish nationalism. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 15-30 Issue: 1 Volume: 20 Year: 2018 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2017.1375627 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2017.1375627 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:20:y:2018:i:1:p:15-30 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1375625_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Ionela Vlase Author-X-Name-First: Ionela Author-X-Name-Last: Vlase Author-Name: Ana Maria Preoteasa Author-X-Name-First: Ana Maria Author-X-Name-Last: Preoteasa Title: Gendered Life-Course Patterns in Post-Socialist Romania: An Illustration from Households Situated in Precarious Prosperity Abstract: This paper documents the gendered aspects of changes affecting the life course of Romanians post-socialism, and the meanings men and women—with ages spanning across various age cohorts—employ to make sense of their experiences. Based on qualitative data collected during research on precarious prosperity among Romanian households conducted in 2013, the findings show that major shifts occurred in the timing of life events. Romanians’ life courses and their work trajectories have been unevenly affected depending on their intersectional belonging to gender, area of residence and life stage at the moment of the political transition. The analysis of work trajectories unravels increasing gender differentiation among younger cohorts and reinforcement of the gendered life paths taken. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 31-48 Issue: 1 Volume: 20 Year: 2018 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2017.1375625 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2017.1375625 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:20:y:2018:i:1:p:31-48 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1375272_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Erka Çaro Author-X-Name-First: Erka Author-X-Name-Last: Çaro Author-Name: Ajay Bailey Author-X-Name-First: Ajay Author-X-Name-Last: Bailey Author-Name: Leo Van Wissen Author-X-Name-First: Leo Author-X-Name-Last: Van Wissen Title: ‘I am the God of the House’: How Albanian Rural Men Shift their Performance of Masculinities in the City Abstract: Migration triggers significant developments in gender norms and identities. Cultural and spatial dislocation influences the ways people renegotiate their gender schemas and shifts the performances of masculinity and/or femininity. Scholars have mainly focused on its impact on women, overlooking its importance in shaping men’s identity. This paper focuses on rural migrant men moving to the city. It explores the strategies they use to renegotiate traditional performances of masculinities in the context of their spatial dislocation and wider socioeconomic developments and urbanization in a suburb of Tirana, Albania. Using an ethnographic and auto-ethnographic narrative approach, this paper reveals that traditional performances of masculinities confronted with modernization are shifting and being reshaped in the new urban environment where generational differences and the emancipation of women are now apparent. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 49-65 Issue: 1 Volume: 20 Year: 2018 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2017.1375272 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2017.1375272 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:20:y:2018:i:1:p:49-65 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1375264_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Sonia Andreou Author-X-Name-First: Sonia Author-X-Name-Last: Andreou Author-Name: Evripides Zantides Author-X-Name-First: Evripides Author-X-Name-Last: Zantides Title: Constructing Official Culture through Stamps: The Case of the Republic of Cyprus Abstract: This study addresses the official culture of the Republic of Cyprus as it has been promoted through the postage stamps released by the state between 1960 and 2013. The theoretical framework of this study is derived from relevant theories on the cultivation of official cultures, through visual communication, specifically postage stamps, in association with the social and political situation concerning the Republic of Cyprus. The corpus has been analysed using quantitative content analysis and the development of certain categories in relation to landmark dates for the country’s history has been studied. According to the findings, the official culture of the state has favoured topics that highlight the island’s long history and has accentuated the importance of religion as part of the official repertoire. Nonetheless, there are strong indications deriving from the analysis of the corpus that there has been a shift in the representation of the official culture since the country became a member of the EU. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 66-85 Issue: 1 Volume: 20 Year: 2018 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2017.1375264 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2017.1375264 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:20:y:2018:i:1:p:66-85 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1375269_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Zeynep Sahin Mencutek Author-X-Name-First: Zeynep Sahin Author-X-Name-Last: Mencutek Author-Name: Bahar Baser Author-X-Name-First: Bahar Author-X-Name-Last: Baser Title: Mobilizing Diasporas: Insights from Turkey’s Attempts to Reach Turkish Citizens Abroad Abstract: Expansion in state‒diaspora relations in recent decades has led to academic research questioning when, why and how sending states develop diaspora policies in order to re-connect with their citizens abroad. Turkey, which has one of the highest rates of emigration in the world, is a particularly important case study in terms of illustrating a turn in the way it perceives its citizens abroad as a diaspora. When the AKP (Justice and Development Party) came to power, it attempted to develop a number of diaspora policies to maintain, cultivate and deepen relations with its emigrants with an aim of creating a mobilized transnational community. This article explains the transformation in this newly emerging engagement policy by putting an emphasis on Turkey’s foreign policy aspirations and the diffusion of Turkey’s domestic policies abroad. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 86-105 Issue: 1 Volume: 20 Year: 2018 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2017.1375269 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2017.1375269 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:20:y:2018:i:1:p:86-105 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1317965_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Aris Petasis Author-X-Name-First: Aris Author-X-Name-Last: Petasis Title: Kissinger Conjures Up Bad Images to this Day Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 106-111 Issue: 1 Volume: 20 Year: 2018 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2017.1317965 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2017.1317965 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:20:y:2018:i:1:p:106-111 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1992193_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Farooq Sulehria Author-X-Name-First: Farooq Author-X-Name-Last: Sulehria Title: Turkey: The Pendulum between Military Rule and Civilian Authority Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 185-192 Issue: 1 Volume: 24 Year: 2022 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2021.1992193 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2021.1992193 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:24:y:2022:i:1:p:185-192 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1992187_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: İlke Gürdal Author-X-Name-First: İlke Author-X-Name-Last: Gürdal Title: The Impact of AKP’s Foreign Policy on the Capital Accumulation Process in Turkey Abstract: Since 2002, Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi (AKP) has enjoyed an uninterrupted rule in Turkey. Over the years, it has increased its dominance over society by implementing its agenda. During its term in office, the AKP has been following an active foreign policy and has been attempting to become a leading regional actor, especially in the Middle East. This article argues that the ‘hegemony’ concept developed by the Italian philosopher Antonio Gramsci is a useful theoretical lens to understand how the neoliberal hegemony has been established and preserved by the AKP how foreign policy tools have helped to the preservation of its domestic hegemony and support base. This article will study capital inflows and outflows and trade patterns to test which capital groups benefited from this activity. This article will focus on the role of AKP’s foreign policy and how this contributed to the capital accumulation process and consequently the support basis of the AKP. The correlation between foreign policy and domestic policy and the effects of foreign policy on the domestic support base during AKP’s rule will be investigated. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 158-174 Issue: 1 Volume: 24 Year: 2022 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2021.1992187 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2021.1992187 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:24:y:2022:i:1:p:158-174 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1992185_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Giulia Dal Maso Author-X-Name-First: Giulia Author-X-Name-Last: Dal Maso Title: Past and present financialization in Central Eastern Europe: the case of Western subsidiary banks Abstract: By examining the ‘post’ financial crisis scenario in Central Eastern Europe (CEE) the paper assesses the role of Western banks in the region and how their penetration and ‘resilience’ is influenced by their parent and subsidiary structure. While taking stock of the variegated post-socialist transformation in CEE, it employs a genealogical method to explore how the universal bank model and its current ‘bifurcation’ into parent and subsidiary bank provides a lens through which to investigate a new form of dependency within the uneven geography of Europe. In the light of Rudolf Hilferding’s theory of the universal bank and the theorization of financial capital, it illustrates how the present form of bank capitalization overlaps with previous forms of imperial expansion. If on one hand subsidiaries sit at the intersection between the core (home country) and the periphery (host country)— reproducing some of the old spatial hierarchy of capitalism; on the other they also enable new patterns of value extraction that go beyond these relations of dependency. Their autonomy in raising capital and in responding to local host jurisdiction in their “second home market” opens a new financial dimension of extractions that escape the oversight of national and regional regulatory regimes. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 60-77 Issue: 1 Volume: 24 Year: 2022 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2021.1992185 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2021.1992185 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:24:y:2022:i:1:p:60-77 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1992194_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Andreas Stergiou Author-X-Name-First: Andreas Author-X-Name-Last: Stergiou Author-Name: Christos Kollias Author-X-Name-First: Christos Author-X-Name-Last: Kollias Title: The Political Economy of Turkish Foreign Policy Abstract: In recent years, Erdogan’s rising authoritarian tendencies at home coincided with the hardening of his positions in the country’s foreign relations. From Libya to Syria to Greece to Iraq to Azerbaijan, and yes, even to Israel, Turkey’s actions have been at least controversial and have also led to increased tensions with Cyprus, Egypt and Greece over the EastMed maritime zones, but also with faraway geopolitical players. The article tries to explore the material foundations of current Turkey’s assertive foreign policy, focusing on the main country’s economic indicators, defence capabilities and defence economics. By comparing Turkey’s economic potential and defence capabilities with regional players but also with some other middle or even great powers such as England, France, Italy and Russia, the analysis shows that Turkey’s aggressive international behaviour is not only the outcome of a new nationalist rhetoric but is based on some facts and data that should not be overlooked. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 42-59 Issue: 1 Volume: 24 Year: 2022 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2021.1992194 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2021.1992194 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:24:y:2022:i:1:p:42-59 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1992184_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Akif Avci Author-X-Name-First: Akif Author-X-Name-Last: Avci Title: The New Regime of Free Trade and Transnational Capital in Turkey Abstract: Based on the philosophy of internal relations, this study examines the dialectical relationship between internal and external factors, which shaped the emergence and transformation of transnational capital in Turkey. The study examines the expansion of global free trade through uneven and combined development, which derives its forms of existence and contradictions from historically specific social formations. This study uncovers how the expansion of global free trade with the so-called ‘emerging powers’ can be understood with specific reference to transnational capital in Turkey. It then argues that unevenness is always created at the global and regional level and shows how the state and transnational capital in Turkey have combined with global imperialism to produce the current phase of capitalism in Turkey. It suggests that global free trade deepened the time- and scale-based unevenness between the different fractions of capital in Turkey, which has given an uncontested hegemony to transnational capital over other capital fractions. In conclusion, it examines the impact of the global economic crisis, which started in 2018 and intensified with the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 on the operations of the state and transnational capital in Turkey. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 78-96 Issue: 1 Volume: 24 Year: 2022 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2021.1992184 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2021.1992184 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:24:y:2022:i:1:p:78-96 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1992186_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Buğra Sarı Author-X-Name-First: Buğra Author-X-Name-Last: Sarı Title: Culture of Insecurity and Production of Foreign Policy Crises: Turkey’s Sèvres Syndrome and Syrian Support for the PKK during the 1998 October Crisis Abstract: Events in international politics are produced as crises when they pose threat to particular state identities. Having such understanding, this study complements the standard accounts that stress strategic factors as the catalyst behind Turkey’s decision to initiate the 1998 October Crisis. There is no denying that standard accounts have significant merit in revealing the material dimension of the crisis. However, the crisis does also contain a cultural dimension that reveals the conditions of possibility for Turkey’s decision, missing in the standard accounts. Hence, the study looks into developments in 1998 which allowed for representations that linked the Syrian support for the PKK with Turkey’s Sèvres Syndrome, a discursive power practice within Turkey’s unique culture of insecurity that ‘great powers are conspiring to weaken and divide Turkey’. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 138-157 Issue: 1 Volume: 24 Year: 2022 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2021.1992186 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2021.1992186 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:24:y:2022:i:1:p:138-157 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1992188_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Müge Özbek Author-X-Name-First: Müge Author-X-Name-Last: Özbek Title: Review: Working in Greece and Turkey: A Comparative Labour History from Empires to Nation-States, 1840–1940, Leda Papastefanaki and M. Erdem Kabadayı (eds). Berghahn Books. 2020 $179.00/£132.00 / Hb Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 175-178 Issue: 1 Volume: 24 Year: 2022 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2021.1992188 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2021.1992188 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:24:y:2022:i:1:p:175-178 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1992192_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Ksenia Kirkham Author-X-Name-First: Ksenia Author-X-Name-Last: Kirkham Title: The Paradox of the New Great Game: Do Europe and China Need More Pipelines from Eurasia? Abstract: Transition to low-carbon energy is on the political agenda of most developed states, supported by investment in green technologies and legislative initiatives. The EU is actively elaborating the 2050 climate and energy policy framework and has adopted the Long-Term Low Greenhouse Gas Emission Development Strategy to make the EU ‘climate-neutral’ by 2050. Meanwhile, China’s President Xi Jinping announced China’s goal to achieve carbon neutrality by 2060. These strategic goals are in line with China’s and the EU’s international commitment to ‘global climate action’ under the 2016 Paris Accords. These plans go in stark contrast with rising investment in pipeline projects in Central Asia and the South Caucasus that compete with Russia’s expanding transit capacities and with the dramatic development of LNG markets in Europe and Asia. The New Great Game seems to have been turning 180°—from rivalry among consumers over upstream assets and transportation routes in Central Asia and the South Caucasus towards competition between producers over sales markets in Europe and China, although the recent and sudden global gas supply crisis suggests a more complicated picture. So, what do the net-zero strategies mean for Eurasia? This article attempts to answer this question by exploring the prospects for gas pipeline expansion amid the carbon neutrality pledges of the major net consumers. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 1-23 Issue: 1 Volume: 24 Year: 2022 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2021.1992192 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2021.1992192 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:24:y:2022:i:1:p:1-23 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1992189_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Ayşe Ömür Atmaca Author-X-Name-First: Ayşe Ömür Author-X-Name-Last: Atmaca Author-Name: Zerrin Torun Author-X-Name-First: Zerrin Author-X-Name-Last: Torun Title: Geopolitical Visions in Turkish Foreign Policy Abstract: In the last two decades, Turkish foreign policy has undergone a remarkable transformation and Eurasianism, with its anti-Western and pro-Russian rhetoric, has become more visible in the foreign policy practices/activities of the JDP (Justice and Development Party) government. This article identifies Europeanization/de-Europeanization, Neo-Ottomanism and Eurasianism as geopolitical visions that have shaped Turkish foreign policy goals and instruments during the JDP government era. The article argues that Eurasianism is a result of necessity as Europeanization is off the agenda and neo-Ottomanism is not producing positive results. Overall, however, the evolution of geopolitical visions can be accounted for not only by foreign policy concerns. Domestic political goals and economic interests also matter. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 114-137 Issue: 1 Volume: 24 Year: 2022 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2021.1992189 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2021.1992189 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:24:y:2022:i:1:p:114-137 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1992190_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Hakan Mehmetcik Author-X-Name-First: Hakan Author-X-Name-Last: Mehmetcik Author-Name: Arda Can Çelik Author-X-Name-First: Arda Can Author-X-Name-Last: Çelik Title: The Militarization of Turkish Foreign Policy Abstract: Turkish Foreign Policy (TFP) has undergone structural changes over the last few years due to the perception of immediate threats to Turkish national security which, according to Ankara, has brought a need for a more assertive foreign policy. Consequently, Turkey is expanding its military presence in the Balkans, the Caucasus, the Middle East and Africa, and utilizing frequently coercive diplomacy to resolve foreign policy issues. This article analyses both the drivers and the consequences of the militarization of TFP. The main argument is that there are at least three drivers in this militarization, namely, the pursuit of strategic autonomy, the closing tandem between the domestic and foreign policy, and the Turkish military-industrial complex. The broader security and diplomatic consequences of TFP militarization in regional and international politics are also investigated. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 24-41 Issue: 1 Volume: 24 Year: 2022 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2021.1992190 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2021.1992190 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:24:y:2022:i:1:p:24-41 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1992191_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: George Kalpadakis Author-X-Name-First: George Author-X-Name-Last: Kalpadakis Title: I politiki klironomia tou Eleftheriou Venizelou. Synecheies kai asynecheies [The Political Legacy of Eleftherios Venizelos. Continuities and Discontinuities] Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 178-185 Issue: 1 Volume: 24 Year: 2022 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2021.1992191 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2021.1992191 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:24:y:2022:i:1:p:178-185 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1992183_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Pınar Bedirhanoğlu Author-X-Name-First: Pınar Author-X-Name-Last: Bedirhanoğlu Title: Economic Management under the Presidential System of Government in Turkey: Beyond the Depoliticization versus Repoliticisation Dichotomy Abstract: Passage to Presidential System of Government in Turkey in 2018 meant a leap in the state’s neoliberal transformation since the 1980s. In the economic field, this led to politicized, centralized and personalized management practices in contrast to the earlier neoliberal mottos of depoliticization, decentralization and institutionalization. This article presents a detailed critical analysis of politicized government strategies during the August 2018 currency crisis to highlight class-based historical continuities underlying this shift from depoliticization to repoliticisation. Rethinking Peter Burnham’s arguments on depoliticization, it argues that the turn towards politicization in economic management is indicative of a more fundamental depoliticization process engendered at the level of structured social relations due to enhanced capitalist subordination of state and society by financialisation in Turkey. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 97-113 Issue: 1 Volume: 24 Year: 2022 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2021.1992183 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2021.1992183 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:24:y:2022:i:1:p:97-113 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1367567_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Igor Ivašković Author-X-Name-First: Igor Author-X-Name-Last: Ivašković Title: Implications of the Balkan Wars for the Yugoslav Idea among Slovenians in Trieste Abstract: The article analyses the Yugoslav idea among Slovenian liberals from Trieste in the period before the First World War. Initially, they favoured the idea of a third politico-administrative unit that would incorporate Trieste within the Habsburg Monarchy. In this setting, they built a partnership with the Croatian political representatives. The first round of the Balkan wars caused euphoria among Slovenian liberals in Trieste and stimulated the development of a new political framework—namely, the federalization of the Habsburg Monarchy, and its integration with the Union of Balkan Slavs. However, the second round of the Balkan wars imposed a reduction of the Slovenian liberals’ initial plan; they excluded the Bulgarians from the Southern Slav political framework, thereby accepting the Serbian vision of the state. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 187-203 Issue: 2 Volume: 21 Year: 2019 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2017.1367567 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2017.1367567 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:21:y:2019:i:2:p:187-203 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1367585_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Ece Vitrinel Author-X-Name-First: Ece Author-X-Name-Last: Vitrinel Title: Forced Politicization of Television Celebrities in Turkey Abstract: Politicized stars being banned, investigated, detained or exiled is not new to Turkey. But targeting of very popular television personalities with no or little political involvement indicates a new phenomenon. Drawing on this shift from partisan-based to casual-based activism and focusing on three recent examples who owe their international fame to the growing domestic TV drama industry in the country, this article seeks to understand why celebrities are targeted nowadays for expressing their point of view on social media, for being critical or even just for their appearance in a socio-political movement. In this attempt, by adopting a conjunctural approach which takes into account images of each celebrity on and off screen, the present work puts forward the prevalent ‘polarization’ in Turkish society as a key concept and an explanatory factor. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 222-233 Issue: 2 Volume: 21 Year: 2019 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2017.1367585 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2017.1367585 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:21:y:2019:i:2:p:222-233 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1367586_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Christos Kourtelis Author-X-Name-First: Christos Author-X-Name-Last: Kourtelis Title: (Not) Learning from the Past? The Diffusion of the EU’s Rural Development Policy in its Neighbouring Countries Abstract: After the Arab revolts the EU attempted to contribute to the rural development of the Arab Mediterranean states by designing the European Neighbourhood Programme for Agriculture and Rural Development (ENPARD). Through ENPARD the EU tried to diffuse policies that were implemented in the new member states (NMS) and the candidate countries. Based on the experiences of one NMS (Croatia) and one candidate country (Turkey), the article surveys what is (not) learned from the pre-accession programmes and the limits of policy diffusion in Egypt and Tunisia. The article claims that policy diffusion must be distinguished from policy convergence and that policy success must be contextualized by taking into account the role of domestic actors in each case study. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 234-250 Issue: 2 Volume: 21 Year: 2019 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2017.1367586 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2017.1367586 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:21:y:2019:i:2:p:234-250 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1367587_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Elena Pokalova Author-X-Name-First: Elena Author-X-Name-Last: Pokalova Title: Islamic Radicalization in Russia’s North Caucasus: Lessons from Russia’s Handling of Religious Revival Abstract: Religious radicalization in Russia poses one of the most significant security threats as the insurgency in the North Caucasus continues to challenge stability in the region and the number of individuals leaving to fight in Syria and Iraq keeps growing. The Russian government has predominantly addressed the issue through the lens of counterterrorist operations, with most counter-radicalization narratives describing the threat as an imported phenomenon. As a result, local factors feeding into religious radicalization have largely been outside of the purview of counter-radicalization. This article examines the factors that have contributed to religious radicalization in the North Caucasus. It analyses the role of foreign influences during the Chechen wars and evaluates the role of such local factors as the government treatment of religious groups, the actions of Russia’s security services, corruption and economic conditions. The findings suggest that insurgents have manipulated local factors in the narratives that attract supporters of violence and thus indicate that unaddressed local grievances have been facilitating the radicalization process. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 146-169 Issue: 2 Volume: 21 Year: 2019 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2017.1367587 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2017.1367587 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:21:y:2019:i:2:p:146-169 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1367588_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Dominika Mikucka-Wójtowicz Author-X-Name-First: Dominika Author-X-Name-Last: Mikucka-Wójtowicz Title: The Impact of Europeanization on Internal Party Organizational Dynamics in Selected Post-Yugoslav Countries Abstract: The Europeanization of political parties could be seen as a dual-track process. On the one hand, integration with the EU undoubtedly changes the environment in which parties operate. On the other, the second track facilitates transnational party cooperation (TPC). However, parties are still perceived as conservative organizations which try to resist change, and researchers generally agree that both of the tracks could lead to internal organizational changes in domestic groupings, but are divided on seeing its consequences. One group primarily focuses on the first of the specified tracks, arguing that Europeanization enhances the centralization of the decision-making process, strengthening the power of leaders and simultaneously the presidentialization of the party. Other, more optimistic researchers focusing on TPC consider that it fosters democratization of internal party procedures over time, or is even a crucial driving force behind it. The main aim of the paper is to detect and discuss evidence for the influence which the Europeanization process has already had on internal party structures and its leadership in domestic parties in selected post-Yugoslav countries. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 121-145 Issue: 2 Volume: 21 Year: 2019 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2017.1367588 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2017.1367588 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:21:y:2019:i:2:p:121-145 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1506279_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Stelu Șerban Author-X-Name-First: Stelu Author-X-Name-Last: Șerban Title: State, Technology and Environment on the Lower Danube: Bulgaria and Romania before the Balkan Wars Abstract: The defeat of the Ottoman Empire by the Tsarist Empire in the 1877–1878 war created an opportunity for the emergence of new nation states located next to the River Danube, including Bulgaria and Romania. The aim of this paper is to consider the period during which the Danubian landscape was transformed by means of the modest technologies available to the two new nation states. On the one hand, the two nation states appeared to reach a tacit agreement that they would resolve their disputes without the intervention of external European powers. On the other hand, through the rise of its technocratic elite and the adoption of an aggressive policy towards developing the Danubian environment, Romania became the dominant partner in the two nations’ co-management of the Danube. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 204-221 Issue: 2 Volume: 21 Year: 2019 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2018.1506279 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2018.1506279 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:21:y:2019:i:2:p:204-221 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1506280_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Ioannis N. Grigoriadis Author-X-Name-First: Ioannis N. Author-X-Name-Last: Grigoriadis Author-Name: Esra Dilek Author-X-Name-First: Esra Author-X-Name-Last: Dilek Title: Securitizing Migration in the European Union: Greece and the Evros Fence Abstract: This article focuses on the securitization of migration in Greece through the case of the Evros anti-immigrant fence. The fence was constructed in 2012 with the aim to limit the flow of irregular migration from Turkey to Greece. This paper explores the reasons why the Greek government decided to build the fence and its political implications by focusing on the securitization of migration in Greece both through practices and through securitizing rhetoric. The paper argues that the construction of the Evros fence is closely associated with changing perceptions of threat and the framing of migrants as risky and threatening both at the national and the EU levels. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 170-186 Issue: 2 Volume: 21 Year: 2019 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2018.1506280 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2018.1506280 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:21:y:2019:i:2:p:170-186 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1296253_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Leila Simona Talani Author-X-Name-First: Leila Simona Author-X-Name-Last: Talani Author-Name: Serena Giusti Author-X-Name-First: Serena Author-X-Name-Last: Giusti Title: Women in the Mediterranean: Still Discriminated Against? Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 461-463 Issue: 5 Volume: 19 Year: 2017 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2017.1296253 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2017.1296253 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:19:y:2017:i:5:p:461-463 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1296254_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Barbara Henry Author-X-Name-First: Barbara Author-X-Name-Last: Henry Title: Islamic Feminism(s) in the Mediterranean Area: a Hermeneutical Approach Abstract: This article aims at questioning some conceptual assumptions which frame the current debate on Islamic feminism. Firstly, there is the assumption regarding the existing structural incompatibility between the Qur’an and women’s rights that needs to be tested by means of methodical hermeneutical tools. Secondly, the thesis affirming the uniqueness and univocity of the movement should also be questioned. The article argues that the syntagma ‘Islamic feminism’ should be approached as the ‘indicator’ of an extremely fluid, dynamic and pluralistic set of phenomena which has not yet assumed, and may never assume, its final conformation. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 464-482 Issue: 5 Volume: 19 Year: 2017 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2017.1296254 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2017.1296254 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:19:y:2017:i:5:p:464-482 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1296257_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Alessia Belli Author-X-Name-First: Alessia Author-X-Name-Last: Belli Author-Name: Anna Loretoni Author-X-Name-First: Anna Author-X-Name-Last: Loretoni Title: Gender, Identity and Belonging: New Citizenships beyond Orientalism Abstract: By applying the gender perspective to the concept of Orientalism elaborated by Edward Said, the article debates how the Orient is not only a cultural construction, but also a sexual one. This lens is able to disclose the gender rhetoric through which the Western feminist eye has framed the ‘Other Woman’, depicting her as bounded by cultural ties. This is well exemplified by the stereotype of the Muslim woman as veiled, victim and powerless. The deconstructive strategy and the intersectional approach will fruitfully interact with the vivid experience of some Italian and British Muslim women activists, to show that the agency of Muslim women emerges in different contexts, thus breaking the Western mainstream essentialist perspective. The concept of fluid identity is proposed to make sense of the processes of identity formation with a focus on the intertwining of religious, gender and political dimensions vis-à-vis controversial practices such as the veil and arranged marriages. It is the voices of these women that challenge and re-signify fundamental principles such as democratic citizenship and personal autonomy, creating the basis for a transnational feminism that, from the recognition of women’s specificities and global inequalities, proves able to devise shared, more equitable and empowering pathways. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 483-498 Issue: 5 Volume: 19 Year: 2017 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2017.1296257 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2017.1296257 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:19:y:2017:i:5:p:483-498 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1296258_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Leila Simona Talani Author-X-Name-First: Leila Simona Author-X-Name-Last: Talani Title: Women, Globalization and Civil Society in the MENA Area: Between Marginalization and Radicalization Abstract: This article analyses the condition of women in the MENA area in the light of the challenges faced by those countries within the context of globalization. It argues that, if the position of the MENA countries in the global political economy is increasingly marginalized, this is even truer for women, who are left behind in the process of up-skilling necessary to catch up with the increasing technological demands imposed by globalization. Moreover, the crisis of the Arab state within globalization seems to produce an increasing radicalization of society, with all that this means in terms of further marginalization of women. In this article a transnationalist conceptualization of globalization is adopted. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 499-523 Issue: 5 Volume: 19 Year: 2017 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2017.1296258 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2017.1296258 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:19:y:2017:i:5:p:499-523 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1296259_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Serena Giusti Author-X-Name-First: Serena Author-X-Name-Last: Giusti Title: Gender Mainstreaming towards the Mediterranean: the Case of the ENP Abstract: This article explores how the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) has supported policies promoting the improvement of women’s conditions in Mediterranean countries. It points out the evolution of the European Union’s gender mainstreaming in the various manifestations of its external policies directed to the region. Gender mainstreaming has been pursued through the usual practice, largely used in recent enlargements: norm diffusion. This method does not allow for a reconceptualization of the policies issued: partners only have the possibility of deciding the pace of implementation of a set of goals selected among those recommended by the EU. The 2011 wave of turmoil on the southern shores of the Mediterranean has contributed to refocusing the EU’s actions on women. The new framework for Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment delivered in 2016 has established that gender equality will be mainstreamed through all the EU’s external policies. Although efforts have been made to appraise it, the EU’s gender strategy has mostly failed to confront the structural causes of inequality. It has mainly focused on the external aspects of the question while underestimating cultural, domestic and familial impediments and neglecting national debates or the contributions of local feminists. The EU’s gender mainstreaming remains a unidirectional policy. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 524-540 Issue: 5 Volume: 19 Year: 2017 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2017.1296259 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2017.1296259 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:19:y:2017:i:5:p:524-540 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1296260_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Heidrun Friese Author-X-Name-First: Heidrun Author-X-Name-Last: Friese Title: Representations of Gendered Mobility and the Tragic Border Regime in the Mediterranean Abstract: The current media hype covering (undocumented) mobility to Europe produces powerful images. Global media, politicians, scientists, artists and activists take part in the production of the tragic border regime in the Mediterranean (Lampedusa) and the negotiation of the limits of European hospitality. In a first step, the article envisages the social imagination and its signifying processes staging mobile people as threat, victim or hero/liberator. These figures are related to discourses of security as well as to humanitarian or critical perspectives and are part of the political economy of the migration industry. As these figures are gendered, the representation of mobile women is addressed in a second step. Women are hardly depicted as a social threat or as political heroes/liberators. On the contrary, the entanglement of signifying processes of the social imagination brings forth the figure of mobile women as traumatized victim and/or as caring mother. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 541-556 Issue: 5 Volume: 19 Year: 2017 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2017.1296260 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2017.1296260 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:19:y:2017:i:5:p:541-556 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1296261_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Mariangela Veikou Author-X-Name-First: Mariangela Author-X-Name-Last: Veikou Title: Back to Basics: Stateless Women and Children in Greece Abstract: European societies are effectively witnessing a growing refugee crisis in tandem with the ongoing economic crisis in recent years. Within this climate, migration is at risk of being seen more than ever before as an additional ‘burden’ that societies have to ‘carry’ and it is sometimes even questioned why it should be accommodated or respected at all. This paper draws on empirical research from Greece to examine changing European societies, with a particular focus on how the crisis is affecting the most vulnerable members of society, the stateless children and women migrants and refugees. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 557-570 Issue: 5 Volume: 19 Year: 2017 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2017.1296261 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2017.1296261 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:19:y:2017:i:5:p:557-570 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1296262_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Miray Erinc Author-X-Name-First: Miray Author-X-Name-Last: Erinc Title: The Conflict between Education and Female Labour in Turkey: Understanding Turkey’s Non-compliance with the U-shape Hypothesis Abstract: Female labour force participation rates (FLFPRs) are known to be exceptionally low in Turkey by international standards. The general consensus is that the catalyst behind FLFPRs is the level of educational attainment. In the academic literature, the relationship between the two factors—education and female labour force participation—is explained under what is known as the U-shape hypothesis. Although female education has increased over the past years, the U-shape is not observable in Turkey. This research scrutinizes the economic and social characteristics of the labour markets in Turkey and finally seeks to demonstrate how women in Turkey are trapped in a vicious cycle. The U-shape theory is insufficient to explain FLFPRs in Turkey. Turkish women, although well educated, face cultural barriers in entering the labour markets. They present a form of passive human capital, whose skills are underutilized. Thus, the curve remains an L-shape rather than a U. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 571-589 Issue: 5 Volume: 19 Year: 2017 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2017.1296262 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2017.1296262 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:19:y:2017:i:5:p:571-589 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1063262_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Bülent Aras Author-X-Name-First: Bülent Author-X-Name-Last: Aras Author-Name: E. Fuat Keyman Author-X-Name-First: E. Author-X-Name-Last: Fuat Keyman Title: Turkey, the Arab Spring and Beyond Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 249-251 Issue: 3 Volume: 17 Year: 2015 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2015.1063262 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2015.1063262 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:17:y:2015:i:3:p:249-251 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1063270_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Pınar Akpınar Author-X-Name-First: Pınar Author-X-Name-Last: Akpınar Title: Mediation as a Foreign Policy Tool in the Arab Spring: Turkey, Qatar and Iran Abstract: This paper investigates to what extent mediation has been a relevant foreign policy tool during the Arab Spring by looking into the mediation attempts of Turkey, Qatar and Iran. To answer this question, the paper examines why and how these actors mediated, to what extent they were able to apply mediation as a tool of foreign policy, whether their mediation attempts could deliver any results and whether there was a receptive audience with respect to their mediation. Despite certain setbacks, mediation has been a relevant foreign policy tool during the Arab Spring. The uses of mediation by these actors run parallel to their foreign policy priorities. In addition, during the Arab Spring, mediation has proved more effective in small-scale conflicts, such as hostage crises, rather than large-scale ones, such as those between regimes and oppositions. Despite considerable potential for regional powers to take on mediator roles, the effectiveness of their mediation attempts depends on their commitment and reliability as mediators. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 252-268 Issue: 3 Volume: 17 Year: 2015 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2015.1063270 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2015.1063270 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:17:y:2015:i:3:p:252-268 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1063271_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Bülent Aras Author-X-Name-First: Bülent Author-X-Name-Last: Aras Title: Reform and Capacity Building in the Turkish Foreign Ministry: Bridging the Gap between Ideas and Institutions Abstract: Turkey has expanded the horizons of its foreign policy in geographical terms, as well as in terms of Ankara's involvement in global issues and in international organizations. Turkey's new foreign policy and line of geopolitical thought marks a considerable degree of discontinuity with the previous era. Turkey's ambition is to take on a central role in world politics under the guidance of the foreign policy vision of former Foreign Minister and current Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu. This paper analyses the extent to which Turkey's Foreign Ministry has been able to transform itself in accordance with the new geopolitical thinking under Davutoğlu. It focuses on the capacity building and reform of the Foreign Ministry to understand how policymakers bridge the gap between ideas and institutions to ensure that the geopolitical perspective is an enduring and long-term project. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 269-285 Issue: 3 Volume: 17 Year: 2015 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2015.1063271 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2015.1063271 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:17:y:2015:i:3:p:269-285 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1063274_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Özgür Pala Author-X-Name-First: Özgür Author-X-Name-Last: Pala Author-Name: Bülent Aras Author-X-Name-First: Bülent Author-X-Name-Last: Aras Title: Practical Geopolitical Reasoning in the Turkish and Qatari Foreign Policy on the Arab Spring Abstract: As a regional power, Turkey aspires to become an influential international actor. As a small state, Qatar seeks to enhance its security and sovereignty and become an indispensable regional middle power. The Arab Spring protests have created an ideal context for both actors to realize their geopolitical goals. However, adverse political developments have turned most Arab Spring countries into battlegrounds wherein old geopolitical rivalries deepened and new regional alliances were constructed. Taking Gaza, Syria and Egypt as cases in point, this paper investigates how Ankara and Doha's evolving practical geopolitical reasoning and its domestic and international representations converged to create venues for cooperation and promotion of relations to a level of political alignment. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 286-302 Issue: 3 Volume: 17 Year: 2015 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2015.1063274 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2015.1063274 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:17:y:2015:i:3:p:286-302 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1063275_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Larbi Sadiki Author-X-Name-First: Larbi Author-X-Name-Last: Sadiki Title: The Impact of the Arab Spring on the Gulf Cooperation Council Abstract: It is apposite to interrogate the notion of ‘monarchical exceptionalism’ when testing the idea that the ‘Arab Spring’ has not affected the so-called ‘ruling bargain’ in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). The Arab Spring élan is presented in this paper as the sole dynamic with attributes of ‘exceptionalism’. It constitutes a moment of history that continues to rock the decaying pan-Arab body politic to its foundations, be it in varying degrees. It may be argued that there is an undeniable ‘Arab Spring effect’, which has unleashed a largely uncontrollable chain of events, stimulating or setting in motion the idea of change, civic and/or unruly. From this perspective, the Arab Spring can best be labelled as ‘midwife’ to all kinds of aspiring actors, forces, voices and discourses whose quest for change had been put on the back burner when the uprisings erupted in 2011. States are no exception. To elaborate on this line of argument, a twofold analytical agenda is followed. Firstly, change is contextualized, before and after the Arab Spring, addressing how politics is organized in the Arab region. Secondly, the GCC's ‘story’ with the Arab Spring is disaggregated, with special reference to Qatar's bold new politics. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 303-320 Issue: 3 Volume: 17 Year: 2015 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2015.1063275 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2015.1063275 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:17:y:2015:i:3:p:303-320 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1063803_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: E. Fuat Keyman Author-X-Name-First: E. Fuat Author-X-Name-Last: Keyman Author-Name: Onur Sazak Author-X-Name-First: Onur Author-X-Name-Last: Sazak Title: Turkey and Iran: The Two Modes of Engagement in the Middle East Abstract: A series of breakthroughs in Iran's contentious affairs with the West necessitate a new way of thinking on Turkey–Iran relations. Hassan Rouhani's victory in the 2013 Iranian presidential elections and the signing of the interim Geneva nuclear agreement between Iran and the ‘P5+1’ shortly thereafter warrant an overhaul of the conventional policies concerning the Islamic Republic. Coupled with the Arab uprisings, recent developments will significantly impact not only the way Turkey and Iran approach each other but also their regional policies. This paper seeks to shed light on the two different modes of engagement that Turkey and Iran have employed vis-à-vis their approach to their shared neighbourhood. That is, while Turkey is positioned to utilize this breakthrough on a global scale to improve its relations with Iran and other countries through ‘humanitarian diplomacy’; on the regional level, Tehran's hegemonic and interest-based ambitions will stoke the subtle rivalry with Ankara. This paper provides a background for the origins of these two different modes of engagement and discusses how they have influenced the dynamics in the region. After pointing out how the recent developments concerning Iran's nuclear programme and engagement in certain regional conflicts shape the Ankara–Tehran dialogue, it concludes with the implications of these competitive approaches for the greater Middle East. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 321-336 Issue: 3 Volume: 17 Year: 2015 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2015.1063803 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2015.1063803 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:17:y:2015:i:3:p:321-336 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1063805_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Emirhan Yorulmazlar Author-X-Name-First: Emirhan Author-X-Name-Last: Yorulmazlar Author-Name: Ebru Turhan Author-X-Name-First: Ebru Author-X-Name-Last: Turhan Title: Turkish Foreign Policy towards the Arab Spring: Between Western Orientation and Regional Disorder Abstract: Turkey's foreign policy approach towards the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region has been predicated on an integrationist vision through cooperation and dialogue over the past decade. The Arab Spring significantly challenged Turkey's role as a strategic interconnector and set the stage for broader debates on foreign policy orientation. This paper suggests that any fair assessment of Ankara's performance in the MENA must take into account the significant constraints imposed on Turkish foreign policy objectives by regional power rivalries and growing Western detachment from the region. The paper sheds light on the impact of global and regional powers' responses to the Arab Spring for Middle Eastern order and outlines a possible trajectory for the transformation of Turkish foreign policy to ensure effective Turkish activism in the post-Arab Spring environment. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 337-352 Issue: 3 Volume: 17 Year: 2015 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2015.1063805 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2015.1063805 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:17:y:2015:i:3:p:337-352 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1196039_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Elektra Kostopoulou Author-X-Name-First: Elektra Author-X-Name-Last: Kostopoulou Title: Autonomy and Federation within the Ottoman Empire: Introduction to the Special Issue Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 525-532 Issue: 6 Volume: 18 Year: 2016 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2016.1196039 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2016.1196039 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:18:y:2016:i:6:p:525-532 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1196041_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Aimee M. Genell Author-X-Name-First: Aimee M. Author-X-Name-Last: Genell Title: Autonomous Provinces and the Problem of ‘Semi-Sovereignty’ in European International Law Abstract: Through an analysis of European and Ottoman international law textbooks, this paper explores the problem of ‘semi-sovereignty’ in the Ottoman Empire and connects this to the question of the Ottoman Empire’s status in the Eurocentric international legal order. Before territorial losses in the Balkans in 1878, international lawyers described autonomous provinces such as Mt. Lebanon and Egypt as a characteristic feature of Ottoman statecraft and administration. Subsequently, European lawyers viewed autonomous provinces as a mark of diminished sovereignty. Ottoman lawyers argued instead that granting autonomy to such provinces, which arose out of agreements between the Ottoman and European empires, formed part of the treaty law of Europe—one of the main sources of international law. International agreements creating the autonomous provinces, Ottoman lawyers noted, formalized international recognition of them as integral parts of the Ottoman Empire. By the First World War, Ottoman lawyers abandoned this point of view and pursued a policy of centralization. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 533-549 Issue: 6 Volume: 18 Year: 2016 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2016.1196041 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2016.1196041 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:18:y:2016:i:6:p:533-549 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1196044_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Elektra Kostopoulou Author-X-Name-First: Elektra Author-X-Name-Last: Kostopoulou Title: The Island that Wasn’t: Autonomous Crete (1898–1912) and Experiments of Federalization Abstract: This paper discusses the inauguration of the Autonomous State of Crete in an attempt to address both the specific contextual characteristics of its foundation and a few broader theoretical questions regarding the issues of interdependency and shared sovereignty in the context of modern state building. Specifically, the paper addresses the federal aspects of the Cretan polity by reference to region and religion. At a parallel level, it integrates this discussion with three political actors directly involved in the making of Autonomous Crete: the Great Powers, Greece and the Ottoman Empire. Moving away from acute dichotomies, this discussion suggests that autonomy reveals the blurry boundaries between nation-state and empire, as well as the origins of minority politics by reference to late 19th-century colonialist interventions. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 550-566 Issue: 6 Volume: 18 Year: 2016 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2016.1196044 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2016.1196044 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:18:y:2016:i:6:p:550-566 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1196048_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Mostafa Minawi Author-X-Name-First: Mostafa Author-X-Name-Last: Minawi Title: Telegraphs and Territoriality in Ottoman Africa and Arabia during the Age of High Imperialism Abstract: This paper investigates the transformation of the Ottoman Empire’s position on the international stage during the age of High Imperialism. It uses two major technological projects, namely, the two Hijaz telegraph lines of 1882 and 1901, as case studies in which to analyse the shift in the Ottoman Empire’s relationship with its European counterparts and draw important conclusions about the relationship between imperialism and technology. The paper makes the argument that only by understanding the Great Powers’ gradual stifling of the Ottoman participation in the ‘Scramble for Africa’, and the connection between the private telegraph industry and imperialism over the 1880s can we appreciate the significance of the shift from Istanbul’s dependence on European telegraph technology in 1882 to its insistence on an independently planned, constructed and run telegraph line 20 years later. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 567-587 Issue: 6 Volume: 18 Year: 2016 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2016.1196048 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2016.1196048 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:18:y:2016:i:6:p:567-587 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1196049_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: E. Attila Aytekin Author-X-Name-First: E. Author-X-Name-Last: Attila Aytekin Title: The Production of Space during the Period of Autonomy: Notes on Belgrade Urban Space, 1817–67 Abstract: The nascent Serbian state and processes of de-Ottomanization should not be seen as the sole determinants of the development of urban space in Belgrade in the 19th century. Using Lefebvre’s conceptual categories, this paper argues that both Ottoman and Serbian authorities waged a struggle over the city through the creation of dominated and symbolic spaces, and the capital with its abstract spaces left its mark on the city. Moreover, the Christian, Muslim and Jewish inhabitants of the city contributed to the production of space by their everyday activities. Serbian autonomy was the particular framework in which the everyday life in the city, an emerging nation-state, the reforming Ottoman polity, merchant capital, imperialism and military exigency came together to produce Belgrade’s space. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 588-607 Issue: 6 Volume: 18 Year: 2016 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2016.1196049 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2016.1196049 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:18:y:2016:i:6:p:588-607 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1254866_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: The Editors Title: Editorial Board Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: (ebi)-(ebi) Issue: 6 Volume: 18 Year: 2016 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2016.1254866 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2016.1254866 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:18:y:2016:i:6:p:(ebi)-(ebi) Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_10020017_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: The Editors Title: Introduction Journal: Pages: 5-10 Issue: 1 Volume: 2 Year: 2000 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190050004790 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190050004790 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:2:y:2000:i:1:p:5-10 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_10020018_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Will Bartlett Author-X-Name-First: Will Author-X-Name-Last: Bartlett Title: Industrial policy and industrial restructuring in Slovenia Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 11-23 Issue: 1 Volume: 2 Year: 2000 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190050004808 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190050004808 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:2:y:2000:i:1:p:11-23 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_10020026_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: The Editors Title: Book Reviews Journal: Pages: 125-133 Issue: 1 Volume: 2 Year: 2000 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190050004880 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190050004880 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:2:y:2000:i:1:p:125-133 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_10020027_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: The Editors Title: Profile Journal: Pages: 135-135 Issue: 1 Volume: 2 Year: 2000 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190050004899 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190050004899 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:2:y:2000:i:1:p:135-135 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_10020024_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Gul Ozcan Author-X-Name-First: Gul Author-X-Name-Last: Ozcan Title: The transformation of Turkish retailing: Survival strategies of small and medium-sized retailers Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 105-120 Issue: 1 Volume: 2 Year: 2000 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190050004862 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190050004862 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:2:y:2000:i:1:p:105-120 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_10020025_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Noel Malcolm Author-X-Name-First: Noel Author-X-Name-Last: Malcolm Title: Debate: Response to Thomas Emmert Journal: Pages: 121-124 Issue: 1 Volume: 2 Year: 2000 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190050004871 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190050004871 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:2:y:2000:i:1:p:121-124 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_10020022_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Prodromos Panayiotopoulos Author-X-Name-First: Prodromos Author-X-Name-Last: Panayiotopoulos Title: The labour regime under conditions of globalization in the Cypriot garment industry Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 75-87 Issue: 1 Volume: 2 Year: 2000 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190050004844 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190050004844 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:2:y:2000:i:1:p:75-87 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_10020023_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Mihaela Kelemen Author-X-Name-First: Mihaela Author-X-Name-Last: Kelemen Author-Name: Geoff Lightfoot Author-X-Name-First: Geoff Author-X-Name-Last: Lightfoot Title: Organizational and individual identities in transition: The case of Romanian small and medium-sized enterprises Abstract: It is wisely recognised that the sector of small and medium enterprises is, at present, the only source of new jobs [in Romania] ... However, to focus upon SMEs solely as a means for absorbing excess unemployment is grossly to understate their role in the economy and the society. SMEs help to foster a culture of competitiveness based on higher flexibility and productivity. From a wider point of view, SMEs promote change in both the organisational and commercial behaviour of companies and individuals. Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 89-103 Issue: 1 Volume: 2 Year: 2000 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190050004853 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190050004853 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:2:y:2000:i:1:p:89-103 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_10020020_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Evgeni Peev Author-X-Name-First: Evgeni Author-X-Name-Last: Peev Author-Name: Colin Simmons Author-X-Name-First: Colin Author-X-Name-Last: Simmons Title: Property rights, managerial strategies and enterprise adjustment: Bulgaria in transition Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 39-55 Issue: 1 Volume: 2 Year: 2000 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190050004826 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190050004826 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:2:y:2000:i:1:p:39-55 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_10020021_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Pietro Evangelista Author-X-Name-First: Pietro Author-X-Name-Last: Evangelista Title: International competitiveness and inter-firm co-operation in the footwear industry of Southern Italy Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 57-73 Issue: 1 Volume: 2 Year: 2000 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190050004835 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190050004835 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:2:y:2000:i:1:p:57-73 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_10020019_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Ewa Piasecka Author-X-Name-First: Ewa Author-X-Name-Last: Piasecka Author-Name: Al Rainnie Author-X-Name-First: Al Author-X-Name-Last: Rainnie Title: Small firms and local economic development in Poland: Limits and possibilities Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 25-37 Issue: 1 Volume: 2 Year: 2000 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190050004817 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190050004817 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:2:y:2000:i:1:p:25-37 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_10044721_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: The Editors Title: Editorial Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 5-6 Issue: 1 Volume: 6 Year: 2004 X-DOI: 10.1080/1461319042000187210 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/1461319042000187210 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:6:y:2004:i:1:p:5-6 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_10044722_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Lord Hannay Author-X-Name-First: Lord Author-X-Name-Last: Hannay Author-Name: Chiswick Gcmg, ch Author-X-Name-First: Chiswick Author-X-Name-Last: Gcmg, ch Title: THEMES Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 7-12 Issue: 1 Volume: 6 Year: 2004 X-DOI: 10.1080/1461319042000187229 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/1461319042000187229 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:6:y:2004:i:1:p:7-12 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_10044723_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Emmanuel Karagiannis Author-X-Name-First: Emmanuel Author-X-Name-Last: Karagiannis Title: The Turkish–Georgian partnership and the pipeline factor Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 13-26 Issue: 1 Volume: 6 Year: 2004 X-DOI: 10.1080/1461319042000187238 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/1461319042000187238 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:6:y:2004:i:1:p:13-26 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_10044724_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Mehmet Ali Tuğtan Author-X-Name-First: Mehmet Ali Author-X-Name-Last: Tuğtan Title: Possible impacts of Turkish application of Schengen visa standards Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 27-39 Issue: 1 Volume: 6 Year: 2004 X-DOI: 10.1080/1461319042000187247 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/1461319042000187247 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:6:y:2004:i:1:p:27-39 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_10044725_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Constantine P. Danopoulos Author-X-Name-First: Constantine P. Author-X-Name-Last: Danopoulos Title: Religion, civil society, and democracy in Orthodox Greece Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 41-55 Issue: 1 Volume: 6 Year: 2004 X-DOI: 10.1080/1461319042000187256 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/1461319042000187256 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:6:y:2004:i:1:p:41-55 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_10044726_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Andrew Wachtel Author-X-Name-First: Andrew Author-X-Name-Last: Wachtel Title: Review article Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 57-62 Issue: 1 Volume: 6 Year: 2004 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190410001685983 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190410001685983 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:6:y:2004:i:1:p:57-62 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_10044727_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Stevan K. Pavlowitch Author-X-Name-First: Stevan K. Author-X-Name-Last: Pavlowitch Title: History education in the Balkans: how bad is it? Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 63-68 Issue: 1 Volume: 6 Year: 2004 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190410001685992 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190410001685992 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:6:y:2004:i:1:p:63-68 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_10044728_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: The Editors Title: Book reviews Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 69-88 Issue: 1 Volume: 6 Year: 2004 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190410001686027 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190410001686027 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:6:y:2004:i:1:p:69-88 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_10020048_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Spyros Sofos Author-X-Name-First: Spyros Author-X-Name-Last: Sofos Title: Macedonia at the crossroads Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 145-151 Issue: 2 Volume: 3 Year: 2001 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190120088556 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190120088556 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:3:y:2001:i:2:p:145-151 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_10020049_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Symeon Giannakos Author-X-Name-First: Symeon Author-X-Name-Last: Giannakos Title: Bulgaria's Macedonian dilemma Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 153-170 Issue: 2 Volume: 3 Year: 2001 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190120088565 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190120088565 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:3:y:2001:i:2:p:153-170 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_10020046_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Benito Giordano Author-X-Name-First: Benito Author-X-Name-Last: Giordano Author-Name: Elisa Roller Author-X-Name-First: Elisa Author-X-Name-Last: Roller Title: A comparison of Catalan and 'Padanian' nationalism: More similarities than differences? Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 111-130 Issue: 2 Volume: 3 Year: 2001 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190127047 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190127047 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:3:y:2001:i:2:p:111-130 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_10020047_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Aleksandar Pavković Author-X-Name-First: Aleksandar Author-X-Name-Last: Pavković Title: Multiculturalism as a prelude to state fragmentation: The case of Yugoslavia Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 131-143 Issue: 2 Volume: 3 Year: 2001 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190120088547 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190120088547 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:3:y:2001:i:2:p:131-143 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_10020045_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: The Editors Title: Editorial Journal: Pages: 109-110 Issue: 2 Volume: 3 Year: 2001 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190120088529 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190120088529 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:3:y:2001:i:2:p:109-110 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_10020053_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: The Editors Title: Book Reviews Journal: Pages: 201-218 Issue: 2 Volume: 3 Year: 2001 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190120088600 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190120088600 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:3:y:2001:i:2:p:201-218 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_10020051_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Daniele Conversi Author-X-Name-First: Daniele Author-X-Name-Last: Conversi Title: Post-communist societies: Between ethnicity and globalization Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 193-196 Issue: 2 Volume: 3 Year: 2001 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190120088583 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190120088583 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:3:y:2001:i:2:p:193-196 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_10020052_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Stefan Troebst Author-X-Name-First: Stefan Author-X-Name-Last: Troebst Title: The Balkans: Explaining the present through history Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 197-199 Issue: 2 Volume: 3 Year: 2001 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190120088592 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190120088592 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:3:y:2001:i:2:p:197-199 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_10020050_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Ailish Johnson Author-X-Name-First: Ailish Author-X-Name-Last: Johnson Title: Albania's relations with the EU: On the road to Europe? Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 171-192 Issue: 2 Volume: 3 Year: 2001 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190120088538 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190120088538 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:3:y:2001:i:2:p:171-192 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1532682_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Russell King Author-X-Name-First: Russell Author-X-Name-Last: King Author-Name: Nermin Oruc Author-X-Name-First: Nermin Author-X-Name-Last: Oruc Title: Editorial Introduction: Migration in the Western Balkans – Trends and Challenges Abstract: This introductory paper sets the scene for the special issue on migration in the Western Balkan region. First, we briefly outline the background to the research networking initiative in the Western Balkans—‘WB-MIGNET’—which resulted in producing the set of papers presented here. Then we describe the context in which the analysis of migration, return and development in the Western Balkans takes place, highlighting the role of diasporas and return migration. The region exemplifies a wide range and interrelation of migratory forms, including temporary and permanent labour migration, forced migration of refugees, temporary displacement, high-skilled migration and transit migration. Quite apart from the scale and diversity of migratory phenomena in this region, the special relevance of the Western Balkans rests on mass emigration, predominantly of educated young people, and their possible return, including to post-conflict areas, and role in the development of their home countries. Such processes within the Western Balkans also offer useful lessons for designing future migration policies in Europe and worldwide. The final section of this introductory paper summarizes the papers that follow and highlights their originality and key findings. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 1-10 Issue: 1 Volume: 21 Year: 2019 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2018.1532682 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2018.1532682 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:21:y:2019:i:1:p:1-10 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1532683_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Ferruccio Pastore Author-X-Name-First: Ferruccio Author-X-Name-Last: Pastore Title: From Source to Corridor: Changing Geopolitical Narratives about Migration and EU-Western Balkans Relations Abstract: The ‘refugee crisis’ of 2015–2016 brought the ‘migration factor’ back to the centre of the political agenda in European Union–Western Balkans (WB) relations. But the way in which population movements from and through the region are framed by the EU has changed deeply from the past. After having been seen in the 1990s as the main sending region for irregular and humanitarian migration flows to Western Europe, and following a period of decreasing political attention in the 2000s, the opening of the ‘Western Balkans route’ for forced migrants from the Middle East turned the region into a ‘transit corridor’. Drawing upon literature on the role of policy frames and narratives in migration policy-making, the article reconstructs this evolution, identifying a trend towards narrative simplification based on an essentialized understanding of the relations between migration dynamics and territories. The risks of ‘geopolitical determinism’ in shaping future strategic choices are pointed out. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 11-26 Issue: 1 Volume: 21 Year: 2019 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2018.1532683 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2018.1532683 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:21:y:2019:i:1:p:11-26 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1532684_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Aija Lulle Author-X-Name-First: Aija Author-X-Name-Last: Lulle Title: Balkans and Baltics: On Migration as a Factor of Regional Peripheralization Abstract: This paper proposes a critical comparative reflection on migration as a factor of peripheralization processes in the Western Balkan and Baltic regions. In their respective geographical positions, the Western Balkans and the Baltics stand at different ends of the European map: south-east and north-east. Regarding their historical and political positions, however, these are very diverse: the Western Balkans were part of Yugoslavia (except Albania) while the Baltic republics (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania) were annexed to the Soviet Union after the Second World War. Currently, Croatia is already a member of the European Union, as the three Baltic countries are, while the rest of the Western Balkans are not. The article argues that apart from economic and geographical factors, usually taken into account in describing peripheries and cores, migration processes and discourses powerfully construct some places as dynamically moving towards a ‘core’ while others remain confined to a ‘periphery’. By paying special attention to ‘scientific discourses’, the aim is to broaden our understanding of theories and practices of peripheralization, where migration tends to be under-theorized. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 27-42 Issue: 1 Volume: 21 Year: 2019 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2018.1532684 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2018.1532684 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:21:y:2019:i:1:p:27-42 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1532686_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Chiara Milan Author-X-Name-First: Chiara Author-X-Name-Last: Milan Title: Refugees at the Gates of the EU: Civic Initiatives and Grassroots Responses to the Refugee Crisis along the Western Balkans Route Abstract: The countries of former Yugoslavia have a long history of dealing with refugees. However, what had been termed in the media and in public discourse as the ‘2015–2016 European migrant crisis’ represented a phenomenon of unprecedented scale for the Western Balkan states. For the first time since the break-up of Yugoslavia, these countries found themselves handling a steep increase in arrivals of migrants who fled from the Middle East and Africa and crossed the Western Balkans migratory route in an attempt to reach Northern and Central Europe. To compensate for the lack of action on the part of their governments, from summer 2015 a number of individuals and domestic groups mobilized with the purpose of providing humanitarian assistance to migrants crossing their territory. Based on a series of in-depth interviews with key informants, this article explores the multiple solidarity initiatives organized at the local and transnational level along the Western Balkans route during the 2015–2016 migrant crisis, taking Serbia and Macedonia as case studies. Specifically, the study examines the extent to which emotional resources and discursive opportunities increased the prospects for altruistic mobilization in a context characterized by a low level of grassroots civic activism. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 43-60 Issue: 1 Volume: 21 Year: 2019 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2018.1532686 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2018.1532686 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:21:y:2019:i:1:p:43-60 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1532685_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Nina Bosankić Author-X-Name-First: Nina Author-X-Name-Last: Bosankić Author-Name: Enisa Mešić Author-X-Name-First: Enisa Author-X-Name-Last: Mešić Author-Name: Bojan Šošić Author-X-Name-First: Bojan Author-X-Name-Last: Šošić Title: The Floating Pumpkin Syndrome: Forced Migration, Humanitarian Aid, and the Culture of Learned Helplessness Abstract: Since the 1992–1995 war, Bosnia and Herzegovina has been going through a difficult process of transition, characterized by dependence on humanitarian aid and by major challenges regarding employment. Returnees and displaced persons have experienced many unfavourable circumstances and challenges. This paper draws from the findings gathered by the authors over several years of field research with more than 2000 returnees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Bosnia and Herzegovina, mostly in areas with high return rates, including social housing beneficiaries. It offers a reflection of contextual factors in shaping the world of migrants and their potential to cope and adapt, and the role of donor agencies in imposing ‘learned dependency’. Using the metaphor of a pumpkin that floats on the water, following its currents, but retaining own integrity, the paper emphasizes that it may actually be the impact of adversity that awakens certain qualities and skills in people. Processes analogous to post-traumatic growth may be in effect in increasing the potential of the individual to develop a silent and potential form of understanding the world around oneself, a sort of ‘personal wisdom’. Hence, a positive psychology approach to studying the personal effects of forced migration wisdom is advocated. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 61-73 Issue: 1 Volume: 21 Year: 2019 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2018.1532685 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2018.1532685 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:21:y:2019:i:1:p:61-73 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1532687_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Tena Prelec Author-X-Name-First: Tena Author-X-Name-Last: Prelec Title: The Serbian Diaspora’s Political Views: A Study on the 2017 Serbian Presidential Election Abstract: Members of the Serbian diaspora, especially those vocal in representing their home country’s views, have previously been regarded as leaning towards nationalistic stances. The results of recent elections, however, indicate that today a rather different situation might be present. This study confirms this indication. The analysis sheds light on the political views of Serbian citizens abroad, discussing the results of two surveys conducted around the 2017 Serbian presidential elections. Three main sets of findings concerning the attitudes of the ‘active diaspora’ (diaspora members who took part, or wanted to take part, in the voting process) are outlined. First, there is a decisive rejection of the course the country has taken. Second, it is shown that concerns about governance top by far geopolitical issues. Finally, respondents have highlighted a wide-ranging set of issues concerning the voting procedure, which have hindered their ability to participate in the vote. Here they are used as a basis to formulate recommendations for a better electoral process for the diaspora. The overall findings indicate that Serbia’s active diaspora might have the potential to participate more vigorously in the political life of the country and that, if emboldened, its weight in future elections could be much higher. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 74-89 Issue: 1 Volume: 21 Year: 2019 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2018.1532687 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2018.1532687 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:21:y:2019:i:1:p:74-89 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1532688_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Nermin Oruc Author-X-Name-First: Nermin Author-X-Name-Last: Oruc Author-Name: Ian Jackson Author-X-Name-First: Ian Author-X-Name-Last: Jackson Author-Name: Geoffrey Pugh Author-X-Name-First: Geoffrey Author-X-Name-Last: Pugh Title: The Effects of Remittances on Education in a Post-Conflict Society: Evidence from Bosnia-Herzegovina Abstract: This paper analyses the effects of remittances on the educational enrolment of children in Bosnia-Herzegovina, where a process of forced migration made the relocation decision exogenous. Accordingly, this study has no need of methods to address the endogeneity of remittances. Hence, the approach taken means that the measure of educational enrolment is regressed on a set of individual- and household-level variables. In addition, a new approach to estimation is introduced, whereby the effect of remittances is calculated for each income quintile. It is found that the relationship between remittances and educational enrolment is strong among households from the fourth quintile, which includes households just outside the risk of poverty, while for those in poorer quintiles the effect is not significant. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 90-103 Issue: 1 Volume: 21 Year: 2019 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2018.1532688 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2018.1532688 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:21:y:2019:i:1:p:90-103 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1532689_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Kalie Kerpaci Author-X-Name-First: Kalie Author-X-Name-Last: Kerpaci Author-Name: Martin Kuka Author-X-Name-First: Martin Author-X-Name-Last: Kuka Title: The Greek Debt Crisis and Albanian Return Migration Abstract: Existing research on the relatively recent phenomenon of Albanian migrants returning to Albania is limited and focuses on the reasons for return, the characteristics of the return migrants, and on employment in general. Based on in-depth qualitative interviews with 25 returnees in Tirana, the study explores primarily, but not exclusively, the impact of the ongoing Greek debt crisis on the decision of Albanian migrants to return to Albania. More specifically, it analyses the reasons that motivated them to leave Greece; the barriers they faced while trying to reintegrate into Albanian society, which has undergone vast changes during the time of their absence; the way these barriers influence their future intentions; and, finally, the role of the Albanian government in their reintegration. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 104-119 Issue: 1 Volume: 21 Year: 2019 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2018.1532689 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2018.1532689 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:21:y:2019:i:1:p:104-119 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2006006_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Filiz Başkan Author-X-Name-First: Filiz Author-X-Name-Last: Başkan Author-Name: Selin Bengi Gümrükçü Author-X-Name-First: Selin Bengi Author-X-Name-Last: Gümrükçü Author-Name: F. Orkunt Canyaş Author-X-Name-First: F. Orkunt Author-X-Name-Last: Canyaş Title: Forming Pre-Electoral Coalitions in Competitive Authoritarian Contexts: The Case of the 2018 Parliamentary Elections in Turkey Abstract: In competitive authoritarian regimes, forming a pre-electoral coalition (PEC) provides a mean for opposition parties to defeat the incumbent party. In Turkey, the ruling Justice and Development Party initiated a PEC by forming the People’s Alliance with two other parties. Like the opposition in other competitive authoritarian regimes, Turkey’s opposition parties also formed a PEC, namely the Nation Alliance. Looking at the political affinity of these parties by using their election manifestos and Chapel Hill Expert Survey (CHES) data, the paper argues that while the People’s Alliance was formed by ideologically close parties, the Nation Alliance was composed of ideologically distant parties, whose main aim, under a competitive authoritarian regime, was to prevent the incumbent from gaining a parliamentary majority. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 323-343 Issue: 2 Volume: 24 Year: 2022 Month: 03 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2021.2006006 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2021.2006006 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:24:y:2022:i:2:p:323-343 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2006013_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Zdeněk Kříž Author-X-Name-First: Zdeněk Author-X-Name-Last: Kříž Title: German Troops in Afghanistan: Strategic Narratives on German Participation in Resolute Support Abstract: There are three basic strategic narratives about German engagement in Resolute Support in the German political debate: ‘reconstruction of Afghanistan’, ‘war in Afghanistan’ and ‘futility of our efforts’. The first two have been present in the German debate on Afghanistan since 2001, while the ‘futility of our efforts’ narrative is new, gaining ground in the parliamentary debate in the last couple of years, in connection with the rise of AfD. The ‘war in Afghanistan’ narrative, which aims to demobilize public support for Afghan involvement, blames Germany for instability in Afghanistan. The ‘futility of our efforts’ narrative claims that focusing on the building of modern state institutions in Afghanistan and the promotion of human rights according to Western understandings are counterproductive, as far as achieving peace in the country is concerned. Only the ‘reconstruction of Afghanistan’ narrative aims to mobilize public support for participation in the Resolute Support mission. However, all three identified narratives can be used to support the current German policy of departure from Afghanistan. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 285-302 Issue: 2 Volume: 24 Year: 2022 Month: 03 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2021.2006013 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2021.2006013 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:24:y:2022:i:2:p:285-302 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2006007_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Dejan Jović Author-X-Name-First: Dejan Author-X-Name-Last: Jović Title: Post-Yugoslav States Thirty Years after 1991: Unfinished Businesses of a Fivefold Transition Abstract: The article critically examines and evaluates from a 30-year perspective the developments in states that emerged after the disintegration of Yugoslavia in 1991. It places 1991 in opposition to 1989, and to what 1989 symbolized for most of Europe. But it also argues that 1991 in Yugoslavia was a direct, although undesirable, consequence of 1989 in Central and Eastern Europe. The article develops the concept of fivefold transition to explain expectations and achievements for each of the five sectors of transition: political, economic, statehood, identity and war-to-peace transition. In all five sectors the results are mixed. Three areas of unfinished business remain particularly pertinent. They are related to questions: (1) whether or not the disintegration of Yugoslavia is now over?; (2) whether the reintegration of post-Yugoslav states that disintegrated simultaneously with Yugoslavia is over or not?; and (3) whether integration into the European Union is still a viable option for all countries of the Western Balkans. The article argues for a need that the new generation of post-Yugoslavs (re)consider for themselves the big promises of 1989 and 1991, and to try to either complete the process or—if not convinced of its worth—to begin imagining and conceptualizing a new one. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 193-222 Issue: 2 Volume: 24 Year: 2022 Month: 03 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2021.2006007 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2021.2006007 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:24:y:2022:i:2:p:193-222 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2006015_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Ufuk Adak Author-X-Name-First: Ufuk Author-X-Name-Last: Adak Title: Water, Sewage and Sanitation: Infrastructure Projects and Public Health in Izmir in the Late Ottoman Empire Abstract: As an international commercial hub and the administrative capital of the province of Aydın, Izmir benefitted from a range of municipal services including paving, lighting, and the construction of water lines and a sewage system, as well as various sanitary applications in the late Ottoman Empire. In addition to the private companies’ ‘concession hunting’, the infrastructure projects such as the distribution of water and the establishment of a sewage system were also the result of the public’s demands, often seen in the columns of the local press in Izmir. By delving into the imperial and local primary sources, this article attempts to understand the application of infrastructure projects and their implications in Izmir in the late Ottoman Empire. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 263-284 Issue: 2 Volume: 24 Year: 2022 Month: 03 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2021.2006015 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2021.2006015 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:24:y:2022:i:2:p:263-284 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2006518_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Vassilis K. Fouskas Author-X-Name-First: Vassilis K. Author-X-Name-Last: Fouskas Title: Constantine Karamanlis and the Cyprus Crisis of July-August 1974: A Re-assessment Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 223-239 Issue: 2 Volume: 24 Year: 2022 Month: 03 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2021.2006518 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2021.2006518 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:24:y:2022:i:2:p:223-239 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2006003_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Pınar Şenışık Author-X-Name-First: Pınar Author-X-Name-Last: Şenışık Title: Politics of Emotions in the Late Ottoman Empire: ‘Our Beloved Crete’ Abstract: The influx of Muslims from Crete to the various provinces of the Ottoman Empire in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and their narratives of suffering had a deep impact on the Ottoman public through civil society organizations and the press. This article examines public protest meetings that took place in different urban centres of the Ottoman Empire regarding the political developments in Crete in 1910. The main focus will be on the emotional responses of the Ottoman public and their reactions towards the oath taken by the Christian deputies in the name of the Greek king in the Cretan assembly. Drawing on various Ottoman newspapers and archival documents, this article investigates the place of the politics of emotions in the public demonstrations and deals with the question of how emotion has shaped public opinion and helped to construct patriotic ideals as well as contributing to the formation of a national future. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 365-385 Issue: 2 Volume: 24 Year: 2022 Month: 03 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2021.2006003 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2021.2006003 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:24:y:2022:i:2:p:365-385 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2006014_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Mehmet Ali Gazi Author-X-Name-First: Mehmet Ali Author-X-Name-Last: Gazi Author-Name: Caner Çakı Author-X-Name-First: Caner Author-X-Name-Last: Çakı Author-Name: Sadık Çalışkan Author-X-Name-First: Sadık Author-X-Name-Last: Çalışkan Author-Name: Özkan Avcı Author-X-Name-First: Özkan Author-X-Name-Last: Avcı Author-Name: Tuğba Baytimur Author-X-Name-First: Tuğba Author-X-Name-Last: Baytimur Author-Name: Gül Çakı Author-X-Name-First: Gül Author-X-Name-Last: Çakı Author-Name: Mehmet Ozan Gülada Author-X-Name-First: Mehmet Ozan Author-X-Name-Last: Gülada Title: Representation of Jews in the Media before the Application of the Wealth Tax: A Review on Karikatür Magazine Abstract: In this study, the role of the anti-Semitic discourses created by media organs in the formation of the Wealth Tax was examined. For this purpose, in this study, anti-Semitic cartoons published before the Wealth Tax, specifically Karikatür Magazine, which is one of the journals that frequently include anti-Semitic propaganda discourses of the period, are analysed using the semiotics technique In the cartoons examined within the scope of the study, it is revealed that Jews are presented as money-goers, hoarders and people with great wealth. The findings of the study support the view that ‘anti-Semitic discourses built in the media play a role in the implementation of the Wealth Tax’. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 403-427 Issue: 2 Volume: 24 Year: 2022 Month: 03 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2021.2006014 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2021.2006014 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:24:y:2022:i:2:p:403-427 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2006002_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Ivana Volić Author-X-Name-First: Ivana Author-X-Name-Last: Volić Title: Rise and Fall of Cultural Policy Participation in Novi Sad, Serbia Abstract: This exploratory study examines cultural policy participation in the city of Novi Sad, Serbia. Policy participation was observed throughout the creation process of the first cultural development strategy of the city. Official strategic documents, in-depth interviews with members of cultural associations and observant participation have been employed to document this study. Six key themes reflect the consecutive phases of the cultural participation development process, namely initial restraint from participation, building trust and agency in decision making, inducing the creation of different spaces for participation, and disappointment and alienation of cultural actors. Although cultural policy participation has proven challenging, this attempt at fostering democratic decision-making has provided an invaluable experience to the cultural associations that participated in the process. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 386-402 Issue: 2 Volume: 24 Year: 2022 Month: 03 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2021.2006002 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2021.2006002 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:24:y:2022:i:2:p:386-402 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2006005_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Michail Ploumis Author-X-Name-First: Michail Author-X-Name-Last: Ploumis Title: Comprehending and Countering Hybrid Warfare Strategies by Utilizing the Principles of Sun Tzu Abstract: Hybrid and urban warfare are progressively favoured due to mass migration, technological development and the peoples’ low standard of living. This article examines asymmetric as well as hybrid and urban warfare, it provides examples of their implementation from the recent past in Crimea (2014) and Greece (March 2020) and proposes strategies for countering them in the future in which such threats are expected to thrive, on the basis of the principles of the strategy of Sun Tzu. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 344-364 Issue: 2 Volume: 24 Year: 2022 Month: 03 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2021.2006005 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2021.2006005 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:24:y:2022:i:2:p:344-364 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2006004_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Defne Gönenç Author-X-Name-First: Defne Author-X-Name-Last: Gönenç Title: Litigation as a Strategy for Environmental Movements Questioned: An Examination of Bergama and Artvin-Cerattepe Struggles Abstract: Litigation is being increasingly used by environmental movements in pursuit of justice as a last resort. The environmentally harmful actions of transnational corporations in addition to the incapability of international organizations and the unresponsiveness of states to inhibit this damage are pushing citizens to courts. However, courts’ ability to address environmental injustices remains dubious. This article problematizes the efficacy of litigation for environmental movements to achieve long-term justice by examining Bergama and Artvin-Cerattepe movements from Turkey, through a case-study approach and borrowing from grounded theory. It discusses the reasons why litigation may provide short-term gains for environmental movements but is of limited effectiveness for pursuing change in the long-term, such as non-implementation of court decisions, policy changes impacting the execution of judgements, insufficient sentences not offering enough deterrence for future, and power imbalances between litigants impacting the courtroom etc. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 303-322 Issue: 2 Volume: 24 Year: 2022 Month: 03 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2021.2006004 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2021.2006004 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:24:y:2022:i:2:p:303-322 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2006012_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: David Fermor Author-X-Name-First: David Author-X-Name-Last: Fermor Title: In Byron’s Footsteps, through Byron’s Eyes: Literary Tourism and ‘Imagined Geographies’ of Southern Albania Abstract: In his famous poem, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Lord Byron represents Albania as an exotic and Oriental place, and as a suitable ‘stage’ for the ‘performance’ of adventurous travel. In this paper, I explore the various ways in which literary tourists following ‘in the footsteps of Lord Byron’ in Albania reproduce and/or challenge and change ‘imagined geographies’ of that country. This is carried out through discourse analysis of their written accounts of their travels. The texts analysed include published travelogues, newspaper travel articles and travel blogs written by those who have travelled through southern Albania ‘in the footsteps of Byron’. I argue that these tourists do not, in general, simply reproduce Byron influenced ‘imagined geographies’ of Albania in their travel writings but rather represent Albania as they find it, often highlighting the big differences between the Albania of Byron’s day and the Albania of today. And I also argue that, while some tourists find that the encroachment of modernity into the lands described by Byron disrupts their ability to perform ‘Byronic travel’, others find it quite possible to maintain a ‘Byronic’ spirit of travel in the Albania of today. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 240-262 Issue: 2 Volume: 24 Year: 2022 Month: 03 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2021.2006012 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2021.2006012 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:24:y:2022:i:2:p:240-262 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1379749_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Amir Magdy Kamel Author-X-Name-First: Amir Magdy Author-X-Name-Last: Kamel Title: Economic Interdependence and Stability: The Failure of US Policy in Egypt Abstract: This paper argues, with a focus on the final 10 years of the Mubarak regime, that the US policy of using economic interdependence to influence stability in Egypt failed. By assessing the formation of this US policy and the factors concerning US‒Egyptian ties, this paper also provides a better understanding of US policy towards Egypt in general. The argument is entrenched in the stability through economic interdependence literature and identifies how this case study disproves the positive correlation associated with these two variables. The paper achieves this aim by consulting primary source governmental and non-governmental material, media, analytical and scholarly work concerned with the topic. Consequently, the paper identifies how and why Egypt’s alignment to the ‘War on Terror’, suppression of political opposition and the run-up to the 2011 Egyptian Revolution, led to the US policy failure. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 113-130 Issue: 2 Volume: 20 Year: 2018 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2018.1379749 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2018.1379749 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:20:y:2018:i:2:p:113-130 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1379746_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Ljupco Davcev Author-X-Name-First: Ljupco Author-X-Name-Last: Davcev Author-Name: Nikolas Hourvouliades Author-X-Name-First: Nikolas Author-X-Name-Last: Hourvouliades Author-Name: Jasmin Komic Author-X-Name-First: Jasmin Author-X-Name-Last: Komic Title: Impact of Interest Rate and Inflation on GDP in Bulgaria, Romania and FYROM Abstract: The influence of interest rates and inflation on GDP growth has been the subject of long debates and many research studies: from purely theoretical analysis of the channels through which this is accomplished, to empirical studies on a broad panel of countries. Because of these shared arguments about the impact of interest rates and inflation on GDP growth, as an area of investigation in this paper we took FYROM, Bulgaria and Romania. The paper examines existing theory to create an analytical framework for the impact of interest rate and inflation on GDP, and to quantitatively evaluate the importance of these variables for economic growth. A cointegration analysis with three variables (interest rate, inflation and GDP growth) and a Granger causality analysis are implemented to examine the relations between these variables. Unit root tests are applied to examine the relationships among the respective data series. The target period is from 2000 until present time, offering a relatively positive first period until the advent of the debt crisis by the end of the 2000s. The basic aim is to investigate the links between monetary and fiscal measures, especially for developing countries that are striving for economic growth without a strong home currency. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 131-147 Issue: 2 Volume: 20 Year: 2018 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2018.1379746 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2018.1379746 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:20:y:2018:i:2:p:131-147 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1379750_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Monowar Mahmood Author-X-Name-First: Monowar Author-X-Name-Last: Mahmood Author-Name: Golam Mostafa Author-X-Name-First: Golam Author-X-Name-Last: Mostafa Title: Kazakhstan–BRICS Economic Cooperation: Exploring the Possibilities Abstract: The objective of the study is to explore and analyse the prospects of economic cooperation between Kazakhstan and the BRICS countries and its possible impact on economic growth and development. The GDP growth rates, consumer market potentials, foreign exchange reserves, and human capital and innovation aspects were considered as the main areas of potential cooperation. Based on different databases, analytical reports and the authors’ analyses, the study suggests closer economic relationships between Kazakhstan and the BRICS countries for mutual benefits. However, the study also identified the potential challenges of economic integration with regional economic blocs and possible measures to overcome those barriers. The economic policy implications are also highlighted in the conclusion. The findings of this study could encourage other countries to consider closer cooperation to accelerate mutual economic growth and development in emerging economies. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 148-164 Issue: 2 Volume: 20 Year: 2018 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2018.1379750 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2018.1379750 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:20:y:2018:i:2:p:148-164 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1379751_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Mehmet Gökay Özerim Author-X-Name-First: Mehmet Gökay Author-X-Name-Last: Özerim Title: Stretching, Opening or Sealing the Borders: Turkish Foreign Policy Conceptions and their Impact on Migration, Asylum and Visa Policies Abstract: Migration, asylum and visa policies can function as tools of foreign policy while also marking specific shifts in foreign policy choices. This study analyses the structural linkages of such policies with Turkish foreign policy through focusing on two distinctive foreign policy conceptions of two eras, namely during the ANAP (Motherland Party) and JDP (Justice and Development Party) governments. These eras present distinctive characteristics and noteworthy policy shifts for the instrumentalization of migration policies. This study argues that the nexus between migration and Turkish foreign policy manifests itself in three forms: (i) border and asylum policies as part of Turkey’s involvement in regional conflicts; (ii) visa policies for rapprochement; with target countries and (iii) co-ethnics and kinship policies for extending spheres of influence. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 165-182 Issue: 2 Volume: 20 Year: 2018 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2018.1379751 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2018.1379751 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:20:y:2018:i:2:p:165-182 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1315117_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Marija Krivokapić Author-X-Name-First: Marija Author-X-Name-Last: Krivokapić Author-Name: Armela Panajoti Author-X-Name-First: Armela Author-X-Name-Last: Panajoti Title: On Postcolonial Influence in Balkan Travel Writing Abstract: The aim of this paper is to instigate the development of theoretical discourse on contemporary travel writing about the Balkans, especially the works created since the collapse of communism in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The problematization of this discourse is timely, even more so when the unique heritage of the Balkans has to harmonize with that of the rest of Europe. Travel writing vibrantly mirrors this process, but the critical tools through which it is currently read come primarily from postcolonial theory and necessitate revisiting. Although postcolonialism has facilitated the popularity of the genre in academia, it does not adequately satisfy the discussion of an increasingly more complex cultural phenomenon that is that of the Balkans, which cannot be simplistically framed in terms of the ‘Other’. While the Balkans can still be viewed as the ‘Other’ in connection to Europe, as a political and economic union, they cannot be dismissed as such from a wider cultural, geographical and historical perspective. To prove our point, we will list examples of incongruences and suggest possible shifts in perspective. Apart from this, as a polygeneric form, the travelogue demands a multidisciplinary, contextual and comparative approach, while our immediate support will be contemporary travel writing criticism about the Balkans. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 183-195 Issue: 2 Volume: 20 Year: 2018 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2017.1315117 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2017.1315117 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:20:y:2018:i:2:p:183-195 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1379748_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Valentina Duvnjak Author-X-Name-First: Valentina Author-X-Name-Last: Duvnjak Title: Coping with Crisis in the EU Periphery: The Case of Bosnia and Herzegovina Abstract: The developmental basis of an economy is represented by its successful and flexible enterprises. However, there are many factors that are counterproductive to a company’s aspirations to develop and operate efficiently. Under the conditions of unfavourable macroeconomic stability, a growing number of companies go through a crisis, which adds pressure to an already unfavourable macroeconomic situation, especially at the level of national economic and political stability. To have the company return to normal operations, firstly it is necessary to define the indicators and causes of the crisis, and then to implement restructuring measures in accordance with the contingency plan. Many theorists have pointed out the importance of a contingency plan for overcoming a crisis. However, applicability of a contingency plan depends on whether the company operates in a politically and economically stable environment. Given that Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) is characterized by governmental, political and economic instability and the presence of crisis in most companies, the aim of this paper is to explore the potential for a contingency plan application in such conditions, with the ultimate aim of making a theoretical contribution and expanding the existing knowledge on the problem of contingency plan application in a country in which political and economic instability have existed for a long time. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 196-210 Issue: 2 Volume: 20 Year: 2018 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2018.1379748 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2018.1379748 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:20:y:2018:i:2:p:196-210 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2129328_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Arnab Das Author-X-Name-First: Arnab Author-X-Name-Last: Das Title: The ethno-nationality of a modern saint: an interdisciplinary approach Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 158-160 Issue: 1 Volume: 25 Year: 2023 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2022.2129328 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2022.2129328 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:25:y:2023:i:1:p:158-160 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2129322_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Meliha Benli Altunisik Author-X-Name-First: Meliha Benli Author-X-Name-Last: Altunisik Author-Name: Derya Göçer Author-X-Name-First: Derya Author-X-Name-Last: Göçer Title: Iran’s New Chapter in Cuspness: Linking the Eastern Mediterranean and Asia Abstract: Iran has traditionally presented itself as a cusp state, manoeuvring between different regions. Recently, Iran is attempting to situate itself among the emerging connections between Asia and the Eastern Mediterranean. There are also limitations to Iran’s cuspness, as domestic politics and geopolitical rivalries in the Middle East challenge the country’s efforts to perform this function. This paper analyses (1) Iran’s shifting regional engagements and identity in the context of the Eastern Mediterranean and Asia, (2) the implications of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) for Iran’s shifting regional engagements and identity, (3) the limitations Iran faces in this reorientation. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 136-151 Issue: 1 Volume: 25 Year: 2023 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2022.2129322 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2022.2129322 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:25:y:2023:i:1:p:136-151 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2129326_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Nikos Papanastasiou Author-X-Name-First: Nikos Author-X-Name-Last: Papanastasiou Title: Greece’s Ostpolitik. Dealing With the ‘‘Devil’’ Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 153-156 Issue: 1 Volume: 25 Year: 2023 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2022.2129326 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2022.2129326 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:25:y:2023:i:1:p:153-156 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2143965_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Defne Gönenç Author-X-Name-First: Defne Author-X-Name-Last: Gönenç Author-Name: Emre İşeri Author-X-Name-First: Emre Author-X-Name-Last: İşeri Author-Name: Qingan Huang Author-X-Name-First: Qingan Author-X-Name-Last: Huang Title: Editorial to the special issue on ”Asian Powers in the Eastern Mediterranean” Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 40-47 Issue: 1 Volume: 25 Year: 2023 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2022.2143965 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2022.2143965 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:25:y:2023:i:1:p:40-47 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2084881_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Alan Cafruny Author-X-Name-First: Alan Author-X-Name-Last: Cafruny Author-Name: Vassilis K. Fouskas Author-X-Name-First: Vassilis K. Author-X-Name-Last: Fouskas Author-Name: William D. E. Mallinson Author-X-Name-First: William D. E. Author-X-Name-Last: Mallinson Author-Name: Andrey Voynitsky Author-X-Name-First: Andrey Author-X-Name-Last: Voynitsky Title: Ukraine, Multipolarity and the Crisis of Grand Strategies Abstract: Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine has unleashed the largest and most lethal war on the European continent since 1945. Vladimir Putin and the Russian government bear most of the responsibility for the invasion and its terrible humanitarian consequences. However, explanations for the war deriving from Russian domestic political dynamics or Vladimir Putin’s imperial nostalgia do not provide a comprehensive understanding of the crisis that led to war. Situating the crisis and ensuing invasion within the broader historical context of post-Cold War relations, we argue that the war in Ukraine has two main sources. The first is the longstanding Anglo-American grand strategy of NATO consolidation as a vehicle for political and economic domination in Europe. The second is the grand strategy of Russia. Unable to accommodate itself on an equal basis in the new U.S.-led post-Cold War global capitalist order, Russia gradually adopted a geopolitical and nationalistic agenda of confrontation in response to NATO’s seemingly inexorable eastward advance, its increasing participation in ‘out of area’ activities, and the United States’ illegal invasions of Serbia, Iraq, and Libya. The collision of these grand strategies has triggered simultaneously a struggle for Ukrainian sovereignty and independence and a U.S.-Russia proxy war. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 1-21 Issue: 1 Volume: 25 Year: 2023 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2022.2084881 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2022.2084881 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:25:y:2023:i:1:p:1-21 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2129324_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Wenlong Song Author-X-Name-First: Wenlong Author-X-Name-Last: Song Title: Between Europe and Asia: Narrow Spaces for Strategic Hedging in New Europe Abstract: Since the end of the Cold War, the former Soviet states of Europe, located at the crossroads of Europe and Asia, have been the site of a political game between the great powers, gradually developing a left-right strategy. This paper constructs the explanatory theory of hedging strategy and argues that post-socialist European countries, collectively referred to as ‘New Europe’, have navigated a middle way between balance and followup strategies called compound hedging. Starting at the regional scale, this paper discusses three issues, i.e., whether the new Europe has adopted a hedging strategy, why they adopt a hedging strategy, and the policy performance and effectiveness of hedging in the security and economic fields. Specifically, New Europe has implemented diversified fuzzy strategies amidst the transatlantic alliances and Eurasian powers, avoided security risks from Russia through cooperation with NATO, and balanced interest risks caused by European Union pressure through contacts with the United States, Russia, China and other countries. Although New Europe has realized certain practical strategic effects, it still faces difficulties (e.g., structural pressure changes, divergences between old and New Europe, and a lack of hedging capacities and motivations), and its policy space remains narrow and uncertain. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 22-39 Issue: 1 Volume: 25 Year: 2023 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2022.2129324 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2022.2129324 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:25:y:2023:i:1:p:22-39 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2129320_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Hayriye Kahveci-Özgür Author-X-Name-First: Hayriye Author-X-Name-Last: Kahveci-Özgür Author-Name: Jiuzhou Duan Author-X-Name-First: Jiuzhou Author-X-Name-Last: Duan Title: China’s ‘Silky Involvement’ in the Eastern Mediterranean: A geopolitical upper hand for Greece and Cyprus? Abstract: The paper argues that Chinese involvement in the Eastern Mediterranean is primarily motivated by increasing the country’s economic role within the region through Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The paper uses case study analysis methodology dwelling on the evolution and content of Chinese involvement in Greece and Cyprus. Primarily focusing of the nature of the Chinese investments in strategic sectors of the two cases in question the role that that China plays in Eastern Mediterranean is described as a ‘silky involvement’. China’s policy choices are also perceived to be an opportunity for Greece and Cyprus to combat the negative effects of 2007–2008 economic crises and to increase their geopolitical stronghold in the post-Cold War geopolitical environment of the Eastern Mediterranean. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 65-81 Issue: 1 Volume: 25 Year: 2023 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2022.2129320 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2022.2129320 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:25:y:2023:i:1:p:65-81 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2129325_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: E. Tutku Vardağlı Author-X-Name-First: E. Tutku Author-X-Name-Last: Vardağlı Title: Night on Earth Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 152-153 Issue: 1 Volume: 25 Year: 2023 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2022.2129325 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2022.2129325 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:25:y:2023:i:1:p:152-153 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2131079_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Clemens Hoffmann Author-X-Name-First: Clemens Author-X-Name-Last: Hoffmann Author-Name: Ceren Ergenc Author-X-Name-First: Ceren Author-X-Name-Last: Ergenc Title: A Greening Dragon in the Desert? China’s Role in the Geopolitical Ecology of Decarbonisation in the Eastern Mediterranean Abstract: The new geopolitics of energy in the Eastern Mediterranean is not determined by hydrocarbons anymore. A significant expansion of renewables is underway. Driven by a surge in ‘Green Finance’ and decarbonization policies, this development changes conventional relationships of dependency. This takes place in an environment, where Asian and Western energy security strategies rapidly evolve in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. North Africa and the Eastern Mediterranean play a central role in this repositioning. China, far from merely being a dinosaur, is the largest producer of renewable energy. It also invests in infrastructure abroad, including Egypt. The largest Arab nation not only seeks to become a global energy hub, but also a decarbonization champion, as reflected in the hosting of COP27 in Sharm El Sheikh. This article will look at these developments, including its internal and external contradictions to understand the motivation behind China’s commitment to Egyptian solar expansion. It will demonstrate that, while part of a global political economy of decarbonization, China’s main motivation for investing in renewables in the Eastern Mediterranean remains geostrategic, tied to its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). This, in turn, informs how we think of the Geo-Political Ecology of Decarbonization in the region. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 82-101 Issue: 1 Volume: 25 Year: 2023 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2022.2131079 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2022.2131079 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:25:y:2023:i:1:p:82-101 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2129327_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Damir Kapidžić Author-X-Name-First: Damir Author-X-Name-Last: Kapidžić Title: The rise and fall of peacebuilding in the Balkans Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 156-158 Issue: 1 Volume: 25 Year: 2023 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2022.2129327 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2022.2129327 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:25:y:2023:i:1:p:156-158 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2129321_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Yahya Gülseven Author-X-Name-First: Yahya Author-X-Name-Last: Gülseven Title: China’s Belt and Road Initiative and South-South Cooperation Abstract: China often emphasizes the imperialist nature of the North-South development cooperation model and considers it a threat to the Global South. The Chinese administration has officially declared that its development aid falls into the South-South cooperation (SSC) category and is essentially different from North-South cooperation. As an international cooperation initiative proposed by China, The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is the most concrete example of China’s understanding and practice of SSC. This article critically examines whether and to what extent China’s South-South cooperation offers an alternative to North-South cooperation. Benefiting from examples of China’s aid practices in Egypt within the scope of the BRI, this study argues that China’s aid practices replicate the pattern of the North-South aid relations and the Western imperial practices. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 102-117 Issue: 1 Volume: 25 Year: 2023 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2022.2129321 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2022.2129321 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:25:y:2023:i:1:p:102-117 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2129319_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Pavel Shlykov Author-X-Name-First: Pavel Author-X-Name-Last: Shlykov Author-Name: Ekaterina Koldunova Author-X-Name-First: Ekaterina Author-X-Name-Last: Koldunova Title: Russia and China in the Eastern Mediterranean: On Parallel Tracks? Abstract: With the advancement in 2013 of its Belt and Road Initiative, China emerged as a new player in many regions in which it had been absent. These regions included the Eastern Mediterranean, where Russia has long been present, although historically Russian engagement varied depending on the geopolitical situation and its military-strategic and economic capabilities. This article explores whether the Eastern Mediterranean is witnessing a Russo-Chinese alliance in the making, with Russian and Chinese interests intersecting, or whether they are still developing on parallel tracks in relative isolation from one another. Moreover, how are the Eastern Mediterranean countries reacting, and will a growing Russian and Chinese presence correspond with or run counter to these countries’ interests? Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 48-64 Issue: 1 Volume: 25 Year: 2023 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2022.2129319 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2022.2129319 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:25:y:2023:i:1:p:48-64 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2129323_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Zhiqiang Zou Author-X-Name-First: Zhiqiang Author-X-Name-Last: Zou Author-Name: Ahmet Faruk Isik Author-X-Name-First: Ahmet Faruk Author-X-Name-Last: Isik Title: China’s Seaport Investment in the Mediterranean Region and EU’s Interrogative Approach Abstract: In the context of debates on the rise of China in the West, China’s seaport investment projects in the Mediterranean region have aroused concerns in the US and the EU given that they regard China as an emerging strategic and economic challenge. The EU has strategic doubts about the security, political, and economic implications of China’s seaport investments. The EU is concerned that Beijing’s investment has geopolitical and military purposes, which might undermine internal solidarity in the EU and subvert the existing shipping structure in Europe. This study attempts to discuss how does the EU perceives China’s seaport investment and reveal whether China is a status-quo competitor or a partner for the EU in the Mediterranean. The major finding indicates that the EU had the attitude of hedging China and the US influence plays a significant role on this issue. This study put forth a clear answer on China’s seaport investments’ ‘Dilemma’. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 118-135 Issue: 1 Volume: 25 Year: 2023 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2022.2129323 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2022.2129323 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:25:y:2023:i:1:p:118-135 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2132004_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Vassilis K. Fouskas Author-X-Name-First: Vassilis K. Author-X-Name-Last: Fouskas Title: Digital age: the changes in economy, society, politics Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 160-165 Issue: 1 Volume: 25 Year: 2023 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2022.2132004 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2022.2132004 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:25:y:2023:i:1:p:160-165 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1775405_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Duncan Light Author-X-Name-First: Duncan Author-X-Name-Last: Light Author-Name: Remus Creţan Author-X-Name-First: Remus Author-X-Name-Last: Creţan Author-Name: Sorina Voiculescu Author-X-Name-First: Sorina Author-X-Name-Last: Voiculescu Author-Name: Ioan Sebastian Jucu Author-X-Name-First: Ioan Sebastian Author-X-Name-Last: Jucu Title: Introduction: Changing Tourism in the Cities of Post-communist Central and Eastern Europe Abstract: This special edition examines various aspects of urban tourism in the post-communist cities of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). It begins by examining the nature of tourism restructuring in the region since the end of communism and the way that this unfolds in cities. It then examines major global changes in the nature of tourism and their impacts on urban tourism in CEE. These include the growing demand among tourists for new experiences and destinations; the impact of budget airlines on tourism in smaller cities; the impacts of the sharing economy (particularly Airbnb); and the growing emphasis on events and festivals as a means of attracting visitors to cities. The article ends by introducing the six articles that make up this special edition. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 465-477 Issue: 4 Volume: 22 Year: 2020 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2020.1775405 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2020.1775405 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:22:y:2020:i:4:p:465-477 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1775400_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Ioan Sebastian Jucu Author-X-Name-First: Ioan Sebastian Author-X-Name-Last: Jucu Title: Rebranding the Cultural Legacy of Communism: The Golden Stag Festival (Braşov, Romania) and Local Placemaking Abstract: Music festivals have always had a key role in the production and reproduction of urban identities, regardless of the various leading political systems. This paper focuses on the Golden Stag Pop Music Festival (Brasov, Romania) as a particular case study in-depth investigated. It emphasizes the festival’s distinctive and complex issues: from a former communist era festival (a rather unusual form of heritage), it was rebranded as a completely new post-communist musical event. The festival plays an important role in the post-socialist place-making of Brasov. The study aims to unpack the issues of rebranding this festival as part of the cultural legacy of communism enhancing the local placemaking. The research uses a multi-method approach all-through the study with quantitative and qualitative analysis. In addition, ethnographic research and visual methodologies were used to examine this emblematic music festival. The findings are designed to inspire local urban agendas of all involved actors to rebrand the festival, thus refashioning the cultural legacy of communism and enhancing the local placemaking. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 478-493 Issue: 4 Volume: 22 Year: 2020 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2020.1775400 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2020.1775400 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:22:y:2020:i:4:p:478-493 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1775401_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Liliana Popescu Author-X-Name-First: Liliana Author-X-Name-Last: Popescu Author-Name: Amalia Nita Author-X-Name-First: Amalia Author-X-Name-Last: Nita Author-Name: Costela Iordache Author-X-Name-First: Costela Author-X-Name-Last: Iordache Title: Place Identity, Urban Tourism and Heritage Interpretation: A Case Study of Craiova, Romania Abstract: The significance and economic potential of cultural heritage tourism have been acknowledged worldwide, being at the forefront of the development strategies for many cities aiming at enhancing the tourists’ experience. The paper presents a case study of recent heritage interpretation project in Craiova historical centre, one of the largest Romanian towns, followed by the results of an online survey, aimed to assess people’s awareness, understanding and appreciation of the place and the past. The process of urban and cultural regeneration was initiated by the City Hall, in the early 2000, aiming at the creative capitalization of the cultural heritage to increase the attractiveness of the area and life quality for the local community, tourists and potential investors alike, by conveying a sense of place and appreciation of the town which is both historical and cultural. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 494-505 Issue: 4 Volume: 22 Year: 2020 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2020.1775401 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2020.1775401 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:22:y:2020:i:4:p:494-505 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1775402_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Iulia Cianga Author-X-Name-First: Iulia Author-X-Name-Last: Cianga Title: Festivals, Place-making and Local Economic Development: The Untold Festival in Cluj Abstract: Music festivals are one of the most popular forms of entertainment today, especially super-sized festivals, hosts of the biggest performers in international music charts, with thousands of fans, where the sound combined with spectacular visual effects and impressive settings create a unique sensorial experience. Untold Festival, the most promising event of this type in Eastern Europe, now at the 4th edition, was started in Cluj-Napoca, in 2015, as a project partially supported by the local authorities and it has been then developed through private financing and sponsorship. Untold promotes Transylvania’s mythological heritage, Romanian culture and traditions driving tourism and economic development in the region. The present paper aims to show the contribution of the festival in the placemaking of Cluj-Napoca and its surrounding area. The festival has an important Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 506-520 Issue: 4 Volume: 22 Year: 2020 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2020.1775402 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2020.1775402 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:22:y:2020:i:4:p:506-520 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1775403_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: R. Rusu Author-X-Name-First: R. Author-X-Name-Last: Rusu Author-Name: V. Bodocan Author-X-Name-First: V. Author-X-Name-Last: Bodocan Author-Name: T. Man Author-X-Name-First: T. Author-X-Name-Last: Man Title: Urban Sprawl and Its Impact on Urban Tourism in Romania Abstract: Unlike Western Europe and the Americas, urban sprawl occurred only after 1989 in Romania, as well as in other Central and Eastern European states. Urban hinterlands have been radically transformed through residential suburbanization left in the hands of the free market. Sprawl has determined the decrease of open space around the cities as well as traffic congestion, higher pollution and other environmental and social issues. In terms of urban tourism, sprawl has led to the emergence of many suburban accommodation units, which provided a viable alternative to the accommodation in the city centre. On the other hand, urban sprawl has affected the identity of Romanian cities as it has created rather ‘placeless’ suburbs. This acts against the efforts of the cities to enhance place identity in order to attract more tourists. Therefore unplanned suburban development impacts negatively on urban policies in the field of tourism. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 521-533 Issue: 4 Volume: 22 Year: 2020 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2020.1775403 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2020.1775403 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:22:y:2020:i:4:p:521-533 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1775404_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Florentina Popescu Author-X-Name-First: Florentina Author-X-Name-Last: Popescu Author-Name: Sorina Voiculescu Author-X-Name-First: Sorina Author-X-Name-Last: Voiculescu Title: Place Making and Tourism Logistics in Timișoara: Facing the Tasks of the Newly Appointed European Cultural Capital for 2021 Abstract: In September 2016 Timisoara was awarded the title of European Capital of Culture (EcoC) 2021. This paper is a critically interpretative narrative which examines preparations for ECoC 2021 award focusing on the importance of place making and participatory governance as an interface between our institutions and public policies meant to support touristic activities. With a mix of qualitative methods such as participant observation, interviews, and critical evaluation of public documents, this research assesses the actions that need to be taken to support tourist infrastructure.The conclusions drawn by the paper show that the touristic networks, the actors and policies fail to meet the expectations of the award so far. The failure is caused by the absence of dedicated urban policies and practices and coherence between public and private sphere of interests. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 534-546 Issue: 4 Volume: 22 Year: 2020 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2020.1775404 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2020.1775404 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:22:y:2020:i:4:p:534-546 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1778881_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Ilie Rădoi Author-X-Name-First: Ilie Author-X-Name-Last: Rădoi Title: European Capital of Culture, Urban Tourism and Cross-Border Cooperation Between Romania and Serbia Abstract: Nowadays, with the recent events inside EU and accession of new member states, it increases the need for a deeper integration of the member states. This paper looks at the important role of cultural cross-border cooperation, in the context of winning the European Capital of Culture (ECoC) title by Timișoara and Novi Sad for 2021. The ECoC title offers a great opportunity for Timișoara and Novi Sad, two cities from neighbouring countries, Romania and Serbia, also close from geographical and historical point of view, to shape together a region of culture through cross-border cooperation. Moreover, the title is a catalyst for the development of urban tourism at a local level. This article makes a qualitative analysis of the opportunities and challenges for cross-border cooperation in the new context. Cultural cross-border cooperation changes borders from barriers to bridges of cooperation and creates stronger ties between communities. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 547-559 Issue: 4 Volume: 22 Year: 2020 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2020.1778881 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2020.1778881 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:22:y:2020:i:4:p:547-559 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1196012_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Gareth M. Winrow Author-X-Name-First: Gareth M. Author-X-Name-Last: Winrow Title: The Anatomy of a Possible Pipeline: The Case of Turkey and Leviathan and Gas Politics in the Eastern Mediterranean Abstract: This article examines the impact of the discovery of gas reserves in the eastern Mediterranean on Turkey’s energy policy by focusing on the prospects for constructing a pipeline from Israel’s offshore Leviathan gas field to the Turkish mainland and Europe. The production, transportation and sale of gas cannot be studied in isolation from domestic and regional politics. The commercial feasibility of the proposed Leviathan pipeline is considered, taking into account regulatory complications. Relations between Turkey as a gas market, transit state and possible energy hub, and Israel and the Republic of Cyprus as local gas producers are discussed. In effect, the anatomy of the proposed Leviathan gas pipeline is explored from its conception to the various stages of the project’s possible development. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 431-447 Issue: 5 Volume: 18 Year: 2016 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2016.1196012 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2016.1196012 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:18:y:2016:i:5:p:431-447 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1196024_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Josef Kraus Author-X-Name-First: Josef Author-X-Name-Last: Kraus Author-Name: Emil Souleimanov Author-X-Name-First: Emil Author-X-Name-Last: Souleimanov Title: A Failed Comeback? Understanding Iranian Policies in the South Caucasus Abstract: This paper examines the evolution of Iran’s foreign policy toward the three South Caucasian republics since 2010 until today. Focusing on a topic that has remained on the margins of scholarly interest, this article identifies and tracks a number of key issues relating to Tehran’s policy toward Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia. These issues include limited and rather bilateral cooperation on the Caspian oil and natural gas transit; Iran’s interference in Azerbaijan’s internal affairs; the issue of Iranian Azerbaijan in the relationship between Baku and Tehran; Iran’s relationship with Armenia over energy, transportation, and economic cooperation; and Iran’s predominantly economic relationship with Georgia. The article concludes that Iran has profiled itself as an important, yet rather cautious actor in the South Caucasus, which has reduced its clout to the north-west of its borders. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 448-464 Issue: 5 Volume: 18 Year: 2016 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2016.1196024 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2016.1196024 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:18:y:2016:i:5:p:448-464 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1196025_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Bojan Todosijević Author-X-Name-First: Bojan Author-X-Name-Last: Todosijević Title: Tolerance of Diversity and Diversity of Intolerance: Evidence from Serbia Abstract: In classical liberal thought, the norm of political tolerance is understood as not being preconditioned by the content of political views. Controversies about the universal vs. relative nature of political tolerance, however, are ubiquitous. Public opinion research has also noted that there is a contradiction between the universal norm of political tolerance and its relative application. This paper examines this universal-relative contradiction using survey evidence from Serbia. The results show a considerable normative inconsistency among the Serbian public. However, it proved difficult to statistically account for the observed inconsistency. It was also observed that this normative inconsistency is related to the character of target groups. Those perceived as being outside of legitimate politics, such as neo-Nazi groups, are treated as exceptions to the general norm of political tolerance. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 465-477 Issue: 5 Volume: 18 Year: 2016 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2016.1196025 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2016.1196025 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:18:y:2016:i:5:p:465-477 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1196020_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: David Jenkins Author-X-Name-First: David Author-X-Name-Last: Jenkins Title: Shifting Images: British Newspaper Coverage of Tito’s Yugoslavia: 1943−1966 Abstract: This study seeks to prove that the conventional view of British newspaper reporting on Yugoslavia as being mostly positive is inaccurate and the tone of reporting is more difficult to define. It uses newspaper articles determined by random sampling and examines them both quantitatively and qualitatively to provide depth. These methods showed that newspaper coverage of Tito’s Yugoslavia was mostly neutral as Yugoslavia was rarely the main focus in the news; however, when it was, then coverage was more likely to be positive. Nevertheless, this coverage varied through the years, across newspapers examined and, something not considered until now, by the aspect of Yugoslav politics being reported. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 478-493 Issue: 5 Volume: 18 Year: 2016 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2016.1196020 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2016.1196020 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:18:y:2016:i:5:p:478-493 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1196019_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Alaaddin F. Paksoy Author-X-Name-First: Alaaddin F. Author-X-Name-Last: Paksoy Author-Name: Ralph Negrine Author-X-Name-First: Ralph Author-X-Name-Last: Negrine Title: Turkey as ‘a positive other’: a theoretical discussion to comprehend the British media’s view on Turkey–EU relations Abstract: No country has waited at the front door of the EU as long as Turkey. In addition to Turkey’s different status compared to the EU membership candidacy processes of other countries, there is also an awkward relationship between the EU and the UK, and inevitably the British media. Therefore, this article seeks to present an analytical framework which draws on the notion of ‘a positive Other’ while explaining the representation of Turkey’s EU bid in the British media. The research discusses the inadequacy of Orientalism and the Self/Other nexus to understand the context in the British coverage and highlights the ‘essentialist’ and ‘functionalist’ approaches in its attempt to explain the differences within the EU in exploring the fundamentals of the EU and the view on Turkish membership. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 494-505 Issue: 5 Volume: 18 Year: 2016 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2016.1196019 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2016.1196019 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:18:y:2016:i:5:p:494-505 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1196013_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Jugoslav Aničić Author-X-Name-First: Jugoslav Author-X-Name-Last: Aničić Author-Name: Nebojša Zakić Author-X-Name-First: Nebojša Author-X-Name-Last: Zakić Author-Name: Svetlana Vukotić Author-X-Name-First: Svetlana Author-X-Name-Last: Vukotić Author-Name: Jonel Subić Author-X-Name-First: Jonel Author-X-Name-Last: Subić Title: Clustering as an opportunity for internationalization of the SME sector in Serbia Abstract: The geographic concentration and regional specialization of small and medium-sized enterprises in many developed countries has significantly contributed to increasing their competitiveness in the international market and balanced regional development. Clusters, as a form of business association, are particularly important for small and medium-sized enterprises, which strive to take part in the highly competitive international market. The range of goals of internationalization is very wide—the increase of profit, risk reduction and dispersion, increasing the technological level etc. The clusters of the real sector have a significant impact on the increase and the dynamics of the country’s exports. Therefore, a new model of economic development for Serbia should be based on inter-related, export-oriented small and medium-sized enterprises of the real sector. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 506-524 Issue: 5 Volume: 18 Year: 2016 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2016.1196013 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2016.1196013 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:18:y:2016:i:5:p:506-524 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1328883_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Şevki Kıralp Author-X-Name-First: Şevki Author-X-Name-Last: Kıralp Title: Cyprus between Enosis, Partition and Independence: Domestic Politics, Diplomacy and External Interventions (1967–74) Abstract: This paper focuses on the domestic and international politics shaping the Cyprus Conflict between 1967 and 1974. Throughout the period investigated by this paper, Archbishop Makarios tried to preserve the Cypriot independence, integrity and sovereignty by withstanding the terrorist activities of Greek Cypriot paramilitary groups, local autonomy demands of Turkish Cypriot leadership and the interventions of Greece and Turkey. The anti-American Greek Cypriot Left sided with Makarios against the Greek Junta. Prior to the 1974 incidents, Henry Kissinger had been informed about the internal and external threats targeting Cyprus. During the 1974 crisis, he was provided sufficient information monitoring the unlikelihood of a Greco-Turkish war. Under these circumstances, the US government supported the federalization of Cyprus. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 591-609 Issue: 6 Volume: 19 Year: 2017 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2017.1328883 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2017.1328883 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:19:y:2017:i:6:p:591-609 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1328887_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Ayşe Güneş-Ayata Author-X-Name-First: Ayşe Author-X-Name-Last: Güneş-Ayata Author-Name: Gökten Doğangün Author-X-Name-First: Gökten Author-X-Name-Last: Doğangün Title: Gender Politics of the AKP: Restoration of a Religio-conservative Gender Climate Abstract: Under the rule of the AKP, gender politics draws a contradictory picture. Although significant legal advances have been achieved in harmony with international conventions, gender equality has not been fully attained. With the conjunction of the loss of momentum in the EU membership drive and the alliance between the party’s conservatism and neo-liberalism, a religio-conservative gender climate has emerged. This gender climate relies on the reconceptualization of family and motherhood in reference to religion, tradition and custom. In Turkey’s strongly traditional society, these references have led to the expression of values detrimental to gender equality, unleash underlying traditional norms and limit the social absorption of legal changes. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 610-627 Issue: 6 Volume: 19 Year: 2017 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2017.1328887 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2017.1328887 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:19:y:2017:i:6:p:610-627 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1328892_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Anastassios Chardas Author-X-Name-First: Anastassios Author-X-Name-Last: Chardas Title: Local Governance in the Age of Austerity in Greece and the Impact of the EU Leader Approach in the Region of Peloponnesus Abstract: The aim of this paper is to examine the impact of the austerity measures that have been introduced in Greece since 2010 in the patterns of local governance, with a specific focus on the case of the Leader approach for rural development in the Greek region of Peloponnesus. It deploys mixed qualitative techniques in order to outline the changes in local governance capacity and autonomy that resulted from the implementation of the two Memorandums of Understanding and the mid-term Fiscal Strategy since 2010. The diminished local governance capacity and autonomy, and the significant trends towards recentralization are revealed. These are more profound in the case of the five Leader programmes implemented in the region of Peloponnesus. The conclusions drawn by the paper put into serious doubt the mainstream assumptions concerning the impact of austerity measures on the patterns of governance in Greece in general and on local governance in particular. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 628-644 Issue: 6 Volume: 19 Year: 2017 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2017.1328892 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2017.1328892 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:19:y:2017:i:6:p:628-644 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1328896_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Tamara Radjenovic Author-X-Name-First: Tamara Author-X-Name-Last: Radjenovic Author-Name: Biljana Rakic Author-X-Name-First: Biljana Author-X-Name-Last: Rakic Title: Interdependence between level of financial system development and economic growth in Serbia Abstract: This paper investigates the interdependence between financial system development, particularly capital market development and economic growth, in Serbia by using the series of yearly data from the World Bank Development database indicators. Numerous variables concerning market size and liquidity are analysed, but also some macroeconomic indicators, such as government consumption, interest and inflation rates. The data are tested for stationarity by employing the Augmented Dickey–Fuller test and thereafter the Granger causality test is carried out to determine the long-run causality between the variables. Additionally, several regression models are estimated to identify the variables that have a crucial role in stimulating economic growth. The results obtained confirm the supply-leading hypothesis, thus emphasizing the role of capital market development in stimulating economic growth. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 645-665 Issue: 6 Volume: 19 Year: 2017 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2017.1328896 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2017.1328896 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:19:y:2017:i:6:p:645-665 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1328897_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: K. M. Shazzad Mohashin Author-X-Name-First: K. M. Shazzad Author-X-Name-Last: Mohashin Title: IMF in Greece: in the Shadow of the Washington Consensus Abstract: The economic crisis in Greece has proved more complex than expected. The crisis has raised difficult challenges for the Troika and more so for the IMF. Since 2010, the Greek authorities have repeatedly requested bailout loans from the IMF in exchange for macroeconomic and structural adjustments. Under the stand-by arrangement (SBA) and the extended fund facility (EFF) of the IMF, Greece had to implement fiscal discipline by reducing its soaring public expenditures. The deregulation of the labour market was designed to regain economic competitiveness. Minimising the presence of government in the market and catalysing greater foreign direct investment (FDI) were the main reasons for a strong IMF push for privatisation. In this context, this article argues that the IMF has promoted the Washington Consensus policies through its programme conditionality. The economic and social costs of the programmes have been enormous so far. In addition, the programmes have not been successful in ensuring economic growth and capital market access either. The failure of the IMF policies in Greece also amplifies the limitations and confusions within the institution itself. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 666-683 Issue: 6 Volume: 19 Year: 2017 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2017.1328897 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2017.1328897 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:19:y:2017:i:6:p:666-683 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1328898_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Elvina Merkaj Author-X-Name-First: Elvina Author-X-Name-Last: Merkaj Author-Name: Edvin Zhllima Author-X-Name-First: Edvin Author-X-Name-Last: Zhllima Author-Name: Drini Imami Author-X-Name-First: Drini Author-X-Name-Last: Imami Title: Fiscal Decentralization in Albania: Trends and Challenges at the Dawn of Territorial Reform Abstract: Decentralization reforms in Albania started very late compared with other countries of the Western Balkans. Only in early the 2000s were important fiscal decentralization reforms undertaken in Albania. The objective of this paper is to analyse the evolution of decentralization in terms of its legal and institutional paths, with a focus on the governance of intergovernmental transfers. Local government in Albania has inherited a fragmented legal foundation that results in an unclear division of functions and responsibilities between levels of government. The performance of the local governments has been hampered by a non-transparent system of grants distribution, as confirmed by this study. Accordingly a strong monitoring and evaluation system and active stakeholder involvement are crucial. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 684-699 Issue: 6 Volume: 19 Year: 2017 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2017.1328898 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2017.1328898 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:19:y:2017:i:6:p:684-699 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_928533_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Sinem Akgul Acikmese Author-X-Name-First: Sinem Akgul Author-X-Name-Last: Acikmese Author-Name: Dimitrios Triantaphyllou Author-X-Name-First: Dimitrios Author-X-Name-Last: Triantaphyllou Title: The Black Sea Region: The Neighbourhood too Close to, yet still Far from the European Union Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 279-285 Issue: 3 Volume: 16 Year: 2014 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2014.928533 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2014.928533 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:16:y:2014:i:3:p:279-285 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_928534_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Dimitrios Triantaphyllou Author-X-Name-First: Dimitrios Author-X-Name-Last: Triantaphyllou Title: The European Union and the Black Sea Region in Search of a Narrative or a New Paradigm Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 286-299 Issue: 3 Volume: 16 Year: 2014 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2014.928534 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2014.928534 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:16:y:2014:i:3:p:286-299 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_928535_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Licínia Simão Author-X-Name-First: Licínia Author-X-Name-Last: Simão Title: The EU's Conflict Resolution Policies in the Black Sea Area Abstract: Since the end of the Cold War, the Black Sea countries have undergone significant changes in their domestic, regional and global contexts. These shifts entailed important consequences for the political and economic re-structuring of the region, with an increasingly important role played by the European Union (EU) and NATO in anchoring these countries to Euro-Atlantic institutions. However, conflict resolution has remained one area where EU countries have been reluctant to play a more visible role, neglecting to systematically address the fact that the permanence of the conflicts undermines all efforts of regional stability and development. Considering this mismatch, this paper addresses the EU's conflict-related policies in its Eastern neighbourhood and argues that although the EU perceives itself as a force for regional peace, its neighbourhood policy has also brought short-term dynamics of destabilization, namely, by unsettling Russia's leading security role, and as a result of the EU's unclear political prospects towards the Black Sea. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 300-313 Issue: 3 Volume: 16 Year: 2014 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2014.928535 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2014.928535 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:16:y:2014:i:3:p:300-313 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_928536_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Sinem Akgul Acikmese Author-X-Name-First: Sinem Author-X-Name-Last: Akgul Acikmese Author-Name: Cihan Dizdaroglu Author-X-Name-First: Cihan Author-X-Name-Last: Dizdaroglu Title: Squaring the Circle: The EU's Operational Impact in the Black Sea Region Abstract: The aim of this paper is to explain the flux in the European Union (EU) policies towards the Black Sea region with a particular comparative focus on the impact of the EU's operations in the South Caucasus and the EU Border Assistance Mission (EUBAM) in Moldova. This paper adopts the prospect and process of EU enlargement towards Central and Eastern Europe as a breakthrough in the EU's deeper rapprochement with the Black Sea region. By assuming that the EU has a variety of instruments at its disposal for crisis management, this paper suggests that the EU is relatively more powerful with its framework initiatives in dealing with the problems of the region at the grass-roots level, more so than as a security actor assuming direct roles including the operative side of the Common Security and Defence Policy in the resolution of the regional conflicts in Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Nagorno-Karabakh and Transnistria. More specifically, this paper argues to what extent the three-and-a-half operations in the Black Sea are successful in presenting effective solutions to the region's conflictual situations. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 314-325 Issue: 3 Volume: 16 Year: 2014 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2014.928536 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2014.928536 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:16:y:2014:i:3:p:314-325 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_928537_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Tatiana Coutto Author-X-Name-First: Tatiana Author-X-Name-Last: Coutto Author-Name: Balkan Devlen Author-X-Name-First: Balkan Author-X-Name-Last: Devlen Title: Environmental Concerns in EU–Black Sea Affairs Abstract: The European Union's (EU) environmental concerns vis-à-vis the Black Sea stem from various factors such as: the quest of the EU to reaffirm itself as a global actor; the development of the legal–institutional framework that regulates the relations between the EU and its near abroad; and the enlargement process, which provided the EU with direct access to the Black Sea shores. Following an institutionalist approach, this paper analyses how the EU's concerns, strategies and institutional/policy responses to tackle environmental problems in the region have evolved over time. Drawing on the concept of ‘actorness’, it discusses to what extent the adoption of an effective EU-led approach to environmental issues may strengthen the role of the EU in the region and elsewhere. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 326-342 Issue: 3 Volume: 16 Year: 2014 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2014.928537 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2014.928537 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:16:y:2014:i:3:p:326-342 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_928538_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Iryna Solonenko Author-X-Name-First: Iryna Author-X-Name-Last: Solonenko Title: The EU's Democratization Efforts in the Black Sea Region: The Challenge of ‘Domesticating’ Democracy Abstract: The paper looks at the European Union (EU) democratization efforts in the Black Sea region. It shows that there is a clear correlation between the state of democracy of the countries of the region and the degree of their rapprochement with the EU. When it comes to the European Neighbourhood Policy or, more precisely, the Eastern Partnership, the EU's impact has been rather low due to disabling factors inside the partner countries. The paper points to the fact that the democracy-promotion agenda in the Black Sea region is rather driven and dominated by the EU, whereas multilateral cooperation in the region focuses on issues of a more functional nature. The countries of the region do not have a democratization agenda without the EU playing a proactive role. The paper argues that the EU should aim at making democracy an issue of multilateral cooperation in the region to top up its own bilateral efforts with individual countries. One of the ways would be to enhance synergies between the civil societies of the countries. As a first step, it would make sense to include representatives of Turkish and Russian civil society organizations (CSOs) in the work of the Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum. Additionally, the EU could promote a democracy-related agenda among the existing multilateral institutions of the region. Finally, it would make sense to enhance the democracy-exporting role of the countries of the region that are showing better progress. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 343-355 Issue: 3 Volume: 16 Year: 2014 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2014.928538 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2014.928538 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:16:y:2014:i:3:p:343-355 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_928539_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Sergei Konoplyov Author-X-Name-First: Sergei Author-X-Name-Last: Konoplyov Author-Name: Igor Delanoë Author-X-Name-First: Igor Author-X-Name-Last: Delanoë Title: Continuities and Ruptures: Tracking the US Interests in the Black Sea Area in the Context of the ‘Pivot to Asia’ Abstract: Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the USA has become one of the main actors on the Black Sea stage. Whereas energy has been the key driver of Washington's involvement in the region since the end of the 1990s, the US agenda has broadened to include security issues and democratization after the 9/11 attacks. Today, in the context of the withdrawal from Afghanistan and the ‘pivot to Asia’, the US influence in the Black Sea is retrenching. However, despite a seeming waning interest, Washington's involvement in the region is likely to remain driven by energy security considerations as well as by the deployment of NATO's Ballistic Missile Defense. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 356-369 Issue: 3 Volume: 16 Year: 2014 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2014.928539 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2014.928539 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:16:y:2014:i:3:p:356-369 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_928540_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Maria Raquel Freire Author-X-Name-First: Maria Raquel Author-X-Name-Last: Freire Title: Russian Reactions towards EU–Black Sea Integration Abstract: This paper looks at how Russian policies towards the Black Sea countries have affected its relations with the European Union (EU), departing from Russian foreign policy and how its goals are projected in this area. The analysis seeks to shed light on how Russian political dealings conflate or clash with EU policies developed towards this space. Is the Black Sea area a space for convergence or instead is it promoting dissension in this bilateral relationship? Does Russia understand the EU as a ‘game changer’ in the area? To what extent does the involvement of other external players, such as the USA, with their different policy goals, affect political relations in this complex geography that is the Black Sea area? The paper argues that Russia has promoted a policy towards the Black Sea in line with its main foreign policy goals, and that regarding the EU, it has been following and (re)acting to EU policies and actions in diverse ways, though the Russian rhetoric towards the EU has been harsher than its political moves, due to an understanding of the EU as being a limited player in the area. Therefore, Russia does not perceive the EU as a potential ‘game changer’. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 370-382 Issue: 3 Volume: 16 Year: 2014 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2014.928540 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2014.928540 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:16:y:2014:i:3:p:370-382 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_928541_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Mustafa Aydın Author-X-Name-First: Mustafa Author-X-Name-Last: Aydın Title: Turkish Policy towards the Wider Black Sea and the EU Connection Abstract: The Black Sea has been on the global agenda since the end of the Cold War; and Turkey has appeared as a rising regional power in the region. Turkey's policies in the Black Sea have aimed at the creation of region-wide multilateral cooperation schemes. Starting with the Black Sea Economic Cooperation Organization, it initiated several institutions with varying degrees of success. In addition to creating a stable environment, conducive to increased cooperation and enhanced trade relationships, sustaining maritime security through an elaborate balance of power in the region has been important for Turkey. While it supported closer relations with and further integration into the European Union, Turkey does not wish to see competitive projects aimed at the region evolving into a cause for instability. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 383-397 Issue: 3 Volume: 16 Year: 2014 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2014.928541 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2014.928541 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:16:y:2014:i:3:p:383-397 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_134538_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: ANA MARIA DOBRE Author-X-Name-First: ANA MARIA Author-X-Name-Last: DOBRE Title: Europeanisation and domestic territorial change: the Spanish and Romanian cases of territorial adaptation in the context of EU enlargement Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 351-366 Issue: 3 Volume: 7 Year: 2005 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190500345557 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190500345557 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:7:y:2005:i:3:p:351-366 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_134549_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Stevan K. Pavlowitch Author-X-Name-First: Stevan K. Author-X-Name-Last: Pavlowitch Title: Across the Aegean: a scholarly dialogue on the great demographic transfer Journal: Pages: 403-407 Issue: 3 Volume: 7 Year: 2005 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190500345664 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190500345664 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:7:y:2005:i:3:p:403-407 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_134547_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Erol Kulahci Author-X-Name-First: Erol Author-X-Name-Last: Kulahci Title: EU political conditionality and parties in government: human rights and the quest for Turkish transformation Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 387-402 Issue: 3 Volume: 7 Year: 2005 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190500345649 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190500345649 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:7:y:2005:i:3:p:387-402 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_134534_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Clementina Casula Author-X-Name-First: Clementina Author-X-Name-Last: Casula Title: Territorial identities and institutional building: strengths and weaknesses of EU policies for territorial cooperation in Southern regions Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 335-349 Issue: 3 Volume: 7 Year: 2005 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190500345516 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190500345516 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:7:y:2005:i:3:p:335-349 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_139126_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: IOSIF BOTETZAGIAS Author-X-Name-First: IOSIF Author-X-Name-Last: BOTETZAGIAS Title: Introduction: the Europeanisation of Southern Europe Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 279-282 Issue: 3 Volume: 7 Year: 2005 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190500391437 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190500391437 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:7:y:2005:i:3:p:279-282 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_134532_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Silvia Bolgherini Author-X-Name-First: Silvia Author-X-Name-Last: Bolgherini Title: Administrative adaptation in Southern regions: the emergence of a ‘Europeanised’ bureaucratic elite? Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 315-334 Issue: 3 Volume: 7 Year: 2005 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190500345490 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190500345490 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:7:y:2005:i:3:p:315-334 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_134553_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Lidia Santarelli Author-X-Name-First: Lidia Author-X-Name-Last: Santarelli Title: Book Reviews Journal: Pages: 417-429 Issue: 3 Volume: 7 Year: 2005 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190500345706 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190500345706 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:7:y:2005:i:3:p:417-429 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_134530_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: JOERG BAUDNER Author-X-Name-First: JOERG Author-X-Name-Last: BAUDNER Author-Name: MARTIN BULL Author-X-Name-First: MARTIN Author-X-Name-Last: BULL Title: European policies and domestic reform: a case study of structural fund management in Italy Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 299-314 Issue: 3 Volume: 7 Year: 2005 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190500345474 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190500345474 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:7:y:2005:i:3:p:299-314 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_134540_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Angelos Sepos Author-X-Name-First: Angelos Author-X-Name-Last: Sepos Title: The Europeanisation of the Cyprus central government administration: the impact of EU membership negotiations Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 367-385 Issue: 3 Volume: 7 Year: 2005 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190500345573 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190500345573 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:7:y:2005:i:3:p:367-385 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_134550_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Mary Farrell Author-X-Name-First: Mary Author-X-Name-Last: Farrell Title: Spain and Portugal in the European Union: assessing the impact of regional integration Journal: Pages: 409-415 Issue: 3 Volume: 7 Year: 2005 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190500345672 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190500345672 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:7:y:2005:i:3:p:409-415 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_134517_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Massimiliano Andretta Author-X-Name-First: Massimiliano Author-X-Name-Last: Andretta Author-Name: Manuela Caiani Author-X-Name-First: Manuela Author-X-Name-Last: Caiani Title: Social movements in Italy: which kind of Europeanisation? Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 283-298 Issue: 3 Volume: 7 Year: 2005 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190500345342 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190500345342 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:7:y:2005:i:3:p:283-298 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1379752_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Özgün Sarımehmet Duman Author-X-Name-First: Özgün Author-X-Name-Last: Sarımehmet Duman Title: The Political Economy of the Eurozone Crisis: Competitiveness and Financialization in PIIGS Abstract: This paper analyses the fundamental reasons for the current global economic crisis in the Eurozone and PIIGS—Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece and Spain. It evaluates the tight economic integration within the Eurozone, and scrutinizes the reasons that PIIGS were more intensely exposed to the economic crisis. It focuses on the structure of the real economy and the financial market, and outlines the levels of competitiveness and financialization across the Eurozone and PIIGS. The paper states that the reason for the economic crisis in PIIGS was not only (i) unregulated financialization or over-financialization, but also (ii) the economic and trade imbalance among the Eurozone members, (iii) the falling rates of profit in the real economy, and (iv) the failure of real profits to compensate financial profits. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 211-229 Issue: 3 Volume: 20 Year: 2018 Month: 5 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2018.1379752 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2018.1379752 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:20:y:2018:i:3:p:211-229 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1379754_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Nazif Mandacı Author-X-Name-First: Nazif Author-X-Name-Last: Mandacı Author-Name: Mehmet Ufuk Tutan Author-X-Name-First: Mehmet Ufuk Author-X-Name-Last: Tutan Title: Global Land Grab and the Balkans: Continuity and Changes in a Unique Historical Context Abstract: Current developments concerning land grabs in the Balkans suggest that the region is re-experiencing in the post-socialist era what happened in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries due to the decline of the Ottoman land tenure system, under identical conditions involving fundamental socio-political transformations and integration with global capitalism. These changes are emblematic of a transfer of common to individual ownership. Nowadays, small landholders in some parts of the region—mainly the former labourers on socialist agricultural cooperatives—are influenced by the accelerating trend of (re)concentrating landownership, which in some cases takes the form of land grabbing similar to that seen in Africa. This study examines the historical continuity between the Ottoman rule over fledgling nation-states and the post-socialist era by referring to widely discussed socio-economic and political developments regarding contemporary land grab processes. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 230-250 Issue: 3 Volume: 20 Year: 2018 Month: 5 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2018.1379754 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2018.1379754 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:20:y:2018:i:3:p:230-250 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1385268_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Vincent Ibonye Author-X-Name-First: Vincent Author-X-Name-Last: Ibonye Title: Strategic Wisdom in the New Greater Middle Eastern Game? A De-escalatory Rethinking of the Syrian Conflict Abstract: From an offensive realist perspective, great powers always seek out opportunities to attain more power so as to feel more secure. This outlook helps us consider that the Gulf-Eurasia setting has evolved into a theatre for a new rivalry between camps led by the US and Russia, working to resolve regional crises as they compete over the content of understandings that will be reached and the arising leadership and economic opportunities—the most visible dispute being the Syrian conflict. In consequence, geopolitical realism and perceptions of security dilemmas shape much of their actions and permit the crisis to define the dynamics of global stability more negatively. However, policy-making elites have long sought to temper offensive realism by bringing the logic of positive-sum market exchange into the domain of zero-sum geopolitics. For this purpose, in the Syrian game, this study relies on strategic wisdom as a combination of notions of (re)setting new norms in managing the friction between international competition and cooperation. Transcending monocausal explanations for the Syrian conflict as opposed to the diverse interests of the great powers (US and Russia), it concludes by evaluating the prospects of managing the rise in zero-sum competition. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 251-272 Issue: 3 Volume: 20 Year: 2018 Month: 5 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2018.1385268 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2018.1385268 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:20:y:2018:i:3:p:251-272 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1385271_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Danijel Nestić Author-X-Name-First: Danijel Author-X-Name-Last: Nestić Author-Name: Iva Tomić Author-X-Name-First: Iva Author-X-Name-Last: Tomić Title: Jobless Population and Employment Flows in Recession Abstract: This paper explores the characteristics and dynamics of the jobless population defined via the NEET concept (population not in education, employment, or training) adjusted to include the entire working-age population and exclude the disabled and retired. Estimation of the total potential labour force, the sum of the NEET and employed population, shows that Croatia has the lowest workforce potential in the EU. Detailed exploration of the Croatian NEET adult population in 2008 and 2011 indicates notable changes in its size and composition during the recession. Single, prime-age male NEETs, with good social relations, are found to have the best chances of finding a job. Their job prospects decrease with household income, especially if it comes from the hidden economy, while social transfers exert negative but statistically insignificant effects. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 273-292 Issue: 3 Volume: 20 Year: 2018 Month: 5 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2018.1385271 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2018.1385271 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:20:y:2018:i:3:p:273-292 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1385273_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Utku Yapıcı Author-X-Name-First: Utku Author-X-Name-Last: Yapıcı Title: From Positive Neutrality to Silk Road Activism? The Continuities and Changes in Turkmenistan’s Foreign Policy Abstract: Turkmenistan’s foreign policy has been the subject of considerable scholarly debate since the Turkmenistan administration’s attempt to acquire a neutral status and the United Nations General Assembly’s recognition of this status by a declaration in 1995. This article firstly demonstrates the primary manifestations of Turkmenistan’s neutralism and analyses the roots of this foreign policy approach. In this context, the links of the continuities and changes in Turkmenistan’s foreign policy to Turkmenistan’s domestic politics are addressed. The article also tries to answer the question of whether the current activism in Turkmenistan’s foreign policy connotes a rupture from neutrality or not. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 293-310 Issue: 3 Volume: 20 Year: 2018 Month: 5 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2018.1385273 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2018.1385273 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:20:y:2018:i:3:p:293-310 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_159537_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Paul G. Hare Author-X-Name-First: Paul G. Author-X-Name-Last: Hare Title: The business sector in Southeast Europe–stimulating activity vs. conforming to EU norms Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 45-64 Issue: 01 Volume: 8 Year: 2006 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190600595549 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190600595549 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:8:y:2006:i:01:p:45-64 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_159523_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: GRAHAM TIMMINS Author-X-Name-First: GRAHAM Author-X-Name-Last: TIMMINS Author-Name: DEJAN JOVIĆ Author-X-Name-First: DEJAN Author-X-Name-Last: JOVIĆ Title: Introduction: The Next Wave of Enlargement: The European Union and Southeast Europe after 2004 Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 1-5 Issue: 01 Volume: 8 Year: 2006 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190600595408 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190600595408 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:8:y:2006:i:01:p:1-5 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_159534_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: DIMITAR BECHEV Author-X-Name-First: DIMITAR Author-X-Name-Last: BECHEV Title: Carrots, sticks and norms: the EU and regional cooperation in Southeast Europe Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 27-43 Issue: 01 Volume: 8 Year: 2006 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190600595515 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190600595515 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:8:y:2006:i:01:p:27-43 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_159532_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: David Phinnemore Author-X-Name-First: David Author-X-Name-Last: Phinnemore Title: Beyond 25—the changing face of EU enlargement: commitment, conditionality and the Constitutional Treaty Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 7-26 Issue: 01 Volume: 8 Year: 2006 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190600595499 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190600595499 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:8:y:2006:i:01:p:7-26 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_159555_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Alina Mungiu-Pippidi Author-X-Name-First: Alina Author-X-Name-Last: Mungiu-Pippidi Title: Doubtful revolutions and counter-revolutions deconstructed Journal: Pages: 109-112 Issue: 01 Volume: 8 Year: 2006 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190600595721 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190600595721 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:8:y:2006:i:01:p:109-112 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_159566_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Katherine Verdery Author-X-Name-First: Katherine Author-X-Name-Last: Verdery Title: Book Reviews Journal: Pages: 113-127 Issue: 01 Volume: 8 Year: 2006 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190600595838 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190600595838 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:8:y:2006:i:01:p:113-127 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_159542_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Dejan Jović Author-X-Name-First: Dejan Author-X-Name-Last: Jović Title: Croatia and the European Union: a long delayed journey Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 85-103 Issue: 01 Volume: 8 Year: 2006 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190600595598 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190600595598 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:8:y:2006:i:01:p:85-103 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_159540_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: GÜLNUR AYBET Author-X-Name-First: GÜLNUR Author-X-Name-Last: AYBET Title: Turkey's long and winding road to the EU: implications for the Balkans Abstract: Turkey has come a long way in the past 10 years in terms of becoming a more liberal democracy, and has completed significant reforms in the run up to the December 2004 decision by the EU to open accession negotiations with Turkey on the 3 October 2005. However, while ‘getting a date’ from the EU had undoubtedly been a watershed in Turkey–EU relations, it has also opened a new era in Turkish foreign policy which must now face the serious challenges of reconciling internal and external policy priorities. While the political reforms that Turkey has carried out make headway in reconciling these two strands, it is important to note that during the Cold War, Turkey's sense of belonging in the ‘West’ was not challenged by its internal upheavals from civil unrest to military coups.1 In the post-Cold War era, Turkey has had to adjust its policy outlook through finding a way to come to terms with traditionally sensitive issues that have direct bearing on its national security but which also impact upon its accession process with the EU. Turkey's path towards the EU has not been a straightforward one, in contrast to the recently admitted EU members. While its geo-strategic position and its membership of NATO place it in a unique position in terms of European security, it is also an active participant in transatlantic cooperation to bring stability to the Balkans and the Broader Middle East.2 Turkey not only participates in various peace building missions but also provides training for NATO Partnership for Peace (PfP) countries in peace building exercises. As the Balkans become a disparate entity with regards to the EU as new members, pending members and probable members, it is clear that the EU's role will increase as a catalyst for political and economic reform and transformation throughout the region. With Turkey's present involvement in the region, as well as its bilateral ties with neighbouring countries, and its own accession process into the EU, there is no doubt that a higher EU profile in the Balkans can predominantly have a positive impact on Turkey–EU relations rather than a negative one. However, the hurdles that Turkey still has to go through in its accession process coupled with the next EU enlargement to Romania and Bulgaria, can have repercussions on Turkey's relations with countries of the region. The first part of this paper presents a brief background to the long and winding road of Turkey's bid for EU membership. Subsequent sections look at the December 2004 decision of the EU to open accession negotiations with Turkey and the problems that lie ahead which can impact the accession process. The final section looks at Turkey's role in the Balkans. Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 65-83 Issue: 01 Volume: 8 Year: 2006 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190600595572 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190600595572 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:8:y:2006:i:01:p:65-83 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_159573_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Vassilis K. Fouskas Author-X-Name-First: Vassilis K. Author-X-Name-Last: Fouskas Title: Why is so annoying to some: a response to Bruce Kuniholm and others Journal: Pages: 105-107 Issue: 01 Volume: 8 Year: 2006 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190600595903 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190600595903 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:8:y:2006:i:01:p:105-107 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_170020_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: The Editors Title: MSc in International Conflict and Cooperation Journal: Pages: 129-131 Issue: 01 Volume: 8 Year: 2006 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190600700529 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190600700529 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:8:y:2006:i:01:p:129-131 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2015661_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Jelena Tošić Author-X-Name-First: Jelena Author-X-Name-Last: Tošić Title: Populist Variations on Migration: Floating Signifiers of Mobility in the Context of the ‘Balkan Route’ and the COVID-19 Pandemic Abstract: By focusing on the ongoing events of the so-called ‘Balkan Route’ and the Covid-19 pandemic this paper explores how the populist representations of migrants in the Western Balkans rest on specific historically embedded framings of migration. Based on long-term ethnographic insights and media analysis in Serbia the paper explores how the images of (good/bad) migrants tend to play out as unstable ‘floating signifiers’ in particular ways which is grounded on ambivalent perceptions of primarily two legacies and patterns of migration crucial for the region: work migration and forced migration. The paper traces how, firstly, the image of the diligent work migrant loyal to nationalist politics can surprisingly easily turn into one of the irresponsible and threatening figure of the returning work migrant as the very culprit of the pandemic (spreading the virus and taking advantage of the health system). The paper explores how this ambivalent image of the work migrant is based in the particular history and transformation of emigration from former Yugoslavia to Western Europe since the 1960s and its interrelation with populist nationalism. Secondly, I will argue that the ‘usage’ of the image of the ‘Muslim migrant’ along the©so-called ‘Balkan Route’ seems to be ‘flexible’ and ‘variable’ due to the particular history and presence of Muslim populations in the region. The ‘Muslim migrant’ can thus easily simultaneously or alternately appear as subject of legitimate humanitarian aid and freedom of movement (with no reference to religion at all), as well as the threatening ‘Muslim other’. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 542-556 Issue: 3 Volume: 24 Year: 2022 Month: 05 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2021.2015661 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2021.2015661 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:24:y:2022:i:3:p:542-556 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2015660_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Sarah Bittel Author-X-Name-First: Sarah Author-X-Name-Last: Bittel Author-Name: Alessandro Monsutti Author-X-Name-First: Alessandro Author-X-Name-Last: Monsutti Title: Waiting Games: Taming Chance among Afghans in Greece Abstract: This paper offers a contribution to the understanding of migration beyond its spatial dimension to include the multiple temporalities that are entailed. We rely on empirical material collected among young Afghan men in Greece to explore how they conceptualize and make sense of waiting in their own terms by proposing an ethnographic depiction of card and online games. We argue that card and online games are a way for our interlocutors to express some level of agency. With their play, they create and reinforce social ties, respectively, creating and reinforcing a support network that persists over time and beyond geographical dispersion. Therefore, they transform waiting into an experience through which they may assert their personal autonomy and group belonging and reinvest meaning into their everyday life. They eventually develop some ability to manage the uncertainty that dominates their lives, present and future. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 460-478 Issue: 3 Volume: 24 Year: 2022 Month: 05 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2021.2015660 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2021.2015660 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:24:y:2022:i:3:p:460-478 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2015656_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Maja Savić-Bojanić Author-X-Name-First: Maja Author-X-Name-Last: Savić-Bojanić Author-Name: Jana Jevtić Author-X-Name-First: Jana Author-X-Name-Last: Jevtić Title: Solidarity or Crisis? How Personal Migration Experiences Shape Popular Perception on Forced Migrants in Bosnia and Herzegovina? Abstract: Since the end of 2017, Bosnia and Herzegovina has experienced a significant increase in the number of migrants transiting through the country. Based on an ethnographic reading of nineteen recollections of ‘personal migration experiences’ of Bosnians during 1992–1995 war, which form the basis for popular perception of migrants in the country, this paper explores how the concept of solidarity is imagined and lived in the context of this significant increase. We argue that Bosnians interpret these recent arrivals as a ‘test of humanity’, having been in a similar situation in the early 1990s. In this regard, the concept of solidarity opens a window onto the interactions with and between migrants and non-migrants, recognizing a shared set of concerns and orientations, rather than exceptionalizing migrants through the lens of ‘crisis’. That said, the concept of solidarity is less popular among those who do not share a so-called ‘migrant’s faith’, resulting in negative perceptions of migrants. In these perceptions, migrants’ presence in the country is criminalized, resulting in various calls for more aggressive, even violent, ‘popular’ handling of migrants transiting or settling in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 503-519 Issue: 3 Volume: 24 Year: 2022 Month: 05 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2021.2015656 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2021.2015656 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:24:y:2022:i:3:p:503-519 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2015658_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Marco Zoppi Author-X-Name-First: Marco Author-X-Name-Last: Zoppi Author-Name: Marco Puleri Author-X-Name-First: Marco Author-X-Name-Last: Puleri Title: The Balkan Route (and Its Afterlife): The New Normal in the European Politics of Migration Abstract: This article examines the political and policy-related developments regarding the Balkan Route intended both as a migration path and as a conceptual node where both symbolic and physical re-bordering processes converge. The article argues that these two processes represent the foundation on which the sum of the policies to address migration issues enacted in the last years are based: specific constructions of migrants and asylum seekers as well as of the Balkan region have shaped policies to push back migrants, eventually halting mobility and implementing containment in formal and informal camps in the region. This is not the result of challenges connected to ‘crises’ and ‘emergencies’, but rather the intended aim of both EU and non-EU national governments in the absence of more far-reaching strategies on migration and integration. These developments represent the political background of vulnerability and precariousness experienced by stranded migrants along the Balkan Route. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 576-593 Issue: 3 Volume: 24 Year: 2022 Month: 05 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2021.2015658 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2021.2015658 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:24:y:2022:i:3:p:576-593 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2015662_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Roberta Altin Author-X-Name-First: Roberta Author-X-Name-Last: Altin Author-Name: Stefano degli Uberti Author-X-Name-First: Stefano Author-X-Name-Last: degli Uberti Title: Placed in Time. Migration Policies and Temporalities of (Im)Mobility Across the Eastern European Borders Abstract: After the closure of the so-called ‘Balkan Route’, the western Balkan countries became buffer zones for thousands of unregistered migrants living ‘in waiting’ in precarious conditions. The overland route captures everyday configurations of multiple spatial, temporal and social interconnections, in their entanglement with the historicity of the cross-border areas. By analysing ethnographic accounts collected on the Italian-Austrian and Italian-Slovenian borders, the paper explores the street-level practices of public/institutional apparatus and the stories of would-be asylum seekers, with their experiences of mobility and ‘involuntary immobility’ shaped by power relations. Our aim is to discuss the complexity of this process which concerns patterns of (im)mobility (e.g., waithood), migration projects, rejection, violence, vulnerability and agency from the point of view of the migrants entering the European Union through this eastern passage. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 439-459 Issue: 3 Volume: 24 Year: 2022 Month: 05 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2021.2015662 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2021.2015662 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:24:y:2022:i:3:p:439-459 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2015663_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Danica Santic Author-X-Name-First: Danica Author-X-Name-Last: Santic Author-Name: Nermin Oruc Author-X-Name-First: Nermin Author-X-Name-Last: Oruc Author-Name: Simona DEgiorgi Author-X-Name-First: Simona Author-X-Name-Last: DEgiorgi Title: Transitional Shelters on a Policy Landslide – Experiencing Displacement on the Frontline in Bosnia and Herzegovina Abstract: This article sheds light on the status of migrants and asylum seekers in Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as the state response to the growing challenges in the area of acceptance and protection, following the transformation of the Balkan Migration Route. This shift has caught state-level governmental institutions and local communities unprepared, with high numbers of migrants and refugees stranded upon its territory. A special focus was paid to the Bihać and Velika Kladuša municipalities in Una-Sana Canton, in the northwest of the country, and the ways in which they responded to this situation, in particular the ‘archipelago’ of official and makeshift camps that play a fundamental role in managing migration flows. In order to gain an insight into the problem being analyzed, the methodology applied was primarily based on participant observation and interviews, together with desk research of existing reports and media coverage in different stages of the crisis. The evidence suggests that the unique political infrastructure created after the 1990s has given rise to myriad institutional weaknesses and insufficient coordination between state-level and local authorities in the efforts to prevent a humanitarian emergency. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 520-541 Issue: 3 Volume: 24 Year: 2022 Month: 05 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2021.2015663 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2021.2015663 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:24:y:2022:i:3:p:520-541 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2015659_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Danica Šantić Author-X-Name-First: Danica Author-X-Name-Last: Šantić Author-Name: Milica Todorović Author-X-Name-First: Milica Author-X-Name-Last: Todorović Author-Name: Natalija Perišić Author-X-Name-First: Natalija Author-X-Name-Last: Perišić Title: The ‘New Normal’ in Migration Management in Serbia in Times of the COVID-19 Crisis Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic has had severe consequences for the large-scale movement of populations within and across borders. Moreover, the crisis has had serious impacts on origin, transit and destination countries, as well as on migrant workers and their families. This paper aims to enhance the understanding of migration contexts in times of crises, as well as migrant-specific vulnerabilities, including the characteristics of stranded migrants in Serbia. Two phenomena have interacted to influence the shape and intensity of mobility in the country during the pandemic: that of citizens returning from abroad in the wake of the economic downturn and changing labour markets, and that of irregular migrants and asylum seekers stranded in transit along the Western Balkan Migration Route. An emphasis is placed on the challenges faced by migrants, as well as those faced by the country itself in terms of migration governance and management in times of crisis, questioning the existence of barriers to access to support. Despite the fact that these different groups of migrants will experience crises differently, it is important to explore the capacity of the country to assist them, both while in their country of origin and while in transit. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 557-575 Issue: 3 Volume: 24 Year: 2022 Month: 05 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2021.2015659 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2021.2015659 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:24:y:2022:i:3:p:557-575 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2015655_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Stefano degli Uberti Author-X-Name-First: Stefano Author-X-Name-Last: degli Uberti Author-Name: Roberta Altin Author-X-Name-First: Roberta Author-X-Name-Last: Altin Title: Editorial. Entangled Temporalities of Migration in the Western Balkans. Ethnographic Perspectives on (Im)-mobilities and Reception Governance Abstract: After the official closure of the passage to the EU (March 2016), the Western Balkans have become an area of transit for migratory flows overland from the East and the South. This introductory editorial sets the stage of the special issue and presents the contents of the articles which aim at going beyond an understanding of the ‘refugee crisis’ as a generic external threat to the EU discussing its constructive, changing dimension and exploring the fluid nature of migration trajectories which are shaped by intersecting forms of mobilities and immobilities. Through the adoption of an ethnographic and diachronic perspective, the papers further aim to understand their entanglement with the 1990s memories of migration and therefore with the temporalities of mobility, while also considering the re-emergent securitization of border areas, especially after COVID-19 pandemic, and the ambivalent pushback and hospitality policies that also occur in the Balkan countries along the route. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 429-438 Issue: 3 Volume: 24 Year: 2022 Month: 05 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2021.2015655 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2021.2015655 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:24:y:2022:i:3:p:429-438 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2015657_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Ilir Gëdeshi Author-X-Name-First: Ilir Author-X-Name-Last: Gëdeshi Author-Name: Russell King Author-X-Name-First: Russell Author-X-Name-Last: King Title: Albanian Returned Asylum-Seekers: Failures, Successes and What Can Be Achieved in a Short Time Abstract: During the so-called ‘refugee and migration crisis’ of 2015–2016 and the opening of the Balkan route between Turkey and the EU, Albania played a marginal role. Instead, the mass emigration from Albania which had been continuous since the early 1990s, mainly directed towards Greece and Italy, suddenly developed a new outlet: the movement of tens of thousands of poor asylum-seekers to Germany. Considered through the dual lens of border studies and mobility studies, this movement evidences the small time-spaces of possibility that open up as asylum-seekers grasp opportunities yet at the same time struggle against constraints. As a form of migration, this was a short-term temporal event, with nearly all applicants failing to gain asylum and subsequently returning to Albania. Nevertheless, most of the returned asylum-seekers spoke warmly of their experience of being abroad, referring to the generosity of the German government and the good schooling opportunities for their children. Some asylum-seekers whom we interviewed were able to access employment, albeit precarious, and accumulated financial and social capital, which gave them options for the future. Once returned to Albania, most wanted to try their luck in Germany again, seeing little future for themselves and their families in Albania. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 479-502 Issue: 3 Volume: 24 Year: 2022 Month: 05 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2021.2015657 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2021.2015657 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:24:y:2022:i:3:p:479-502 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1981688_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Edward Corse Author-X-Name-First: Edward Author-X-Name-Last: Corse Title: ‘To accustom Turkish minds to a state of belligerency’: The Delicate Balance of British Propaganda in Turkey during the Second World War Abstract: Neutral Turkey was a ripe propaganda battleground for the belligerent powers in the Second World War. For Britain, there were risks involved in undertaking too much and too little propaganda activity. This provoked debate and tension between the British organizations regarding objectives and what activity would be most effective. The Foreign Office, the Ministry of Information, the Special Operations Executive, the British Council and the BBC all had different ideas. The changing military situation and practical difficulties also made the co-ordination of messaging and dissemination challenging. This article will explore how all of these British organizations worked together, what methods and messages they deployed, analyse examples of their propaganda, and briefly assess how successful they were in achieving their aims. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 896-913 Issue: 6 Volume: 23 Year: 2021 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2021.1981688 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2021.1981688 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:23:y:2021:i:6:p:896-913 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1986778_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Warren Dockter Author-X-Name-First: Warren Author-X-Name-Last: Dockter Title: ‘A Friendly Neutral’: Churchill and Turkey in the Second World War Abstract: By utilizing published and unpublished speeches, memoranda, and letters, this article examines Churchill’s influence on Anglo Turkish relations during the Second World War resituating Churchill in the diplomatic history of Anglo-Turkish relations. By exploring Churchill’s nineteenth-century youth and background, this article will reveal that Churchill attitudes and views of an Anglo/Turkish alliance in the Second World War was shaped by the context of nineteenth-century geostrategic politics like the ‘Great Game’ and the ‘Eastern Question’ Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 872-895 Issue: 6 Volume: 23 Year: 2021 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2021.1986778 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2021.1986778 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:23:y:2021:i:6:p:872-895 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1935082_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Bülent Gökay Author-X-Name-First: Bülent Author-X-Name-Last: Gökay Title: Turkish Neutrality in the Second World War and Relations with the Soviet Union Abstract: According to official Turkish and Western historiography, following the key victories against the German forces, Soviet leadership changed its position and started putting pressure on Turkey. Accordingly, the Soviet–Turkish relations changed significantly from being considered friendly until March 1945, when Molotov initiated his note denouncing the 1925 Treaty of Friendship with Turkey and demanded a base in the Straits area and the return of Kars and Ardahan to the Soviet Union. Only after such demands, Turkish government decided to move away from the Soviets and requested help from the US. I have several points of reservation about this argument: first, the Soviet–Turkish relations were never very friendly. Essentially, a common enemy incited provisional collaboration between the two. Second, for the leadership of the Turkish Republic, alliance with the Soviet Union was always counted as temporary, and their essential foreign policy aim had always been acceptance by the Western alliance. Third, the Soviet demands regarding the Turkish Straits were in no sense a surprise, a shock. For centuries, the rulers of Russia had wanted some control over the Straits, linking the Black Sea and the Mediterranean. Finally, many accounts focus on the Soviet demands regarding the Straits and Eastern provinces in isolation. The crisis over the so-called Soviet demands and Turkish response happened at a time global interstate system was going through a major transformation: as the Second World War was coming to its end, the American administration had the ambition to impose a New World Order. Former imperial power, British Empire, no longer had the financial and military capacity to hang on to their vast territories. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 845-853 Issue: 6 Volume: 23 Year: 2021 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2021.1935082 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2021.1935082 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:23:y:2021:i:6:p:845-853 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1987766_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: William Hale Author-X-Name-First: William Author-X-Name-Last: Hale Title: Introduction to the Special Issue: ‘Turkey and Britain in the Second World War’ Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 819-823 Issue: 6 Volume: 23 Year: 2021 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2021.1987766 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2021.1987766 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:23:y:2021:i:6:p:819-823 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1981687_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Mustafa Aydın Author-X-Name-First: Mustafa Author-X-Name-Last: Aydın Title: Turkish Foreign Policy in the Chaos of War, 1939-1945 Abstract: The World War II marked an important watershed for Turkey’s foreign policy. It caught Turkey in the middle of a nation and state-building processes as well as still recovering from the damages of the previous war. Thus when the war started, its main concern was to survive it without damage to its territorial integrity. To ensure this, Turkey signed non-aggression agreements with all the major powers and tried to steer a course between the clashing interests of belligerents. Its main strategy was geared towards staying out of the war as long as possible as it did not have the means to ensure its security. While the Italian threat appeared paramount early in the war, this was neutralized by maintaining friendly relations with Germany, which was balanced by developing closer relations with Britain. But the main source of apprehension to Turkey during the war was the Soviet Union, which remained as the defining feature of its foreign policy after the war, and motivated the Turkish leaders to secure Allied guarantees that would ensure its safety at the end of the war. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 854-871 Issue: 6 Volume: 23 Year: 2021 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2021.1981687 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2021.1981687 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:23:y:2021:i:6:p:854-871 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1986775_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Çağdaş Sümer Author-X-Name-First: Çağdaş Author-X-Name-Last: Sümer Title: Türkiye ve Oniki Ada 1912-1947 Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 914-917 Issue: 6 Volume: 23 Year: 2021 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2021.1986775 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2021.1986775 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:23:y:2021:i:6:p:914-917 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1987764_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: William Hale Author-X-Name-First: William Author-X-Name-Last: Hale Title: Turkey and Britain in World War II: Origins and Results of the Tripartite Alliance, 1935-40 Abstract: By concentrating on the period 1933–1940, this paper argues that Turkey’s decision to opt for neutrality during the Second World War was not part of a calculated long run strategy, but a abrupt reaction to the unexpected fall of France in the summer of 1940. To explain and expand these proposals, the paper summarizes Turkey’s economic relations with Britain and Germany during the 1930s and the state of its armed forces. This is followed by a discussion of the basic strategic ideas of both sides, and the military planning which preceded the signature of the tripartite alliance treaty between Britain, France and Turkey in October 1939. It closes with an outline of the collapse of the treaty in 1940, with an analysis of its serious weaknesses and their causes. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 824-844 Issue: 6 Volume: 23 Year: 2021 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2021.1987764 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2021.1987764 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:23:y:2021:i:6:p:824-844 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1986776_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Christos Vallianos Author-X-Name-First: Christos Author-X-Name-Last: Vallianos Title: John Milios: 1821—Tracing the Nation, the State and Greece’s “Megali Idea” Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 919-928 Issue: 6 Volume: 23 Year: 2021 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2021.1986776 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2021.1986776 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:23:y:2021:i:6:p:919-928 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1986774_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Biljana Vankovska Author-X-Name-First: Biljana Author-X-Name-Last: Vankovska Title: Macedonia & Its Questions. Origins, Margins, Ruptures & Continuity Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 918-919 Issue: 6 Volume: 23 Year: 2021 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2021.1986774 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2021.1986774 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:23:y:2021:i:6:p:918-919 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1799297_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Soner Uysal Author-X-Name-First: Soner Author-X-Name-Last: Uysal Author-Name: Turan Subasat Author-X-Name-First: Turan Author-X-Name-Last: Subasat Title: Crisis in Turkey: Estimating the Potential Welfare Loss? Abstract: While large and persistent current account deficit and external debt stock are among the most common causes of economic crises, measuring the risk associated with them is not easy. The literature typically focuses on the total external debt stock and the size of the current account deficit, which provide limited information. This study proposes a more accurate risk index by measuring the real size of the external debt stock and considering how external resources are utilized. Once external borrowing becomes a significant risk factor, a painful adjustment process starts in the form of slow growth or a crisis. Our index measures the extent of risk and the potential cost of the adjustment process. We empirically test the accuracy of our index by using the experiences of a number of selected countries affected by the 2008 crisis and show that the index can explain 77% of the variation in real consumption in those countries. By using the empirical results, we also estimate the potential cost that Turkey might experience once the currency crisis develops into a full-blown crisis. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 561-579 Issue: 5 Volume: 22 Year: 2020 Month: 09 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2020.1799297 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2020.1799297 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:22:y:2020:i:5:p:561-579 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1799596_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Dominic Alessio Author-X-Name-First: Dominic Author-X-Name-Last: Alessio Author-Name: Lucas Villegas-Aristizábal Author-X-Name-First: Lucas Author-X-Name-Last: Villegas-Aristizábal Title: Re-thinking Religion and Empire: Non-State Organizations from the Knights Hospitallers to ISIS Abstract: This work suggests that empires do not have to be state-led by arguing that religious-political organizations can also create their own imperial demesnes. Moreover, it argues that there are additional ways for empires to expand other than conquest (through gift, purchase and lease), and that empires do not have to be large. By drawing attention to a variety of players and methods of expansion it re-thinks our understanding of what empires are. It focuses upon the history of the Medieval Knights of St John who formed autonomous states on Rhodes and Malta; yet to underscore the continuing significance of this religious-imperial nexus it also briefly draws attention to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria in the Middle East. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 580-596 Issue: 5 Volume: 22 Year: 2020 Month: 09 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2020.1799596 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2020.1799596 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:22:y:2020:i:5:p:580-596 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1799299_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Branislav Radeljić Author-X-Name-First: Branislav Author-X-Name-Last: Radeljić Author-Name: Vladimir Đorđević Author-X-Name-First: Vladimir Author-X-Name-Last: Đorđević Title: Clientelism and the Abuse of Power in the Western Balkans Abstract: Clientelism has played a key role in consolidation of informal power politics in the Western Balkans. While focusing on Serbia and Kosovo, we argue that such networks and the ruling political and economic elites have become inseparable, having a direct influence on the two countries’ EU integration process. By analysing the Serbia-Kosovo-EU triangle, we address the form and content of the system engineered by the Belgrade and Priština elites and establish its relevance for the EU’s stabilitocratic efforts and policy towards the said region. Our findings largely complement the scholarship claiming that the EU’s transformative power in democratization and Europeanization of the region has fallen victim to Brussels’ geopolitical stability aims, thus failing to induce domestic structural changes in the said region. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 597-612 Issue: 5 Volume: 22 Year: 2020 Month: 09 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2020.1799299 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2020.1799299 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:22:y:2020:i:5:p:597-612 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1799595_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Ceren Ark-Yildirim Author-X-Name-First: Ceren Author-X-Name-Last: Ark-Yildirim Title: The 2018 ‘Construction Peace’ in Turkey: A Neoliberal Inclusion or Populist Electoral Exchange? Abstract: Through analysis of a low-income neighbourhood in Istanbul in the context of ‘2018 construction peace’, this article considers the linked dynamics of neoliberal governmentality and electoral exchange. The 2018 law allowed the government to retroactively legalize informal construction, further encouraging its inclusion into the formal market. This strengthens the financialization of the urban property market by encouraging owners of informal dwellings to embrace a rationality based on the exchange, rather than the use value of housing. At the same time, this initiative was a throwback to an older policy. Enacted in the run-up to a closely contested election as part of a package of targeted deals and concessions, this initiative is compatible with the populist politics of electoral exchange. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 613-628 Issue: 5 Volume: 22 Year: 2020 Month: 09 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2020.1799595 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2020.1799595 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:22:y:2020:i:5:p:613-628 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1799597_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Mirjana Dokmanović Author-X-Name-First: Mirjana Author-X-Name-Last: Dokmanović Author-Name: Neven Cvetićanin Author-X-Name-First: Neven Author-X-Name-Last: Cvetićanin Title: Economic Freedom in the Balkan Transition Countries from a Valuable Human Ends Perspective Abstract: The paper argues that exercising unlimited economic freedom, as promoted by neoliberal advocates, is in negative correlation with valuable human ends, such as greater wellbeing, healthy environment, and poverty elimination. The absence of barriers for business operations often threatens the right to safe food and drinking water, and other human rights. This is particularly true in small economies, such as in the Balkan transition countries. The market in these countries is ‘free’ and ‘open’ for big players predominantly, creating economic non-opportunities and non-freedom for the majority. This paper calls for a change to the neoliberal concept of economic freedom and deregulation. The research methods include a case study and the interpretative comparative analysis of the trends in the relevant fields. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 629-648 Issue: 5 Volume: 22 Year: 2020 Month: 09 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2020.1799597 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2020.1799597 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:22:y:2020:i:5:p:629-648 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1799598_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Senem B. Çevik Author-X-Name-First: Senem B. Author-X-Name-Last: Çevik Author-Name: Hasmik Piliposyan Author-X-Name-First: Hasmik Author-X-Name-Last: Piliposyan Title: Music to a Diplomat’s Ears…If They Listen Abstract: The growing agency of non-state actors empowered grassroots diplomacy between Turks and Armenians until the centennial genocide commemorations in 2015. However, rising authoritarianism in Turkey resulted in the clampdown of non-governmental actors, thus, further restricting room for engagement in post 2015. Under the hostile environment for non-state actors an Armenian pop song, Mi Gna (Don’t Leave) by Super Sako, gained mainstream access in the Turkish music market. This paper contextualizes that unintentional actions and music can be catalysers in complimenting the long-term policy goals by permeating into the public sphere, thus providing space for cross-cultural awareness in undemocratic regimes. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 649-665 Issue: 5 Volume: 22 Year: 2020 Month: 09 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2020.1799598 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2020.1799598 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:22:y:2020:i:5:p:649-665 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1799296_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Jonathan Stubbs Author-X-Name-First: Jonathan Author-X-Name-Last: Stubbs Title: Visualizing Empire: Cyprus and the Colonial Travelogue Film in the 1920s Abstract: This article examines the ways in which the British colonial government used cinema to represent Cyprus to audiences in Britain during the 1920s and early 1930s. The primary focus is the troubled production and exhibition history of the 1929 film Cyprus, but the article also considers the earlier production Cyprus Cinematograph Film (1924), plus two later sound films derived from material in the Cyprus film: Almost Arcady (1930) and A Mediterranean Island (1932). I argue that these films reflect the Cyprus government’s filmmaking inexperience, as well as their difficulty in determining how best to showcase their colonial project to domestic audiences. As a result, the films reveal conflicting impulses in their representation of the island, soberly cataloguing the historical and geographical features of the island on the one hand, but also seeking to exoticise an unfamiliar environment and population for western consumption. The article concludes by comparing the filmmaking efforts of the Cyprus government with contemporaneous films produced by the Italian government in the nearby Dodecanese islands and by the British government through the Empire Marketing Board. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 666-683 Issue: 5 Volume: 22 Year: 2020 Month: 09 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2020.1799296 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2020.1799296 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:22:y:2020:i:5:p:666-683 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1799298_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Ipek Z. Ruacan Author-X-Name-First: Ipek Z. Author-X-Name-Last: Ruacan Title: Fear, Superiority, Self-Identification and Rejection: Turks’ Different Attitudes to Europe since the Late Ottoman Era Abstract: This contribution identifies four Turkish attitudes towards Europe from the late nineteenth century onwards: self-identification with Europe, fear of Europe, superiority over Europe and becoming local/national which implies a rejection of Europe. It then links these four attitudes to four types of forgetting the Ottoman past. The main argument is that the peculiar rise of neo-Ottomanism in Turkey today is evidence of a conservative trauma that follows the fourth type of forgetting—a painful and permanent trauma where the conservative cannot achieve closure with the past. The current Turkish government’s use of neo-Ottomanism utilizes the superiority over Europe and becoming local/national attitudes especially and attempts to maintain an anachronistic identity as the conservatives in Turkey fail to achieve closure with the Ottoman past. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 684-700 Issue: 5 Volume: 22 Year: 2020 Month: 09 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2020.1799298 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2020.1799298 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:22:y:2020:i:5:p:684-700 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1799594_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Ivan Sijakovic Author-X-Name-First: Ivan Author-X-Name-Last: Sijakovic Author-Name: Svetlana Vukotic Author-X-Name-First: Svetlana Author-X-Name-Last: Vukotic Title: The Impact of Facebook on Serbian Society Abstract: The paper discusses the virtual social networks as new forms of sociability, with a special focus on Facebook and its impact on the everyday life of citizens in Serbia. The focus of the paper is on identifying social changes that result from the massive use of virtual social networks, as well as at the participants themselves, through which these changes are implemented, but also at those who are not, but who feel the indirect impact of social networks. The research was carried out on a sample of 1109 respondents. The sample consisted of experimental and control groups. The experimental sample, consisting of people who use Facebook, included 954 respondents. The control sample, consisting of people who do not use Facebook, included 155 respondents. The paper presents the results we obtained on the basis of the research on the impact of Facebook on the everyday life of citizens in Serbia. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 701-716 Issue: 5 Volume: 22 Year: 2020 Month: 09 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2020.1799594 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2020.1799594 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:22:y:2020:i:5:p:701-716 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_910396_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Turan Subaşat Author-X-Name-First: Turan Author-X-Name-Last: Subaşat Title: The Political Economy of Turkey's Economic Miracle Abstract: This article focuses on the second part of the liberalization epoch in Turkey which started in 2001 and heightened in 2002 with the establishment of the AKP government. In order to assess Turkey's performance during this period, we first investigate Turkey's GDP and export growth performance by comparing Turkey with four income groups. We show that, while Turkey's GDP grew faster only than the high income countries, exports fell behind of all the income groups. We then deal with the current account deficit and external debt. Our analysis shows that Turkey is one of the leading countries in terms of the increase in current account deficit. Although external debt to GDP ratio has declined since 2003, the International Investment Position—(an indicator which shows the total financial resources externally borrowed)—to GDP ratio has increased very rapidly. This article concludes by arguing that although Turkey has attracted substantial financial resources, only a small portion of them have been invested into the productive economy, which is evident from declining investment to GDP ratios. Turkey's economy signifies another bubble economy where economic growth is led by domestic demand which is supported by external resources. Turkey's economy is, therefore, neither a ‘miracle’ nor even a mild success story. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 137-160 Issue: 2 Volume: 16 Year: 2014 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2014.910396 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2014.910396 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:16:y:2014:i:2:p:137-160 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_910393_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Elif Karacimen Author-X-Name-First: Elif Author-X-Name-Last: Karacimen Title: Financialization in Turkey: The Case of Consumer Debt Abstract: The last decade has witnessed a considerable rise in consumer credit in developing countries. This study offers a political economy approach to an analysis of the rise in consumer debt by drawing on the case of Turkey. It argues that the recent rise in consumer credit is historically unique and it needs to be analysed by considering the demand- and supply-side determinants and contextualizing them in the many transformations that have occurred in the financial and non-financial sectors of the economy over the last decade. On the supply side, banks adapted to the new economic and political environment, which has been characterized by Turkey's deepening integration into the world economy, by diversifying their activities towards consumer lending. On the demand side, consumer credit growth is linked to the relative deprivation in popular incomes during this period in that poorer households have come to depend on credit for everyday basic consumption. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 161-180 Issue: 2 Volume: 16 Year: 2014 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2014.910393 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2014.910393 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:16:y:2014:i:2:p:161-180 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_910394_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Nikos Moudouros Author-X-Name-First: Nikos Author-X-Name-Last: Moudouros Title: Rethinking Islamic Hegemony in Turkey through Gezi Park Abstract: The massive demonstrations of June 2013 against the Turkish government constitute a new element in the country's social reality. After many years, new dynamics have risen to the surface, claiming the ‘new’, outside the context of the Justice and Development Party's (AKP) hegemony. At the same time, these demonstrations offer the opportunity to re-evaluate political power in Turkey. With that in mind, this paper aims to decode the perceptions and strategies that the AKP have developed on issues such as democracy and the transformation of public space, and the way that these are related to the ideological background of historic sites such as Istanbul and Gezi Park. It also seeks to address the protests of June 2013 as an opportunity to understand the content given by the AKP on concepts of strategic importance such as democracy, the nation–millet, urban transformation and the Imperial–Islamic heritage of Istanbul. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 181-195 Issue: 2 Volume: 16 Year: 2014 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2014.910394 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2014.910394 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:16:y:2014:i:2:p:181-195 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_910391_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Nebojša Blanuša Author-X-Name-First: Nebojša Author-X-Name-Last: Blanuša Title: Political Unconscious of Croatia and the EU: Tracing the Yugoslav Syndrome through Fredric Jameson's Lenses Abstract: This paper deals with several aspects of the ‘return of Yugoslavia’ in Croatia and the European Union (EU). First, we apply the concept of Political Unconscious to the analysis of Croatian political discourse, from the beginning of the dissolution of Yugoslavia to the conclusion of the Croatian EU accession, and then to recent developments in the EU. In the political antagonism between Croatian independence and integration, the most prominent cognitive mapping through conspiracy theories constitutes the haunting ideologeme of the ‘return of Yugoslavia’. Nevertheless, due to the Euro-crisis and structural homologies of Yugoslavia and the EU, it is possible that the old ideologeme will continue to haunt the Croatian political reality. Moreover, this dangerous analogy between Yugoslavia and the EU could not be overlooked even on the European level. Conditions of emergence and possible lines of development of the Euro-crisis are explored by comparing it with similar political, structural and historical dimensions of Yugoslav dissolution. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 196-222 Issue: 2 Volume: 16 Year: 2014 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2014.910391 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2014.910391 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:16:y:2014:i:2:p:196-222 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_910392_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Kilic Bugra Kanat Author-X-Name-First: Kilic Bugra Author-X-Name-Last: Kanat Title: A New Turkish–American Partnership in Progress: The Nature of Bilateral Partnership during Two Periods of Crisis Abstract: Twenty-two years after the end of the Cold War, Turkey and the USA are still in search of a framework to stabilize their mutual partnership. Although the USA–Turkey relationship has shown signs of stability under the Obama administration, there is still ambivalence about its future, due to the evolving international system, transformations in the Middle East and changes in the domestic politics of both countries. The Iranian nuclear programme and the war in Iraq (2003) have demonstrated that a bilateral relationship is more prone to crisis when the two countries have differing objectives and security interests. These crises can be contained, however, when an institutional framework of cooperation is established and when there is effective communication between the countries' leaders. In this sense, the absence of an institutionalized cooperation and a lack of personal rapport between Turkish and American leaders during the crisis of Iraq in 2003 led to a major crisis of bilateral relations. On the other hand, the existence of both an institutional framework of cooperation and effective communication during the dispute over the Iranian nuclear programme in 2010 resulted in the containment of the crisis. As such, these two crises may demonstrate the effectiveness of these factors in the future stability of the USA–Turkey partnership in the emerging uni–multipolar international order. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 223-242 Issue: 2 Volume: 16 Year: 2014 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2014.910392 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2014.910392 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:16:y:2014:i:2:p:223-242 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_910395_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Branislav Radeljić Author-X-Name-First: Branislav Author-X-Name-Last: Radeljić Title: The Politics of (No) Alternatives in Post-Milošević Serbia Abstract: This paper argues that the progress of post-Milošević Serbia has been seriously affected by the presence of and continuous debates about the politics of alternatives. Such a trend has been closely associated with the divisions that characterize the representatives of the political elite expected to deal with and resolve crucial questions that will determine Serbia's future, and, more relevantly, will be capable of slowing down the country's progress towards membership in the European Union (EU). Aware of the negative aspects of such an approach, the Serbian leadership, elected in mid-2012, has tried to minimize the problematic presence of the politics of alternatives and pay greater attention to new rounds of political dialogue, economic agreements and societal contacts, hoping that they will be able to bring the opposing members of the country's elite closer and more ready to work towards some common goals. Accordingly, the paper examines the positions concerning cooperation with the Hague tribunal, Kosovo's status, Serbia's EU integration and the intensification of ties with Russia. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 243-259 Issue: 2 Volume: 16 Year: 2014 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2014.910395 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2014.910395 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:16:y:2014:i:2:p:243-259 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_910390_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Ali Bilgic Author-X-Name-First: Ali Author-X-Name-Last: Bilgic Title: Exploring ‘What's Good about Security’: Politics of Security during the Dissolution of Yugoslavia Abstract: In the last decade, students of Critical Security Studies (CSS) have been increasingly studying and understanding the concept of security in negative terms. The way they choose to analyse security instils a one-sided understanding, which revolves around totalizing the material and ideational power of the state. This paper aims to discuss how students of CSS can avoid essentializing the meaning of security by extending its analytical scope beyond security professionalism and state-centrism. It will be argued that it is possible to inquire ‘what is good about security’ by examining the experiences of the most victimized through a study of the pluralism of politics of security. The argument will be illustrated through a discussion of ideas and practices of the Yugoslav anti-war feminist movement between 1989 and 1994. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 260-278 Issue: 2 Volume: 16 Year: 2014 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2014.910390 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2014.910390 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:16:y:2014:i:2:p:260-278 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1202496_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Kıvanç Ulusoy Author-X-Name-First: Kıvanç Author-X-Name-Last: Ulusoy Title: Preface to the special issue on ‘the geo-politics of conflict in the Eastern Mediterranean’ Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 335-336 Issue: 4 Volume: 18 Year: 2016 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2016.1202496 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2016.1202496 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:18:y:2016:i:4:p:335-336 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1195978_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Frans Paul van der Putten Author-X-Name-First: Frans Paul Author-X-Name-Last: van der Putten Title: Infrastructure and geopolitics: China’s emerging presence in the eastern mediterranean Abstract: China is building an economic presence in the countries of the Eastern Mediterranean. Its involvement in major infrastructure projects is growing at a rapid pace and may have a significant impact on trade routes that traverse this strategically located region. This article outlines Chinese interests and activities in the Eastern Mediterranean and how these relate to geopolitical developments in the region. China’s most important infrastructure project in the region is the modernization and expansion of the container port of Piraeus, Greece, but other port and railway projects are also being developed. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 337-351 Issue: 4 Volume: 18 Year: 2016 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2016.1195978 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2016.1195978 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:18:y:2016:i:4:p:337-351 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1195982_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Moshe Ma’oz Author-X-Name-First: Moshe Author-X-Name-Last: Ma’oz Title: Strategic Upheavals in Mediterranean and Middle Eastern Countries since the Arab Spring Abstract: Remarkable strategic changes have occurred since early 2011 in half a dozen Arab states along the Mediterranean and in the Middle East, impacting one another and causing crucial domestic, regional and global repercussions. This paper will examine the major domestic and regional changes in the area during the last five years, starting with the ‘Arab Spring‘ uprisings and their implications, particularly in Syria, and discussing the role of other relevant actors. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 352-360 Issue: 4 Volume: 18 Year: 2016 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2016.1195982 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2016.1195982 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:18:y:2016:i:4:p:352-360 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1195983_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Hasan Selim Özertem Author-X-Name-First: Hasan Selim Author-X-Name-Last: Özertem Title: Turkish foreign policy and the energy bonanza in the Eastern Mediterranean Abstract: This article examines the impacts on Turkish foreign policy of the recent discovery of energy deposits in the Eastern Mediterranean. Cyprus-dominated orientation of Turkish foreign policy in the Eastern Mediterranean has begun to change character as political and economic balances in the region have started to shift. While the discoveries of energy resources may have seemed to offer great opportunities at first, they have actually become a source of increasing contention due to existing unresolved conflicts and political disputes in the region. Turkey has found it especially difficult to keep up with the rapidly changing state of regional affairs as constraints on its technological capacity and political problems with old partners have come to weigh it down. In the end, the reactive nature of Turkey’s approach to the developments in the region proved to have limited effect, and a new status quo is escaping its reach. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 361-374 Issue: 4 Volume: 18 Year: 2016 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2016.1195983 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2016.1195983 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:18:y:2016:i:4:p:361-374 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1195994_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Andreas Stergiou Author-X-Name-First: Andreas Author-X-Name-Last: Stergiou Title: Turkey–Cyprus–Israel relations and the Cyprus conflict Abstract: The discovery of natural gas and oil reserves in Israel and Cyprus’s adjoining Exclusive Economic Zones laid the foundations for wide-ranging cooperation between Tel Aviv and Nicosia in the areas of economy, energy and defence. But it also unveiled big challenges. The Cyprus problem became entangled in the broader international discord over both offshore energy and the increase in Israeli–Turkish tensions. Renewed negotiations between the Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot communities, first in February 2014 and then in April 2015, were mainly driven by the discovery of natural gas reserves off Cyprus and the wish of the EU and USA to reconcile the Republic of Cyprus with Turkey and facilitate a Turkey–Israel rapprochement, as the latter might be vital for a ’pro-western’ method of exploitation of the natural wealth. This article, however (relying on primary sources: archives and interviews from Israel, Turkey, Greece, Cyprus, Lebanon and United Kingdom), studying the background of the Turkish–Cypriot–Israeli relationship as well as certain political and economic parameters of the geopolitical complex in the Eastern Mediterranean, questions the feasibility of this option in the foreseeable future. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 375-392 Issue: 4 Volume: 18 Year: 2016 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2016.1195994 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2016.1195994 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:18:y:2016:i:4:p:375-392 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1196007_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Kıvanç Ulusoy Author-X-Name-First: Kıvanç Author-X-Name-Last: Ulusoy Title: The Cyprus Conflict: Turkey’s Strategic Dilemma Abstract: This article concerns Turkey’s Cyprus policy in the fast transforming geopolitics of the Eastern Mediterranean. It argues that dramatic changes in the Eastern Mediterranean with the Arab Spring and the discovery of natural gas reserves in the region paved way for a hard power strategy on Cyprus. Both have shaken the traditional alliance structures and created an unprecedented level of economic opportunities, leading Turkey to reformulate its Cyprus policy. Turkey’s disappointment regarding EU accession prepared the ground for this radical shift in Turkey’s policy. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 393-406 Issue: 4 Volume: 18 Year: 2016 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2016.1196007 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2016.1196007 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:18:y:2016:i:4:p:393-406 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1196010_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Mehmet Yegin Author-X-Name-First: Mehmet Author-X-Name-Last: Yegin Title: Turkey’s reaction to the coup in Egypt in comparison with the US and Israel Abstract: In this study, Turkey’s reaction to the ousting of Mohammed Morsi in Egypt is studied in comparison with one regional and one global actor with a democratic regime. This study aimed to examine the dynamics of Turkey over-signalling negatively to the coup in comparison with Israeli and American reactions. In comparison with Turkey’s reaction, the US shyly signalled positively in statements and used financial means against the coup hesitantly. Israel pursued a ‘strategic silence’ approach and eschewed signalling at all. It is seen that all three countries’ motivations were dominantly material, and no country reacted with purely normative motivations. The US and Turkey applied a selective normative approach according to their material motivations. While Turkey focused on the illegitimacy of the coup, the US focused on the illiberal policies of Morsi whereas Israel openly avoided adopting a normative approach. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 407-421 Issue: 4 Volume: 18 Year: 2016 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2016.1196010 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2016.1196010 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:18:y:2016:i:4:p:407-421 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1176392_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Müjde Koca-Atabey Author-X-Name-First: Müjde Author-X-Name-Last: Koca-Atabey Title: Gezi park protests in Turkey: how can death be related to the protests? Abstract: The aim of the paper is to investigate the Gezi Park Protests in Turkey from the perspective of terror management theory (TMT). The Gezi Park Protests started at the end of May 2013 to defend the destruction of a small park. The protests started with environmentalist reactions and acquired a political nature afterwards. The roles of social media and humour are also discussed in relation to the different dimensions of the Gezi Park Protests. TMT, more specifically the mortality salience hypothesis, is used to explain these protests, since they include both the concrete and abstract forms of mortality. The concrete forms of death were the death of trees and the death of protesters themselves. The abstract forms of death, on the other hand, were the death of lifestyle from the protesters’ perspective and death of exercise power from the government’s side. Three necessary conditions for an alternative experimental manipulation in TMT studies are discussed in relation to the Gezi Park Protests. It is concluded that the protests provided a concrete and real-life example of TMT. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 422-430 Issue: 4 Volume: 18 Year: 2016 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2016.1176392 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2016.1176392 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:18:y:2016:i:4:p:422-430 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_986386_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Sinisa Marcic Author-X-Name-First: Sinisa Author-X-Name-Last: Marcic Title: Informal Institutions in the Western Balkans: An Obstacle to Democratic Consolidation Abstract: The countries of the Western Balkans have achieved significant progress in protecting civic freedoms and political rights, that is, formal democracy. However, the region's performance is lagging behind other consolidated democratic post-communist countries with strong formal institutions. By following the theory of impartiality (Rothstein and Teorell), this paper seeks to contribute to our understanding of citizens' perception of informal institutions in the region, and support for a democratic regime with impartial public administration. We employ a quantitative online survey in three countries: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia. The findings indicate that citizens consider formal institutions as very ineffective and hence embrace informal institutions as the lesser of two evils. At the same time, citizens would approve of a more equitable political system and hence contribute to democratic consolidation. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 1-14 Issue: 1 Volume: 17 Year: 2015 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2014.986386 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2014.986386 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:17:y:2015:i:1:p:1-14 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_986390_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Renata Schellenberg Author-X-Name-First: Renata Author-X-Name-Last: Schellenberg Title: Politics and Remembrance in Post-War Vukovar Abstract: This paper investigates the state of post-war memory in the Croatian city of Vukovar. It addresses the recent resurgence of Croatian nationalism, manifested through the implementation and subsequent vandalism of civic bilingual (Latin/Cyrillic) plaques. It does so by examining the culture of commemoration that has come to define Vukovar since Croatian independence in 1995 and that has remained powerfully persuasive to this day. Considered a national symbol and an emblem of sacrifice, the city of Vukovar has become encoded by the rhetoric of its wartime past, allowing little opportunity for future development and growth. This paper argues that while such observance and remembrance are elements crucial to the formation of national identity, collective memory itself must remain in flux, constantly changing to remain useful for the generations to come. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 15-28 Issue: 1 Volume: 17 Year: 2015 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2014.986390 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2014.986390 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:17:y:2015:i:1:p:15-28 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_990278_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Jelena Budak Author-X-Name-First: Jelena Author-X-Name-Last: Budak Author-Name: Edo Rajh Author-X-Name-First: Edo Author-X-Name-Last: Rajh Author-Name: Ivan-Damir Anić Author-X-Name-First: Ivan-Damir Author-X-Name-Last: Anić Title: Privacy Concern in Western Balkan Countries: Developing a Typology of Citizens Abstract: There is a necessity to balance the need for security and fear about losing privacy, while maintaining this balance is crucial for avoiding erosion of public support for privacy policy. Citizens and consumers' attitudes towards privacy are important for shaping privacy policy, and there is a paucity of research on privacy and data protection issues, especially in less developed countries. This study examines what groups of population with similar attitudes towards privacy, data protection and surveillance exist in Western Balkan countries, and whether they can be differentiated by demographic characteristics and by country of residence. The data is collected by public opinion survey to assess the value privacy may have for citizens and if privacy is recognized as a social and political value. The findings indicate that there are three groups of citizens with similar attitudes: (1) pro-surveillance oriented citizens, (2) citizens concerned about being surveilled and (3) citizens opting for better data protection, which differ in age, education, employment and country of residence. The results show that citizens in Western Balkan countries are not homogeneous in their attitudes, and as a result, governments in those countries should take into consideration local differences when shaping privacy policies. Policy implications are discussed to encourage public debate on contemporary privacy, data protection and surveillance issues in the region. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 29-48 Issue: 1 Volume: 17 Year: 2015 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2014.990278 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2014.990278 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:17:y:2015:i:1:p:29-48 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_986381_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Thomas Ambrosio Author-X-Name-First: Thomas Author-X-Name-Last: Ambrosio Title: Leadership Succession in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan: Regime Survival after Nazarbayev and Karimov Abstract: Nursultan Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan and Islam Karimov of Uzbekistan have ruled their respective countries since before the Soviet Union dissolved, dominating their political systems and centring power around themselves and their families. However, both are in their 70s and questions of who will succeed them and whether their departure will result in political instability have become increasingly pressing in both societies. Rooted in the literature on authoritarian leadership succession, as well as reviewing the cases of leadership changes in the former Soviet Union to date, this article examines the conditions within these countries which would make smooth transition more or less likely. This has implications for authoritarian leadership succession elsewhere in the region and more broadly. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 49-67 Issue: 1 Volume: 17 Year: 2015 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2014.986381 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2014.986381 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:17:y:2015:i:1:p:49-67 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_986378_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Elena Pokalova Author-X-Name-First: Elena Author-X-Name-Last: Pokalova Title: Conflict Resolution in Frozen Conflicts: Timing in Nagorno-Karabakh Abstract: Frozen conflicts have become a persistent phenomenon in the international arena. At the same time, very little research has focused on the factors that have prevented conflict resolution in such cases. This paper focuses on the case of Nagorno-Karabakh and analyses the role of timing for peace initiatives in frozen conflicts. The paper investigates how political, economic and foreign policy institutions that have emerged in Nagorno-Karabakh have consolidated its features of a de facto state and how that in turn has affected the peace process. The findings from the Nagorno-Karabakh case demonstrate that as a de facto state consolidates, the pool of acceptable peace alternatives becomes increasingly limited, eventually leaving the only option for conflict resolution—the recognition of de facto independence. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 68-85 Issue: 1 Volume: 17 Year: 2015 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2014.986378 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2014.986378 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:17:y:2015:i:1:p:68-85 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_986375_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Emil A. Souleimanov Author-X-Name-First: Emil A. Author-X-Name-Last: Souleimanov Title: Jihad or Security? Understanding the Jihadization of Chechen Insurgency through Recruitment into Jihadist Units Abstract: Drawing upon a range of ethnographic sources, this paper proposes an alternative micro-level explanation of the Jihadization process of the Chechen insurgency in that it explores individual motivations for recruitment into Jihadist units in interwar Chechnya (1996–99). First, it shows that enrolment into Jihadist units was sought by Chechen males who attempted to challenge the established forms of social organization. Second, it illustrates that membership in Jihadist units served as a means of providing security, particularly so for the members of weakened clans who found themselves increasingly discriminated against by their ethnic kin, and incapable of ensuring protection for themselves within the established clan-based networks. In both cases, the Jihadist ideology per se seems to have been of little or no real concern as regards prospective recruits to the Jihadist units. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 86-105 Issue: 1 Volume: 17 Year: 2015 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2014.986375 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2014.986375 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:17:y:2015:i:1:p:86-105 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_990258_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Radman Selmic Author-X-Name-First: Radman Author-X-Name-Last: Selmic Title: Greece, Financialization and the EU: The Political Economy of Debt and Destruction Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 106-114 Issue: 1 Volume: 17 Year: 2015 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2014.990258 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2014.990258 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:17:y:2015:i:1:p:106-114 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_977072_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Kivanç Ulusoy Author-X-Name-First: Kivanç Author-X-Name-Last: Ulusoy Title: Greece, Financialization and the EU: The Political Economy of Debt and Destruction Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 115-121 Issue: 1 Volume: 17 Year: 2015 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2014.977072 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2014.977072 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:17:y:2015:i:1:p:115-121 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1852006_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Donald Sassoon Author-X-Name-First: Donald Author-X-Name-Last: Sassoon Title: The Anxious Triumph of Capitalism an Interview with Donald Sassoon Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 1-10 Issue: 1 Volume: 23 Year: 2021 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2020.1852006 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2020.1852006 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:23:y:2021:i:1:p:1-10 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1852005_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Jovo Ateljevic Author-X-Name-First: Jovo Author-X-Name-Last: Ateljevic Author-Name: Shampa Roy-Mukherjee Author-X-Name-First: Shampa Author-X-Name-Last: Roy-Mukherjee Title: Introduction Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 11-14 Issue: 1 Volume: 23 Year: 2021 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2020.1852005 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2020.1852005 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:23:y:2021:i:1:p:11-14 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1852004_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Shampa Roy-Mukherjee Author-X-Name-First: Shampa Author-X-Name-Last: Roy-Mukherjee Author-Name: Ejike Udeogu Author-X-Name-First: Ejike Author-X-Name-Last: Udeogu Title: Neo-liberal Globalization and Income Inequality: Panel Data Evidence from OECD and Western Balkan Countries Abstract: Over the last few decades, neo-liberal globalization—marked especially by the liberalization of finance, extended processes of commodification/privatization, free trade and free flow of capital—has coincided with rising income inequality and an ostensible decline in global poverty levels, the latter being largely attributed to China’s and India’s rapid economic development since the 1980s. Using a three-year-averaged non-overlapping data from 1991 to 2017 covering 39 OECD and western Balkan countries and applying the efficient Feasible Generalized Least Square (FGLS) estimation method, this article examines the effect of institutional ‘quality’, export complexity, and labour union density on income inequality. We have indications that neo-liberal globalization, measured using the KOF globalization index and sub-indicators, is positively correlated with income inequality. We have also indications that institutional ‘quality’, that is, mechanisms of ‘good governance’, tend to reduce income inequality. Importantly, the level of economic or export complexity and the degree of labour unionization were also found to reduce income inequality, while improving institutional ‘quality’ and mitigating downward pressures on wages. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 15-39 Issue: 1 Volume: 23 Year: 2021 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2020.1852004 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2020.1852004 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:23:y:2021:i:1:p:15-39 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1818038_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Jelena Minović Author-X-Name-First: Jelena Author-X-Name-Last: Minović Author-Name: Slavica Stevanović Author-X-Name-First: Slavica Author-X-Name-Last: Stevanović Author-Name: Vesna Aleksić Author-X-Name-First: Vesna Author-X-Name-Last: Aleksić Title: The Relationship between Foreign Direct Investment and Institutional Quality in Western Balkan Countries Abstract: This paper investigates the relationship between foreign direct investment (FDI) and institutional quality measures (control of corruption, political stability, and rule of law) in the Western Balkans. The empirical study is based on panel techniques (unit root tests and causality) in the period 2002–2017. The results indicate that control of corruption, political stability, and rule of law cause an inflow of FDI at the Western Balkans. The bidirectional relationship has been found between political stability and rule of low, control of corruption and rule of law, and control of corruption and inflow of FDI. Thus, the study recommended that stronger institutional measures cause a higher inflow of foreign direct investments. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 40-61 Issue: 1 Volume: 23 Year: 2021 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2020.1818038 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2020.1818038 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:23:y:2021:i:1:p:40-61 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1818040_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Jelena Budak Author-X-Name-First: Jelena Author-X-Name-Last: Budak Author-Name: Edo Rajh Author-X-Name-First: Edo Author-X-Name-Last: Rajh Author-Name: Goran Buturac Author-X-Name-First: Goran Author-X-Name-Last: Buturac Author-Name: Anamarija Brković Author-X-Name-First: Anamarija Author-X-Name-Last: Brković Title: Tobacco Grey Market in the Western Balkans Abstract: The Balkan route is historically a smuggling corridor, and tobacco illegal trade flourished during transition and conflicts at the end of the 20th century. This paper contributes to the scarce attitudinal studies and limited knowledge about the tobacco grey market by surveying the opinion of citizens in seven Western Balkan countries. The typology of citizens in the region reveals that the most repressive attitudes and opinion that curbing grey tobacco market will reduce smoking come from non-smokers and from citizens of countries that have no comparative advantages in the tobacco trade. The public awareness on the negative aspects of tobacco grey market, including its link to organized crime, is high enough for governments to undertake stricter measures in combating illegal tobacco trade. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 62-77 Issue: 1 Volume: 23 Year: 2021 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2020.1818040 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2020.1818040 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:23:y:2021:i:1:p:62-77 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1818026_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Janez Prašnikar Author-X-Name-First: Janez Author-X-Name-Last: Prašnikar Author-Name: Velimir Bole Author-X-Name-First: Velimir Author-X-Name-Last: Bole Author-Name: Miha Dominko Author-X-Name-First: Miha Author-X-Name-Last: Dominko Author-Name: Milan Lakićević Author-X-Name-First: Milan Author-X-Name-Last: Lakićević Author-Name: Ana Oblak Author-X-Name-First: Ana Author-X-Name-Last: Oblak Title: Disentangling External Flows (External Shocks) and Policy Effects on the Credit Activities of Banks in Three Emerging Countries during the Great Recession Abstract: We analyse the effects of bank wholesale and retail funding swings triggered by the real economy and foreign financial flow shocks, as well as the effects of the corresponding policy interventions in three emerging countries (Croatia, Montenegro, and Slovenia) throughout the boom (2007–2008), bust (2009–2010), and recovery (2011–2013) periods of the Great Recession. We find evidence that supply-side factors were crucial for the huge procyclical credit swing, and that the cyclicality of credits to firms was amplified the most. The paper also documents that policy contribution was of a second-rate order compared to funding effects. The effectiveness of macroprudential and other policies (standard macro, structural) in supporting the stability of financial systems is discussed, and external flow, policy, and regulation effects on the credit activities of banks are disentangled. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 78-100 Issue: 1 Volume: 23 Year: 2021 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2020.1818026 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2020.1818026 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:23:y:2021:i:1:p:78-100 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1818037_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Christian Bellak Author-X-Name-First: Christian Author-X-Name-Last: Bellak Author-Name: Markus Leibrecht Author-X-Name-First: Markus Author-X-Name-Last: Leibrecht Title: Investor-State Disputes in Balkan, post-Soviet Union and Near and Middle East Countries: An Empirical Appraisal Abstract: The network of international investment agreements (IIAs) sees a rapid expansion in the last three decades. With it also the number of international investor-State disputes (ISDS), where foreign investors allege governments of breaches of IIAs, increases sharply also in Balkan, post-Soviet Union and Near and Middle East (BSNME) countries. These disputes are frequently seen to negatively interfere with the national sovereignty of host governments to enact regulation in the public interest, especially in times when regulatory interventions are necessary from a social welfare viewpoint. Against this background, in this paper we appraise the current state of ISDS in BSNME countries: Are BSNME countries prime targets of foreign investors’ arbitral claims? Which economic sectors are targeted by investors? What is the outcome of the arbitral councils’ deliberations? What can we infer from the experience of BSNME countries with ISDS about the future role of IIAs for these countries? We conclude that further improvements in governance are key factors in the attempt to optimize the trade-off between attraction of foreign investment via the ratification of IIAs and national sovereignty in policy making. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 101-121 Issue: 1 Volume: 23 Year: 2021 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2020.1818037 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2020.1818037 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:23:y:2021:i:1:p:101-121 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1818028_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Valentina Vukmirović Author-X-Name-First: Valentina Author-X-Name-Last: Vukmirović Author-Name: Milica Kostić-Stanković Author-X-Name-First: Milica Author-X-Name-Last: Kostić-Stanković Author-Name: Dejana Pavlović Author-X-Name-First: Dejana Author-X-Name-Last: Pavlović Author-Name: Jovo Ateljević Author-X-Name-First: Jovo Author-X-Name-Last: Ateljević Author-Name: Dragan Bjelica Author-X-Name-First: Dragan Author-X-Name-Last: Bjelica Author-Name: Milenko Radonić Author-X-Name-First: Milenko Author-X-Name-Last: Radonić Author-Name: Dejan Sekulić Author-X-Name-First: Dejan Author-X-Name-Last: Sekulić Title: Foreign Direct Investments’ Impact on Economic Growth in Serbia Abstract: As a main input for economic growth and competitiveness, foreign direct investments (FDI) remain one of the most important sources in both emerging and developing countries. This study emphasizes the importance of FDI into Serbia’s economy by analysing the forecasts between FDI, GDP, the unemployment rate and global competitive index (GCI). In this paper, authors focussed on a comparison of FDI inflows from China, Russia and the EU countries. According to the multiplicative and seasonal aspects of trend analysis considered, projections show a gradual increase in GDP, FDI, competitive ranks and a decrease in the unemployment rate for the following 5 years. These results shed light on the future potential directions under which investment and other public policies should be created. Theoretical and practical implications are also discussed. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 122-143 Issue: 1 Volume: 23 Year: 2021 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2020.1818028 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2020.1818028 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:23:y:2021:i:1:p:122-143 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1818039_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Maja Bacovic Author-X-Name-First: Maja Author-X-Name-Last: Bacovic Author-Name: Danijela Jacimovic Author-X-Name-First: Danijela Author-X-Name-Last: Jacimovic Author-Name: Milena Lipovina Bozovic Author-X-Name-First: Milena Author-X-Name-Last: Lipovina Bozovic Author-Name: Maja Ivanovic Author-X-Name-First: Maja Author-X-Name-Last: Ivanovic Title: The Balkan Paradox: Are Wages and Labour Productivity Significant Determinants of FDI Inflows? Abstract: Although middle-income Balkan countries have attracted substantial FDI inflows, the level of that inflow is still significantly lower than the European average, with no visible redirection towards the Balkans. Both wages and labour productivity have had a significant impact on FDI inflows in European Union (EU) countries. This research aims to explore the significance of those variables in the countries of the Balkans. We have found that, in Balkan countries, FDI inflows respond negatively to shocks in labour productivity, which is contrary to the experience of EU countries. In EU countries, growth in gross wages has a negative impact on FDI inflows, while in Balkan countries, we found a paradoxical scenario, in that increased wages actually have a positive impact on FDI inflows. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 144-162 Issue: 1 Volume: 23 Year: 2021 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2020.1818039 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2020.1818039 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:23:y:2021:i:1:p:144-162 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1818027_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Elma Satrovic Author-X-Name-First: Elma Author-X-Name-Last: Satrovic Author-Name: Adnan Muslija Author-X-Name-First: Adnan Author-X-Name-Last: Muslija Author-Name: Sadeq J. Abul Author-X-Name-First: Sadeq Author-X-Name-Last: J. Abul Author-Name: Dragan Gligoric Author-X-Name-First: Dragan Author-X-Name-Last: Gligoric Author-Name: Tamanna Dalwai Author-X-Name-First: Tamanna Author-X-Name-Last: Dalwai Title: Interdependence between Gross Capital Formation, Public Expenditure on R&D and Innovation in Turkey Abstract: This paper outlines the roles of gross domestic spending on research and development (R&D) and gross capital formation in the innovation process and detects their contribution to this improvement. The analysis is conducted for Turkey for the period 1990-2017 using annual time-series data. Our findings suggest a bidirectional causal link between all variables of interest and prove that R&D can be a significant driving force for the Turkish innovation process. Most of the research and development activities in Turkey have been performed by universities. Herein, it is of key importance for the Turkish government to increase public expenditure, especially on education, since human capital plays an important role in building innovation capacity. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 163-179 Issue: 1 Volume: 23 Year: 2021 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2020.1818027 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2020.1818027 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:23:y:2021:i:1:p:163-179 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1556444_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Mustafa Türkeş Author-X-Name-First: Mustafa Author-X-Name-Last: Türkeş Title: Introduction to the Centenary of the Bolshevik Revolution Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 191-193 Issue: 2 Volume: 22 Year: 2020 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2018.1556444 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2018.1556444 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:22:y:2020:i:2:p:191-193 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1556445_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Olga Aganson Author-X-Name-First: Olga Author-X-Name-Last: Aganson Title: The Versailles Order and Perplexities of the Comintern’s Policy in the Balkans in the 1930s: Departure from the World Revolution Abstract: In comparison with Russia’s substantial role in Balkan politics within the pre-World War I international system and extension of the Soviet sphere of influence to the Balkans in the bipolar era, the USSR’s involvement in the affairs of South-Eastern Europe was modest in the interwar years. This was a consequence of the Soviet Union’s dubious status in the Versailles order. The purpose of this paper is to examine how multi-variable trajectories of interaction between the Soviet Union and the Versailles order were projected at the level of Balkan politics. As the USSR lacked appropriate diplomatic, economic and military representations in the Balkans, it may be stated that the Comintern became an instrument for exercising Soviet influence in South-Eastern Europe. The paper shows both the difficulties faced and the perplexities of the policy of the Comintern. The paper finally underlines how the USSR moved from the initial world revolution endeavour to realpolitik. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 194-209 Issue: 2 Volume: 22 Year: 2020 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2018.1556445 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2018.1556445 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:22:y:2020:i:2:p:194-209 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1746588_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Vassilis K. Fouskas Author-X-Name-First: Vassilis K. Author-X-Name-Last: Fouskas Author-Name: Bülent Gökay Author-X-Name-First: Bülent Author-X-Name-Last: Gökay Title: Lenin’s ‘Eastern Policy’ and Communism in Turkey and Greece, 1918-1923 Abstract: Examining Lenin’s strategy towards colonial and semi-colonial periphery is crucial in understanding the way in which early Soviet policy was shaped and implemented towards the crucial conflict in Anatolia between Greece—Britain’s proxy—and Turkish national resistance movement based in Ankara. We show that, Soviet state interests kept a firm hand on—albeit in different ways—the development of communism both in Greece and Turkey and, for most of the period, it undermined the movement, especially in Turkey when they directly assisted Kemal’s nationalism against the Greek campaign in Asia Minor while Kemal’s movement was exterminating leading Turkish communists. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 210-221 Issue: 2 Volume: 22 Year: 2020 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2020.1746588 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2020.1746588 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:22:y:2020:i:2:p:210-221 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1556452_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Gözde Somel Author-X-Name-First: Gözde Author-X-Name-Last: Somel Title: Soviet Russia’s Foreign Affairs with Turkey in 1923 Reports of Ambassador Surits Abstract: The history of Turkey–Soviet Russia relations is one of the most controversial topics in Turkish historiography. The controversy was largely a product of the Cold War interpretations when the USSR and Turkey were in hostile camps. This article shows the Bolsheviks’ reappraisal and readjustment of their policy towards Turkey during the transition of Turkey from a war of independence to the foundation of a New Turkey in conditions of peace. In doing so, the paper focuses specifically on Ambassador Surits’ detailed reports on Turkey in 1923, including his policy recommendations. In this way the article attempts to contribute to our conception of the essence of Soviet–Turkey relations by taking into account Ambassador Surits’ reports as the primary sources. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 222-239 Issue: 2 Volume: 22 Year: 2020 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2018.1556452 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2018.1556452 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:22:y:2020:i:2:p:222-239 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1556453_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Tolgahan Akdan Author-X-Name-First: Tolgahan Author-X-Name-Last: Akdan Title: An Appraisal of Debates on the Turkish–Soviet Break-Up and Turkey’s Reorientation to the West from a Systemic Perspective Abstract: This study seeks to examine how the mainstream and radical circles interpreted the developments in Turkish–Soviet relations starting in 1939 and the causes of Turkey’s historical reorientation towards the Western alliance under the conditions of rising inter-systemic confrontation of the Cold War. This article suggests that both the mainstream and the radical circles have not adequately taken into consideration the fundamental changes in the international order in both pre- and post-war developments. It argues that while researchers focus on either geopolitical factors or socio-economic dynamics with the aim of explaining the pre- and post-war Turkish foreign policies, they tend to evaluate the geopolitical and socio-economic dynamics as independent from each other. Additionally, by ignoring the transformative impacts of the changing patterns or forms of the inter-imperialist and inter-systemic relationships, they fail to differentiate the changing dynamics behind the pre- and post-war Turkish foreign policies, which in turn led to ahistorical interpretations of Turkish foreign policy. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 240-258 Issue: 2 Volume: 22 Year: 2020 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2018.1556453 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2018.1556453 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:22:y:2020:i:2:p:240-258 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1556449_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Dragan Đukanović Author-X-Name-First: Dragan Author-X-Name-Last: Đukanović Author-Name: Marko Dašić Author-X-Name-First: Marko Author-X-Name-Last: Dašić Title: Effects of the Ideas of the October Revolution in Russia on the Foreign Policy of Yugoslavia in the Period 1945–1947 Abstract: This paper explains how the ideas that initiated the October Revolution in Russia in 1917 were embedded in the foreign policy of Yugoslavia after the end of World War II. From the very beginning (1945), the political actors of Yugoslavia had directed foreign policy towards bilateral cooperation, first of all with the Soviet Union, and with other democratic countries. All foreign policy issues were solved in the context of belonging to the socialist political camp, on the wings of the World War II victory and national liberation from the occupiers and the capitalist way of organizing society. Such a socialist foreign political course lasted only until the end of 1947. However, the article considers that there had been an October Revolution sentiment in Yugoslavia long before the adoption of the socialist organization of society after 1945. For this reason, apart from the international importance of the idea of the October Revolution, attention is directed towards analysis of the continuity of the idea of the revolution in Yugoslavia (1919–1945), and then towards the foreign policy practice of Yugoslavia observed through the analysis of primary political sources (1945–1947). Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 259-274 Issue: 2 Volume: 22 Year: 2020 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2018.1556449 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2018.1556449 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:22:y:2020:i:2:p:259-274 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1560714_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: William Mallinson Author-X-Name-First: William Author-X-Name-Last: Mallinson Title: The Disintegrative Logics of Euro-Atlanticism Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 275-293 Issue: 2 Volume: 22 Year: 2020 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/22054952.2018.1560714 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/22054952.2018.1560714 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:22:y:2020:i:2:p:275-293 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1746587_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Anastasia Stouraiti Author-X-Name-First: Anastasia Author-X-Name-Last: Stouraiti Title: A Short History of Western Ideology: A Critical Account Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 281-282 Issue: 2 Volume: 22 Year: 2020 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2020.1746587 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2020.1746587 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:22:y:2020:i:2:p:281-282 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1746589_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Stelios Stavridis Author-X-Name-First: Stelios Author-X-Name-Last: Stavridis Title: The Rise and Fall of Europeanization. What is Next for EU-Turkey Relations? Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 283-286 Issue: 2 Volume: 22 Year: 2020 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2020.1746589 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2020.1746589 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:22:y:2020:i:2:p:283-286 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1748293_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: William Mallinson Author-X-Name-First: William Author-X-Name-Last: Mallinson Title: The Complete Maisky Diaries: Volume 1: The Rise of Hitler and the Gathering Clouds of War 1932–1938; Volume 2: The Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact and the Battle of Britain 1939–1940; Volume 3: The German Invasion of Russia and the Forging of the Grand Alliance 1941–1943 Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 287-294 Issue: 2 Volume: 22 Year: 2020 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2020.1748293 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2020.1748293 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:22:y:2020:i:2:p:287-294 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1385276_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Tim Dorlach Author-X-Name-First: Tim Author-X-Name-Last: Dorlach Author-Name: Osman Savaşkan Author-X-Name-First: Osman Author-X-Name-Last: Savaşkan Title: The Political Economy of Economic and Social Policy in Contemporary Turkey: An Introduction to the Special Issue Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 311-317 Issue: 4 Volume: 20 Year: 2018 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2018.1385276 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2018.1385276 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:20:y:2018:i:4:p:311-317 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1385283_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Ayşe Buğra Author-X-Name-First: Ayşe Author-X-Name-Last: Buğra Title: Social Policy and Different Dimensions of Inequality in Turkey: A Historical Overview Abstract: In Turkey, as in most other societies without mature welfare states, social policy has acquired a novel significance in the context of the late twentieth century economic globalization and the social policy environment has gone through a major transformation especially under the AKP government, which has been in power since 2002. This article presents a discussion of this transformation and explores the relationship between social policy and different dimensions of inequality in contemporary Turkey. It is argued that the emerging social policy regime, although in some ways more inclusive than the former one, is laden with significant inequalities of class and gender, which are shaped by the flexible employment patterns associated with a market-oriented economic strategy and the culturally conservative outlook of the AKP government. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 318-331 Issue: 4 Volume: 20 Year: 2018 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2018.1385283 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2018.1385283 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:20:y:2018:i:4:p:318-331 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1385285_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Asya Saydam Author-X-Name-First: Asya Author-X-Name-Last: Saydam Title: The Incompatibility of the Pension System and the Labour Market in Turkey Abstract: The Turkish welfare regime has witnessed a rapid transformation over the past two decades. While healthcare and social assistance have been studied in detail, we still know relatively little about the 1999 and 2008 pension reforms and their effects. Instead of examining the Turkish pension system in isolation, this article investigates the institutional compatibility of the pension system and the labour market in Turkey. The need for an institutional compatibility analysis arises because pension entitlements are largely defined by employment status. Based on an analysis of descriptive statistics, laws and other relevant documents, the article argues that neither the pre- nor post-reform pension system is compatible with the labour market structure in Turkey due to low labour force participation, high (youth) unemployment and high informal employment. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 332-348 Issue: 4 Volume: 20 Year: 2018 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2018.1385285 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2018.1385285 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:20:y:2018:i:4:p:332-348 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1385924_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Berk Esen Author-X-Name-First: Berk Author-X-Name-Last: Esen Author-Name: Sebnem Gumuscu Author-X-Name-First: Sebnem Author-X-Name-Last: Gumuscu Title: Building a Competitive Authoritarian Regime: State–Business Relations in the AKP’s Turkey Abstract: The most recent global wave of democratic reversal is marked by executive takeovers. Politically motivated interventions in domestic markets aimed at restructuring the underlying power dynamics in society have been part and parcel of these takeovers. This article investigates the new political economy behind the AKP’s competitive authoritarian rule in Turkey as an example of this larger trend. The article argues that the AKP government has built a loyal business class through an elaborate system of rewards and punishment since 2002. With the aim of consolidating its business constituency, the AKP politicized state institutions (debt collection, tax authorities, privatization, public procurement) and eroded the rule of law to distribute rents and resources to its supporters, transfer capital from its opponents to its supporters, and to discipline dissidents in business circles. These mechanisms allowed the party to skew the political playing field in its favour through its access to private resources as well as its disproportionate access to the media—built by pro-AKP businessmen—and thus underpinned the AKP’s competitive authoritarian regime. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 349-372 Issue: 4 Volume: 20 Year: 2018 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2018.1385924 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2018.1385924 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:20:y:2018:i:4:p:349-372 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1385926_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Feryaz Ocaklı Author-X-Name-First: Feryaz Author-X-Name-Last: Ocaklı Title: Reconfiguring State‒Business Relations in Turkey: Housing and Hydroelectric Energy Sectors in Comparative Perspective Abstract: This article examines the transformation in Turkey’s political economy by focusing on state‒business relations in two key economic sectors: housing and energy. The housing sector experienced an unprecedented rise in state intervention, while the hydroelectricity sector witnessed large-scale privatization. Seemingly contradictory policies across these two sectors pose a puzzle: why did the Turkish government, well-known for its neoliberal orientation, bring the state into the economy as a producer in the housing sector, while privatizing the hydroelectricity sector? This article argues that the underlying pattern in Turkey’s contemporary political economy is the growth of state‒business collaboration. Ruling party elites generated new avenues for public‒private collaboration in both sectors and blurred the boundaries between the state and the market. The article traces the role of private companies in the Housing Development Administration’s (Toplu Konut İdaresi, TOKİ) construction contracts, and the role of the General Directorate of State Hydraulic Works (Devlet Su İşleri Genel Müdürlüğü, DSİ) in creating a new market in hydroelectricity production. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 373-387 Issue: 4 Volume: 20 Year: 2018 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2018.1385926 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2018.1385926 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:20:y:2018:i:4:p:373-387 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1385928_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Hüseyin Emrah Karaoğuz Author-X-Name-First: Hüseyin Emrah Author-X-Name-Last: Karaoğuz Title: The Political Dynamics of R&D Policy in Turkey: Party Differences and Executive Interference during the AKP Period Abstract: This article examines the political dynamics of R&D policy in Turkey during the Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi, AKP) period. Drawing on interviews and other sources, the article argues that R&D policy is not above politics in Turkey—this contrasts with the dominant understanding in the literature. First, although opposition parties have significantly different views on R&D policy, they support the AKP on key legislation since innovation is perceived to be a phenomenon that cannot be opposed in any circumstances. Innovation is thought to fuel modernization, sustain a nation’s independence, and reflect national dignity. Second, the executive’s interference in key innovation agencies, specifically the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (Türkiye Bilimsel ve Teknolojik Araştırma Kurumu, TÜBİTAK), leads to shifts in organizations’ policy stance and enables the AKP to pursue the policy as it sees fit. The AKP has preferred a predominantly horizontal policy design (no sectoral focus) and promoted relaxation in resource allocation criteria. The article demonstrates how politics influences innovation policy in Turkey, highlighting opposition parties’ role in policy-making by showing how the opposition’s ideational stance and weak institutional capacity hindered the deliberation of policy alternatives. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 388-404 Issue: 4 Volume: 20 Year: 2018 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2018.1385928 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2018.1385928 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:20:y:2018:i:4:p:388-404 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2037861_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Zeinab Ghasemi Tari Author-X-Name-First: Zeinab Ghasemi Author-X-Name-Last: Tari Title: A House of Many Mansions: Perceptions of Lebanese Political and Intellectual Elites toward Iran Abstract: Lebanon is believed to be the most religiously diverse country in the Middle East. Lebanese elites play a significant role as identity-makers and parts of regional alliances. The present paper examines Lebanese intellectual and political elites’ perceptions of Iran. To this aim, the author conducted fifteen semi-structured interviews with figures from Lebanese political parties with different political orientations and religious denominations. Using integrated threat theory to analyse the data, the author argues that the Lebanese elite’s view towards Iran illustrates various threat perceptions among members of different religious denominations in conjunction with their political affiliations. It will be discussed that Iran and Hezbollah have turned into an in-group for a particular, albeit a significant portion of the Shia community in Lebanon (mostly affiliated with Hezbollah) and an out-group for many in other religious and political denominations. Accordingly, Iran’s growing regional power is perceived as a realistic and symbolic threat by those who consider Iran (a Shi’ite entity and Hezbollah) the out-group. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 715-732 Issue: 4 Volume: 24 Year: 2022 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2022.2037861 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2022.2037861 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:24:y:2022:i:4:p:715-732 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2037858_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Ahmet Erdem Tozoglu Author-X-Name-First: Ahmet Erdem Author-X-Name-Last: Tozoglu Title: Educating Masses: The Committee of Union and Progress Clubs and Schools in the Late Ottoman Empire Abstract: This article examines the social and architectural context of an extensive building campaign in Turkey in the early twentieth century. The Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), one of the Second Constitutional Period’s prominent political and cultural actors (1908–18), commissioned club and school buildings for social outreach operations. Influenced by their European counterparts, the Committee’s protagonists believed that a social revolution could be accomplished by employing the education of the masses. Moreover, education was also essential to create a national identity for an Empire in a struggle. In this context, many clubs (for adults) and schools (for the youngsters) mushroomed in many cities simultaneously. Accordingly, the architecture of new club and school buildings reflected societal concerns and provided remarkable examples of their kinds. The education of the masses and the use of social propaganda by state agents in Republican Turkey have been scrutinized so far. Still the origins of the social engineering projects should be examined to contextualize Republican period developments. Thus, this article examines the building and impact of the clubs and schools of the CUP in the provinces and constitutes a contextual frame for their formative role in Turkish modernization. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 614-639 Issue: 4 Volume: 24 Year: 2022 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2022.2037858 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2022.2037858 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:24:y:2022:i:4:p:614-639 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2037862_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Rovshan Ibrahimov Author-X-Name-First: Rovshan Author-X-Name-Last: Ibrahimov Author-Name: Mehmet Fatih Oztarsu Author-X-Name-First: Mehmet Fatih Author-X-Name-Last: Oztarsu Title: Causes of the Second Karabakh War: Analysis of the Positions and the Strength and Weakness of Armenia and Azerbaijan Abstract: The article aims to demonstrate main causes of the Second Karabakh War by considering power and proximity factors as triggering elements. It depicts the positions of Armenia and Azerbaijan on shifted economic and military development within three-decades. It also asserts that the failed negotiation process played a crucial role in the war occurrence as the protracted conflict generates escalation risk. Given the structural attributes, it emphasizes importance revisionist and status quo-based policy-making processes of the parties. Arguing that alteration of power parity might bring a devastative war, this article offers that both sides can utilize opportunities for regional balance on the way to a peace settlement. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 595-613 Issue: 4 Volume: 24 Year: 2022 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2022.2037862 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2022.2037862 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:24:y:2022:i:4:p:595-613 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2037860_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Dragan Milovanović Author-X-Name-First: Dragan Author-X-Name-Last: Milovanović Title: The Influence of Corporate Restructuring on the Economic Development of Bosnia and Herzegovina Abstract: The analysis of the state of the economy of Bosnia and Herzegovina shows the need for continuous adjustment to economic trends of European Union members. According to these processes, an important step is the need for restructuring of companies in Bosnia and Herzegovina in line with the practice of companies in the European Union. The research analysis included 18,260 companies from the European Union, based on the type of restructuring and 1,270 companies from Bosnia and Herzegovina, whose types of restructuring were investigated. The macroeconomic approach and economic research of Bosnia and Herzegovina show the necessity and the need to restructure companies and align with the trend of changes which are an inevitable part of transition countries. The aim of the study is to research companies from Bosnia and Herzegovina, their most important problems, directions and tendencies in restructuring of domestic companies and give recommendations for a new model, strategic approach and economic policies for improving the results of the restructuring process. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 682-695 Issue: 4 Volume: 24 Year: 2022 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2022.2037860 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2022.2037860 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:24:y:2022:i:4:p:682-695 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2037857_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Nadav Solomonovich Author-X-Name-First: Nadav Author-X-Name-Last: Solomonovich Title: Marrying the Enemy? Turkish Nationalism, Citizenship, and the Public Debate over Mixed Marriages in the 1940s Turkish Press Abstract: This article analyses a series of 16 articles, published in the daily newspaper Yeni Sabah, between late April and mid-May 1940 under the title ‘Our big survey: Is it right for Turks to marry foreigners?’ This series of articles allow us to understand better the various opinions among the Turkish cultural elite regarding the larger question of ‘who is a Turk’, and especially regarding mixed children. This article argues that even when the state promoted a relatively progressive agenda for the benefit of women such as the right to marry foreigners, this right was criticized by members of the cultural elite who based their objection on what they perceived as a contradiction between this right and the Turkish homogenization project, based on dominant ideas of race, ethnicity, eugenics, gender, religion, and education. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 663-681 Issue: 4 Volume: 24 Year: 2022 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2022.2037857 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2022.2037857 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:24:y:2022:i:4:p:663-681 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2037856_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Utku Yapıcı Author-X-Name-First: Utku Author-X-Name-Last: Yapıcı Title: Chto Takoe Sovetskaya Diaspora? Is There a Living and Ideologically Sovieticized ‘Soviet Diaspora’? Abstract: Throughout its history, the term ‘Soviet Diaspora’ has been used to describe different groups of people in different contexts and the use of the term ‘Soviet Diaspora’ has always been controversial. By December 1991, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) ceased to exist but the use of the term ‘Soviet Diaspora’ has continued in several contexts. This article tries to analyse different uses of the term ‘Soviet Diaspora’ historically and answer the question of whether there is a living and ideologically Sovieticized ‘Soviet Diaspora’ or not. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 640-662 Issue: 4 Volume: 24 Year: 2022 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2022.2037856 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2022.2037856 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:24:y:2022:i:4:p:640-662 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2037859_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Nuray Aridici Author-X-Name-First: Nuray Author-X-Name-Last: Aridici Title: Constructing the ‘National Ideal’: The ‘Inclusive’ and ‘Exclusive’ Representations of Syrian Refugees in Turkish Print Media Abstract: Since 2011, almost four million refugees were welcomed in Turkey. This paper aims to explore how these people are included/excluded from the society through the construction of the self/the other. The paper argues that studying the media representations of these refugees in Turkish print media reveal the wider politics of nationalism in the country. To study the wider politics of nationalism, I collected newspaper articles from pro-government and anti-government papers from 2014 to 2018. This data not only reveals the inclusion/exclusion of these people from the definitions of ‘nation’ but also reveals the tension between AKP and Kemalist ideologies in Turkey. The paper discusses these discourses through ‘secular’ and ‘humanitarian’ nationalisms. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 696-714 Issue: 4 Volume: 24 Year: 2022 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2022.2037859 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2022.2037859 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:24:y:2022:i:4:p:696-714 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_9659378147_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Bülent Aras Author-X-Name-First: Bülent Author-X-Name-Last: Aras Author-Name: Bülent Gökay Author-X-Name-First: Bülent Author-X-Name-Last: Gökay Title: Turkey after Copenhagen: walking a tightrope Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 147-163 Issue: 2 Volume: 5 Year: 2003 X-DOI: 10.1080/1461319032000097914 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/1461319032000097914 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:5:y:2003:i:2:p:147-163 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_9659379_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Mustafa Aydin Author-X-Name-First: Mustafa Author-X-Name-Last: Aydin Title: Crypto-optimism in Turkish-Greek relations. What is next? Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 223-240 Issue: 2 Volume: 5 Year: 2003 X-DOI: 10.1080/1461319032000097950 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/1461319032000097950 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:5:y:2003:i:2:p:223-240 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_9659378137_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Christopher Brewin Author-X-Name-First: Christopher Author-X-Name-Last: Brewin Title: A changing Turkey: Europe's dilemma Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 137-145 Issue: 2 Volume: 5 Year: 2003 X-DOI: 10.1080/1461319032000097905 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/1461319032000097905 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:5:y:2003:i:2:p:137-145 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_9659378_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Fethi Açikel Author-X-Name-First: Fethi Author-X-Name-Last: Açikel Title: Mapping the Turkish political landscape through November 2002 elections Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 185-203 Issue: 2 Volume: 5 Year: 2003 X-DOI: 10.1080/1461319032000097932 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/1461319032000097932 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:5:y:2003:i:2:p:185-203 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_9659379247_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Marios L. Evriviades Author-X-Name-First: Marios L. Author-X-Name-Last: Evriviades Title: Review Article Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 247-250 Issue: 2 Volume: 5 Year: 2003 X-DOI: 10.1080/1461319032000097978 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/1461319032000097978 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:5:y:2003:i:2:p:247-250 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_9659379205_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Ayse Günes-Ayata Author-X-Name-First: Ayse Author-X-Name-Last: Günes-Ayata Title: From Euro-scepticism to Turkey-scepticism: changing political attitudes on the European Union in Turkey Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 205-222 Issue: 2 Volume: 5 Year: 2003 X-DOI: 10.1080/1461319032000097941 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/1461319032000097941 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:5:y:2003:i:2:p:205-222 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_9659378133_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Christopher Brewin Author-X-Name-First: Christopher Author-X-Name-Last: Brewin Author-Name: Bülent Gökay Author-X-Name-First: Bülent Author-X-Name-Last: Gökay Title: Introduction Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 133-135 Issue: 2 Volume: 5 Year: 2003 X-DOI: 10.1080/1461319032000097897 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/1461319032000097897 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:5:y:2003:i:2:p:133-135 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_9659379251_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: The Editors Title: Book Reviews Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 251-267 Issue: 2 Volume: 5 Year: 2003 X-DOI: 10.1080/1461319032000097987 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/1461319032000097987 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:5:y:2003:i:2:p:251-267 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_9659379165_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Mehmet Ugur Author-X-Name-First: Mehmet Author-X-Name-Last: Ugur Title: Testing times in EU_Turkey relations: the road to copenhagen and beyond Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 165-183 Issue: 2 Volume: 5 Year: 2003 X-DOI: 10.1080/1461319032000097923 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/1461319032000097923 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:5:y:2003:i:2:p:165-183 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_9659379241_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Martin Dent Author-X-Name-First: Martin Author-X-Name-Last: Dent Title: Cyprus: a new and more hopeful step in the struggle to free the tempting morsel from the net of entanglement in the rivals' aspirations of its neighbours to dominate and devour Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 241-245 Issue: 2 Volume: 5 Year: 2003 X-DOI: 10.1080/1461319032000097969 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/1461319032000097969 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:5:y:2003:i:2:p:241-245 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_10020059_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Ahmet Ozturk Author-X-Name-First: Ahmet Author-X-Name-Last: Ozturk Title: From oil pipelines to oil Straits: The Caspian pipeline politics and environmental protection of the Istanbul and the Canakkale Straits Abstract: The geopolitics of the Caspian oil has been one of the most prominent issues of the post-cold war Eurasian politics and studies. Among many other subissues within this general title, selection of the pipelines and their routes are still a centre of immense concern for all sides involved in the Caspian oil business. While serious controversies are going on over the projected pipelines, some of the pipelines have recently been opened, which are used for the transportation of the early oil from the Caspian basin to the Black Sea and eventually into the Mediterranean through the Turkish Straits, which have been serving for a long time as a north‐south ‘:naval silk road’ between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean nations. By opening the way for such additional oilflow through the Straits, the increasing numbers of oil tankers passing this naturally, geographically and politically troublesome sea passage raised a tremendous amount of concerns about the environmental soundness and dangers of oil transportation through this route. This article focuses on the environmental, political and legal aspects of the Caspian pipeline debates with regard to the use of the Turkish Straits. Theselection of the routes for Caspian pipelines and the use of the Turkish Straits for existing and future oil transports from those pipelines has to be reconsidered in the light of the limits of this morphologically, climatically, naturally inconvenient waterway. Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 57-74 Issue: 1 Volume: 4 Year: 2002 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190220130304 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190220130304 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:4:y:2002:i:1:p:57-74 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_10020057_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Kamer Kasim Author-X-Name-First: Kamer Author-X-Name-Last: Kasim Title: The transportation of Caspian oil and regional stability Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 37-45 Issue: 1 Volume: 4 Year: 2002 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190220130287 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190220130287 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:4:y:2002:i:1:p:37-45 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_10020058_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Mina Toksoz Author-X-Name-First: Mina Author-X-Name-Last: Toksoz Title: Turkey's energy market--issues in reform Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 47-55 Issue: 1 Volume: 4 Year: 2002 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190220130296 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190220130296 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:4:y:2002:i:1:p:47-55 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_10020055_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Hasene Karasac Author-X-Name-First: Hasene Author-X-Name-Last: Karasac Title: Actors of the new 'Great Game', Caspian oil politics Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 15-27 Issue: 1 Volume: 4 Year: 2002 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190220130269 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190220130269 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:4:y:2002:i:1:p:15-27 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_10020056_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Angeliki Spatharou Author-X-Name-First: Angeliki Author-X-Name-Last: Spatharou Title: The political role of oil in Azerbaijan, 1989-1994 Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 29-35 Issue: 1 Volume: 4 Year: 2002 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190220130278 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190220130278 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:4:y:2002:i:1:p:29-35 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_10020054_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Bulent Gokay Author-X-Name-First: Bulent Author-X-Name-Last: Gokay Title: Oil, war and geopolitics from Kosovo to Afghanistan Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 5-13 Issue: 1 Volume: 4 Year: 2002 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190220130250 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190220130250 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:4:y:2002:i:1:p:5-13 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_10020062_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: The Editors Title: Book Reviews Journal: Pages: 95-112 Issue: 1 Volume: 4 Year: 2002 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190220130331 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190220130331 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:4:y:2002:i:1:p:95-112 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_10020060_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Keith Fisher Author-X-Name-First: Keith Author-X-Name-Last: Fisher Title: A meeting of blood and oil: The Balkan factor in Western energy security Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 75-89 Issue: 1 Volume: 4 Year: 2002 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190220130313 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190220130313 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:4:y:2002:i:1:p:75-89 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_10020061_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Peter Gowan Author-X-Name-First: Peter Author-X-Name-Last: Gowan Title: 'Kosovo: Unanswered questions' Journal: Pages: 91-94 Issue: 1 Volume: 4 Year: 2002 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190220130322 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190220130322 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:4:y:2002:i:1:p:91-94 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_8413993_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Vassilis Fouskas Author-X-Name-First: Vassilis Author-X-Name-Last: Fouskas Title: Editorial Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 117-118 Issue: 2 Volume: 1 Year: 1999 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613199908413993 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613199908413993 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:1:y:1999:i:2:p:117-118 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_8414004_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: The Editors Title: Profiles Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 239-240 Issue: 2 Volume: 1 Year: 1999 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613199908414004 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613199908414004 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:1:y:1999:i:2:p:239-240 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_8413994_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Richard Gillespie Author-X-Name-First: Richard Author-X-Name-Last: Gillespie Title: Peace moves in the Basque country Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 119-136 Issue: 2 Volume: 1 Year: 1999 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613199908413994 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613199908413994 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:1:y:1999:i:2:p:119-136 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_8414002_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Thomas Emmert Author-X-Name-First: Thomas Author-X-Name-Last: Emmert Title: Challenging myth in a short history of Kosovo Abstract: Noel Malcolm, Kosovo: A Short History (New York University Press, New York, 1998), xxxvi + 492 pp., maps, index, and bibliography, ISBN 0–8147–5598–4 (pb), $28.95 Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 217-221 Issue: 2 Volume: 1 Year: 1999 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613199908414002 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613199908414002 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:1:y:1999:i:2:p:217-221 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_8413992_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: The Editors Title: Editorial board Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: ebi-ebi Issue: 2 Volume: 1 Year: 1999 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613199908413992 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613199908413992 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:1:y:1999:i:2:p:ebi-ebi Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_8414003_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Tobias Abse Author-X-Name-First: Tobias Author-X-Name-Last: Abse Author-Name: Marina Lobo Author-X-Name-First: Marina Author-X-Name-Last: Lobo Author-Name: Gül Özcan Author-X-Name-First: Gül Author-X-Name-Last: Özcan Author-Name: Alan Sked Author-X-Name-First: Alan Author-X-Name-Last: Sked Author-Name: Lucio Sponza Author-X-Name-First: Lucio Author-X-Name-Last: Sponza Author-Name: Jordi Domenech Author-X-Name-First: Jordi Author-X-Name-Last: Domenech Author-Name: Milena Mahon Author-X-Name-First: Milena Author-X-Name-Last: Mahon Author-Name: Dominic Keown Author-X-Name-First: Dominic Author-X-Name-Last: Keown Author-Name: David Felsen Author-X-Name-First: David Author-X-Name-Last: Felsen Title: Book reviews Abstract: Donald Sassoon (ed.), Looking Left: European Socialism after the Cold War (I. B. Tauris, London, 1997), x +198 pp., ISBN I‐86064–180–6 (pb), £12.95 António Costa Pinto (ed.), Modern Portugal (The Society for the Promotion of Science and Scholarship, Palo Alto, CA, 1998), 300 pp., ISBN 0–930664–17–5, (hb), $39.00 Mehmet Ugur, European Union and Turkey: An Anchor Credibility Dilemma (Ashgate, Aldershot, 1999), xviii + 286 pp., Bibliography, Index, ISBN 1 84014 443 2 (hb), £39.95 A. L. MacFie, The End of the Ottoman Empire, 1908–1923 (Longman, London, 1998), 258 pp., maps, ISBN 0–582–28762–4 (pb), £12.99 Vassilis Fouskas, Italy, Europe, the Left; the Transformation of Italian Communism and the European Imperative (Ashgate, Aldershot, 1998), 253 pp., ISBN 1–84014–450–5 (hb), £40.00 David R. Ringrose, Spain, Europe and the ‘Spanish Miracle’, 1700–1900 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1996), 439 pp., ISBN 0–521–434486 (hb), £45.00 James Simpson, Spanish Agriculture; The Long Siesta, 1765–1965 (Cambridge Studies in Modern Economic History, Vol. 2, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1995), 316 pp., ISBN 0–521–49630–6 (hb), £40.00 Fernando Guirao, Spain and the Reconstruction of Western Europe, 1945–1957. Challenge and Response (Macmillan—St Antony's College series, London, 1998), 256 pp., ISBN 0–333–71078–9 (hb), £45.00 Rositza Gradeva and Svetlana Ivanova (eds), Muslim Culture in Bulgarian Lands: Research Studies (International Center for Minority Studies and Cultural Interactions, Sofia, 1998), ISBN 954–8872–13–7 (hb) (price unspecified) Ali Eminov, Turkish and other Muslim Minorities of Bulgaria (Hurst & Co., London, 1997), 200 pp., ISBN 1–85065–319–4 (hb), £39.50 Barry Jordan and Rikki Morgan‐Tamosunas, Contemporary Spanish Cinema (Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1998), 216 pp., ISBN 0–7190–4413–8, (pb), £9.99 Hilary Partridge, Italian Politics Today (Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1998), 199 pp., ISBN 0–7190–4944X (pb), £9.99 Martin Bull and Martin Rhodes (eds), Crisis and Transition in Italian Politics (Frank Cass, London, 1997), 256 pp., ISBN 0–7146–4816–7 (hb), £30.00 Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 223-238 Issue: 2 Volume: 1 Year: 1999 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613199908414003 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613199908414003 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:1:y:1999:i:2:p:223-238 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_8414000_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Constantine Danopoulos Author-X-Name-First: Constantine Author-X-Name-Last: Danopoulos Author-Name: Emilia Ianeva Author-X-Name-First: Emilia Author-X-Name-Last: Ianeva Title: Poverty in the Balkans and the issue of reconstruction: Bulgaria and Yugoslavia compared Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 185-198 Issue: 2 Volume: 1 Year: 1999 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613199908414000 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613199908414000 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:1:y:1999:i:2:p:185-198 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_8414001_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Christine Cousins Author-X-Name-First: Christine Author-X-Name-Last: Cousins Title: Gender relations and changing forms of employment in Spain Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 199-215 Issue: 2 Volume: 1 Year: 1999 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613199908414001 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613199908414001 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:1:y:1999:i:2:p:199-215 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_8413999_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Jane Schneider Author-X-Name-First: Jane Author-X-Name-Last: Schneider Title: A response to Giulio Sapelli Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 183-184 Issue: 2 Volume: 1 Year: 1999 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613199908413999 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613199908413999 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:1:y:1999:i:2:p:183-184 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_8413997_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Stevan Pavlowitch Author-X-Name-First: Stevan Author-X-Name-Last: Pavlowitch Title: Yugoslavia: The failure of a success Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 163-170 Issue: 2 Volume: 1 Year: 1999 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613199908413997 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613199908413997 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:1:y:1999:i:2:p:163-170 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_8413998_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Peter Gowan Author-X-Name-First: Peter Author-X-Name-Last: Gowan Title: Placing Serbia in context Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 171-182 Issue: 2 Volume: 1 Year: 1999 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613199908413998 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613199908413998 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:1:y:1999:i:2:p:171-182 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_8413995_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Tolis Malakos Author-X-Name-First: Tolis Author-X-Name-Last: Malakos Title: Globalization via ethnocratic ‘ghettoization’: Post‐historical myths on Yugoslavia Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 137-148 Issue: 2 Volume: 1 Year: 1999 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613199908413995 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613199908413995 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:1:y:1999:i:2:p:137-148 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_8413996_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Milena Mahon Author-X-Name-First: Milena Author-X-Name-Last: Mahon Title: The Turkish minority under communist Bulgaria—politics of ethnicity and power Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 149-162 Issue: 2 Volume: 1 Year: 1999 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613199908413996 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613199908413996 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:1:y:1999:i:2:p:149-162 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_241339_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Marco Pedrazzi Author-X-Name-First: Marco Author-X-Name-Last: Pedrazzi Title: Italy, the USA and the reform of the UN Security Council Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 183-196 Issue: 2 Volume: 9 Year: 2007 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190701414541 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190701414541 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:9:y:2007:i:2:p:183-196 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_241327_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Lucia Quaglia Author-X-Name-First: Lucia Author-X-Name-Last: Quaglia Title: The role of Italy in the European Union: between continuity and change Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 133-148 Issue: 2 Volume: 9 Year: 2007 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190701414426 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190701414426 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:9:y:2007:i:2:p:133-148 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_241846_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Jo Laycock Author-X-Name-First: Jo Author-X-Name-Last: Laycock Title: Book Reviews Journal: Pages: 197-211 Issue: 2 Volume: 9 Year: 2007 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190701419623 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190701419623 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:9:y:2007:i:2:p:197-211 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_241294_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Maurizio Carbone Author-X-Name-First: Maurizio Author-X-Name-Last: Carbone Title: Introduction: Italy in the international arena: between the EU and the US? Journal: Pages: 97-98 Issue: 2 Volume: 9 Year: 2007 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190701414095 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190701414095 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:9:y:2007:i:2:p:97-98 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_241295_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Elisabetta Brighi Author-X-Name-First: Elisabetta Author-X-Name-Last: Brighi Title: Europe, the USA and the ‘policy of the pendulum’: the importance of foreign policy paradigms in the foreign policy of Italy (1989–2005) Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 99-115 Issue: 2 Volume: 9 Year: 2007 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190701414103 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190701414103 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:9:y:2007:i:2:p:99-115 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_241322_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Osvaldo Croci Author-X-Name-First: Osvaldo Author-X-Name-Last: Croci Title: Italian foreign policy after the end of the cold war: the issue of continuity and change in Italian–US relations Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 117-131 Issue: 2 Volume: 9 Year: 2007 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190701414376 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190701414376 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:9:y:2007:i:2:p:117-131 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_241333_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Antonio Missiroli Author-X-Name-First: Antonio Author-X-Name-Last: Missiroli Title: Italy's security and defence policy: between EU and US, or just Prodi and Berlusconi? Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 149-168 Issue: 2 Volume: 9 Year: 2007 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190701414483 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190701414483 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:9:y:2007:i:2:p:149-168 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_241336_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Maurizio Carbone Author-X-Name-First: Maurizio Author-X-Name-Last: Carbone Title: Holding Europe back: Italy and EU development policy Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 169-182 Issue: 2 Volume: 9 Year: 2007 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190701414517 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190701414517 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:9:y:2007:i:2:p:169-182 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1176388_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Mustafa Türkeş Author-X-Name-First: Mustafa Author-X-Name-Last: Türkeş Title: Decomposing Neo-Ottoman Hegemony Abstract: This paper demonstrates how the Justice and Development Party’s (JDP) hegemony involved a coalescence of external and domestic forces into a historic bloc. It benefits from the insights of a neo-Gramscian approach. It argues that the JDP attempted to transfigure Turkey from an ordinary, medium-sized actor into a regional imperial power, but failed. The JDP’s attempt to implement neo-Ottomanism in the Balkans was ineffective, and its efforts in the Middle East not only failed to produce equilibrium in the region, even worse, they contributed to the acceleration of disorder in Syria. This paper points out that the existing international order makes it almost impossible for a medium-sized regional power to upgrade its status to that of a regional sub-superpower. It concludes that the JDP’s assertive foreign policy and increasing authoritarianism caused a decline in hegemony, which was later revived through coerciveness at the domestic level and trade-offs at the international level. It remains to be seen whether the coerciveness and trade-offs will be enough for the JDP to sustain its revived hegemony. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 191-216 Issue: 3 Volume: 18 Year: 2016 Month: 5 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2016.1176388 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2016.1176388 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:18:y:2016:i:3:p:191-216 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1176397_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Doğan Gürpınar Author-X-Name-First: Doğan Author-X-Name-Last: Gürpınar Title: The manufacturing of denial: the making of the Turkish ‘official thesis’ on the Armenian Genocide between 1974 and 1990 Abstract: This paper analyses the Turkish historiographical encounter with the Armenian genocide in the 1970s and 1980s. It shows how denialism was institutionalized by the 1980s by the post-1980 junta and its academic–political–security complex as a response to the revival of the obscured memories of 1915 after decades of oblivion due to the rise of the Armenian efforts to create an awareness regarding the genocide. Hence, the paper historicizes Turkish denialism. Furthermore, not seeing Turkish denialism as a monolithic discourse, it identifies three modes of Turkish denialism, left wing, right wing and centrist, all entrenched in different ideological sets. The paper also discusses the Turkish national security establishment’s strategies to counter Armenian activism. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 217-240 Issue: 3 Volume: 18 Year: 2016 Month: 5 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2016.1176397 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2016.1176397 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:18:y:2016:i:3:p:217-240 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1176395_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Bojan Kovačević Author-X-Name-First: Bojan Author-X-Name-Last: Kovačević Author-Name: Slobodan Samardžić Author-X-Name-First: Slobodan Author-X-Name-Last: Samardžić Title: Internal Crisis of Compound Polities: Understanding the EU’s Crisis in Light of the Ex-Yugoslav Federation’s Failure Abstract: The paper draws on a particular conceptual framework for the interpretation of the current European Union (EU) crisis. Famously, the EU has been classified as an organization existing in between or beyond the modern state and international organizations. The constitutionally undefined political aim of the EU contributes mostly to its vague classification. Nevertheless, the escalation of the Eurozone crisis has revealed the inherent relation between the politically unfinished design of the EU and the inability of its actors to confront the major social and economic challenges of today. This paper argues that this systemic failure of the EU replicates another historical example, the Yugoslav federation. Beyond substantial differences between the two, there is an important similarity. They both have, embedded in their very nature, the character of an unfinished political construction. Furthermore, both the EU and Yugoslavia followed the same path from an emancipative process of federalism to an existential crisis, both moving from legitimate to very questionable polity. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 241-262 Issue: 3 Volume: 18 Year: 2016 Month: 5 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2016.1176395 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2016.1176395 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:18:y:2016:i:3:p:241-262 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1096130_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Dmitry Shlapentokh Author-X-Name-First: Dmitry Author-X-Name-Last: Shlapentokh Title: The Ideological Framework of Early Post-Soviet Russia’s Relationship with Turkey: The Case of Alexander Dugin’s Eurasianism Abstract: Every historical phenomenon can be approached from different perspectives, and its particular attributes can be as important as being related to other structurally similar phenomena. The collapse of the USSR did not lead to absolute predominance of the USA even in the early post-Cold War era. This provided an opportunity for Russia and Turkey, together of course with other players, to engage in geopolitical flirtations on the grounds of common historical and cultural traits. ‘Eurasianism’, as professed by Alexander Dugin and similar minded intellectuals, was the ideological framework for this attempt by Turkey and Russia or at least by some segments of their elites to move closer to each other. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 263-281 Issue: 3 Volume: 18 Year: 2016 Month: 5 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2015.1096130 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2015.1096130 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:18:y:2016:i:3:p:263-281 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1099284_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Symeon A. Giannakos Author-X-Name-First: Symeon A. Author-X-Name-Last: Giannakos Author-Name: Laurie J. Harper Author-X-Name-First: Laurie J. Author-X-Name-Last: Harper Title: Education, Identity and Conflict in Albania and Lebanon: A Comparative Study Abstract: It can be argued that the political landscapes of Albania and Lebanon are practically identical: both states emerged out of the collapse of the Ottoman Empire; the creation of both states was affected through the direct involvement of the great powers; both states have experienced direct outside military intervention; both states contain a Christian minority of different denominations while the Muslim majority is also diverse; both states are characterized by uneven economic development along geographic lines (plains versus mountains); the two states are comparable in size, population and geography; both states are overall ethnically homogenous (Albanians claim to be descendants of the ancient Illyrians while the Lebanese are Arabs and, or claim to be, descendants of the Phoenicians); and, finally, both states’ territory or parts of it has been or was claimed by more than one neighbouring states. One striking difference between the two countries, though, is that in the post-Second World War period, one experienced a prolonged and violent civil war while the other did not. Why would two states with nearly identical socio-economic variables experience different political outcomes? Would a comparison between the two states reveal the role specific variables play in promoting or preventing intra-state conflicts? Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 282-296 Issue: 3 Volume: 18 Year: 2016 Month: 5 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2015.1099284 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2015.1099284 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:18:y:2016:i:3:p:282-296 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1176406_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Selim Hilmi Ozkan Author-X-Name-First: Selim Hilmi Author-X-Name-Last: Ozkan Title: Arms Smuggling across Ottoman Borders in the Second Half of the 19th Century Abstract: In the second half of the 19th century, the Ottoman Empire was weak and was struggling with the problem of arms smuggling across its borders. This was especially the case in the late 1890s and early 1900s when the Ottoman Empire was under considerable external and internal pressure in its Balkan, Arab and African territories. This paper critically examines the arms smuggling problems of the Ottoman Empire in this period, primarily using Ottoman archival documents. The paper will consider the internal and external motives behind arms smuggling and its impact on the Empire. It will also analyse how the Ottoman authorities dealt with the problem of local powers gaining arms to use against local enemies and to fight for independence from the Empire. Although Western governments prohibited arms smuggling, arms were being transported from Western countries to the Ottoman border. While one reason for the arms smuggling was that it was a lucrative business, another important reason for the illicit trade was the rise of nationalist movements that sought to cut their ties with the Empire. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 297-312 Issue: 3 Volume: 18 Year: 2016 Month: 5 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2016.1176406 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2016.1176406 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:18:y:2016:i:3:p:297-312 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1093342_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Sebastian Budgen Author-X-Name-First: Sebastian Author-X-Name-Last: Budgen Author-Name: Costas Lapavitsas Author-X-Name-First: Costas Author-X-Name-Last: Lapavitsas Title: Greece: Phase Two Abstract: Costas Lapavitsas (see, Costas Lapavitsas et al., ‘Euro-zone crisis: beggar thyself and thy neighbour’, Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, v.12, n.4, December 2010), a Professor of Economics at SOAS, University of London, and now elected member of the Greek parliament with left-wing party, Syriza, talks to Sebastian Budgen about Marxism and Keynesianism; the Euro-zone crisis; Greece’s predicaments; and ways out of the economic and political crisis that hit Greece and the continent. We are thankful to Sebastian Budgen and the Jacobin magazine for allowing reproduction of the interview in JBNES. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 313-333 Issue: 3 Volume: 18 Year: 2016 Month: 5 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2015.1093342 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2015.1093342 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:18:y:2016:i:3:p:313-333 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_349538_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Nicos Christodoulides Author-X-Name-First: Nicos Author-X-Name-Last: Christodoulides Title: Leaders, political behaviour and decision-making: the case of the former President of the Republic of Cyprus, George Vasiliou Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 331-345 Issue: 3 Volume: 10 Year: 2008 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190802493709 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190802493709 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:10:y:2008:i:3:p:331-345 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_349548_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Aytül Ganioğlu Author-X-Name-First: Aytül Author-X-Name-Last: Ganioğlu Title: Understanding banking sector reforms in Turkey: assessing the roles of domestic versus external actors Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 363-376 Issue: 3 Volume: 10 Year: 2008 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190802493808 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190802493808 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:10:y:2008:i:3:p:363-376 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_349528_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Arolda Elbasani Author-X-Name-First: Arolda Author-X-Name-Last: Elbasani Title: EU enlargement in the Western Balkans: strategies of borrowing and inventing Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 293-307 Issue: 3 Volume: 10 Year: 2008 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190802493600 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190802493600 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:10:y:2008:i:3:p:293-307 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_349519_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Vassilis K. Fouskas Author-X-Name-First: Vassilis K. Author-X-Name-Last: Fouskas Title: Editorial Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 261-264 Issue: 3 Volume: 10 Year: 2008 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190802493519 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190802493519 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:10:y:2008:i:3:p:261-264 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_349552_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Panagiotis G. Liargovas Author-X-Name-First: Panagiotis G. Author-X-Name-Last: Liargovas Author-Name: Konstantinos S. Skandalis Author-X-Name-First: Konstantinos S. Author-X-Name-Last: Skandalis Title: Motivations and barriers of export performance: Greek exports to the Balkans Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 377-392 Issue: 3 Volume: 10 Year: 2008 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190802493840 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190802493840 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:10:y:2008:i:3:p:377-392 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_349531_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Kivanç Ulusoy Author-X-Name-First: Kivanç Author-X-Name-Last: Ulusoy Title: The Europeanization of Turkey and its impact on the Cyprus problem Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 309-329 Issue: 3 Volume: 10 Year: 2008 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190802493634 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190802493634 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:10:y:2008:i:3:p:309-329 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_349523_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Russell King Author-X-Name-First: Russell Author-X-Name-Last: King Author-Name: Mark Thomson Author-X-Name-First: Mark Author-X-Name-Last: Thomson Title: The Southern European model of immigration: do the cases of Malta, Cyprus and Slovenia fit? Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 265-291 Issue: 3 Volume: 10 Year: 2008 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190802493550 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190802493550 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:10:y:2008:i:3:p:265-291 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_349545_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Jovo Ateljevic Author-X-Name-First: Jovo Author-X-Name-Last: Ateljevic Title: Building institutional, economic and social capacities through discourse: the role of NGOs in the context of Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 347-362 Issue: 3 Volume: 10 Year: 2008 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190802493774 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190802493774 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:10:y:2008:i:3:p:347-362 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1755154_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Vassilis K. Fouskas Author-X-Name-First: Vassilis K. Author-X-Name-Last: Fouskas Author-Name: Bülent Gökay Author-X-Name-First: Bülent Author-X-Name-Last: Gökay Author-Name: Biljana Vankovska Author-X-Name-First: Biljana Author-X-Name-Last: Vankovska Title: Special Issue: Crisis in the Eastern Mediterranean and COVID-19 Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 295-305 Issue: 3 Volume: 22 Year: 2020 Month: 5 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2020.1755154 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2020.1755154 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:22:y:2020:i:3:p:295-305 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1739878_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: William Mallinson Author-X-Name-First: William Author-X-Name-Last: Mallinson Author-Name: Pavel Kanevskiy Author-X-Name-First: Pavel Author-X-Name-Last: Kanevskiy Author-Name: Aris Petasis Author-X-Name-First: Aris Author-X-Name-Last: Petasis Title: Then Is Now, but the Colours are New: Greece, Cyprus and the Evolving Power Game between the West, Russia and Turkey in the Eastern Mediterranean Abstract: This paper seeks to survey, analyse and evaluate the rôle of Greece and Cyprus vis-à-vis the security and geo-economic dimension of the Eastern Mediterranean through the lens of integration and regional strategic interests in the region. Despite the enlargement of NATO and the European Union, which have striven to integrate new countries into the Western community, the regional balance of interests has proven to be more unstable than predicted by the proponents of a Westernized and peaceful Eastern Mediterranean. Influenced by the strengthening rôle of Russia and Turkey, as well as by internal structural problems in the social, political and economic spheres, the Hellenic Republic and the Republic of Cyprus find themselves in a maelstrom of different and often conflicting regional interests, over which they have only minimal control. Developments are likely to have an impact on not only European integration, but on regional stability as a whole, since it can be argued that the old power structures of NATO and the EU are now having to contend with new regional factors. The article concludes with the observation that the situation in the region is confusing and volatile in diplomatic terms. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 306-332 Issue: 3 Volume: 22 Year: 2020 Month: 5 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2020.1739878 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2020.1739878 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:22:y:2020:i:3:p:306-332 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1738793_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: William Mallinson Author-X-Name-First: William Author-X-Name-Last: Mallinson Title: Greece and Cyprus as Geopolitical Fodder, and the Russian Connexion Abstract: This paper adopts a geohistorical approach in explaining the interactions of the past between Greece, Cyprus and Russia/USSR, within the context of the Eastern Mediterranean, and demonstrates that basic human and political characteristics have barely altered when it comes to today; rather, new colours are being painted to reflect allegedly ‘new’ circumstances. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 333-342 Issue: 3 Volume: 22 Year: 2020 Month: 5 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2020.1738793 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2020.1738793 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:22:y:2020:i:3:p:333-342 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1739880_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Biljana Vankovska Author-X-Name-First: Biljana Author-X-Name-Last: Vankovska Title: Geopolitics of the Prespa Agreement: Background and After-Effects Abstract: The Prespa Agreement (PA), which allegedly resolved the name dispute between Athens and Skopje, has been commended as an unparalleled triumph of Western diplomacy and a proof of maturity on the part of the two states involved. This article sheds light on one of the deal’s least explored aspects—its geopolitical motives. The starting premise is that the agreement is a product of arm-twisting for the sake of advancing NATO, i.e., predominantly USA interests in the region. This article argues that instead of resolving a dispute, the PA is likely to grow into an additional source of regional destabilization. This article handles the PA, the conditions under which it was made possible and its aftermath, as an empirical case that may expose some important points about how neo-imperialism organizes matters in the region and beyond. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 343-371 Issue: 3 Volume: 22 Year: 2020 Month: 5 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2020.1739880 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2020.1739880 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:22:y:2020:i:3:p:343-371 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1739879_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Klearchos A. Kyriakides Author-X-Name-First: Klearchos A. Author-X-Name-Last: Kyriakides Title: Syria, Sarin and Cyprus: An Open Letter to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Abstract: This is an updated version of an open letter, dated 9 May 2018, which was originally addressed to Theresa May MP, the then Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (‘UK’). The author composed the original version after a joint US, UK and French operation completed in Syria on 14 April 2018. Each version highlights various dangers presented to the Republic of Cyprus (‘RoC’) and to the adjacent British Sovereign Base Areas (‘SBAs’) by the alleged use of chemical weapons in Syria, the Joint Operation in response and other factors, including the emerging phenomenon of poor air quality. An Addendum supplements this updated version. This pinpoints five salient developments since 9 May 2018. Each reinforces the author’s call—in his open letter—for the British Prime Minister to instigate an independent public inquiry with two main aims. One is to investigate how, why and with what consequences the atmosphere of the RoC and the SBAs has been adversely affected by toxic dust clouds and other sources of poor air quality since 2001. The other is to assess what can be done to address these matters, together with any other natural or man-made environmental threats, to the RoC and SBAs. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 372-414 Issue: 3 Volume: 22 Year: 2020 Month: 5 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2020.1739879 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2020.1739879 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:22:y:2020:i:3:p:372-414 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1753928_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Kıvanç Ulusoy Author-X-Name-First: Kıvanç Author-X-Name-Last: Ulusoy Title: Turkey and Israel: Changing Patterns of Alliances in the Eastern Mediterranean Abstract: Focusing on Turkey and Israel, this paper aims to analyse the changing alliance patterns in the Eastern Mediterranean in the post-Cold War period. It concentrates on the ‘alliance politics’ in the region that the overwhelming power and presence of the United States (US) has been challenged by the recovering Russia, the emerging China and the EU penetration. The transformation of the relations between these two key American allies in the region in response to geopolitical changes that the Arab Spring brought is of particular significance. The paper deals with this in the three interrelated contexts: their reactions to the break-up of states in Iraq and Syria; their policies towards energy discoveries in the Eastern Mediterranean; the impact of their relations on the overall stability and peace in the region. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 415-430 Issue: 3 Volume: 22 Year: 2020 Month: 5 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2020.1753928 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2020.1753928 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:22:y:2020:i:3:p:415-430 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1752560_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Alexandra Bousiou Author-X-Name-First: Alexandra Author-X-Name-Last: Bousiou Title: From Humanitarian Crisis Management to Prison Island: Implementing the European Asylum Regime at the Border Island of Lesvos 2015-2017 Abstract: Since the 2015 refugee crisis the European asylum regime has been under critique for its shortcomings. In order to shed light on the effects of the implementation of the European asylum regime at the border islands, where 80 % of all refugee arrivals took place, I focus on Lesvos, the main island entry point, between 2015–2017. Based on empirical material and secondary sources I trace the evolution of the situation on the island from the increased arrivals of 2015 to the creation of a ‘prison island’ within two years. I operationalize the European asylum regime by looking at three aspects, namely, control, reception and protection. In doing so, I provide a periodization which captures the state of affairs when the arrivals started increasing, the course of events during the peak, and the consolidation of the new architecture of asylum at the island after the EU-Turkey statement. The article demonstrates how the prioritization of control, through confinement at the island, has been serving the goal of identification and registration while raising disproportionally the barriers to access international protection and leading to inhumane reception conditions. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 431-447 Issue: 3 Volume: 22 Year: 2020 Month: 5 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2020.1752560 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2020.1752560 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:22:y:2020:i:3:p:431-447 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1752561_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Leila Simona Talani Author-X-Name-First: Leila Simona Author-X-Name-Last: Talani Title: The 2014/2015 Refugee Crisis in the EU and the Mediterranean Route Abstract: The refugee crisis of 2014/15 produced a huge stress on the already controversial EU common approach to migration and asylum from third countries. This article shows that securitization of the European border has increased after the refugee crisis of 2014/15 especially on the Eastern and Central Mediterranean routes. To this aim, it will first analyse the dynamics of regular and irregular migration to the EU by third country nationals in general. It will then move to the 2014/2015 refugee crisis emphasizing the role that the Mediterranean route had in it. The article will give some insights about the explanations proposed to the securitization of migratory policy, and to its externalization especially after the refugee crisis. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 448-464 Issue: 3 Volume: 22 Year: 2020 Month: 5 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2020.1752561 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2020.1752561 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:22:y:2020:i:3:p:448-464 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1506291_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Ipek Demirsu Author-X-Name-First: Ipek Author-X-Name-Last: Demirsu Author-Name: Damla Cihangir-Tetik Author-X-Name-First: Damla Author-X-Name-Last: Cihangir-Tetik Title: Constructing the Partnership with Turkey on the Refugee Crisis: EU Perceptions and Expectations Abstract: The article sheds light on the period of intensified dialogue between Turkey and the EU and how it has been perceived by the latter since the climax of the Syrian civil war and the ensuing humanitarian crisis. To this end, the paper analyses official documents and expert interviews through the qualitative research program ATLAS.ti in order to trace salient patterns in the discourse of EU institutions, premised on the methodological approach of grounded theory. The findings of the analysis suggest that the official EU approach to the partnership has been mainly imbued in a security perspective that seeks to externalize the refugee crisis, pursued with the promise of re-invigorating Turkey’s long inert accession process. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 625-642 Issue: 6 Volume: 21 Year: 2019 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2018.1506291 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2018.1506291 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:21:y:2019:i:6:p:625-642 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1506292_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Martina Ponížilová Author-X-Name-First: Martina Author-X-Name-Last: Ponížilová Title: Foreign Policy Activities of China in the Middle East: Establishing Energy Security or Being a Responsible Emerging Power? Abstract: The strategic map of the Middle East is slowly changing, with traditional powers retreating from the regional management and with the expanding power vacuum in the region. Lately, growing attention is focused on emerging powers such as China that have capabilities and potential to increase their engagement in regional politics and conflict management. However, the question is if China as the most powerful of contemporary emerging powers and an important trade and energy partner of Middle Eastern countries is willing and able to take on the role of an extra-regional leader that will stabilize the regional order. This article explains motivations behind Chinaʼs Mid-East policy and shows that although China is increasing its presence in the region, it is not yet ready to become a major force in shaping regional politics. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 643-662 Issue: 6 Volume: 21 Year: 2019 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2018.1506292 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2018.1506292 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:21:y:2019:i:6:p:643-662 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1506296_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Mehmet Erman Erol Author-X-Name-First: Mehmet Erman Author-X-Name-Last: Erol Title: State and Labour under AKP Rule in Turkey: An Appraisal Abstract: The political Islamist AKP (Justice and Development Party) has been in power in Turkey since the November 2002 elections. This era brought about significant changes and transformations in many aspects of state‒society and state‒economy relations. However, as far as the state’s management of labour power is considered, the era represented a direct continuity with the post-1980 authoritarian neoliberal restructuring. The party’s policies aimed to make the labour market more competitive, flexible, low-waged, precarious and de-unionized. Economic policies in this term also increased the indebtedness of labourers as a result of the detrimental developments in the labour markets for workers. The AKP also did not hesitate to use state power whenever possible in order to suppress workers’ discontent and strikes. However, the party also enjoyed a considerable amount of working class support as a result of the ‘neoliberal social policy regime’ which attempted to alleviate the detrimental effects in the labour market. Against this background, this article attempts to develop a critical appraisal of state‒labour relations and general trends thereof, and make sense of developments in the labour market during the AKP era. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 663-677 Issue: 6 Volume: 21 Year: 2019 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2018.1506296 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2018.1506296 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:21:y:2019:i:6:p:663-677 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1506294_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Esengül Ayaz Avan Author-X-Name-First: Esengül Author-X-Name-Last: Ayaz Avan Title: Europeanization of Turkey’s Foreign Policy: The Case of Turkey’s Mediation in the Israel–Palestine Conflict Abstract: This study investigates the Europeanization of Turkey’s foreign policy by examining Turkey’s mediating role in the Israel–Palestine dispute. The paper assesses whether, to what extent and how the EU shaped Turkey’s mediating role in the conflict. It is concluded that Turkish political actors used the EU to justify certain policies and their relations with certain actors, which would otherwise be considered unacceptable. Given its indirect impact on Turkey’s mediation, the EU’s role in Turkish foreign policy should not be exaggerated. There seems to be no evidence in this case that Turkish foreign policy-makers internalized EU foreign-policy norms. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 678-695 Issue: 6 Volume: 21 Year: 2019 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2018.1506294 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2018.1506294 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:21:y:2019:i:6:p:678-695 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1506293_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Aleksandar Ignjatović Author-X-Name-First: Aleksandar Author-X-Name-Last: Ignjatović Title: Affecting Consonance, Striving for Dominance: Scholarship and Politics at the Congresses of Byzantine Studies in the Balkans, 1924–1934 Abstract: Despite the rapid development of Byzantine studies in the Balkans, Byzantium has remained a controversial and highly politicized subject. Its historical status and ideological significance are ambiguous, making it a topic germane to both scholarship and politics. This was particularly evident at the first four International Congresses of Byzantine Studies held between 1924 and 1934 in Bucharest, Belgrade, Athens and Sofia. This article examines the ideological frameworks and political implications of the congresses as a conspicuous example of the symbiotic nexus between scholarship and politics developed in the precarious geopolitical context of the post-Versailles Balkans. What this article shows is that Byzantium was simultaneously seen as a transnational legacy and exclusive national heritage, which has remained key to its ideological instrumentality until today. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 696-715 Issue: 6 Volume: 21 Year: 2019 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2018.1506293 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2018.1506293 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:21:y:2019:i:6:p:696-715 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1506295_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Mohammad Soltaninejad Author-X-Name-First: Mohammad Author-X-Name-Last: Soltaninejad Title: Coalition-Building in Iran’s Foreign Policy: Understanding the ‘Axis of Resistance’ Abstract: Iran’s coalition with the states and political organizations in the Middle East that are either Shia or act to counter the West and its regional allies is a consequence of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s emotionally constructed identity. The empathy Iran has for the Shia resulting from the pain they have collectively suffered throughout history explains Iran’s support for the Shia elements in Lebanon and Iraq. With the same logic, assistance Iran gives to Syria and the Palestinian organizations fighting Israel and sanctioned by the West are out of resentment against some Western powers embedded in Iran’s identity shaped by a history of disrespect Iranians have seen from some Western powers, particularly Britain and the United States. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 716-731 Issue: 6 Volume: 21 Year: 2019 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2018.1506295 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2018.1506295 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:21:y:2019:i:6:p:716-731 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2037963_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Armela Xhaho Author-X-Name-First: Armela Author-X-Name-Last: Xhaho Author-Name: Ajay Bailey Author-X-Name-First: Ajay Author-X-Name-Last: Bailey Author-Name: Erka Çaro Author-X-Name-First: Erka Author-X-Name-Last: Çaro Title: Who Takes Care of the Children? Albanian Migrant Parents’ Strategies for Combining Work and Childcare in Greece Abstract: This paper aims to explore the strategies Albanian migrant parents in Greece employ to reconcile their work and childcare responsibilities. The institutional context, the informal work setting, and the agency of the migrants all play crucial roles in their childcare arrangements. This research draws on 36 biographical interviews conducted during 2014–2016 with parents in Greece. Our findings suggest that migrants use different coping strategies to manage their work and care responsibilities. These strategies include mother-centred strategies or mothers making career sacrifices to meet their care responsibilities, shared parenting, relying on extended family and friends, delegating care to older children, leaving children to care for themselves, taking children to work, and transnational care practices. This study shows how care arrangement options were constrained and continuously shaped by migration, care, gender, and labour regimes. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 815-835 Issue: 5 Volume: 24 Year: 2022 Month: 09 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2022.2037963 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2022.2037963 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:24:y:2022:i:5:p:815-835 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2037960_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Necati Anaz Author-X-Name-First: Necati Author-X-Name-Last: Anaz Title: An Assessment of Turkey’s Soft Power Resources in Asia: Potential and Limitations Abstract: A significant part of the academic discussions on Turkey’s foreign policy includes Turkey’s soft power capacity. The Justice and Development Party has used soft power more extensively than any other previous government in the history of the Turkish Republic. Turkish soft power consists of both direct state soft power, through its diplomatic expansions, and massive non-state outreach endeavours via Turkish cultural, economic, and welfare non-state actors, as well as Turkish media and TV popularity around the world. Although Asia comes third in Turkey’s diplomatic circle, after the Balkans and Africa, it has come into policy focus as Turkey expands its trade, as well as political and cultural exchanges with the Asian continent. This paper investigates Turkey’s soft power initiatives in Asia in the form of diplomatic missions, educational foundations, entertainment, and commercial investments. This paper argues that Turkey’s soft power initiatives and public diplomatic capacity through state-managed resources are more limited and insufficient compared to its non-state resources, due to the latter’s civic nature and organic engagements. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 755-771 Issue: 5 Volume: 24 Year: 2022 Month: 09 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2022.2037960 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2022.2037960 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:24:y:2022:i:5:p:755-771 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2037961_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Islam Jusufi Author-X-Name-First: Islam Author-X-Name-Last: Jusufi Title: How the EU-induced Institutional Changes Facilitated Patronage over and Capture of Judiciary in North Macedonia Abstract: Extensive reforms were undertaken to tackle the inefficiencies in judiciary in the Southeast European country of North Macedonia. The EU asked North Macedonia, as a candidate country for EU membership, to undertake intensive judiciary reforms. However, these reforms were not sufficient to eradicate and prevent patronage practices regarding the judiciary by the ruling political parties. Instead, contestation accompanied judiciary reforms. This article examines how the politics of patronage emerged and progressed and argues that it is possible to identify a quiet take-over of the judiciary by the executive. What is distinctive about North Macedonia is the failure of the reforms to constrain the ability of the ruling majorities to penetrate the judiciary. The result has been a patronage over and capture of the judiciary. This study demonstrates that there was informal resistance and failure to ensure internalization of EU judiciary norms. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 836-859 Issue: 5 Volume: 24 Year: 2022 Month: 09 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2022.2037961 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2022.2037961 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:24:y:2022:i:5:p:836-859 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2037962_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Georgios Maris Author-X-Name-First: Georgios Author-X-Name-Last: Maris Author-Name: Floros Flouros Author-X-Name-First: Floros Author-X-Name-Last: Flouros Author-Name: Ioannis Galariotis Author-X-Name-First: Ioannis Author-X-Name-Last: Galariotis Title: The Changing Security Landscape in South-Eastern Mediterranean: Assessing Turkey’s Strategies as a Rising Power Abstract: The main goal of this paper is to shed light on Turkey’s power status as a rising state in the wider region of the South-Eastern Mediterranean and test its strategies to change the balance of power in this region. In doing so, we draw heavily on a novel conceptual framework of Itzkowitz Shifrinson (2020a) that articulates alternative strategies of rising states towards declining great powers based on specific goals and means formulating those strategies. We argue that, given the relative decline of great powers in the region of the South-East Mediterranean, Turkey is a rising power with a strategic vision to maximize its aspirations for leadership and control, and, where possible, alter the status quo. Towards this end, Turkey is employing a broad foreign policy agenda in several policy areas based on a variety of alternative strategies. Through this analysis, we examine and demonstrate the different strategies of Turkey in changing the power balance in three important geopolitical spheres of influence: a) Balkans-Middle East-Caucasus, b) Black Sea-Adriatic-Eastern Mediterranean-Red Sea-Persian Gulf and c) Εurope-N. Africa-S. Asia- Central Asia. Turkey’s regional strategies have a considerable impact in the security context vis-à-vis the main great powers in the South-Eastern Mediterranean. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 795-814 Issue: 5 Volume: 24 Year: 2022 Month: 09 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2022.2037962 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2022.2037962 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:24:y:2022:i:5:p:795-814 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2037959_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Roie Yellinek Author-X-Name-First: Roie Author-X-Name-Last: Yellinek Title: Soft Power and SPPD in China Iran Relationship Abstract: In an effort to support its economic growth that has become dependent on external factors, China has been ramping up its use of Soft Power Pipelines Diffusion. Due to Iran’s strategic location, rich oil and natural gas reserves and joint opposition to the US hegemony, China has been employing different instruments of Soft Power to gain influence in that country. This article will review and analyse the main expressions of China’s Soft Power pipelines in Iran and examine how they are perceived by the Iranian public. The findings of this study show that while some Iranians view Chinese influence as generally positive, others are more apprehensive and suspicious in their approach, but overall the Iranian know that they need China as an alliance. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 733-754 Issue: 5 Volume: 24 Year: 2022 Month: 09 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2022.2037959 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2022.2037959 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:24:y:2022:i:5:p:733-754 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2037958_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Jaromír Harmáček Author-X-Name-First: Jaromír Author-X-Name-Last: Harmáček Author-Name: Zdeněk Opršal Author-X-Name-First: Zdeněk Author-X-Name-Last: Opršal Author-Name: Pavla Vítová Author-X-Name-First: Pavla Author-X-Name-Last: Vítová Title: Aid, Trade or Faith? Questioning Narratives and Territorial Pattern of Gulf Foreign Aid Abstract: The paper introduces and examines the narratives and specifics of Gulf bilateral donors—namely the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia. It confronts established narratives with current data and trends and includes the perspective of both Western and Arab scholars. The research points to some new trends among Gulf donors, notably the diversification of their aid sectors and the strengthening of the distinctiveness of Gulf donors from other southern donors. The research also focuses on the narratives about bilateral aid allocation factors of Gulf donors. The results confirm the continuing preference of Arab countries in Middle East and North Africa with predominately Muslim populations. However, aid is not evenly allocated among recipients in the MENA region, and the different and sometimes conflicting (geo)political and security interests of Gulf donors play an important role in the territorial distribution of aid. In addition to these strategic considerations behind the allocation of aid from Gulf donors, the study reveals certain importance of social needs’ factors in distribution of Emirati and Kuwaiti official aid. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 772-794 Issue: 5 Volume: 24 Year: 2022 Month: 09 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2022.2037958 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2022.2037958 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:24:y:2022:i:5:p:772-794 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1406687_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Hazal Papuççular Author-X-Name-First: Hazal Author-X-Name-Last: Papuççular Title: Fragile Balances: Turkish Foreign Policy on the Sovereignty of the Dodecanese Islands (1940–1947) Abstract: The Dodecanese Islands became a subject of diplomatic negotiations both during and after World War II. This article examines the position of Turkish foreign policy on the sovereignty of the islands. It argues that the analysis of the subject necessitates a multi-faceted approach which takes both the concerned parties’ stance and Turkey’s post-war international status into consideration. This study shows that Britain and the US frankly favoured the Greek claims after 1940. Accordingly, it asserts that in the post-war period, Turkey constituted its diplomacy over the Dodecanese based on the rising Soviet threat against which it sought support from the Western powers. It also shows that Ankara sometimes made attempts to intervene in the process regarding the Dodecanese although they were short-lived and inconclusive. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 405-419 Issue: 5 Volume: 20 Year: 2018 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2018.1406687 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2018.1406687 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:20:y:2018:i:5:p:405-419 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1406689_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Eszter Spät Author-X-Name-First: Eszter Author-X-Name-Last: Spät Title: Yezidi Identity Politics and Political Ambitions in the Wake of the ISIS Attack Abstract: This article studies the impact of the ISIS attack and its political aftermath on the identity formation of Yezidis and their political ambition for a future in Iraq. Yezidis, a previously marginalized non-Muslim religious minority, came to play an important role in the Kurdish national movement both ideologically, as the ‘guardians of the original Kurdish faith’, and practically, as a source of logistical support to the Peshmerga in the mountains. Attempts to co-opt Yezidis for the Kurdish cause, contrasted to the memory of repeated persecutions by their Muslim neighbours, resulted in a shifting Yezidi identity, ranging from identifying as Kurdish to considering themselves a distinct ethno-nationalist group. The trauma of the ISIS attack and mass displacement, as well as disappointment in the Kurdish government, weighed against the need for allies make the question of identity more relevant than ever, as it profoundly affects the ways Yezidis envisage their future existence in a post-ISIS Iraq. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 420-438 Issue: 5 Volume: 20 Year: 2018 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2018.1406689 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2018.1406689 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:20:y:2018:i:5:p:420-438 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1385935_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Dağhan Irak Author-X-Name-First: Dağhan Author-X-Name-Last: Irak Author-Name: Ahmet Erdi Öztürk Author-X-Name-First: Ahmet Erdi Author-X-Name-Last: Öztürk Title: Redefinition of State Apparatuses: AKP’s Formal–Informal Networks in the Online Realm Abstract: In Turkey, especially since 2010, the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has gradually assumed all power within the state. In parallel, it has introduced a hegemonic project widely known as ‘New Turkey’, redefining state apparatuses through its proprietary web of networks of formal and informal relations. Inclusion in, or exclusion from, these networks is at the sole discretion of leading political actors, and can be considered as a state apparatus in itself, even though it contains elements that are informal or unofficial. All these networks of official and unofficial apparatuses are centred around President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. The article focuses on the Twitter interactions of 25 key elements of the AKP’s web of networks between 2010 and 2016, using Social Network Analysis. In the Turkish context, the use of Twitter as a means of communication is particularly pertinent, as it stands out as a unique channel for democratic discourse. The findings of the research confirm that the Twitter interactions of the 25 official and unofficial state apparatuses, with very few exceptions, constitute a network well-connected to the core, mostly represented by Erdoğan. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 439-458 Issue: 5 Volume: 20 Year: 2018 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2018.1385935 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2018.1385935 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:20:y:2018:i:5:p:439-458 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1385932_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Eldad Ben Aharon Author-X-Name-First: Eldad Author-X-Name-Last: Ben Aharon Title: Between Ankara and Jerusalem: the Armenian Genocide as a Zero-Sum Game in Israel's Foreign Policy (1980’s -2010’s) Abstract: This article examines the historical and symbiotic relationship between Israel’s foreign policy and its domestic political and cultural arena in respect to the Armenian Genocide as being like a zero-sum game. The article argues that for more than three decades (1980s‒2010s) the Israeli policy on the Armenian Genocide has been mainly dependent on low degree of domestic pressure, specifically lack of substantial parliamentary pressure by opposition parties, on successive Israeli governments to recognize the genocide. This has made it easier for Israel to come to economic, military and arms trading agreements with Turkey and, in recent years, with Azerbaijan. Successive Turkish governments, meanwhile, have known both that Israel’s executive forces have been facing a low degree of parliamentary pressure to recognize the genocide domestically, and have used this knowledge to put their own pressure on Israel regarding the issue of recognition, pushing it to be tougher domestically to silence the campaign. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 459-476 Issue: 5 Volume: 20 Year: 2018 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2018.1385932 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2018.1385932 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:20:y:2018:i:5:p:459-476 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1406694_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Ljubiša Vladušić Author-X-Name-First: Ljubiša Author-X-Name-Last: Vladušić Author-Name: Vaso Dragović Author-X-Name-First: Vaso Author-X-Name-Last: Dragović Author-Name: Dragana Bašić Author-X-Name-First: Dragana Author-X-Name-Last: Bašić Title: Growth and Relation of Private Savings and Gross Domestic Product in Bosnia and Herzegovina Abstract: Private savings cannot be observed separately from investments in economic theory. There is a relation between the growth of private savings and the growth of gross domestic product (GDP). In transition countries such as Bosnia and Herzegovina (BH), the growth of foreign direct investment (FDI) is in the function of the growth of GDP which, is to a lower extent, applicable for the growth of domestic private savings. In the long-term perspective, economic recovery of these countries should rely on investments through domestic private savings and capital accumulation, as it ensures economic independence and stability of every state. The development base of BH’s economy since 1998 has mainly been based on the policy of attracting foreign investment, through either loans arrangements and foreign direct investments FDIs. This article presents the results of research focused on the growth of private savings and GDP and their relation in BH in the period from 1998 to 2015. The research has been conducted on the basis of data published by official domestic and international organizations (Statistics Agency, banks, International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and others). The purpose of the research is to obtain information on the growth tendencies and the strength of the relation of these two aggregates in the mentioned period, which is important for the creation and realization of economic policy. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 477-494 Issue: 5 Volume: 20 Year: 2018 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2018.1406694 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2018.1406694 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:20:y:2018:i:5:p:477-494 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1385934_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Emil Hilton Saggau Author-X-Name-First: Emil Hilton Author-X-Name-Last: Saggau Title: A Shrine for the Nation: The Material Transformation of the Lovćen Site in Montenegro Abstract: Mount Lovćen holds significant cultural, political and religious symbolism in Montenegro, especially due to the fact that the mountain is the last resting place of the prince-bishop and national poet Petar II Petrovich-Njegoš (1813–1851). In the twentieth century the grave of Njegoš has undergone profound material transformations. Each of these transformations has led to heated debates about the site’s religious and national significance. During 2013, in the context of the celebration of the 200th anniversary of Njegoš’ birth, the debate flared up again. This article approaches the recent discussion over the site through an in-depth and fieldwork-based study of the sacralization and the religious reinvention of the Lovćen mountain and monument. The abrupt material, semantic and practical transformations of the site in the twentieth century suggest a profound process of sacralization, which this article seeks to examine. This study of the case of Lovćen provides new insight into political contestation of identity from the point of view of material religion, and allows us to nuance our understanding of the relationship between nationhood and religion as it is materialized in monuments, places and memories in Montenegro since the independence of the country in 2006. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 495-512 Issue: 5 Volume: 20 Year: 2018 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2018.1385934 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2018.1385934 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:20:y:2018:i:5:p:495-512 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1406696_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Murat Öztürk Author-X-Name-First: Murat Author-X-Name-Last: Öztürk Author-Name: Beşir Topaloğlu Author-X-Name-First: Beşir Author-X-Name-Last: Topaloğlu Author-Name: Andy Hilton Author-X-Name-First: Andy Author-X-Name-Last: Hilton Author-Name: Joost Jongerden Author-X-Name-First: Joost Author-X-Name-Last: Jongerden Title: Rural‒Urban Mobilities in Turkey: Socio-spatial Perspectives on Migration and Return Movements Abstract: Based on original data, this article discusses rural‒urban mobilities and the contemporary employment‒migration relationship. Starting with the observation of reduced rural population but maintained family-farm numbers, it engages with multiple issues, including rural employment, the process of urban migration, settlement in the city, the relation of migrants to the rurality and (return) counter-migration. It supports the thesis that migration is not so much about a ‘movement from one place to another’, the classical migration definition, and more about a coupling of practices (related to mobilities, residence, employment, etc.) with places over time. Thus, migration and counter-migration are conceptualized as socio-spatial strategies, conceptualized as ‘multi-place living’ or ‘dual life’, which are based on variable engagements with rural farming, urban wage labour and return movements (for retirement, refuge, etc.). The newly emergent and growing dual/multi-place structures that result from this are re-shaping village life in particular, expressed in various ways, such as in a changing village demography and function. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 513-530 Issue: 5 Volume: 20 Year: 2018 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2018.1406696 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2018.1406696 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:20:y:2018:i:5:p:513-530 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_9659386_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: PACO ROMERO Author-X-Name-First: PACO Author-X-Name-Last: ROMERO Title: Spain, from liberalism to Fascism, 1808-1977 Abstract: CHARLES ESDAILE, Spain in the Liberal Age: From Constitution to Civil War, 1808-1939 (Blackwell, London, 2000), xii +434 pp., ISBN 0-631-14988-0 (hb), £18.99STANLEY G. PAYNE, Fascism in Spain, 1923-1977 (University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, WI, 1999), xiii +601 pp., ISBN 0-299-16564-7 (pb), $24.95 The two works under review constitute a remarkable and welcome analysis of the complex and too often violent making of modern Spain. To most Anglo-Saxon readers accustomed to the relatively political and constitutional normality of their countries, the history of Spain could appear as a chaotic succession of strife, insurrections and military intervention. Indeed, few countries in Europe have experienced in the space of some 130 years such a number of civil wars, royal departures and restorations, and praetorian rule. The shortcomings and fragile foundations of Spanish liberalism explain this constant cycle of political and social instability. This long period of turmoil initiated by the French invasion of the Iberian Peninsula in 1808 to the end of the Civil War in 1939 is the framework for the book by Charles Esdaile. The complexity of the subject and the gigantic shadow still cast by the pioneering study of Raymond Carr, Spain 1808-1939, meant that it was not an easy undertaking. Thus one has to recognize both the urgent necessity for this text and admire the author's ability to carry it off. Ironically, Esdaile, a 19th century expert, excels in the chapters dealing with the period 1898-1936, a notable updating and improvement on Carr's masterly work. Yet, and perhaps because of his expertise, the breathless narrative of the first half of the text often conceals the overall analysis. Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 375-380 Issue: 3 Volume: 5 Year: 2003 X-DOI: 10.1080/1461319032000171821 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/1461319032000171821 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:5:y:2003:i:3:p:375-380 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_9659385_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: CHRISTOPHE SOLIOZ Author-X-Name-First: CHRISTOPHE Author-X-Name-Last: SOLIOZ Author-Name: WOLFGANG PETRITSCH Author-X-Name-First: WOLFGANG Author-X-Name-Last: PETRITSCH Title: The fate of Bosnia and Herzegovina: an exclusive interview of Christophe Solioz with Wolfgang Petritsch Abstract: Introductory comments The Bosnia war ended not by peace-keeping, nor by war-making, even if a military intervention was required, but by political engineering: the creation of the Bosnian-Croat Federation (1994) and the General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina (1995). If pacification and normalisation were the first aims, Bosnia and Herzegovina is now engaged in a complex transition and integration process. But after 8 years of international presence, Bosnia and Herzegovina is still an aid-dependent country, and most aspects of social, political and economic life are now matters of the international protectorate-type intervention. In order to overcome this situation, foreign involvement will remain a prerequisite, but it must absolutely address Bosnian self-government and ownership with an adequate strategy. After a first period of military stabilisation and reconstruction (1995-1997), and a second one of a quasi-protectorate characterised by a strong use of the powers of the High Representative (1997-2000), the main challenge of the third period—now under way—is to enable the transition from an international soft-protectorate to a sustainable and sovereign Bosnian state. The former High Representative Wolfgang Petritsch focused on international power precisely in support of state-building objectives and worked for the Bosnian ownership of a new local institutional environment, which is capable of taking responsibility for the new state. We start this interview with a regional focus, as Wolfgang Petritsch was also Special Envoy of the EU for Kosovo (1998-1999) and later on European Union Chief Negotiator at the Kosovo peace talks in Rambouillet and Paris (1999). Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 355-373 Issue: 3 Volume: 5 Year: 2003 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190310001610788 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190310001610788 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:5:y:2003:i:3:p:355-373 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_9659388_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: The Editors Title: BOOK REVIEWS Abstract: GISELA BOCK and ANNE COVA (eds), Writing Women's History in Southern Europe, 19th-20th Centuries/Ecrire l'histoire des femmes en Europe du Sud XIXe-XXe Siècles (Celta Editora, Oeiras, 2003), 183 pp., ISBN 9-72774-149-5 (pb) This book is the outcome of the very first meeting to be held to explore the state of gender history in Southern Europe—or rather, of South-Western Europe. It focused on ‘writing women's history’, and by choosing this terminology, the editors express their desire to recall the path-breaking volume Writing Women's History: International Perspectives by Karen M.Offen, Ruth R. Pierson, and Jane Rendall (Bloomington and London, Indiana University Press and Macmillan, 1991), as well as Françoise Thébaud's Ecrire l'histoire des femmes (Fontenay/Saint Cloud, ENS, 1998). Echoing this, the editors have produced a bilingual volume in English and French, a welcome initiative that addresses the fact that French was the first foreign language taught in schools in South-Western European countries until a decade or two ago, and attempts to take a step back from Anglo-centric history. The book comprises discussions of the historiography of women in Portugal, Spain, France, Italy and Greece, followed by a shorter 40-page section on recent research on women in Portugal (as the book is edited there and the conference, held in Arrábida, was a Portuguese historians' initiative). Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 387-402 Issue: 3 Volume: 5 Year: 2003 X-DOI: 10.1080/1461319032000147639 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/1461319032000147639 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:5:y:2003:i:3:p:387-402 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_9659387_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: DIA ANAGNOSTOU Author-X-Name-First: DIA Author-X-Name-Last: ANAGNOSTOU Title: Minorities and the making of the nation-state in 20th century Greece Abstract: RICHARD CLOGG (ed.), Minorities in Greece—Aspects of a Plural Society (Hurst &Company, London, 2003), ISBN 1-850-65706-8 (pb), £16.95DIMITRI PENTZOPOULOS, The Balkan Exchange of Minorities and its Impact on Greece (Hurst &Company, London, 2002, 2nd edn), 300 pp., ISBN 1-850-65674-6 (pb), £20.00 Pentzopoulos' study and the volume edited by Richard Clogg deal with the common theme of minorities in Greece, yet they have very different aims, approaches and results, irrespective of the 40 years that separate the original publication of the former (1962) from the latter. Pentzopoulos presents us with a case study of the Greek–Turkish population exchange agreed with the Lausanne Treaty in 1923 as a means of dealing with the problem of minorities in the aftermath of Greece's irredentist campaign in Asia Minor in 1922. This exposition has the advantages of a historical and interdisciplinary case study, which are strengthened by the author's eloquence. It should be of great interest to scholars seeking to understand the process of Greece's formation and consolidation as a nation-state during the 20th century. The volume edited by Clogg is a collection of essays on a number of religious, ethnic and cultural minorities, whose presence undermines the widespread impression of Greece as a state that incarnates a model of national homogeneity. While it provides a general and informative overview of 10 minority groups, it has the often-encountered weaknesses of edited volumes, such as great divergence in the quality of contributions and lack of analytical cohesion. Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 381-386 Issue: 3 Volume: 5 Year: 2003 X-DOI: 10.1080/1461319032000171830 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/1461319032000171830 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:5:y:2003:i:3:p:381-386 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_9659380_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Vassilis Fouskas Author-X-Name-First: Vassilis Author-X-Name-Last: Fouskas Title: Editorial Abstract: American power and influence have been expanding in every zone formerly under the control of the Soviet Union. This has not been a royal road, smooth and free of risk. For instance, as Suzzette R. Grillot (with Dessie Apostolova) argue, Bulgaria, which is about to enter NATO, had ‘throughout the 1990s provided 15 million dollars worth of light artillery guns to Iraq, using Polish intermediaries and forging end-user certificates’. This kind of ‘back-stage’ deal is as much interesting as it is important. Former Soviet satellites do not tend to surrender overnight their national interests to American wishes. Grillot and Apostolova have produced a very scholarly article. The other themes explored in the issue are as much relevant. Paul Dragos Aligica looks at the ways in which the integration of the Balkan region into global markets can be achieved. Aligica makes clear that the peculiar ‘dualism’ of the region has to be taken seriously into account by policy-makers in order to achieve a fully-fledged integration of the Balkans into world and European markets without major tensions and aftershocks. Keith Brown and Dimitrios Theodossopoulos make out a different case: they criticize some Balkan narratives by which the role of external forces in the region has been analysed and understood. The Republic of Cyprus, together with Malta and other East-Central European countries, will be joining the European Union next spring. But a solution to the island’s de facto division since 1974 is still pending, as the leader of the Turkish-Cypriot community, Rauf Rauf Denktash, turned down the Anan Plan, a scheme that was providing for the re-unification of the island along federal lines. We know enough on EU-Cyprus relations and some of its complicated aspects, but we know very little on how the Parliament of the Republic contributed to the road of Cyprus’s accession to the EU. We are delighted to publish a shorter version of Stavridis’s original work on the ‘international relations of the Cypriot Parliament’, which appeared as ‘The international role of the Cypriot Parliament and Cyprus’s accession to the EU’, in Vassilis K. Fouskas and Heinz A. Richter (eds), Cyprus and Europe: The Long Way Back (Bibliopolis, Mannheim, 2003). Christophe Solioz’s interview with Ambassador Wolfgang Petritsch is most interesting as, among other things, it touches upon the sensitive issue of ownership in a state such as that of Bosnia-Herzegovina. Petrisch is optimistic and he believes that the key to a peaceful future for Bosnia lies in a democratic framework which ‘strengthens state institutions, promotes economic reform and allows all refugees to go back to their homes’. Ilaria Favretto has worked on the reviews section, also editing two interesting review articles by Dia Anagnostou and Paco Romero. Anagnostou reviews two scholarly publications on minorities in Greece and the Balkans and historian Romero two important books on Spain. Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 277-277 Issue: 3 Volume: 5 Year: 2003 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190310001610733 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190310001610733 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:5:y:2003:i:3:p:277-277 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_9659382_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: PAUL DRAGOS ALIGICA Author-X-Name-First: PAUL DRAGOS Author-X-Name-Last: ALIGICA Title: Structural constraints: implications of economic dualism for the development and international integration of South Eastern Europe Abstract: The central argument of this paper pivots around the idea that the structure and functioning of the states and political systems of South Eastern Europe are strongly determined by a long lasting particular feature of the economies and societies of the region: their dualism. This feature has its origins in the modernization process, has evolved in parallel with it and has shaped in a distinctive way both the structure and the dynamics of the polities and states of these countries. The dualism of their economies is thus a key explanatory factor in any attempt to understand the dynamics of the region. Moreover, dualism has always played a crucial role in the process of international integration of South Eastern Europe in the European and global system and it is very likely that it will continue to play a major role in the future. Accordingly the approach articulated is not laying the emphasis on ethnicity, nationalism or religion as the mainstream approaches to the states and problems of the South East European region usually do, but on the regional political economies and on what this paper considers to be their key structural problem. It is indeed difficult to imagine and analyse the Balkan problems making abstraction of the powerful ethnic and religious forces that shaped the destiny of the region but it is important to approach these problems from different and complementary angles. The present analysis implies a simplification indeed, but it is an instrumental and pragmatic one that helps us to discern and disentangle some patterns or configurations of factors relevant for a better understanding of the internal evolutions and of the international integration prospects of South Eastern Europe. The main objective of the paper is to use a specific way of conceptualizing the political economy dynamics of the region in order to illuminate from a structural and historic perspective a crucial problem currently faced by the Balkan states in their attempt to settle on the path of self-sustained growth and European integration. Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 299-314 Issue: 3 Volume: 5 Year: 2003 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190310001610751 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190310001610751 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:5:y:2003:i:3:p:299-314 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_9659381_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: SUZETTE R. GRILLOT Author-X-Name-First: SUZETTE R. Author-X-Name-Last: GRILLOT Author-Name: DESSIE APOSTOLOVA Author-X-Name-First: DESSIE Author-X-Name-Last: APOSTOLOVA Title: Light weapons, long reach: Bulgaria's role in the global spread and control of small arms Abstract: Shortly after the beginning of our new millennium, a UN committee headed by Canadian Ambassador Robert Fowler released a report accusing Bulgaria of numerous and dangerous weapons sales to Angola's Uniao Nacional para a Independencia Total de Angola (UNITA). Such actions by the Bulgarian government violated the UN arms and fuel embargo against the African country. This incident added to the already scandalous list of Bulgaria's arms sales and its role in the global spread of small arms and light weapons. During the Cold War, Bulgaria's small arms record included: weapons and ammunition transfers in the 1970s to Armscor, a South African defence company, in violation of a UN arms embargo; arms sales to the Lebanese militia in 1975, despite the Soviet Union's arming of the Palestinians; weapons transfers to the Nigerian government during the Biafra conflict; military supplies to the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) during the 1970s and 1980s; and the sale of grenade launchers, ammunition and artillery shells to Iran during the Iran–Iraq war. Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 279-297 Issue: 3 Volume: 5 Year: 2003 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190310001610742 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190310001610742 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:5:y:2003:i:3:p:279-297 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_9659384_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: STELIOS STAVRIDIS Author-X-Name-First: STELIOS Author-X-Name-Last: STAVRIDIS Title: The international relations of the Cypriot Parliament Abstract: The Cyprus Problem has been a complex and difficult international issue since 1974 when Turkey invaded the northern part of the Island following the (then ruling) Athens junta-engineered coup against Archbishop Makarios. The United Nations (UN) Security Council and its General Assembly have repeatedly stated that the situation on the Island is an unacceptable violation of international law and other UN principles and that a ‘just and lasting solution’ be found. From the beginning of the Cyprus Problem, the European Community/Union (EU) has consistently, at least at the rhetorical level, supported the UN resolutions and other efforts made to find a solution to the Problem. Since the December 1999 Helsinki European Council meeting, the EU and all its member states have stated that the lack of a solution to the Cyprus Problem will not be regarded as an obstacle to Cyprus' accession to the Union. Now that the Athens Accession Treaty with 10 candidate states, including the Republic of Cyprus, has been signed (16 April 2003), all 10 countries are scheduled to join the EU in May 2004. Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 337-354 Issue: 3 Volume: 5 Year: 2003 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190310001610779 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190310001610779 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:5:y:2003:i:3:p:337-354 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_9659383_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: KEITH BROWN Author-X-Name-First: KEITH Author-X-Name-Last: BROWN Author-Name: DIMITRIOS THEODOSSOPOULOS Author-X-Name-First: DIMITRIOS Author-X-Name-Last: THEODOSSOPOULOS Title: Rearranging solidarity: conspiracy and world order in Greek and Macedonian commentaries on Kosovo Abstract: In the spring of 1999, after escalating tensions in the Yugoslav province of Kosovo, NATO went to war against Serbia. This Western intervention was the object of heated debate in various constituencies around the world: within Yugoslavia, Kosovo's majority Albanian population rejoiced in their possible liberation from Serbian oppression, while Serbs questioned the legality of international involvement within a sovereign state. In Europe and America, leftist critics warned of US imperialism, while in China mass protests were sparked when NATO bombs destroyed the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade. Closer to the combat zone, citizens of other southeast European countries watched uneasily. The break-up of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s had generated bloody conflict in Croatia and Bosnia, where successor states vied to control territory and resources. It had also prompted dispute in the symbolic realm, as Greece objected to the recognition of the Republic of Macedonia's sovereignty. The Kosovo war of 1999, though, represented a new set of issues: the ferocity of NATO's aerial assault, the mass displacement of refugees into fragile neighbouring states, and the fundamental character of the war, which pitted Western armed forces directly against a Balkan state, were all unprecedented, and fed fears among amateur and professional commentators that further escalation was likely. In this paper we set out to examine the presence of the Kosovo war in everyday commentary and conversation among the residents of two cities, one Greek and one Macedonian, in 1999. Our aim is first ethnographic: to document how people in the region interpreted a war that Western media, following the line preached by US President Clinton and UK Prime Minister Blair, presented at the time as humanitarian, just and therefore necessary. The narratives we collected were unanimous in viewing NATO's action negatively, and drew on an apparently shared stock of idioms. We consider this apparent ‘meeting of minds’ between Greeks and Macedonians as an interpretive challenge. It is remarkable not only because Greece is and Macedonia aspires to be a member of NATO and the European Union, but also in the light of the previously high-profile and allegedly deep-rooted dispute between the two countries. The explanation we offer in this paper is that the common anti-Western rhetoric and remarkable parallels in explanations of the war demonstrate how deeply cultural factors shape perceptions of political realities. Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 315-335 Issue: 3 Volume: 5 Year: 2003 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190310001610760 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190310001610760 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:5:y:2003:i:3:p:315-335 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_268880_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Susannah Verney Author-X-Name-First: Susannah Author-X-Name-Last: Verney Title: The dynamics of EU accession: Turkish travails in comparative perspective Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 307-322 Issue: 3 Volume: 9 Year: 2007 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190701690132 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190701690132 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:9:y:2007:i:3:p:307-322 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_268861_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: MUSTAFA AYDIN Author-X-Name-First: MUSTAFA Author-X-Name-Last: AYDIN Author-Name: SINEM A. ACIKMESE Author-X-Name-First: SINEM A. Author-X-Name-Last: ACIKMESE Title: Europeanization through EU conditionality: understanding the new era in Turkish foreign policy Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 263-274 Issue: 3 Volume: 9 Year: 2007 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190701689944 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190701689944 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:9:y:2007:i:3:p:263-274 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_268864_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: ERSIN KALAYCIOĞLU Author-X-Name-First: ERSIN Author-X-Name-Last: KALAYCIOĞLU Title: Religiosity and protest behaviour: the case of Turkey in comparative perspective Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 275-291 Issue: 3 Volume: 9 Year: 2007 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190701689977 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190701689977 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:9:y:2007:i:3:p:275-291 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_268886_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Emma Plant Author-X-Name-First: Emma Author-X-Name-Last: Plant Title: Book Reviews Journal: Pages: 333-338 Issue: 3 Volume: 9 Year: 2007 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190701690199 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190701690199 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:9:y:2007:i:3:p:333-338 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_268854_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: SUSANNAH VERNEY Author-X-Name-First: SUSANNAH Author-X-Name-Last: VERNEY Title: National identity and political change on Turkey's road to EU membership Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 213-221 Issue: 3 Volume: 9 Year: 2007 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190701689878 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190701689878 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:9:y:2007:i:3:p:213-221 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_271743_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: KOSTAS IFANTIS Author-X-Name-First: KOSTAS Author-X-Name-Last: IFANTIS Title: Turkey in transition—opportunities amidst peril? Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 223-231 Issue: 3 Volume: 9 Year: 2007 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190701718339 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190701718339 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:9:y:2007:i:3:p:223-231 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_268855_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: LUIGI NARBONE Author-X-Name-First: LUIGI Author-X-Name-Last: NARBONE Author-Name: NATHALIE TOCCI Author-X-Name-First: NATHALIE Author-X-Name-Last: TOCCI Title: Running around in circles? The cyclical relationship between Turkey and the European Union Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 233-245 Issue: 3 Volume: 9 Year: 2007 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190701689886 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190701689886 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:9:y:2007:i:3:p:233-245 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_268866_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: HAKAN YILMAZ Author-X-Name-First: HAKAN Author-X-Name-Last: YILMAZ Title: Turkish identity on the road to the EU: basic elements of French and German oppositional discourses Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 293-305 Issue: 3 Volume: 9 Year: 2007 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190701689993 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190701689993 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:9:y:2007:i:3:p:293-305 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_268857_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Ziya Öniş Author-X-Name-First: Ziya Author-X-Name-Last: Öniş Title: Conservative globalists versus defensive nationalists: political parties and paradoxes of Europeanization in Turkey Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 247-261 Issue: 3 Volume: 9 Year: 2007 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190701689902 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190701689902 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:9:y:2007:i:3:p:247-261 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_272755_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: ALEKSA DJILAS Author-X-Name-First: ALEKSA Author-X-Name-Last: DJILAS Title: The academic West and the Balkan test Journal: Pages: 323-332 Issue: 3 Volume: 9 Year: 2007 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190701728320 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190701728320 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:9:y:2007:i:3:p:323-332 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1141575_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Bülent Gökay Author-X-Name-First: Bülent Author-X-Name-Last: Gökay Author-Name: Tunç Aybak Author-X-Name-First: Tunç Author-X-Name-Last: Aybak Title: Identity, Race and Nationalism in Turkey—Introduction to the Special Issue Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 107-110 Issue: 2 Volume: 18 Year: 2016 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2016.1141575 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2016.1141575 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:18:y:2016:i:2:p:107-110 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1141580_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Ilia Xypolia Author-X-Name-First: Ilia Author-X-Name-Last: Xypolia Title: Racist Aspects of Modern Turkish Nationalism Abstract: This paper aims to challenge simplifications on race and racism in contemporary Turkish society. In doing so, it draws a macro-historical context wherein the racist component of the Turkish national identity had been shaped. The paper traces the emergence of the core racist elements at the beginning of the 20th century within the ideology propagated by the organization of the Turkish Hearths (Türk Ocakları). The Turkish History Thesis with its emphasis on ‘race’ attempted to promote not only an affiliation but also a common ancestry between Turkish and Western civilization. These arguments were backed by commissioning research carried out in the fields of Anthropology, Archaeology and Linguistics. The main argument of this paper is that the racist components of the national identity in Turkey have been the product of a Eurocentric understanding of world history by consecutive nationalist leaders. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 111-124 Issue: 2 Volume: 18 Year: 2016 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2016.1141580 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2016.1141580 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:18:y:2016:i:2:p:111-124 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1141582_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Tunç Aybak Author-X-Name-First: Tunç Author-X-Name-Last: Aybak Title: Geopolitics of Denial: Turkish State’s ‘Armenian Problem’ Abstract: Denial of the crimes committed against the Armenians during the late Ottoman Empire has been a permanent feature of modern Turkish diplomatic statecraft, which stems from Turkey’s geopolitical anxieties closely tied with the nation-building process in the Anatolian lands at the expense of other non-Turkish and non-Muslim minorities. The aim of this article is to examine the current discursive debates and diplomatic statecraft in the construction of the denial policies of the Turkish state. Even though Turkey has now departed from collective amnesia and the Armenian genocide has been opened up to public debate, the denial policy has now become an integral part of the Islamic conservative Justice and Development Party’s neo-Ottomanist grand strategy and its regional ambitions. To this extent, the centenary of the Armenian genocide offered an opportunity to the intellectuals and the executers of Turkish statecraft to rebrand its denial policy by deploying diplomatic measures of apology and just memory, and decentring the remembrance that led to the gradual racialization of the Armenian other as a geopolitical threat to the Turkish national identity. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 125-144 Issue: 2 Volume: 18 Year: 2016 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2016.1141582 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2016.1141582 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:18:y:2016:i:2:p:125-144 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1141583_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Nil Mutluer Author-X-Name-First: Nil Author-X-Name-Last: Mutluer Title: The Looming Shadow of Violence and Loss: Alevi Responses to Persecution and Discrimination Abstract: In the collective memories of the Alevis, three ‘acts of violence‘ mark the period spanning the 1960s to 1980s: the consequences of the rapid urbanization of the 1960s, the massacres of the 1970s and the state-induced persecution and oppression of the left-wing political movements in the aftermath of the 1980 coup. These ‘acts of violence‘ have left the imprints of two losses in the collective memories of the Alevis: the loss of the feelings of social and economic security, and the loss of political trust in the state. Recently, the Alevi community’s response to the AKP’s coming to power was that of a cautious ambivalence. This ambiguity did not last long, and, with the so-called Alevi opening of the AKP, governments ended up in a deadlock, and also with the outbreak of the civil war in Syria in 2011 and the Gezi protests in 2013, the looming shadow of violence and loss once again fell on the collective memories of the Alevi community. This article analyses this process from the 1960s onwards. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 145-156 Issue: 2 Volume: 18 Year: 2016 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2016.1141583 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2016.1141583 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:18:y:2016:i:2:p:145-156 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1141584_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Mesut Yegen Author-X-Name-First: Mesut Author-X-Name-Last: Yegen Title: The Turkish Left and the Kurdish Question Abstract: This essay examines Marxist Turkish left’s engagement with the Kurdish question in Turkey. It aims to portray, on the basis of some first-hand material, the theoretical inclinations and political attitudes of the main legal and illegal Marxist parties and organizations concerning the Kurdish question. It basically argues that the Turkish Marxists’ stressful engagement with the Kurdish question can be viewed in four periods corresponding to four conditions: encounter, union, separation, and divorce. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 157-176 Issue: 2 Volume: 18 Year: 2016 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2016.1141584 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2016.1141584 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:18:y:2016:i:2:p:157-176 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1141590_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Bülent Gökay Author-X-Name-First: Bülent Author-X-Name-Last: Gökay Author-Name: Lily Hamourtziadou Author-X-Name-First: Lily Author-X-Name-Last: Hamourtziadou Title: ‘Whiter than White’: Race and Otherness in Turkish and Greek National Identities Abstract: Despite the fact that living together in the same geographical space has created many similarities for Turkey and Greece over the centuries, both sides are keen to identify, even exaggerate, the differences between them and other ‘inferiors’. This article looks at the role of cultural and ‘scientific’ racism(s) in the formation of Turkish and Greek national identities. Both Turkish and Greek identities have been built on European-ness at the same time as Greekness and Turkishness. Therefore, the national identities in Turkey and Greece are defined within the context of mainstream Eurocentrism, and in that sense the same White European race-ism is shared as the essential aspect of Greek and Turkish national characteristics. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 177-189 Issue: 2 Volume: 18 Year: 2016 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2016.1141590 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2016.1141590 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:18:y:2016:i:2:p:177-189 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1201983_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Arolda Elbasani Author-X-Name-First: Arolda Author-X-Name-Last: Elbasani Author-Name: Olivier Roy Author-X-Name-First: Olivier Author-X-Name-Last: Roy Title: Governing Islam and Religious Pluralism in New Democracies Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 1-3 Issue: 1 Volume: 19 Year: 2017 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2016.1201983 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2016.1201983 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:19:y:2017:i:1:p:1-3 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1201985_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Arolda Elbasani Author-X-Name-First: Arolda Author-X-Name-Last: Elbasani Title: Governing Islam in Plural Societies: Religious Freedom, State Neutrality and Traditional Heritage Abstract: Post-Communist openings constituted the ideal foci for reimagining the relationship between the state and religion. Specifically, new opportunities were created to balance between rules of inclusion and exclusion regarding contending alternatives of a ‘good life’. In line with their new democratic aspirations, all Balkan countries have gradually reshuffled their religious policies, formalized religious freedoms, and institutionalized a more equal playing field for their respective religious communities. Realizing an all-inclusive and equal-opportunity structure for all religious denominations, however, proved neither smooth nor automatic, especially when it came to the inclusion of the historically marginalized Muslim populations. The evolving institutional choices to incorporate these communities vacillated between the democratic urge for religious freedoms and equality, on the one hand, and the role of founding traditions and heritage of majority privileges, on the other. This article outlines the institutional compromises to accommodating Islam across plural polities which feature an unusual mix of denominations—Muslim, Christian Orthodox, Roman Catholics as well as atheist and agnostic groups—in the post-Communist Balkans. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 4-18 Issue: 1 Volume: 19 Year: 2017 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2016.1201985 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2016.1201985 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:19:y:2017:i:1:p:4-18 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1201987_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Ahmet Alibašić Author-X-Name-First: Ahmet Author-X-Name-Last: Alibašić Author-Name: Nedim Begović Author-X-Name-First: Nedim Author-X-Name-Last: Begović Title: Reframing the Relations between State and Religion in Post–War Bosnia: Learning to be Free! Abstract: Since the collapse of Communism, and especially following the devastating war of the early 1990s, efforts to reach political consensus in Bosnia and Herzegovina have proved extremely difficult. State–church relations have in principle evaded such a destiny. Key to this has been the general, even if not always fully functional, acceptance of freedom of religion and equality as the main framework for resolving dilemmas involving the role of religion and religious practice. The state, religious entities and society at large have undergone a process of accommodating themselves to a liberal model of state–church relations, which was introduced as part of the post–war constitutional settlement. This article analyses the different stages and vicissitudes of such an accommodation by focusing on the evolution of the legal framework for religious freedom and equality as well as its actual implementation in practice. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 19-34 Issue: 1 Volume: 19 Year: 2017 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2016.1201987 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2016.1201987 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:19:y:2017:i:1:p:19-34 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1201992_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Evgenia Ivanova Author-X-Name-First: Evgenia Author-X-Name-Last: Ivanova Title: Islam, State and Society in Bulgaria: New Freedoms, Old Attitudes? Abstract: This article explores stagnation and change in state policies towards the Muslim population in post-Communist Bulgaria. The analysis focuses on the institutional reshuffling of state–mosque relations, as well as hard to change stereotypes and practices. The dynamic and persistent aspects of these relations are placed in the context of complex ethno-religious divisions, legacies of nation-state building, and new trends of Islamic revival. The analysis draws on primary and secondary sources, including a 2011 representative survey on Muslims’ attitudes. Our findings suggest that the state’s forceful attempts to ‘integrate’ Muslims have shaped a historical pattern of hostility and distrust among the state and various sections that make up the Muslim community. The post-Communist democratic regime has formalized new religious freedoms and equal treatment of different denominations. Despite substantial changes, formal and informal privileges awarded to the majority—Bulgarian Orthodox Church—complicate the guarantee of equality; collective memories continue to nurture pejorative stereotypes of Muslim ‘others’; while Muslims themselves display various forms of religiosity and new religious zeal. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 35-52 Issue: 1 Volume: 19 Year: 2017 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2016.1201992 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2016.1201992 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:19:y:2017:i:1:p:35-52 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1201994_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Arolda Elbasani Author-X-Name-First: Arolda Author-X-Name-Last: Elbasani Author-Name: Artan Puto Author-X-Name-First: Artan Author-X-Name-Last: Puto Title: Albanian-style laïcité: A Model for a Multi-religious European Home? Abstract: As a Muslim-majority and multi-denominational polity, Albania has historically searched for suitable institutional solutions to reconcile Islam with a pluralist society, a unitary nation and often fragile European statehood. The post-Communist solutions for the management of this frail plurality are commonly framed within a local tradition of laïcité (Alb. shtet laik), which adapts the French model of separation between state and religion to particular Albanian goals and compromises. The analysis in this article explores the continuities and changes that mark the Albanian brand of laïcité, with a focus on specific solutions for managing the Islamic majority. The analysis suggests that home-grown interpretations of laïcité capitalize on historical precedents—or traditional solutions—that proved successful in accommodating Islam, religious plurality and European statehood during the founding of the independent Albanian state. Similarly to the past, post-Communist choices insist on safeguarding a local traditional version of Islam, which provides backing for the country’s consensual political goals of national unity and European anchorage. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 53-69 Issue: 1 Volume: 19 Year: 2017 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2016.1201994 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2016.1201994 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:19:y:2017:i:1:p:53-69 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1201995_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: H. Ertuğ Tombuş Author-X-Name-First: H. Ertuğ Author-X-Name-Last: Tombuş Author-Name: Berfu Aygenç Author-X-Name-First: Berfu Author-X-Name-Last: Aygenç Title: (Post-)Kemalist Secularism in Turkey Abstract: The relationship between the state and religion established by the founding Republican regime has often had discriminatory consequences for religious plurality in Turkey. From its foundation in 1923, the state maintained a model of secularism in which religious activities and facilities were brought under state control. The ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has challenged the so-called Kemalist secularism and claimed to offer a liberal alternative. However, the AKP’s policies have also remained controversial. This article focuses on how and in what direction the AKP has transformed Kemalist secularism by examining institutional transformations in the military, the Presidency of Religious Affairs (Diyanet) and the national education system. It is argued that the AKP has maintained the same authoritarian practices and institutions in relation to religious plurality. In particular, the Diyanet and compulsory religious education have been appropriated by the AKP for the purpose of executing a conservative-Islamic political and social transformation that aims to eradicate plurality and create a monolithic society through indoctrination and a strict state monopoly over religious matters. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 70-85 Issue: 1 Volume: 19 Year: 2017 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2016.1201995 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2016.1201995 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:19:y:2017:i:1:p:70-85 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1201997_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Olivier Roy Author-X-Name-First: Olivier Author-X-Name-Last: Roy Title: Religious Freedom and Diversity in a Comparative European Perspective Abstract: The Balkan states are relatively young nation-states that achieved independence through a succession of bloody wars, either civil (the dissolution of Yugoslavia after the fall of Communism), regional (the Balkan wars at the turn of the nineteenth-twentieth century) and/or global (the end of the two world wars). All of them now claim, or aspire, to be modern, democratic and secular states, and are on their way to integration with their more ‘mature’ Western European counterparts. The debate over progress of democratization and their capacities to integrate into the EU has brought to the fore issues of political ‘maturity’ in terms of good governance, and the protection of minorities and other human rights. The harsh and sometimes bloody legacy of nation- and state-formation, amidst plural ethno-religious divisions, seemed to be an impediment to achieving the status of democratic states. Religious and ethnic tensions were seen as particularly worrying. Specifically, these states had to face simultaneously at least two major constraints: on the one hand, guaranteeing religious freedom and equal treatment for all citizens; on the other hand, holding on to the religion of the nation, which had kept the nation intact when the state disappeared. After 1990, the challenge then was to set up new institutional compromises and suitable balances that could combine (1) religious freedom, (2) state neutrality and (3) the majoritarian or ‘traditional’ basis of nationhood. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 86-89 Issue: 1 Volume: 19 Year: 2017 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2016.1201997 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2016.1201997 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:19:y:2017:i:1:p:86-89 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_945263_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Thomas Goltz Author-X-Name-First: Thomas Author-X-Name-Last: Goltz Title: Eduard Shevardnadze: The Silver Fox Remembered* Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 399-403 Issue: 4 Volume: 16 Year: 2014 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2014.945263 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2014.945263 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:16:y:2014:i:4:p:399-403 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_938451_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Bülent Aras Author-X-Name-First: Bülent Author-X-Name-Last: Aras Title: Davutoğlu Era in Turkish Foreign Policy Revisited Abstract: The challenges of the Arab Spring and of Syrian unrest in particular have generated scholarly debate on Ahmet Davutoğlu's broadly appreciated ‘zero problems with neighbours’ principle in Turkish foreign policy. This paper presents an assessment of the viability of the Davutoğlu vision and the changing parameters of foreign policy in a new era. It concludes with a discussion of a crucial question: ‘Is this the end of Davutoğlu's foreign policy vision?’ Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 404-418 Issue: 4 Volume: 16 Year: 2014 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2014.938451 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2014.938451 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:16:y:2014:i:4:p:404-418 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_940764_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Matthias Kaelberer Author-X-Name-First: Matthias Author-X-Name-Last: Kaelberer Title: Sovereign Debt or Balance of Payments Crisis? Exploring the Structural Logic of Adjustment in the Eurozone Abstract: This paper provides an alternative interpretation of the euro crisis to the dominant sovereign debt narrative. I argue that at the core of the euro crisis is a balance of payments disequilibrium—only this time the balance of payments crisis is taking place within a common currency. The frame of reference—sovereign debt crisis or balance of payments crisis—makes a significant difference not only for determining the causes of the euro crisis but also for the adequacy of policy measures to address the crisis. The sovereign debt crisis narrative has missed the interrelated nature of the macroeconomic imbalances within the eurozone. Despite the expectation of many observers at the time of the creation of the euro that the common currency would distribute the burden of adjustment more evenly across its member countries, the reverse is actually true. Compared to the European Monetary Union's predecessor regime, the European Monetary System (EMS), deficit countries are saddled with even higher adjustment costs in the common currency than before. In particular, they no longer have the tool of a nominal exchange rate change to address balance of payments disequilibria. This situation allows surplus countries—most importantly Germany—to exercise leverage over the key bargaining issues at stake in solving the eurozone crisis. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 419-436 Issue: 4 Volume: 16 Year: 2014 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2014.940764 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2014.940764 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:16:y:2014:i:4:p:419-436 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_943936_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Remus Creţan Author-X-Name-First: Remus Author-X-Name-Last: Creţan Author-Name: Paul Kun Author-X-Name-First: Paul Author-X-Name-Last: Kun Author-Name: Lucian Vesalon Author-X-Name-First: Lucian Author-X-Name-Last: Vesalon Title: From Carasovan to Croat: The ‘Ethnic Enigma’ of a (Re)Invented Identity in Romania Abstract: This paper discusses a unique case in recent Romanian history of an identity shift from Carasovans to Croats and the complex socio-political context which made it possible. Given their debated ethnic origins, the identity of Carasovans is considered an ‘ethnic enigma’. The aim of our research is to offer a critical interpretation of the dynamics of ethnic identification of the Carasovans. In particular, we discuss the processes of national and ethnic identification in order to reveal how the Carasovan community was recently reinvented along the lines of the Croat identity. In close connection to these processes, the paper examines the political, economic and cultural elements involved in the dynamics of Carasovans' self-identification. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 437-458 Issue: 4 Volume: 16 Year: 2014 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2014.943936 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2014.943936 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:16:y:2014:i:4:p:437-458 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_940763_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Salih Bicakci Author-X-Name-First: Salih Author-X-Name-Last: Bicakci Author-Name: Deniz Rende Author-X-Name-First: Deniz Author-X-Name-Last: Rende Author-Name: Sevinc Rende Author-X-Name-First: Sevinc Author-X-Name-Last: Rende Author-Name: Olcay Taner Yildiz Author-X-Name-First: Olcay Taner Author-X-Name-Last: Yildiz Title: WikiLeaks on the Middle East: Obscure Diplomacy Networks and Binding Spaces Abstract: In this paper, we explore the flow of information regarding strategic Middle Eastern countries in the WikiLeaks ‘diplomatic cables’ by applying data-mining techniques to construct directed networks. The results show that between 2002 and 2009, US diplomatic communication related to these countries increased although with notable variation in flow patterns. We discuss the value of a visual display of diplomatic communication patterns in understanding the decentralized nature of information gathering on regional foreign policy issues. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 459-473 Issue: 4 Volume: 16 Year: 2014 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2014.940763 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2014.940763 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:16:y:2014:i:4:p:459-473 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_940765_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Yiannos Katsourides Author-X-Name-First: Yiannos Author-X-Name-Last: Katsourides Title: The National Question in Cyprus and the Cypriot Communist Left in the Era of British Colonialism (1922–59) Abstract: This paper considers AKEL's (Progressive Party of the Working People) stance on Cyprus's national issue in the era of British colonialism (1922–59). For analytical purposes, the time span is divided into two periods. The first period covers the years 1922–41, the years during which the CPC (Communist Party of Cyprus) was functioning. The second period extends from AKEL's foundation in 1941 to the declaration of Cyprus's independence in 1959. The analytical framework focuses on five parameters that will illuminate the Cypriot communist left's strategies, tactics and responses to the various developments and phases of the national issue of Cyprus in the period under study: the age of the party; the colonial status of Cyprus; external influences; intra-party conflicts; political opposition. It is argued that the national issue precluded presentation of a socialist agenda to the people of Cyprus, but it also helped AKEL reach out for alliances with other political forces and personalities, and gain and retain a prominent role in Cypriot politics. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 474-501 Issue: 4 Volume: 16 Year: 2014 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2014.940765 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2014.940765 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:16:y:2014:i:4:p:474-501 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_932619_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Preslava Stoeva Author-X-Name-First: Preslava Author-X-Name-Last: Stoeva Title: Negotiating Diplomacy in the New Europe: Foreign Policy in Post-Communist Bulgaria Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 502-504 Issue: 4 Volume: 16 Year: 2014 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2014.932619 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2014.932619 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:16:y:2014:i:4:p:502-504 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_972163_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: The Editors Title: Editorial Board Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: ebi-ebi Issue: 4 Volume: 16 Year: 2014 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2014.972163 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2014.972163 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:16:y:2014:i:4:p:ebi-ebi Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_736238_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Jonathan Swarts Author-X-Name-First: Jonathan Author-X-Name-Last: Swarts Author-Name: Neovi Karakatsanis Author-X-Name-First: Neovi Author-X-Name-Last: Karakatsanis Title: Challenges to Desecuritizing Migration in Greece Abstract: The initial response in Greece to the unexpected emergence of mass migration to that country in the 1990s was one that framed the issue of migration as a threat to both Greek culture and individuals' personal security—as existential dangers from which both the Greek state and society needed protection. We argue that this initial period of securitization—and its corresponding discourse of criminality, policing and danger—was succeeded by elite attempts to ‘desecuritize’ migration and reframe the issue in terms of social inclusion and integration, at least with respect to legal migrants. Public opinion, however, has recently moved in a more anti-migrant direction—particularly in the context of severe economic crisis—raising questions about the ability of political elites to desecuritize an issue once previous securitizing attempts have succeeded. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 97-120 Issue: 1 Volume: 15 Year: 2013 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2012.736238 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2012.736238 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:15:y:2013:i:1:p:97-120 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_766085_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Jason Strakes Author-X-Name-First: Jason Author-X-Name-Last: Strakes Title: Situating the ‘Balanced Foreign Policy’: The Role of System Structure in Azerbaijan's Multi-Vector Diplomacy Abstract: The foreign policy of Azerbaijan is often regarded as a product of East–West competition or geopolitical pressures exerted by regional powers. The present study instead examines how Azerbaijani decision-makers evaluate their situation within the structure of the international system. It applies the theory of power preponderance to analyse the record of bilateral diplomatic instruments concluded with the USA, Russian Federation, Turkey, Iran and European Union from 1991 to 2011. The results indicate that while Baku has interacted with Russia more than any other major power, this has produced the fewest agreements on high-salience issues. At the same time, its intimate relationship with Turkey has been based more upon military aid than political cooperation and institution-building. Further, it maintains a roughly equal level of security and economic cooperation with the USA and Iran, thus remaining neutral between the global preponderant power and its primary rival. Finally, Azerbaijan's interaction with the European Union remains in its early stages, as it continues a traditional strategy of engagement with major powers over institutions. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 37-67 Issue: 1 Volume: 15 Year: 2013 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2013.766085 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2013.766085 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:15:y:2013:i:1:p:37-67 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_766088_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Dmitry Shlapentokh Author-X-Name-First: Dmitry Author-X-Name-Last: Shlapentokh Title: The Death of the Byzantine Empire and Construction of Historical/Political Identities in Late Putin Russia Abstract: Post-Soviet Russians' identity continues to evolve. While ‘Eurasianism’, with its idea of ‘symbiosis’ between Russians and Muslims of various ethnic backgrounds, has started to decline and has been replaced in the minds of the elite and some of the general public with ‘Byzantism’, a peculiar Russocentric ideology sans traditional Slavophilism and rising racism. ‘Byzantism’ emphasizes the importance of transethnic Orthodoxy and Russian language/culture as key elements of Russian civilization. It also implies adherence to a strong corporate state and the assumption that Russia is surrounded by a hostile East and West, the last more dangerous for it undermines the spiritual core of Russian/Byzantism civilization. These views, however, are challenged by those who believe that Russia is a part of the West or, to be precise, of Central/Western Europe. One sees the clash of these views in response to a movie on the death of the Byzantine Empire, which was produced in 2008 on the eve of Putin's transfer of power to Dmitry Medvedev. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 69-96 Issue: 1 Volume: 15 Year: 2013 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2013.766088 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2013.766088 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:15:y:2013:i:1:p:69-96 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_766080_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Tolis Malakos Author-X-Name-First: Tolis Author-X-Name-Last: Malakos Title: Greece Facing Herself: The Past and Present as Fate Abstract: The main claim of this paper is that the recent Greek economic crisis is not the sole or indeed the major cause of the current predicament, but is itself an outcome of a more long-term ‘cultural’, social and political crisis. Although current debates tend to overemphasize economic considerations and international factors, the view of the author is that, although important, these factors, when discussed in isolation, tend to conceal rather than disclose the ‘meaning’ of a way of life that is in crisis. Therefore, instead of discussing nomological causes, this paper tries to point towards the content of beliefs and various articulations of beliefs that have shaped everyday conduct, and highlight social and political practices that have constituted social life. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 1-15 Issue: 1 Volume: 15 Year: 2013 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2013.766080 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2013.766080 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:15:y:2013:i:1:p:1-15 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_766082_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Selver Sahin Author-X-Name-First: Selver Author-X-Name-Last: Sahin Title: How Exception Became the Norm: Normalizing Intervention as an Exercise in Risk Management in Kosovo Abstract: This paper explores how intervention has gradually become normalized as an exercise in risk management in Kosovo. It focuses on the post-1999 political process through which the operational conditions of international intervention have been established and reproduced over time. It argues that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's (NATO) 1999 military intervention left two important legacies that have shaped the policy and practices of intervention throughout the past decade. One is discursive, rooted in the intervening powers' legitimization of the military campaign as an ‘exceptional’ breach of the non-intervention principle. The other is political that underpins the administrative state of affairs the NATO intervention created, which perpetuated the prolonged practices of the external regulation of governmental and institutional affairs in Kosovo. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 17-36 Issue: 1 Volume: 15 Year: 2013 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2013.766082 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2013.766082 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:15:y:2013:i:1:p:17-36 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_314724_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Robert Ladrech Author-X-Name-First: Robert Author-X-Name-Last: Ladrech Title: Europeanization and the variable influence of the EU: national parties and party systems in Western and Eastern Europe Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 139-150 Issue: 2 Volume: 10 Year: 2008 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190802145580 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190802145580 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:10:y:2008:i:2:p:139-150 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_314757_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Paul G. Lewis Author-X-Name-First: Paul G. Author-X-Name-Last: Lewis Title: Changes in the party politics of the new EU member states in Central Europe: patterns of Europeanization and democratization Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 151-165 Issue: 2 Volume: 10 Year: 2008 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190802145911 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190802145911 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:10:y:2008:i:2:p:151-165 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_314801_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: SlaviŠa OrloviĆ Author-X-Name-First: SlaviŠa Author-X-Name-Last: OrloviĆ Title: Parties and the party system of Serbia and European integrations Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 205-222 Issue: 2 Volume: 10 Year: 2008 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190802146356 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190802146356 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:10:y:2008:i:2:p:205-222 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_314787_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Danica Fink-Hafner Author-X-Name-First: Danica Author-X-Name-Last: Fink-Hafner Title: Europeanization and party system mechanics: comparing Croatia, Serbia and Montenegro Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 167-181 Issue: 2 Volume: 10 Year: 2008 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190802146216 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190802146216 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:10:y:2008:i:2:p:167-181 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_314797_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Alenika KraŠovec Author-X-Name-First: Alenika Author-X-Name-Last: KraŠovec Author-Name: Damjan Lajh Author-X-Name-First: Damjan Author-X-Name-Last: Lajh Title: Have democratization processes been a catalyst for the Europeanization of party politics in Slovenia? Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 183-203 Issue: 2 Volume: 10 Year: 2008 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190802146315 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190802146315 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:10:y:2008:i:2:p:183-203 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_314709_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Danica Fink-Hafner Author-X-Name-First: Danica Author-X-Name-Last: Fink-Hafner Author-Name: Robert Ladrech Author-X-Name-First: Robert Author-X-Name-Last: Ladrech Title: Introduction: Europeanization and party politics in the territory of former Yugoslavia Journal: Pages: 135-138 Issue: 2 Volume: 10 Year: 2008 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190802145432 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190802145432 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:10:y:2008:i:2:p:135-138 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_322068_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Aleksa Djilas Author-X-Name-First: Aleksa Author-X-Name-Last: Djilas Title: Response to Sabrina P. Ramet and John R. Lampe, ‘Debates’, , Vol. 10, No. 1, April 2008, in relation to Aleksa Djilas' review article ‘The Academic West and the Balkan Test’, published in , Vol. 9, No. 3, December 2007 Journal: Pages: 243-248 Issue: 2 Volume: 10 Year: 2008 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190802219013 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190802219013 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:10:y:2008:i:2:p:243-248 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_322066_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Dimitar Bechev Author-X-Name-First: Dimitar Author-X-Name-Last: Bechev Title: Book Reviews Journal: Pages: 249-259 Issue: 2 Volume: 10 Year: 2008 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190802218999 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190802218999 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:10:y:2008:i:2:p:249-259 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_314809_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Zlatko VujoviĆ Author-X-Name-First: Zlatko Author-X-Name-Last: VujoviĆ Author-Name: Olivera Komar Author-X-Name-First: Olivera Author-X-Name-Last: Komar Title: Impact of the Europeanization process on the transformation of the party system of Montenegro Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 223-241 Issue: 2 Volume: 10 Year: 2008 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190802146430 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190802146430 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:10:y:2008:i:2:p:223-241 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1482082_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Gaye İlhan Demiryol Author-X-Name-First: Gaye Author-X-Name-Last: İlhan Demiryol Title: Turkey’s Arendtian Moment: Gezi Park Protests Abstract: Urban spaces have always been sites of conflict. This article examines the Gezi Park occupation of June 2013 in Istanbul. Drawing on Hannah Arendt’s political theory and constructing Arendt’s public space as an actual, physical location that allows members of a community to come together and act in concert to bring about social, political and cultural change, this article demonstrates that the occupied public spaces, such as Gezi Park, hold the potential for the creation of inclusive and active citizenship practices, and the possibility of direct, participatory democratic politics. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 531-546 Issue: 6 Volume: 20 Year: 2018 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2018.1482082 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2018.1482082 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:20:y:2018:i:6:p:531-546 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1493854_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Panagiotis Delis Author-X-Name-First: Panagiotis Author-X-Name-Last: Delis Title: Violence and civilians during the Balkan Wars (1912–1913) Abstract: A number of studies have approached violence against civilians during the Balkan Wars as a traditional example of ethnic cleansing. Although ethnic cleansing was present during these conflicts, it presented some distinctive characteristics. The shifting of boundaries between what was considered criminal behaviour provided an opportunity for a variety of groups to apply violence for several reasons. Thus, the investigation of the role of combatants and their incentives for committing violent acts should be conducted in conjunction with the agency of the local people. As argued in this article, the main reason for the extended level of violence against civilians was the combination of two historical occurrences. These were the brutalization from the experience of combat and the recent historical background of Rumeli. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 547-563 Issue: 6 Volume: 20 Year: 2018 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2018.1493854 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2018.1493854 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:20:y:2018:i:6:p:547-563 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1493857_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Nadezhda Sotirova Author-X-Name-First: Nadezhda Author-X-Name-Last: Sotirova Title: The ‘Bulgarian situation’: constructing the myth of a ‘national mentality’ in Bulgarian discourse and its effect on agency Abstract: This study examines the mythic form of the ‘Bulgarian situation’,which is evoked and managed in moments of social interaction,and during enactments of oplakvane (complaining) in Bulgarian discourse. Based on ethnographic examination of naturally occurring talk, interviews, and various media data, the article constructs the larger cultural narrative available in Bulgarian discourse,which explains the origins of a national identity,linked to a ‘national mentality’ developed over a historical period.This national identity is constituted communication, and highlights a deeply cultural notion of nationality and biology as intricately connected, and developed in the context of the Ottoman occupation,and the following period of socialism. Such a discursive conceptualization of nationality has implications for the local understandings of self and agency, also visible in a larger field of study across disciplines in Bulgaria under the name narodopsihologij (national psychology). The study bridges areas of research within post-socialism and communication and addresses the importance of the macro-processes in moments of transformation by examining how people responded to the uncer- tainty they faced in the long transitional period after communism,thus highlighting the complex consequences of the way the pastenters the present as novel adaptation. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 564-577 Issue: 6 Volume: 20 Year: 2018 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2018.1493857 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2018.1493857 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:20:y:2018:i:6:p:564-577 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1504378_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Bruno Coppieters Author-X-Name-First: Bruno Author-X-Name-Last: Coppieters Title: Three types of forgetting: on contested states in Europe Abstract: The article examines the extent to which secessionist conflicts involving contested states are forgotten. A distinction is drawn between three particular meanings of forgetting. These conflicts are not forgotten in the sense that the parties involved cease to attach crucial importance to them—even the lack of prospects for overcoming these conflicts does not allow the parties to disregard them. They are, however, liable to be forgotten in the sense of not being prominent on the international security agenda. In terms of knowledge, they are certainly not forgotten: they generate large quantities of military intelligence, observer mission reports, policy papers and academic analysis. The article examines these various types of non-forgetting and forgetting and the relationships between them. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 578-598 Issue: 6 Volume: 20 Year: 2018 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2018.1504378 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2018.1504378 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:20:y:2018:i:6:p:578-598 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1407539_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Rok Zupančič Author-X-Name-First: Rok Author-X-Name-Last: Zupančič Author-Name: Nina Pejič Author-X-Name-First: Nina Author-X-Name-Last: Pejič Author-Name: Blaž Grilj Author-X-Name-First: Blaž Author-X-Name-Last: Grilj Author-Name: Annemarie Peen Rodt Author-X-Name-First: Annemarie Author-X-Name-Last: Peen Rodt Title: The European Union Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo: An Effective Conflict Prevention and Peace-Building Mission? Abstract: This article appraises effectiveness in operational conflict prevention. By focusing on the European Union Rule of Law Mission (EULEX) in Kosovo, it assesses the most extensive civilian Common Security and Defence Policy mission so far. Contrary to prevailing assessments, it posits that EULEX, despite its challenges and deficiencies, presents positive contributions to operational conflict prevention, and peace-building in general. This is uncovered through structured focused analysis according to effectiveness criteria and success indicators that allow for identification of and distinction between different types and levels of effectiveness, considering both means applied and ends achieved. In so doing, the article contributes to the general literature on operational conflict prevention and on the specific case of Kosovo. The empirical analysis is based on fieldwork and semi-structured interviews with EU personnel, governmental and non-governmental actors in Kosovo, and independent observers. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 599-617 Issue: 6 Volume: 20 Year: 2018 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2017.1407539 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2017.1407539 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:20:y:2018:i:6:p:599-617 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1493860_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Ümit Kurt Author-X-Name-First: Ümit Author-X-Name-Last: Kurt Title: The Political Micro-Economy of the Armenian Genocide, 1915–1922 Abstract: After the end of World War I, Armenians who survived the genocide began to return to their homeland by 1918. During this period, concrete steps were taken in terms of legal and administrative measures to return movable and immovable properties deported Armenians were forced to leave behind. Following the government of the CUP, necessary legal mechanisms were introduced to ensure both the return of Armenians from their deportation points and the restitution of movable and immovable properties. However, to what degree these mechanisms were implemented on the local level is disputable. This article attempts to reveal the implementation process of administrative regulations regarding the restitution of Armenian properties at the local level. It specifically examines how Armenian properties were restituted to their rightful owners who returned to the districts of Cebel-i Bereket and Osmaniye in Adana Province, located in the Cilicia region (today known as southern Anatolia). Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 618-638 Issue: 6 Volume: 20 Year: 2018 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2018.1493860 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2018.1493860 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:20:y:2018:i:6:p:618-638 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1493862_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: William Mallinson Author-X-Name-First: William Author-X-Name-Last: Mallinson Title: A Pacifist’s Life and Death: Grigorios Lambrakis and Greece in the Long Shadow of Civil War Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 639-640 Issue: 6 Volume: 20 Year: 2018 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2018.1493862 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2018.1493862 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:20:y:2018:i:6:p:639-640 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1404230_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: The Editors Title: Erratum Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 641-641 Issue: 6 Volume: 20 Year: 2018 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2017.1404230 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2017.1404230 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:20:y:2018:i:6:p:641-641 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2037982_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Fatma Tunç Yaşar Author-X-Name-First: Fatma Author-X-Name-Last: Tunç Yaşar Title: Encountering the Age of Civility: The Late Ottoman Etiquette Literature (1890–1918) Abstract: This article explores the rise of etiquette books in late Ottoman world as a genre and analyses the emergence of this literature in late nineteenth century as the response of Ottomans to the age of civility in etiquette and lifestyle. It discusses the attitudes and approaches of the Ottoman authors in composing etiquette book, creating content and defining the etiquette by addressing the particular conditions of the late Ottoman socio-cultural milieu. By studying etiquette books as a genre representing the realms of aspirations, ideals and visions, this article reveals insights into how Ottoman authors defined the Ottoman etiquette under the increasing impact of European lifestyle and how they confronted, negotiated and coped with the predicaments of alla franca. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 937-953 Issue: 6 Volume: 24 Year: 2022 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2022.2037982 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2022.2037982 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:24:y:2022:i:6:p:937-953 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2037965_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Murat Coşkun Author-X-Name-First: Murat Author-X-Name-Last: Coşkun Title: Turkey’s Journey from Democratization to De-democratization: External Democracy Promotion versus Domestic Political Competition Abstract: Democratic reform processes of candidate countries of the EU have been widely explained from a rationalist external incentives perspective. So, until recently, Turkey had been seen as a textbook example of how effective a conditionality strategy could be. However, Turkish responses to EU conditionality have displayed significant fluctuations over time, even under the same government. This article will argue that the current literature on the Europeanization of candidate countries suffers from an overriding focus on the external impact of the EU upon Turkey and its democratization process. In response, this article instead focuses on the role of political parties as active agents of change by evaluating the validity of these claims in light of a qualitative analysis of Turkish democratization since 2005. Building on the emerging literature that focuses on domestic factors in Turkey’s de-Europeanization, this article contributes to this literature by presenting these domestic factors in the theoretical framework of constructivism. It argues that EU demands do not represent inherent costs or benefits. Instead, their perception as costs or benefits matter in the context of Turkish politics. This means that outcomes are contingent on the nature of contestation and power balance among competing parties in Turkey. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 879-895 Issue: 6 Volume: 24 Year: 2022 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2022.2037965 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2022.2037965 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:24:y:2022:i:6:p:879-895 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2037980_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Ömer Aslan Author-X-Name-First: Ömer Author-X-Name-Last: Aslan Title: A Déjà Vu All over Again? Identifying and Explaining ‘Change’ in Turkey’s Asia Policy Abstract: Notwithstanding great number of studies addressing Turkey’s foreign policy after the Cold War, Turkey’s engagements in South, Southeast, and East Asia have remained submerged in narratives of Turkey’s relations with the Middle East, European Union, Central Asia, and Sub-Saharan Africa. This article addresses foreign policy changes in Turkish’s Asia relations by identifying five time periods since the foundation of the Republic: 1923–1950, 1950–1960s, 1970s to 1993, 1993–2000s, and 2010s-today by utilizing Hermann’s four levels of change in foreign policy, namely ‘adjustment, programme, problem/goal, and international orientation’. It explains these changes with reference to individual dynamics (decision makers) and domestic (institutional setting) and international factors (global structural shifts). It uses qualitative methodology and treats evolution of Turkey’s Asia policies as a case of ‘foreign policy change’. It relies on data collected from Turkish, Indian, Australian, and American archives, many of which has hitherto remained untapped, and memoirs written by Turkey’s retired diplomats and generals. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 954-973 Issue: 6 Volume: 24 Year: 2022 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2022.2037980 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2022.2037980 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:24:y:2022:i:6:p:954-973 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2037966_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Ümit Seven Author-X-Name-First: Ümit Author-X-Name-Last: Seven Title: Russia’s Foreign Policy Actions and the Syrian Civil War in the United Nations Security Council Abstract: Focusing on the meeting records of the United Nations Security Council draft resolutions that Russia vetoed to stop the Council action targeting the Syrian regime, this article explains the rationale behind the diplomatic shield Russia has provided to Syria. It explores Russia’s motivations, interests, perceptions, and fears through five distinct themes identified from the meeting records. By doing so, it offers further evidence on Russia’s adaptive and responsive position in the negotiated international order that is formed in confrontation with the West. It also demonstrates that the discourses in the Council function as part of a process in which Russia’s national identity, values, and priorities in international politics are constructed socially. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 896-911 Issue: 6 Volume: 24 Year: 2022 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2022.2037966 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2022.2037966 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:24:y:2022:i:6:p:896-911 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2037981_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Emre Feyzi Çolakoğlu Author-X-Name-First: Emre Feyzi Author-X-Name-Last: Çolakoğlu Title: From Non-Intervention to Mediation: The Transformation of the US Cyprus Policy (1960–1967) Abstract: This article aims to reveal the transformation of the US Cyprus policy between 1960 and 1967. In the early 1960s, the US adopted a policy of non-intervention in the Cyprus dispute. However, the developments on the Island in 1964 made it impossible for the US to refrain from the dispute after a point. For this reason, the US tried to manage the Cyprus dispute so that it would not harm the harmony and cohesion of the NATO Alliance. During this period, the US occasionally confronted Turkey and Greece. However, despite all the tensions, the US administration was careful not to break relations with its allies completely. On the other hand, Turkey and Greece considered themselves indispensable to the US during this period. Each ally always expected the support of the US against the other. However, most of the time, both allies were dissatisfied with the attitude of the US at the same time. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 912-936 Issue: 6 Volume: 24 Year: 2022 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2022.2037981 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2022.2037981 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:24:y:2022:i:6:p:912-936 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2037964_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Milena Dževerdanović Pejović Author-X-Name-First: Milena Author-X-Name-Last: Dževerdanović Pejović Title: Religious vs. Secular Discourse and the Change of Political Power in Montenegro Abstract: This paper explores the two opposing ideologies represented in the public discourse of their actors, religious and secular leaders, after the introduction of the Law on Religious Freedom in Montenegro. The paper addresses discourse in a complex social and political scenery that affected Montenegro in the period January–August 2020. There is a standpoint shared by diplomatic bodies that, for the first time in Montenegrin history, the Church has impacted the outcome of secular elections. In this paper, we have examined the linguistic exponents in ad litteram statements of two leaders revealing the peculiarities of the two opposing, yet intertwined, discourses. We have selected readers’ comments to show how part of the Montenegrin people reacted to the events that have permeated Montenegro’s reality. We have used a critical discourse approach, more precisely van Dijk’s we/they opposition, to show how actors achieved a rhetorical strategy of glorifying us and criticizing them. Finally, we interpret abstract notions in the leaders’ statements through the prism of van Dijk’s categories of ideological discourse. The findings of the papers show how abstract notions such as religion and politics in a specific part of Montenegrin history have become linguistically embedded in the two leaders’ discourses. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 861-878 Issue: 6 Volume: 24 Year: 2022 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2022.2037964 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2022.2037964 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:24:y:2022:i:6:p:861-878 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1506286_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Zafer Çeler Author-X-Name-First: Zafer Author-X-Name-Last: Çeler Title: Pseudo-Historicism and Architecture: The New Ottomanism in Turkey Abstract: The changes within temporality, the rise of presentism, and the emergence of ersatz nostalgia as the cultural consequences of late capitalism are producing a pseudo-historicist perspective as a way of dealing with the past. This article claims that the rising interest in the Ottoman Past in Turkey under the Justice and Development Party (AKP) is not just the product of the conservative cultural perspective of the ruling party but also the result of the pseudo-historicism produced by the long-term transformation of the Turkish society since the 1980s. This article takes the architectural production as an exemplification to illuminate the pseudo-historicist perspective in the Turkish context, because architecture appears as the most important terrain which reflects the development of this interest in the Ottoman past due to its characteristic as a profession closely knitted with the economy, and its representational power mirroring the cultural. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 493-514 Issue: 5 Volume: 21 Year: 2019 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2018.1506286 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2018.1506286 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:21:y:2019:i:5:p:493-514 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1506288_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Nikos Potamianos Author-X-Name-First: Nikos Author-X-Name-Last: Potamianos Title: Internationalism and the Emergence of Communist Politics in Greece, 1912–1924 Abstract: One of the ways in which the Bolshevik paradigm influenced socialist politics in Greece was through the dissemination of anti-nationalist and anti-war theses. An important part of the struggle within the Socialist Workers’ Party (SEKE) concerning its ‘bolshevization’ revolved around the various dimensions of the national question. This article gives an account of the development of internationalism in Greece during the ‘war decade’, and illustrates the extent to which this development constituted a significant break with the past of Greek radicalism. The factors that created a favourable environment for the influence of the anti-nationalist politics of the Russian revolution included the renegotiation of national bonds after the Balkan Wars, the hardships of a prolonged war and the political repertoire available for the articulation of popular discontents. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 515-531 Issue: 5 Volume: 21 Year: 2019 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2018.1506288 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2018.1506288 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:21:y:2019:i:5:p:515-531 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1506287_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Arda Bilgen Author-X-Name-First: Arda Author-X-Name-Last: Bilgen Title: The Southeastern Anatolia Project (GAP) in Turkey: An Alternative Perspective on the Major Rationales of GAP Abstract: The Southeastern Anatolia Project (Güneydoğu Anadolu Projesi, GAP) is one of the largest development projects ever undertaken in Turkey. Launched in the 1970s, GAP initially aimed primarily at the construction of 22 dams and 19 hydroelectric power plants on the Euphrates and Tigris rivers and of extensive irrigation networks to produce hydroelectric energy and irrigate 1.8 million hectares of land in south-eastern Turkey. In later decades, the scope of GAP widened considerably as it became a more comprehensive and bold scheme of modernization and transformation. Following this expansion, GAP also aimed at entirely reorganizing the political, social, economic, and cultural landscape of south-eastern Turkey and at transforming the local population therein. Despite these developments, and despite GAP having been intensely examined in the literature, the raison d’être of the project has not yet been adequately examined from a critical perspective. Questions regarding how the state authorities rationalized the inception of GAP and which factors motivated them to undertake development activities remain under-discussed. This article seeks to analyse the major rationales of GAP together with their multifaceted implications. In this way, the article aims to present an alternative narrative on the evolution and recent status of GAP, based on empirical data. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 532-552 Issue: 5 Volume: 21 Year: 2019 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2018.1506287 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2018.1506287 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:21:y:2019:i:5:p:532-552 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1506289_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Ivan Pepić Author-X-Name-First: Ivan Author-X-Name-Last: Pepić Author-Name: Mirjana Kasapović Author-X-Name-First: Mirjana Author-X-Name-Last: Kasapović Title: The Gradual Cyprusization of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina: Structural, Institutional and Process Assumptions Abstract: This article compares structures, institutional design challenges and political processes between Cyprus and the Bosniak-Croat Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The first part shows how the international community played a crucial role in order to implement consociational constitutions. However, as it was the case with Cyprus, in the Federation the most numerous ethnic segment does not accept consociational arrangements simply to gain more power over the smaller ethnic community. The second part discusses the post-war institutional design in the Federation. Since 2000, the international community has opted for centripetal arrangements. Finally, the article examines the gradual suspension of consociational arrangements causes the Cyprusization of the Federation which increases political tensions and divisions between the two communities. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 553-575 Issue: 5 Volume: 21 Year: 2019 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2018.1506289 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2018.1506289 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:21:y:2019:i:5:p:553-575 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1504379_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Rok Zupančič Author-X-Name-First: Rok Author-X-Name-Last: Zupančič Title: EU peace-building in the north of Kosovo and psychosocial implications for the locals: a bottom up perspective on normative power Europe Abstract: This paper explores what the Brussels Dialogue, a cornerstone of the current EU peacebuilding activities in Kosovo, means for the Serbs living in the north of Kosovo. Many argue that the EU-brokered dialogue is a ‘success story’ of EU peacebuilding. Yet such positive assessments usually overlook several consequences for the locals and how they perceive this ‘success story’. By linking the theory on the EU as a normative power with academic literature on the local aspects of peacebuilding, this paper contends that, despite the apparent success, the EU’s peacebuilding approach in Kosovo also brings several negative psychosocial implications for Serbs in the north of Kosovo and have further exacerbated intra-ethnic relations. The contours of intra-ethnic conflict in this territory reached a climax in January 2018 when the prominent Kosovo Serb politician Oliver Ivanovic was assassinated. The increase in a general lack of security in the north of Kosovo, which the EU has also added to by ignoring or not properly addressing the challenges, questions the apparent success of the EU’s efforts here while also negatively affecting the overall perception of the EU as a normative power. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 576-593 Issue: 5 Volume: 21 Year: 2019 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2018.1504379 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2018.1504379 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:21:y:2019:i:5:p:576-593 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1507012_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Mehtap Özdeğer Author-X-Name-First: Mehtap Author-X-Name-Last: Özdeğer Author-Name: Emine Zeytinli Author-X-Name-First: Emine Author-X-Name-Last: Zeytinli Title: Ottoman Credit System and Usurers in Agriculture in the Nineteenth Century: Practices of Usury Contracts (Selem) Abstract: Ottoman agriculture was usually set in small-scale farms. Peasants borrowed in years of low production and encountered risk during the bad harvest years. Eventually, they were forced into indebtedness as they borrowed to pay back the previous year’s loan. These borrowings sometimes resulted in selling the farm and land under the debt burden. This study aims to explain the heavy costs and social destruction on the peasants that were created by usurers. The usury regulations are examined by focusing on the importance of lending in the agricultural sector. Documents from the Ottoman archives were mainly used for the study. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 594-612 Issue: 5 Volume: 21 Year: 2019 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2018.1507012 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2018.1507012 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:21:y:2019:i:5:p:594-612 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1506290_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Matej Lahovnik Author-X-Name-First: Matej Author-X-Name-Last: Lahovnik Title: Corporate Governance following the Slovenian Transition: From Success Story to Failed Case Abstract: The most recent world economic crisis revealed serious weaknesses in Slovenia’s gradual approach to the transition. The Slovenian transition model was hailed as a success in the 1990s but the last decade has become seen as a failure. The country’s economy has suffered more than other comparable post-transition economies from an inefficient corporate governance system. The paper presents the failed transformation of Slovenia’s corporate governance process and its consequences. The ownership structures emerging from the various privatization programmes in Slovenia have not led to ownership being concentrated in the hands of strategic owners able to provide the necessary resources to finance the sustainable economic development of companies. Companies with external strategic owners outperform companies with internal or state owners. The article argues that effective corporate governance is essential to a firm’s performance. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 613-623 Issue: 5 Volume: 21 Year: 2019 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2018.1506290 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2018.1506290 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:21:y:2019:i:5:p:613-623 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1888251_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Bülent Aras Author-X-Name-First: Bülent Author-X-Name-Last: Aras Author-Name: Şaban Kardaş Author-X-Name-First: Şaban Author-X-Name-Last: Kardaş Title: Geopolitics of the New Middle East: Perspectives from Inside and Outside Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 397-402 Issue: 3 Volume: 23 Year: 2021 Month: 05 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2021.1888251 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2021.1888251 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:23:y:2021:i:3:p:397-402 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1888246_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Silvia Colombo Author-X-Name-First: Silvia Author-X-Name-Last: Colombo Author-Name: Eduard Soler i Lecha Author-X-Name-First: Eduard Author-X-Name-Last: Soler i Lecha Title: Europe and the ‘New’ Middle East Abstract: The Middle East has witnessed major geopolitical shifts since 2011 that range from the growing influence of the Gulf states, the pivot to Africa of many of the region’s countries and the new dynamics of global penetration, to the proliferation of regional cleavages and intra-state conflicts, as well as more volatile alliances and rivalries. This article assesses the implications of those shifts for the European Union and its capacity to shape or adapt to new realities. In the past continuities have tended to prevail in the EU’s strategies, policies and toolbox vis-à-vis the region. The intensity of the transformations the Middle East is going through as well as their impact on Europe itself may oblige the EU to make a move now. Europe’s leverage and credibility are at stake. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 403-422 Issue: 3 Volume: 23 Year: 2021 Month: 05 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2021.1888246 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2021.1888246 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:23:y:2021:i:3:p:403-422 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1888245_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Leonid Issaev Author-X-Name-First: Leonid Author-X-Name-Last: Issaev Title: Russia and the New Middle East Abstract: Russian policy in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) has undergone significant changes since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Moscow’s actions in the region have began to acquire a less ideologically driving and more pragmatic character. However, the Arab Spring and conflict in Ukraine have underscored a more aggressive policy on the part of Russia, the quintessence of which was military intervention in an armed conflict far from its borders, in Syria. Largely Russian intervention to Syria was a tool for Kremlin to resolve internal problems, and a bargaining chip in relations with global and regional actors. At the same time the declining in public interest in foreign policy, as well as the high costs of military presence in the Middle East, in the short term will force the Kremlin to respond to demands from domestic audiences. The resolution of this problem will define the future of Russia in the MENA region. It will either be an ‘honest broker’ in regional conflicts, or have to be content with the role of ‘junior partner’ to Washington, Beijing or other actors. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 423-442 Issue: 3 Volume: 23 Year: 2021 Month: 05 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2021.1888245 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2021.1888245 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:23:y:2021:i:3:p:423-442 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1888248_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Bingbing Wu Author-X-Name-First: Bingbing Author-X-Name-Last: Wu Title: China and New Middle East Abstract: A New Middle East is emerging, which is shaped by the result of geo-strategic competitions in the region among key state actors. The power structure of the new Middle East can be summarized as a weakened and divided Arab world facing more powerful non-Arab actors, which has conditioned the emergence of three significant camps in the region. Major regional state actors and some sub-state armed actors are playing an increasing role in the geo-strategic competitions in the focal point countries of Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Lebanon, and Libya. China has important interests in the Middle East, and key elements of its policy are taking shape. Institutional mechanisms of cooperation have been created and a network of partnerships with some regional countries has been established. The Belt and Road Initiative remains the key framework for China’s cooperation with the region. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 443-457 Issue: 3 Volume: 23 Year: 2021 Month: 05 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2021.1888248 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2021.1888248 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:23:y:2021:i:3:p:443-457 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1888247_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Hassan Ahmadian Author-X-Name-First: Hassan Author-X-Name-Last: Ahmadian Title: Iran and the New Geopolitics of the Middle East: In Search of Equilibrium Abstract: Iran’s regional policy was subject to heated debates in the post-Arab Spring period both within Iran and beyond. Though welcomed by allies, Iran’s regional involvement was fiercely criticized by its rivals and foes and, as such, different theories emerged on its causes, aims and scope. There was less divergence, however, on the fact that Iran’s regional reach and influence are growing. Beyond this, the evolution of Iran’s strategic planning in the region and its causes were less discussed. This article aims at elaborating the rationale behind Iran’s strategic conduct and growing role in the post-2011 Middle East and argues that in order to preserve its regional position and resist trends threatening the ‘axis of resistance,’ Iran’s regional policy shifted from confronting the U.S.-backed regional order of pre-2011 to containing its rivals’ anti-status quo policies afterwards. This meaningful shift is bolstered by Iran’s international ‘balancing act,’ whereby it is balancing international powers against each other to fend off threats. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 458-472 Issue: 3 Volume: 23 Year: 2021 Month: 05 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2021.1888247 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2021.1888247 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:23:y:2021:i:3:p:458-472 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1888253_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Mahjoob Zweiri Author-X-Name-First: Mahjoob Author-X-Name-Last: Zweiri Author-Name: Aljohara AlObaidan Author-X-Name-First: Aljohara Author-X-Name-Last: AlObaidan Title: The Second Succession in the Islamic Republic of Iran: Change or Continuity? Abstract: The Supreme Leader has a significant role in determining political life in Iran. The analysis of this role is an integral part of studying Iranian domestic politics and foreign policy. The succession issue has been of particular importance and subject to numerous academic endeavours after speculations of current Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s failing health. The focus of these studies centres on the personalities of the potential candidates for this eminent position. This paper departs from mainstream research and analyzes the structural factors that guide the process of choosing the Supreme Leader in Iran. The study of the historical context in the designation process of Iran’s two Supreme Leaders, Ayatollah Khomeini and Ayatollah Khamenei, provides a more comprehensive understanding of the position and role of the next Supreme Leader. The similarities between the selection of the previous Leaders, such as similar external pressures and domestic influences, highlight structural elements that will affect the forthcoming process. This paper identifies the structure of the political system and the national security apparatus as the major determinants in selecting the future Leader in Iran. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 473-489 Issue: 3 Volume: 23 Year: 2021 Month: 05 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2021.1888253 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2021.1888253 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:23:y:2021:i:3:p:473-489 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1888250_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Şaban Kardaş Author-X-Name-First: Şaban Author-X-Name-Last: Kardaş Title: Revisionism and Resecuritization of Turkey's Middle East Policy: A Neoclassical Realist Explanation Abstract: Turkey’s Middle East policy has taken a realist turn in recent years. This article explores this phenomenon in a critical case, i.e., Turkey’s abandonment of a policy of engagement vis-à-vis the Kurdish revisionist actors in Iraq and Syria, and tilt towards a coercive approach including military posturing. In order to explain the drivers of this realist turn, it utilizes a neo-classical realist framework that combines regional and domestic variables. It traces how the fragmentation of the regional order, combined with the rise of new security culture and power bloc domestically, undergirded the reversal in Ankara’s Middle East policy. It concludes with a discussion on the policy implications of this new phase. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 490-501 Issue: 3 Volume: 23 Year: 2021 Month: 05 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2021.1888250 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2021.1888250 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:23:y:2021:i:3:p:490-501 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1888252_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Majed Mohammed Hassan Al-Ansari Author-X-Name-First: Majed Mohammed Hassan Author-X-Name-Last: Al-Ansari Title: The Unbridgeable Gulf: Applying Bennett’s Model of Analysis to the 2017 Gulf Crisis Abstract: While the Gulf States have been involved in several conflicts since the formation of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) in 1981, the recent crisis between Qatar and the self-proclaimed, Saudi-led ‘Quartet’ nations (Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Egypt) has been the most severe internal conflict among the Gulf States for decades. The aim of this paper is to provide an in-depth analysis of the nature, causes, and future of the intra-Gulf conflict through the lens of the nearly four-year blockade of Qatar. The paper appropriates a model of analysis developed by William Bennett in order to assess inter-state conflict in the Arabian Gulf region. Using Bennett’s model, this paper explains how the blockade of Qatar is a product of Saudi Arabia’s hegemonic ambitions. As Bennett’s model argues that political conflicts result from the perpetual imbalance of supply and demand of resources, thus proving that political conflicts are insoluble, regional hegemony is identified as the defining political resource perpetuating conflict between Qatar and Saudi Arabia. As the Al-Ula agreement signed in January 2021 did not fully resolve the roots of this fight for hegemony, this is only a temporary solution to the conflict between Qatar and Saudi Arabia. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 502-515 Issue: 3 Volume: 23 Year: 2021 Month: 05 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2021.1888252 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2021.1888252 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:23:y:2021:i:3:p:502-515 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1888249_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Bulent Aras Author-X-Name-First: Bulent Author-X-Name-Last: Aras Author-Name: Lacin Idil Oztig Author-X-Name-First: Lacin Idil Author-X-Name-Last: Oztig Title: Has the Arab Spring Spread to the Caucasus and Central Asia? Explaining Regional Diffusion and Authoritarian Resistance Abstract: This article asks the question whether the Arab Spring protests have had a transformative impact on the political regimes of the countries in the Caucasus and Central Asia (CCA). Unlike in the Middle East and North Africa, the protests that took place in the CCA region after 2011 did not result in regime changes. By analysing the political developments in the CCA region between the period of 2011 and 2014, this article argues that rather than encouraging democratic changes, the Arab Spring protests stimulated the learning process of authoritarian rulers in the CCA region by showing the impact of the social media for political mobilization and consequently regime survival. As such, they incentivized the regimes to increase repression, targeting not only the protestors, but also media and the Internet freedom. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 516-532 Issue: 3 Volume: 23 Year: 2021 Month: 05 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2021.1888249 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2021.1888249 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:23:y:2021:i:3:p:516-532 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_200377_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Ziya ÖniŞ Author-X-Name-First: Ziya Author-X-Name-Last: ÖniŞ Title: Turkey's encounters with the new Europe: multiple transformations, inherent dilemmas and the challenges ahead Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 279-298 Issue: 3 Volume: 8 Year: 2006 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190601004814 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190601004814 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:8:y:2006:i:3:p:279-298 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_201577_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Mehmet Ugur Author-X-Name-First: Mehmet Author-X-Name-Last: Ugur Title: Book Reviews Journal: Pages: 369-379 Issue: 3 Volume: 8 Year: 2006 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190601016826 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190601016826 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:8:y:2006:i:3:p:369-379 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_200379_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Dimitris Livanios Author-X-Name-First: Dimitris Author-X-Name-Last: Livanios Title: The ‘sick man’ paradox: history, rhetoric and the ‘European character’ of Turkey Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 299-311 Issue: 3 Volume: 8 Year: 2006 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190601004830 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190601004830 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:8:y:2006:i:3:p:299-311 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_200381_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Basil C. Gounaris Author-X-Name-First: Basil C. Author-X-Name-Last: Gounaris Title: Victims and avengers of the nation: the politics of refugee legacy in the Southern Balkans Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 313-325 Issue: 3 Volume: 8 Year: 2006 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190601004855 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190601004855 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:8:y:2006:i:3:p:313-325 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_200384_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Paolo Morisi Author-X-Name-First: Paolo Author-X-Name-Last: Morisi Title: The Second Berlusconi government, the parties and the president: a new European policy? Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 327-341 Issue: 3 Volume: 8 Year: 2006 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190601004889 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190601004889 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:8:y:2006:i:3:p:327-341 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_201574_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Stevan K. Pavlowitch Author-X-Name-First: Stevan K. Author-X-Name-Last: Pavlowitch Title: , a people on the move? Journal: Pages: 363-367 Issue: 3 Volume: 8 Year: 2006 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190601016792 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190601016792 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:8:y:2006:i:3:p:363-367 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_200376_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Vassilis Fouskas Author-X-Name-First: Vassilis Author-X-Name-Last: Fouskas Title: The culture of the Europeans: an interview with Donald Sassoon Abstract: In May 1994 a couple of PhD students at Queen Mary–History working under his supervision, as well as other students of the University of London, walked into Donald Sassoon's office in Mile End. We said to him that though there was a war in the Balkans there was no serious academic journal dealing specifically with the region, as well as southern Europe, in a broader European and global context. We also told him our intentions: the setting up of a graduate seminar in the University of London, hopefully to be followed by an association for the study of southern Europe and the Balkans and then, we all hoped, to find a publisher to launch a journal. Donald Sassoon not only supported us, but he also did not miss a single seminar (held every week at LSE at 6:30 p.m. and for five consecutive years); he contributed to the discussions, helped us on a number of substantial issues and advised us about how to get the association and the journal started. In other words, it is doubtful that this venture, which now enjoys the support of a plethora of institutions and intellectuals in the country and abroad and which is read by thousands of students and individuals worldwide, would have ever got off the ground without that substantial element of moral support and encouragement we received from Donald Sassoon. And he continues to do so. Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 271-278 Issue: 3 Volume: 8 Year: 2006 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190601004806 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190601004806 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:8:y:2006:i:3:p:271-278 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_200387_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Assia Hadjit Author-X-Name-First: Assia Author-X-Name-Last: Hadjit Author-Name: Edward Moxon-Browne Author-X-Name-First: Edward Author-X-Name-Last: Moxon-Browne Title: Determinants of foreign direct investment in Bulgaria Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 343-362 Issue: 3 Volume: 8 Year: 2006 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190601004913 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190601004913 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:8:y:2006:i:3:p:343-362 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_289757_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Ritsa Panagiotou Author-X-Name-First: Ritsa Author-X-Name-Last: Panagiotou Title: FYROM's transition: on the road to Europe? Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 47-64 Issue: 1 Volume: 10 Year: 2008 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190801895904 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190801895904 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:10:y:2008:i:1:p:47-64 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_292492_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Stevan K. Pavlowitch Author-X-Name-First: Stevan K. Author-X-Name-Last: Pavlowitch Title: Book Reviews Journal: Pages: 127-134 Issue: 1 Volume: 10 Year: 2008 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190801923268 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190801923268 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:10:y:2008:i:1:p:127-134 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_292493_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: John R. Lampe Author-X-Name-First: John R. Author-X-Name-Last: Lampe Title: Responses to Aleksa Djilas, ‘The Academic West and the Balkan Test’, , Vol. 9, No. 3, December 2007 Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 113-120 Issue: 1 Volume: 10 Year: 2008 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190801923276 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190801923276 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:10:y:2008:i:1:p:113-120 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_289758_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Jim Seroka Author-X-Name-First: Jim Author-X-Name-Last: Seroka Title: Issues with regional reintegration of the Western Balkans Abstract: The development of regional cooperation is in the best interests of all the western Balkan countries: it is a key factor for establishing political stability, security and economic prosperity.… In this context, regional cooperation is therefore a cornerstone of the EU's policy framework for the western Balkans—the stabilization and association process, which offers to the countries of the region the possibility of eventual EU membership. (Olli Rehn,1 1 European Commission, Regional Cooperation in the Western Balkans, European Commission, Brussels, 2005, p. 2. European Commissioner for Enlargement)The [Southeast Europe] region must be given a perspective of re-joining the European mainstream—because the clearest lesson of the past 50 years is that integration breeds trust, stability and prosperity. (Lord Robertson,2 2 Southeast Europe Initiative—NATO Fact Sheet, < www.nato.int/docu/facts/2001/seei.htm> (10 November 2004). Secretary General NATO) Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 15-29 Issue: 1 Volume: 10 Year: 2008 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190801895912 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190801895912 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:10:y:2008:i:1:p:15-29 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_289753_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: JANINE NATALYA CLARK Author-X-Name-First: JANINE Author-X-Name-Last: NATALYA CLARK Title: Vojislav Koštunica—some reflections on his time as Serbian Premier Abstract: With Koštunica, you have a repetition of the same policy and the same obsessions as you had with Milošević. The difference is that Milošević was like a cancer of the skin where everything looked ugly. Koštunica, on the other hand, is like a cancer of the bones. Everything looks normal on the surface, but is sick and unhealthy inside. (Miljenko Dereta, executive director of the Civic Initiative).1 1 Interview, Belgrade, 4 July 2006. Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 31-46 Issue: 1 Volume: 10 Year: 2008 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190801895862 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190801895862 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:10:y:2008:i:1:p:31-46 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_292495_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Bruce Clark Author-X-Name-First: Bruce Author-X-Name-Last: Clark Title: How that city changed Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 121-125 Issue: 1 Volume: 10 Year: 2008 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190801923292 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190801923292 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:10:y:2008:i:1:p:121-125 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_289763_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Craig Webster Author-X-Name-First: Craig Author-X-Name-Last: Webster Author-Name: Stanislav Ivanov Author-X-Name-First: Stanislav Author-X-Name-Last: Ivanov Title: Power politics and integration into Western institutions: the placement of embassies for Romania and Bulgaria Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 1-14 Issue: 1 Volume: 10 Year: 2008 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190801895961 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190801895961 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:10:y:2008:i:1:p:1-14 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_289755_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: HAKAN FIDAN Author-X-Name-First: HAKAN Author-X-Name-Last: FIDAN Author-Name: RAHMAN NURDUN Author-X-Name-First: RAHMAN Author-X-Name-Last: NURDUN Title: Turkey's role in the global development assistance community: the case of TIKA (Turkish International Cooperation and Development Agency) Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 93-111 Issue: 1 Volume: 10 Year: 2008 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190801895888 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190801895888 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:10:y:2008:i:1:p:93-111 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_289762_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Franjo Stiblar Author-X-Name-First: Franjo Author-X-Name-Last: Stiblar Title: Multilateral free trade agreements for Western Balkans Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 65-92 Issue: 1 Volume: 10 Year: 2008 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190801895953 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190801895953 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:10:y:2008:i:1:p:65-92 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_775761_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Mustafa Kibaroğlu Author-X-Name-First: Mustafa Author-X-Name-Last: Kibaroğlu Title: Turkey's Place in the ‘Missile Shield’ Abstract: The critical decision to share the advanced missile defence capabilities of the USA, also known as the ‘Missile Shield’, was taken at the Lisbon Summit meeting of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in November 2010. Turkey had concerns about the Missile Shield project, which constituted an important item on the summit agenda. Turkey's concerns were addressed properly by the allies, and a key component of the project, namely, the radar site in eastern Turkey was activated in May 2012 at the time of the Chicago Summit of the Alliance. This paper aims to shed light on the background of the development and expansion of the missile defence project of the USA both at national and global scales. In the same vein, technological characteristics and operational principles of air defence systems as well as the reactions coming from other countries, such as Russia, China, Iran and the European allies will be presented. The paper will highlight the deliberations between Turkey and the USA since the 1990s with respect to the deployment of air defence systems on Turkish territory. Finally, Turkey's place in the debate concerning the deployment of the Missile Shield in NATO countries will be discussed with specific references to the role that Turkey could play in enhancing the defensive as well as deterrent capability of the Alliance and itself. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 223-236 Issue: 2 Volume: 15 Year: 2013 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2013.775761 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2013.775761 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:15:y:2013:i:2:p:223-236 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_775037_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Lenore Martin Author-X-Name-First: Lenore Author-X-Name-Last: Martin Title: Turkey and the USA in a Bipolarizing Middle East Abstract: Since 2011, the Middle East has become more bipolarized between Iran and the USA and their respective allies. The Syrian civil war has become a proxy conflict between the two blocs. Systems theory helps us understand the patterns of international politics to be expected in a bipolarizing system, as does the analysis of national interests. The expansion of Iranian power and Syrian strife have increased threats to Turkish security, giving Ankara incentives to coordinate its Middle East policies more closely with those of Washington. However, Turkey's estrangement from Israel creates an obstacle to effective cooperation. The USA should actively try to remove this obstacle by helping Ankara and Tel Aviv resolve their differences. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 175-188 Issue: 2 Volume: 15 Year: 2013 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2013.775037 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2013.775037 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:15:y:2013:i:2:p:175-188 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_775757_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Kemal Kirişci Author-X-Name-First: Kemal Author-X-Name-Last: Kirişci Title: Arab Uprisings and Completing Turkey's Regional Integration: Challenges and Opportunities for US–Turkish Relations Abstract: Today, regional economic integration in the Middle East continues to remain at an unusually low level compared to other regions of the world. This is especially problematic because traditionally, regional integration has long been seen as an effective tool for encouraging regional peace, stability and prosperity, with also the added expectation that economic growth may also help or facilitate transition to democracy. This paper asks the question of whether the Arab uprisings might provide a new environment in which Turkey and the USA, together with the European Union, could cooperate to bring about some degree of regional economic integration. The paper discusses Turkey's increasing economic engagement of its neighbourhood since the end of the Cold War and argues that this experience constitutes a good basis for cooperation, even if there remain a number of challenges stemming from Turkey as well as the Middle East. As much as these challenges may seem insurmountable, initiating a tri-lateral dialogue is of critical importance as the rewards of regional integration in the Middle East in terms of stability, peace and prosperity would be huge and of a ‘win-win’ nature for Turkey, for the EU, for the USA, and of course for the region. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 189-205 Issue: 2 Volume: 15 Year: 2013 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2013.775757 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2013.775757 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:15:y:2013:i:2:p:189-205 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_775766_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Ziya Öniş Author-X-Name-First: Ziya Author-X-Name-Last: Öniş Author-Name: Şuhnaz Yılmaz Author-X-Name-First: Şuhnaz Author-X-Name-Last: Yılmaz Title: Turkey–USA Relations in an Age of Regional and Global Turmoil: Challenges and Prospects Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 121-128 Issue: 2 Volume: 15 Year: 2013 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2013.775766 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2013.775766 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:15:y:2013:i:2:p:121-128 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_775036_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Meliha Altunışık Author-X-Name-First: Meliha Author-X-Name-Last: Altunışık Title: The Middle East in Turkey–USA Relations: Managing the Alliance Abstract: The Middle East has been increasingly factoring into the relations between Turkey and the USA since the end of the cold war. Ironically, the issues related to this region simultaneously intensify and erode the bilateral relations. For the USA, the significance of Turkey has always related to some extent to the Middle East. For Turkey, on the other hand, during the cold war years this connection was not always welcomed. In the aftermath of the cold war, the Middle East became one of the most significant elements of the alliance, a development that was accepted by both sides. The changes in the international arena, such as the end of bipolarity and post-9/11 developments as well as regional changes, particularly the Iraqi crises, Iranian nuclear issue, the Arab uprisings and changes in the regional balance of power, had an impact on the evolution of American–Turkish relations and created both convergence and divergence of interests. Finally, domestic politics, especially the ideology and policies of state actors, had a bearing on bilateral relations in the context of the Middle East. As Turkey became more active and developed particular interests in the Middle East, the crises in Turkey–USA relations began to occur more frequently and led to bargaining processes between the two allies. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 157-173 Issue: 2 Volume: 15 Year: 2013 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2013.775036 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2013.775036 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:15:y:2013:i:2:p:157-173 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_775759_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Tarık Oğuzlu Author-X-Name-First: Tarık Author-X-Name-Last: Oğuzlu Title: Testing the Strength of the Turkish–American Strategic Relationship through NATO: Convergence or Divergence within the Alliance? Abstract: This paper examines how the decades-long Turkish–American strategic relationship through the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has evolved in the post-cold war era. The main research interest of this paper is to assess the evolving nature of the bilateral Turkey–USA relationship through the degree of convergence and divergence in the positions that both countries have adopted on some issues occupying the agenda of the Alliance over the last two decades. The main argument is that both internally driven factors and the changes that have taken place at regional and systemic levels have shaped this relationship. The end of the cold war, the US-led wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the globalization of American security outlook in the post-9/11 era, Turkey's growing hard and soft power capabilities in its environment, the descent of the Middle East into further instability during the so-called Arab Spring, the rise of the ‘rest’ against the ‘West’ in the global power arena and the role conceptualization of ruling elites in both countries have all contributed to the development of the Turkish–American strategic relationship. Another argument is that interests have become more influential than identity-related considerations in shaping the attitudes of these countries towards each other, particularly within the context of NATO's transformation. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 207-222 Issue: 2 Volume: 15 Year: 2013 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2013.775759 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2013.775759 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:15:y:2013:i:2:p:207-222 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_775023_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Nur Criss Author-X-Name-First: Nur Author-X-Name-Last: Criss Title: The USA–Turkey–Middle East: From the 20th Century to the Present Abstract: This study compares the cold war period and contemporary issues which involve the triangle with a focus on Iraq, Syria and Egypt. It traces turning points in the 20th century, present dilemmas and conclusions in a state of flux. Major conclusions are: that a cold war is re-emerging because of Russia's assertion of its world power status and Washington's claims to world leadership. The other is the conspicuous similarity in Turkey between the Democratic Party (1950–60) and the incumbent government who assume(d) that history, civilizational geopolitics and economy would facilitate transition of its proximate neighbourhood into American new world order(s). Evidence suggests why these efforts failed. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 143-156 Issue: 2 Volume: 15 Year: 2013 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2013.775023 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2013.775023 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:15:y:2013:i:2:p:143-156 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_775022_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Sabri Sayarı Author-X-Name-First: Sabri Author-X-Name-Last: Sayarı Title: New Directions in Turkey–USA Relations Abstract: The relations between Turkey and the USA witnessed considerable volatility and uncertainty during the first decade of the 21st century. The war in Iraq played a major role in the worsening of the relations between the two allies. There were also problems between Ankara and Washington over Turkey's policy toward Iran's nuclear development programme. The efforts of the AKP government to forge close ties with the radical and anti-American political actors in the Middle East as well as the deterioration of the Israeli–Turkish relations also contributed to the strains in the bilateral relationship. However, Turkey's decision to host NATO's radar missile shield system in 2011 rapidly improved Turkey–USA relations. The main argument of this paper is that regional security problems, the decline of American power and the trend toward a multipolar world, and the transformation of Turkish domestic politics were primarily responsible for the emergence of new directions in the bilateral ties between the two countries. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 129-142 Issue: 2 Volume: 15 Year: 2013 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2013.775022 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2013.775022 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:15:y:2013:i:2:p:129-142 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_392250_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: James Ker-Lindsay Author-X-Name-First: James Author-X-Name-Last: Ker-Lindsay Title: From autonomy to independence: the evolution of international thinking on Kosovo, 1998–2005 Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 141-156 Issue: 2 Volume: 11 Year: 2009 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448950902920780 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448950902920780 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:11:y:2009:i:2:p:141-156 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_392286_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Aristotle Tziampiris Author-X-Name-First: Aristotle Author-X-Name-Last: Tziampiris Title: Assessing Islamic terrorism in the Western Balkans: the state of the debate Journal: Pages: 209-219 Issue: 2 Volume: 11 Year: 2009 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448950902921143 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448950902921143 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:11:y:2009:i:2:p:209-219 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_392280_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Robert W. McGee Author-X-Name-First: Robert W. Author-X-Name-Last: McGee Author-Name: Meliha Basic Author-X-Name-First: Meliha Author-X-Name-Last: Basic Author-Name: Michael Tyler Author-X-Name-First: Michael Author-X-Name-Last: Tyler Title: Tax evasion in Bosnia Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 197-207 Issue: 2 Volume: 11 Year: 2009 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448950902921085 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448950902921085 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:11:y:2009:i:2:p:197-207 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_392260_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Vincenzo Memoli Author-X-Name-First: Vincenzo Author-X-Name-Last: Memoli Author-Name: Francesca Vassallo Author-X-Name-First: Francesca Author-X-Name-Last: Vassallo Title: Democracy support in EU candidate countries: a reality check Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 157-178 Issue: 2 Volume: 11 Year: 2009 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448950902920889 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448950902920889 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:11:y:2009:i:2:p:157-178 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_392248_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Göktuğ Kara Author-X-Name-First: Göktuğ Author-X-Name-Last: Kara Title: Will energy fuel the future of the Turco–Russian relationship? Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 121-139 Issue: 2 Volume: 11 Year: 2009 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448950902920764 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448950902920764 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:11:y:2009:i:2:p:121-139 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_392269_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Mark Carper Author-X-Name-First: Mark Author-X-Name-Last: Carper Author-Name: Caedmon Staddon Author-X-Name-First: Caedmon Author-X-Name-Last: Staddon Title: Alternating currents: EU expansion, Bulgarian capitulation and disruptions in the electricity sector of South-east Europe Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 179-195 Issue: 2 Volume: 11 Year: 2009 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448950902920970 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448950902920970 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:11:y:2009:i:2:p:179-195 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_392316_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Irina Livezeanu Author-X-Name-First: Irina Author-X-Name-Last: Livezeanu Author-Name: Connie Robinson Author-X-Name-First: Connie Author-X-Name-Last: Robinson Author-Name: Heather Williams Author-X-Name-First: Heather Author-X-Name-Last: Williams Author-Name: Hugh Poulton Author-X-Name-First: Hugh Author-X-Name-Last: Poulton Author-Name: Ioannis N. Grigoriadis Author-X-Name-First: Ioannis N. Author-X-Name-Last: Grigoriadis Author-Name: Branislav Radeljić Author-X-Name-First: Branislav Author-X-Name-Last: Radeljić Title: Book Reviews Journal: Pages: 221-232 Issue: 2 Volume: 11 Year: 2009 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448950902921440 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448950902921440 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:11:y:2009:i:2:p:221-232 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1176415_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Perparim Gutaj Author-X-Name-First: Perparim Author-X-Name-Last: Gutaj Author-Name: Serhun Al Author-X-Name-First: Serhun Author-X-Name-Last: Al Title: Statehood and the political dynamics of insurgency: KLA and PKK in comparative perspective Abstract: Why do some insurgencies attain their ultimate goal of statehood while others never do? Although explanations for insurgency success based on political will, natural resources, geography or diaspora involvement have advanced our understanding of the conditions under which insurgencies are likely to succeed in pursuing their statehood agenda, they have not adequately addressed the critical role of the major external actors (e.g. USA, UK, European Union, NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)) and how significant these actors are in shaping the fate of many insurgencies around the world. In an effort to develop a model that explains insurgency outcome, this paper argues that external support or lack thereof is likely to shape insurgency outcome. When major external actors support insurgency, the movement is likely to succeed in pursuing its statehood agenda. Otherwise, the movement is likely to reconsider its political agenda if it lacks the necessary external support from major actors. This argument is demonstrated by a comprehensive study and comparison of two cases of insurgency, the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 91-104 Issue: 2 Volume: 19 Year: 2017 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2016.1176415 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2016.1176415 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:19:y:2017:i:2:p:91-104 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1096139_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Yeseren Elicin Author-X-Name-First: Yeseren Author-X-Name-Last: Elicin Title: Defending the City: Taksim Solidarity Abstract: The neo-liberal urban policies imposed under authoritarian policymaking triggered an important urban movement during May–June 2013 in Istanbul. A group called Taksim Solidarity (TS) arose behind this astonishing urban movement that the city and country had never witnessed before. It was a call for more transparent consulting, regulation and supervision stages in urban planning. Consisting of people from a wide spectrum of fields, it provided a much-needed political platform where people could put their ideas forward and create political synergy, in itself an extremely important factor in contesting the project. Based on a qualitative study, the present paper tries to understand the most important factors behind the Gezi resistance, and analyse the dynamics which saw more than 120 different organizations gather under the TS banner. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 105-120 Issue: 2 Volume: 19 Year: 2017 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2015.1096139 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2015.1096139 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:19:y:2017:i:2:p:105-120 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1099277_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Alexander Bürgin Author-X-Name-First: Alexander Author-X-Name-Last: Bürgin Author-Name: Derya Aşıkoğlu Author-X-Name-First: Derya Author-X-Name-Last: Aşıkoğlu Title: Turkey’s New Asylum Law: a Case of EU Influence Abstract: The European Union’s (EU) influence on Turkey’s domestic politics has been characterized as weak due to the lack of credible accession perspective. However, Turkey’s adoption of an asylum law in 2013, which meets almost all demands of the EU, points to the EU’s continuing influence in this policy area. The majority of the academic experts in our online survey considered the EU accession process as crucial factor for the adoption of the law. Our interviews with officials from the Turkish government and the European Commission reveal how the EU impacted on the drafting process. EU-financed twinning projects in this policy area contributed to the creation of new institutions and to the socialization of actors, both leading to a more conducive environment for reform. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 121-135 Issue: 2 Volume: 19 Year: 2017 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2015.1099277 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2015.1099277 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:19:y:2017:i:2:p:121-135 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1099857_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Kaan Agartan Author-X-Name-First: Kaan Author-X-Name-Last: Agartan Title: Beyond politics of privatization: a reinterpretation of Turkish exceptionalism Abstract: This paper probes into the underlying factors for the exceptionally slow progress of mass privatizations in Turkey until the first decade of the 21st century. Challenging the mainstream political economy perspectives which often interpret Turkish ‘exceptionalism’ by focusing either on rationally motivated actors articulating their interests or on flaws in the institutional infrastructure as decisive impediments, the paper emphasizes the role of ideology, and particularly of national developmentalism, as a long-term, deep-rooted structural dynamic shaping the fate of privatization attempts in the 1980s and 1990s. While they clearly triggered a strong nationalist backlash, large-scale privatizations could still be realized at a particular historical juncture when the confluence of three deep-seated social fault lines—Turkey’s integration into the global economy, the accession process to the European Union and the rise of a new bourgeoisie—prevailed over a strong ideological mindset that prevented for decades the institutionalization of a market economy in Turkey. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 136-152 Issue: 2 Volume: 19 Year: 2017 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2015.1099857 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2015.1099857 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:19:y:2017:i:2:p:136-152 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1106112_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Jakub Wódka Author-X-Name-First: Jakub Author-X-Name-Last: Wódka Title: Institutional Aspects of the (De-)Europeanization of Turkish Political Parties. The Case of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the Republican People’s Party (CHP) Abstract: This paper investigates the impact the European Union (EU) accession process has had on Turkish political parties—the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the main opposition party, the Republican People’s Party (CHP)—as far as their internal structures and intra-party distribution of power are concerned. The paper contends that political parties in Turkey have not only been immune to any organizational adaptation that may have resulted from the accession process, but in the past decade, they have become increasingly de-Europeanized. This insularity from Europeanization impulses can be attributed to Turkey’s personalized political system and the ineffectiveness of the parliamentary institutions responsible for EU policy, especially the EU Harmonization Committee. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 153-170 Issue: 2 Volume: 19 Year: 2017 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2015.1106112 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2015.1106112 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:19:y:2017:i:2:p:153-170 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1121006_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Türkan Bayer Altın Author-X-Name-First: Türkan Author-X-Name-Last: Bayer Altın Title: Geographic, Geologic and Human Factors Affecting the Selection of Church Sites in Niğde Province, Central Anatolia Region, Turkey Abstract: The geologic features (e.g. tufaceous, to their softness) of the Cappadocia region offer a suitable environment to shelter humans, and during the early period of Christianity they provided protection against threats that came from outside of Niğde (e.g. pagan religions). The region was oppressed due to the local acceptance of Christianity, and people lived by taking refuge in these underground cities where they also constructed their temples. This led to the initial spreading of the Christian religion around Anatolia. These underground temples were replaced once above- ground stone ashlar churches (SACs) were built, beginning in the eighteenth century. This study presents an analysis of the geological, geographical and human factors that played a role in selecting the sites of the churches. The main controls for site selection were found to be the rock type, morphological class and presence of roads. At the present time, these churches are protected by Law No. 2863 introduced in 1983 on the ‘Conservation of Cultural and Natural Property’. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 171-190 Issue: 2 Volume: 19 Year: 2017 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2015.1121006 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2015.1121006 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:19:y:2017:i:2:p:171-190 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1155904_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Hasret Dikici Bilgin Author-X-Name-First: Hasret Author-X-Name-Last: Dikici Bilgin Title: Westernist sceptics and anti-western reformers in the Turkish party system Abstract: This paper focuses on the Turkish political parties’ attitudes towards the country’s European Union (EU) membership. It intends to analyse the concerns and demands of the political parties as the parliamentary debates shape government policies. The paper considers the parties’ positions in the parliamentary power matrix (incumbency or opposition), their ideological tendencies and electoral concerns; and their relations with the social classes, all of which influence the party strategies and policies. It begins with outlining the politicized social cleavages and the characteristics of the party system. Next, it discusses the foreign policy orientation of the parties, their perceptions on Europe and the EU, the preferred type of integration with the EU and the ways they interpret the policies of the EU towards Turkey’s membership. The paper finds that the secular social democratic parties have been the strongest supporters of membership mostly due to their historical pro-Western tendencies and their relations with republican big business. Their economic policies have been modelled on the European welfare state provisions. The nationalist parties have been consistently sceptical for cultural and nationalist reasons. The most interesting case emerges as the pro-Islamists, whose ideological reserve and scepticism disappear only temporarily and for practical reasons. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 191-208 Issue: 2 Volume: 19 Year: 2017 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2016.1155904 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2016.1155904 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:19:y:2017:i:2:p:191-208 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1096135_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Michael Antolović Author-X-Name-First: Michael Author-X-Name-Last: Antolović Author-Name: Saša Marković Author-X-Name-First: Saša Author-X-Name-Last: Marković Title: Executioners and/or victims—German minority in Serbian, Croatian and German historiographies (1945–2010) Abstract: This paper discusses the interpretative framework that Serbian and Croatian historiographies on one side, and German historiographies on the other side, used when studying the past of the German minority in Yugoslavia. Pointing out a strong influence of ideologies on historical writing, the authors distinguish two periods with regard to this issue: ‘Cold War historiography’, from the end of the Second World War until the beginning of the 1990s; and ‘post-Cold War’, that is, contemporary historiography. Ideological antagonisms and personal experiences of contemporaries, which marked the Cold War historiography, have been gradually overcome during the past two decades, due to the revision of previous assessments in all three historiographies. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 209-224 Issue: 2 Volume: 19 Year: 2017 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2015.1096135 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2015.1096135 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:19:y:2017:i:2:p:209-224 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_993262_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Leila Simona Talani Author-X-Name-First: Leila Simona Author-X-Name-Last: Talani Title: Stopping the Run on the PIIGS! EMU Structural Imbalances, the Sovereign Debt Crisis and the Response of the EU Abstract: The global financial crisis was an unprecedented blow to the global economy whose consequences still need to be fully appreciated. The last phase to date in the unfolding of the crisis was the outburst of a sovereign debt crisis in the euro area, first in Greece, in May 2010, then in Ireland at the end of November 2010 and finally to all the members of the so-called PIIGS group (Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece and Spain). In this paper, the run on the sovereign debt of the ‘PIIGS’ group of European Union (EU) member states is analysed within the context of the structural asymmetries of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). It tries to identify the impact of the crisis on the future of the EMU and of the PIIGS within it. Far from having been socialized among the members of the eurozone and of the EU through the adoption of a real common fiscal policy and the attribution to the European Central Bank of its natural role as lender of last resort, the burden of the costs of the crisis was inflicted on the weakest countries of the system through austerity and internal devaluation. It remains to be seen if this is a price worth paying in exchange for fiscal stability. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 353-372 Issue: 4 Volume: 17 Year: 2015 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2014.993262 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2014.993262 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:17:y:2015:i:4:p:353-372 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1063295_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Mehmet Ufuk Tutan Author-X-Name-First: Mehmet Ufuk Author-X-Name-Last: Tutan Author-Name: Al Campbell Author-X-Name-First: Al Author-X-Name-Last: Campbell Title: Turkey's Economic Fragility, Foreign Capital Dependent Growth and Hot Money Abstract: Despite a decade of strong growth, mainstream economists and financial markets have recently escalated their discussion of Turkey's economic ‘fragility’. Contrary to their focus on ‘excessive current account deficits’, the key to understanding Turkey's condition is the foreign capital inflows that facilitate and promote these deficits, and the extent of hot money in the inflows. This paper documents this central fragility and its current explosion. It also contributes to the debate with a detailed economic and operational definition of hot money in Turkey, not present in the existing literature. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 373-391 Issue: 4 Volume: 17 Year: 2015 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2015.1063295 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2015.1063295 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:17:y:2015:i:4:p:373-391 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1063298_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Yunus Emre Author-X-Name-First: Yunus Author-X-Name-Last: Emre Title: Why has Social Democracy not Developed in Turkey? Analysis of an Atypical Case Abstract: This paper scrutinizes why the Western European type of social democracy has not developed in Turkey. Both the historical backdrop and current constraints on the development of social democracy are examined. This paper argues that social democracy's failure in Turkey has stemmed from two reasons. On the one hand, historical and structural constraints that obstructed social democracy should be taken into account. On the other, social democratic movements suffered from an agency question. The leadership of the political parties, which defined themselves as centre-left entities, had a number of chances to build a ‘genuine social democracy’, but they chose alternative policy paths based on identity politics. This phenomenon too prevented the development of social democracy. The CHP (Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi, Republican People's Party) is the focal point of the paper since it has always been the main subject in the debates over social democracy in Turkey. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 392-407 Issue: 4 Volume: 17 Year: 2015 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2015.1063298 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2015.1063298 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:17:y:2015:i:4:p:392-407 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1063302_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Ioan Sebastian Jucu Author-X-Name-First: Ioan Sebastian Author-X-Name-Last: Jucu Title: Romanian Post-socialist Industrial Restructuring at the Local Scale: Evidence of Simultaneous Processes of De-/Reindustrialization in the Lugoj Municipality of Romania Abstract: This paper analyses the case of Lugoj Municipality in Romania to reveal the major characteristics of the post-socialist industrial restructuring. During the last two decades of post-socialism, industry in Romanian cities has undergone an important transformation in terms of industrial restructuring. This is an outcome of the neo-liberal policies that reached the Eastern European countries (EECs) with the collapse of the former state socialism. The paper examines the post-socialist industrial restructuring at the local level based on quantitative and qualitative methods. In-depth empirical analysis unveils the main transformations in the industry of Lugoj Municipality, emphasizing how industrial restructuring works at the local scale, altering the spatial structure of the town and generating new different spatial patterns. Postulating a simultaneous de-/reindustrialization accompanied with tertiarization, the paper provides a critical reflective and generalizable account in the post-socialist transformations of Romanian cities. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 408-426 Issue: 4 Volume: 17 Year: 2015 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2015.1063302 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2015.1063302 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:17:y:2015:i:4:p:408-426 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1063307_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Saurav Pathak Author-X-Name-First: Saurav Author-X-Name-Last: Pathak Author-Name: Emanuel Xavier-Oliveira Author-X-Name-First: Emanuel Author-X-Name-Last: Xavier-Oliveira Author-Name: André O. Laplume Author-X-Name-First: André O. Author-X-Name-Last: Laplume Title: Entrepreneurship in Transition Economies: The Role of Corruption and Individual Attributes Abstract: Corruption has been shown to discourage entrepreneurship in transition economies and previous research corroborates that individual dispositions affect entrepreneurial intentions. It is less clear, however, to what extent individual attributes impact entrepreneurial behaviours in different institutional contexts. Here, we assess the cross-level moderation effect of corruption at the national level and attributes of entrepreneurs at the individual level, on the likelihood of individuals entering into entrepreneurship. Hence, we contribute to the emerging literature examining contextual influences on entrepreneurialism by focusing on transition economies. Our results indicate that self-efficacy, fear of failure and opportunity recognition may be more important determinants of entrepreneurial intentions in less corrupt contexts, whereas ties with other entrepreneurs become more relevant in contexts where corruption is endemic. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 427-446 Issue: 4 Volume: 17 Year: 2015 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2015.1063307 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2015.1063307 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:17:y:2015:i:4:p:427-446 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1063309_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Meltem Ucal Author-X-Name-First: Meltem Author-X-Name-Last: Ucal Author-Name: Mary Lou O'Neil Author-X-Name-First: Mary Lou Author-X-Name-Last: O'Neil Author-Name: Sule Toktas Author-X-Name-First: Sule Author-X-Name-Last: Toktas Title: Gender and the Wage Gap in Turkish Academia Abstract: Turkey maintains one of the lowest female labour force participation rates in Europe, but also boasts an above average number of female professors. Turkey is well above the European average (15 per cent) with approximately 28 per cent of full professorships being occupied by women. Despite these seemingly positive indications, do men and women in Turkish academia earn the same wages? This study explores whether or not there exists a gendered pay gap in Turkish academia. Using data collected from a survey of more than 700 Turkish academics, we observed that there is a gendered wage gap that disadvantages women, but only at the highest pay levels found at private universities indicating the existence of intra-class inequality, where men and women despite occupying the same class position are compensated differently. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 447-464 Issue: 4 Volume: 17 Year: 2015 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2015.1063309 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2015.1063309 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:17:y:2015:i:4:p:447-464 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1063314_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Bihter Tomen Author-X-Name-First: Bihter Author-X-Name-Last: Tomen Title: The Paradox of Rights-Claiming: The Case of Mazlumder in Turkey Abstract: This paper investigates the dynamics of making group rights claims using individual human rights discourse in the Turkish public sphere. Group claims that invoke universalist discourses are paradoxical. While some groups demand group rights, they frame these demands in terms of universal human rights claims. This paper highlights this paradox by looking at the dynamics of making group rights claims using individual human rights discourse with an empirical case study from Turkey. The study looks at the case of Mazlumder which is an Islamist human rights association in Turkey. The paper uses the qualitative case study method based on in-depth interviews with members of the group. Three themes that highlight the paradox emerge from the research: the emphasis on the rights-based discourse, their anti-state rhetoric and their interpretation of democracy. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 465-483 Issue: 4 Volume: 17 Year: 2015 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2015.1063314 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2015.1063314 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:17:y:2015:i:4:p:465-483 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1141551_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Gilbert Achcar Author-X-Name-First: Gilbert Author-X-Name-Last: Achcar Author-Name: Nada Matta Author-X-Name-First: Nada Author-X-Name-Last: Matta Title: Gilbert Achcar on the Arab Upheaval—Facts and Fiction Abstract: Gilbert Achcar discusses with Nada Matta the crisis in the Middle East and North Africa and points out the responsibilities of all elite actors involved, both external and internal to the region. This interview was first published online by Jacobin on 17 December 2015. The Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies thanks Jacobin for allowing reproduction of the interview here. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 1-15 Issue: 1 Volume: 18 Year: 2016 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2016.1141551 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2016.1141551 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:18:y:2016:i:1:p:1-15 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1094249_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Mehmet Osman Çatı Author-X-Name-First: Mehmet Osman Author-X-Name-Last: Çatı Title: The political economy of foreign policy: the case of Syria during the rule of Husni al-Za′im, March–August 1949 Abstract: This paper adopts a political economy approach to examine Syria’s foreign policy during the eventful rule of Husni al-Za′im in the immediate post-independence period. In this endeavour, Syria’s foreign policy objectives have been derived from the basic characteristics it shared with other states of the global South that came to independent statehood with varying degrees of underdevelopment, dependence, vulnerability and permeability. Hence, the acquisition of foreign economic resources has been considered alongside the objectives of independence/autonomy and leadership maintenance/regime consolidation. The contention of this paper is that the interaction of these objectives as a complex process involving trade-offs is worth pursuing because it provides fundamental insights into a state’s foreign policy and contributes to its understanding. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 16-36 Issue: 1 Volume: 18 Year: 2016 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2015.1094249 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2015.1094249 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:18:y:2016:i:1:p:16-36 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1094250_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Younkyoo Kim Author-X-Name-First: Younkyoo Author-X-Name-Last: Kim Author-Name: Stephen Blank Author-X-Name-First: Stephen Author-X-Name-Last: Blank Title: The New Great Game of Caspian energy in 2013–14: ‘Turk Stream’, Russia and Turkey Abstract: Rerouting South Stream through Turkey, Russia is striking at Azerbaijan and at potential Central Asian gas exporters to Europe. Over the last couple of years, under Baku’s lead, Azerbaijan and Turkey have been working on bringing to fruition the so-called Southern Gas Corridor (SGC), which aims to bring Caspian-sourced gas through the Trans-Anatolian Pipeline (TANAP) to the Turco-Greek border and, from there, to South-eastern Europe via the Trans-Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) and regional interconnectors. The goal of this paper is to examine Russia’s recent high-stakes game to threaten vital Azerbaijani interests, including the SGC, particularly developments since the cancellation of South Stream—or ‘Turk Stream’. ‘Turk Stream’ is likely to propel the Balkans and Ukraine into front-line states in a serious struggle between the European Union and Russia. Yet, the obstacles to ‘Turk Stream’ are considerable. It is by no means certain that Russia and Turkey can pursue antagonistic policies geopolitically and simultaneously maximize the benefits of their deepened energy relation and increased economic cooperation. And in its eagerness to become a gas hub, Turkey has severely limited the possibilities for Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Central Asian gas producers to break free of Moscow’s energy grip. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 37-55 Issue: 1 Volume: 18 Year: 2016 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2015.1094250 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2015.1094250 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:18:y:2016:i:1:p:37-55 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1094273_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Michaela Strapacova Author-X-Name-First: Michaela Author-X-Name-Last: Strapacova Title: The reconciliation process in Kosovo: under the shadow of ethnic primordialist manipulation Abstract: This paper discusses the challenges of the reconciliation process influenced by the primordialist attitude to interethnic relations in Kosovo society between the majority community of Albanians and the largest minority group, the Serbs. The framing of the approach to ethnic identity at the most general level affects possible outcomes as well as future prospects for how much improvement may be expected in interethnic relations. The aim of the research is to critically interpret obstacles demonstrated in the stereotyped collective memories that have penetrated public and private everyday life and which are transferred, via the education system, to future generations. This further complicates the opportunity to find common ground with members of the other ethnic group. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 56-76 Issue: 1 Volume: 18 Year: 2016 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2015.1094273 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2015.1094273 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:18:y:2016:i:1:p:56-76 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1094274_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Filiz Başkan Canyaş Author-X-Name-First: Filiz Author-X-Name-Last: Başkan Canyaş Author-Name: F. Orkunt Canyaş Author-X-Name-First: F. Orkunt Author-X-Name-Last: Canyaş Author-Name: Selin Bengi Gümrükçü Author-X-Name-First: Selin Bengi Author-X-Name-Last: Gümrükçü Title: Turkey’s 2015 parliamentary elections Abstract: The 2015 parliamentary elections in Turkey marked an important turning point as the outcome ended the 12 years of single-party government by the Justice and Development Party (AKP). Apart from the main opposition party, the Republican People’s Party (CHP), two other opposition parties, the Nationalist Action Party (MHP) and the People’s Democratic Party (HDP), gained more votes than in the previous election. Significantly, by gaining 13.1 per cent of the vote, HDP managed to cross the 10 per cent electoral threshold. Since no party obtained enough parliamentary seats to establish a single-party government, the parties that are represented in the parliament had to form a coalition government which could have moderated Turkey’s enduring social polarization. However, since none of the parties was able to establish a government, the president called for the early elections on 1 November 2015. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 77-89 Issue: 1 Volume: 18 Year: 2016 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2015.1094274 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2015.1094274 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:18:y:2016:i:1:p:77-89 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1094269_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Colin C. Williams Author-X-Name-First: Colin C. Author-X-Name-Last: Williams Author-Name: Josip Franic Author-X-Name-First: Josip Author-X-Name-Last: Franic Title: Beyond a Deterrence Approach towards the Undeclared Economy: Some Lessons from Bulgaria Abstract: Until now, the undeclared economy has been tackled in Balkan countries by increasing the penalties and risk of detection so as to deter participation. Recently however, calls have been made for a new more indirect approach that improves tax morale in order to foster a culture of commitment to compliance. The aim of this paper is to evaluate these contrasting policy approaches. Reporting evidence from 1018 face-to-face interviews conducted in Bulgaria during 2013, logistic regression analysis reveals no association between participation in undeclared work and the perceived level of penalties and risk of detection, but a strong association between participation in undeclared work and the level of tax morale. The paper concludes by discussing the theoretical and policy implications of the findings. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 90-106 Issue: 1 Volume: 18 Year: 2016 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2015.1094269 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2015.1094269 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:18:y:2016:i:1:p:90-106 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1506283_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Şevki Kıralp Author-X-Name-First: Şevki Author-X-Name-Last: Kıralp Title: Defending Cyprus in the Early Postcolonial Era: Makarios, NATO, USSR and the NAM (1964–1967) Abstract: This paper focuses on political developments regarding the Cyprus Conflict from 1964 to 1967 and argues that the ethnic conflict on the island was caused largely by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) pressures that neglected Cypriots’ socio-political will in shaping postcolonial Cyprus. Towards the end of the colonial era, British ‘divide and rule’ policies had severely damaged inter-ethnic relations in Cyprus. Afterwards, the NATO alliance designed Cyprus as a sui generis state with restricted sovereignty. The constitution did not function as a social contract for Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot communities since its infrastructure was imposed by the NATO states. With the inflammation of inter-ethnic violence, the NATO states attempted to absorb the Republic of Cyprus. Armed nationalist groups on the island, connected to NATO-sponsored circles in Greece and Turkey, diminished the confidence of the island’s communities that peaceful coexistence could be achieved. Cypriot President Makarios balanced NATO’s power by utilizing international support, particularly that granted by the Non-Aligned Movement. Politically and economically, his policies managed to enhance Cyprus’ independence. Makarios’ priority was preserving Cypriot integrity by withstanding NATO plans for partition. The main product of Makarios’ diplomatic efforts was significant international anti-NATO solidarity supporting Cypriot independence. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 367-386 Issue: 4 Volume: 21 Year: 2019 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2018.1506283 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2018.1506283 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:21:y:2019:i:4:p:367-386 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1506284_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Věra Stojarová Author-X-Name-First: Věra Author-X-Name-Last: Stojarová Author-Name: Richard Stojar Author-X-Name-First: Richard Author-X-Name-Last: Stojar Title: Balkan Regional Development: Moderate or Radical Islam for the Balkans Abstract: This article focuses on the evolution and manifestation of radical Islam in the Balkans and the public policy responses to the issue. It traces the origins and causes that lie behind radical Islam in the region, addresses the issue of foreign fighters involved and examines the measures that have been taken by governments in the region to combat it. The article argues that changes in public policies and in public discourse (via mass media, political narrative and narrative of Islamic communities), accompanied with the first ISIS losses and the depletion of the first wave of enthusiastic recruits and the first disillusioned returnees, were behind the unprecedented drop in the number of newly recruited foreign fighters. The article asserts, contrary to what is usually maintained in the literature, that the mass media remain the decisive channel for spreading messages and changing the public discourse, even in the era of Web 2.0 and in a region with highly favourable opportunity structures for recruitment. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 387-402 Issue: 4 Volume: 21 Year: 2019 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2018.1506284 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2018.1506284 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:21:y:2019:i:4:p:387-402 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1421414_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Jovan Milojevich Author-X-Name-First: Jovan Author-X-Name-Last: Milojevich Title: Justified grievances? A quantitative examination of case outcomes at the international tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) Abstract: Scholars have long debated the impartiality of the ICTY. Some argue that the Tribunal is biased while others argue that it fairly and impartially seeks justice for all the victims of the war. The present study offers a narrower approach to the question of possible bias by examining whether certain case variables were associated with case outcomes. The results show strong evidence of an association between the ethnicity of the accused (and of the victims) and the verdict and years sentenced, which calls into question the Tribunal’s impartiality. Nonetheless, the main goal of this study was not to question or dispute its decisions but to assess the validity of certain grievances against the Tribunal. For instance, the Serbs feel the Tribunal has not delivered justice for their victims and—as a result—their ‘collective suffering’ has been disavowed by the other communities in the region as well as by the West. Western political elites have largely rejected the validity of the Serbs’ claim and have attributed their belief to a denial by the Serbs of their role in the war. Unfortunately, the contentious nature of this debate has contributed to the lack of peacebuilding and reconciliation efforts in the region. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 403-426 Issue: 4 Volume: 21 Year: 2019 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2017.1421414 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2017.1421414 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:21:y:2019:i:4:p:403-426 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1506281_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Yunus Emre Author-X-Name-First: Yunus Author-X-Name-Last: Emre Title: The Legalization of the Right to Strike in Turkey in the 1960s Abstract: In July 1963, two laws, the Trade Unions Act and the Collective Bargaining, Strike and Lockout Act, were enacted in the Turkish parliament. With these laws, free trade unionism became possible, and the working class emerged as a strong political power. The legalisation of the right to strike produced several unexpected results. The most important of these occurred in the political field. The right to strike and union legislation became crucial for the development of the left and the change in the Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi, CHP (Republican People’s Party). The first half of the 1960s clearly demonstrated that the CHP’s position had changed; first and foremost, in its political stand vis-à-vis labour and the labour movement. In this article, the main cornerstones in the legalization of the right to strike and the role of the CHP and Bülent Ecevit will be discussed. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 427-442 Issue: 4 Volume: 21 Year: 2019 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2018.1506281 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2018.1506281 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:21:y:2019:i:4:p:427-442 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1506282_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Sevgi Balkan-Sahin Author-X-Name-First: Sevgi Author-X-Name-Last: Balkan-Sahin Title: Nuclear Energy as a Hegemonic Discourse in Turkey Abstract: This paper examines the revival of the nuclear energy initiatives in Turkey and the associated ‘economic growth’ and ‘competitiveness’ discourse of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) as a function of the neoliberal transformation of the Turkish political economy since the 1980s. Based on an engagement between the neo-Gramscian approach and the Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), this paper shows how the nuclear project in Turkey is historically situated and discursively constructed. Analysing the Parliamentary Records and statements of state officials, the paper has highlighted how the AKP exercises power through hegemonic discourses in terms of the legitimization of the nuclear energy in Turkey. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 443-461 Issue: 4 Volume: 21 Year: 2019 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2018.1506282 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2018.1506282 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:21:y:2019:i:4:p:443-461 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1506285_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Marko Malovic Author-X-Name-First: Marko Author-X-Name-Last: Malovic Author-Name: Mustafa Özer Author-X-Name-First: Mustafa Author-X-Name-Last: Özer Author-Name: Aleksandar Zdravkovic Author-X-Name-First: Aleksandar Author-X-Name-Last: Zdravkovic Title: Misunderstanding of FDI in the Western Balkans: Cart before the Horse and Wheels without Suspension Abstract: One of the key characteristics of the world economy in the last few decades has been the rise of foreign direct investments (FDI), which represent the major and most desirable form of capital flows from developed to developing and transition countries. The aim of this paper is to investigate specificities of FDI inflow to six small open transition economies of the western Balkans over the 2004–2014 period. Formal econometric tests carried out in the paper imply that—contrary to widespread ideology—FDI inflows exhibit at best no impact whatsoever or indeed a statistically significant negative impact on both GDP and GNP (cumulative) growth rates in the western Balkans. After exploring stylized facts and contrasting them with theoretical predictions, the article goes on to debunk several misconceptions in regard to motives, modes of operation and economic effects of FDI confronted with inconsistent, partial or outright detrimental government policies. The authors therefore call for a considerably different attitude towards FDI and the growth-generating concept in the Balkans. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 462-477 Issue: 4 Volume: 21 Year: 2019 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2018.1506285 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2018.1506285 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:21:y:2019:i:4:p:462-477 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1530382_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Bülent Aras Author-X-Name-First: Bülent Author-X-Name-Last: Aras Author-Name: Yasin Duman Author-X-Name-First: Yasin Author-X-Name-Last: Duman Title: I/NGOs’ Assistance to Syrian Refugees in Turkey: Opportunities and Challenges Abstract: As of February 2018, around 3.3 million Syrian refugees have been officially registered in Turkey. Several factors, including the Turkish state’s lack of experience in managing the resettlement of such a huge number of refugees, the presence of a conflict and absence of a working cooperation between the EU countries and Turkey, domestic limitations on international NGOs, and the tension between Syrians and Turks, have caused serious problems in the state’s management of refugee affairs. This article aims to discuss the role that international non-governmental organizations (I/NGOs) have been playing in managing Syrian refugees’ resettlement and access to public services by referring to the problems encountered in the field. One-to-one interviews with Syrian refugees and staff members of Syrian, Turkish, and I/NGOs in Gaziantep, Hatay, İzmir, and Şanlıurfa were conducted between June–August 2017. The research emphasizes that the Turkish government needs a well-established integration policy to resolve the problems that both Syrian refugees and Turkish citizens encounter as well as to facilitate local and I/NGOs to work more effectively to help refugees access public services and protect their basic human rights. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 478-491 Issue: 4 Volume: 21 Year: 2019 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2018.1530382 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2018.1530382 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:21:y:2019:i:4:p:478-491 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1506301_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Ihsan Yilmaz Author-X-Name-First: Ihsan Author-X-Name-Last: Yilmaz Author-Name: James Barry Author-X-Name-First: James Author-X-Name-Last: Barry Title: Instrumentalizing Islam in a ‘Secular’ State: Turkey’s Diyanet and Interfaith Dialogue Abstract: This paper analyses how interfaith dialogue was interpreted by the Turkish state’s Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet) over several administrations. Mirroring changes in attitude within the state, the Diyanet began promoting interfaith dialogue in mid-1990s. The Islamist-inspired AKP administration continued this stance after its election in 2002. However, as the AKP leadership adopted a more authoritarian and anti-western tone after 2011, they changed their policy on interfaith dialogue. Through a political analysis and a content analysis of Diyanet texts and Friday sermons, this paper will discuss policy on interfaith dialogue to show how Islam has been used for social engineering by the nominally secular Turkish state. This paper contributes to literature on secularism by examining how an aggressively secular state has instrumentalized religion to meet its political needs. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 1-16 Issue: 1 Volume: 22 Year: 2020 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2018.1506301 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2018.1506301 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:22:y:2020:i:1:p:1-16 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1506300_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Erol Ülker Author-X-Name-First: Erol Author-X-Name-Last: Ülker Title: Military, Finance, and Economy in the Late Ottoman Empire: Directorate-General of Hedjaz and Military Railways and Ports, 1914–1919 Abstract: This article deals with the Ottoman military’s financial and economic activities during the First World War. It concentrates on how the Directorate-General of Hejaz and Military Railways and Ports (DHMRP) developed relations with the Ottoman National Credit Bank and the Ministry of Finance. Examining a set of commercial activities in which the DHMRP was engaged in cooperation with the National Credit Bank and the Ministry of Finance, it is argued that an informal alliance of the military and financial sectors came to dominate the Ottoman wartime economy in the course of the war. Yet the establishment of the Ministry of Supplies towards the end of the war marked the disintegration of this coalition. The DHMRP was closed down in March 1919, after the war ended. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 17-28 Issue: 1 Volume: 22 Year: 2020 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2018.1506300 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2018.1506300 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:22:y:2020:i:1:p:17-28 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1714270_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Francesco Belcastro Author-X-Name-First: Francesco Author-X-Name-Last: Belcastro Title: An Odd ‘Foreign Policy Couple’? Syria and Saudi Arabia 1970-1989 Abstract: This paper analyses the alliance between Syria and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia during the years 1970–1989. The relations between the two Arab powers were characterized by cooperation and support amid ideological and ‘structural’ differences. This was a stark contrast with the conflictual relations of the previous decade. The change was driven mainly by a reshaping in Syria’s regional policy. The new ‘realist’ foreign policy imposed by Hafiz Al-Assad created an overlapping of interests between Syria and the KSA. Riyadh valued Syria’s role in the region and used its support of Damascus vis-à-vis Israel as a tool to obtain domestic and regional legitimacy. On the other hand, Syria benefited from the KSA’s generous economic and diplomatic help. This study will use an approach based on neoclassical realism to show how domestic and international factors led to these changes. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 29-46 Issue: 1 Volume: 22 Year: 2020 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2020.1714270 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2020.1714270 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:22:y:2020:i:1:p:29-46 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1715669_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Pinar Dinc Author-X-Name-First: Pinar Author-X-Name-Last: Dinc Title: The Kurdish Movement and the Democratic Federation of Northern Syria: An Alternative to the (Nation-)State Model? Abstract: Is the Rojava model really deconstructing the model of a state or is it potentially a new state form? Does the ‘democratic confederalism’ model that the Kurdish movement claims to be implementing in Northern Syria draw on/reproduce different modes of identity/belonging than that of the nation and the state? This paper argues that the shift from a nationalist movement towards a project that offers a stateless solution seems to be incomplete and needs to be further questioned. The first section begins with a brief discussion of the notion of statelessness and the historical background and ideological transformation of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and its ‘paradigm-shift’. The second section shows that despite positive aspects towards a post-national stateless model, the narratives of the representatives of the Kurdish political movement in Rojava display nationalist elements by prioritizing the Kurds and their cultural identity and a political power at the top of which Öcalan’s personality cult stands; and engages with the concept of the multitude, proposed by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri whose work on radical democracy is theoretically relevant to the Rojava model. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 47-67 Issue: 1 Volume: 22 Year: 2020 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2020.1715669 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2020.1715669 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:22:y:2020:i:1:p:47-67 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1506297_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Caner Yelbaşı Author-X-Name-First: Caner Author-X-Name-Last: Yelbaşı Title: Emergence of the Anti-Kemalist Movement in the South Marmara: Governor of Izmit Çule Ibrahim Hakkı Bey and the Circassian Congress Abstract: The civil war between the Ankara and Ottoman governments between 1920 and 1921 deepened the split among bureaucrats and the military, the two parties supporting the rival governments. After attaining military power, Ankara expanded its control almost to Istanbul, arresting or coercing those statesman who had previously sided with the Ottoman government. The Governor of İzmit, Çule İbrahim Hakkı Bey, was one of these. His activities over a few short years completely altered Ankara’s policy towards the Circassians of the South Marmara region. His aim was to establish a society based on the self-determination rights espoused under Wilsonian Principles, to enable the Circassians to elevate their national aspirations. This article firstly examines the motivations of the anti-nationalist Circassians, particularly discussing the activities of Çule İbrahim Hakkı Bey. Secondly it demonstrates how the anti-nationalists established an association, sought foreign support and declared their independence from both the nationalist government of Ankara and the Ottoman government of Istanbul. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 68-83 Issue: 1 Volume: 22 Year: 2020 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2018.1506297 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2018.1506297 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:22:y:2020:i:1:p:68-83 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1715667_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Danijela Dudley Author-X-Name-First: Danijela Author-X-Name-Last: Dudley Title: From Challenged Statehood to Democratic Civil-Military Relations: Defence Reform in Montenegro Abstract: After gaining independence in 2006, Montenegro succeeded in establishing democratic civilian control over its armed forces in a short period of time, earning membership in NATO’s Partnership for Peace Program in 2006, Membership Action Plan in 2009, and NATO in 2017. This essay evaluates this swift process of defense reform in Montenegro and argues that such successful establishment of democratic civil-military relations was only possible because the 2006 referendum on independence settled the question of statehood and removed it from the political agenda. The same level of success was not possible in the prior union of Serbia and Montenegro, because Montenegro’s and Kosovo’s independence aspirations generated uncertainty regarding the country’s future and created incentives to maintain non-democratic civil-military relations, even as the country was undergoing democratic reforms in other areas. Once the question of statehood was settled, the new state was able to reform its defense sector and establish democratic control over its armed forces with unusual speed. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 84-102 Issue: 1 Volume: 22 Year: 2020 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2020.1715667 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2020.1715667 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:22:y:2020:i:1:p:84-102 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1715668_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Argyro Kartsonaki Author-X-Name-First: Argyro Author-X-Name-Last: Kartsonaki Title: Playing with Fire: An Assessment of the EU’s Approach of Constructive Ambiguity on Kosovo’s Blended Conflict Abstract: This article introduces ‘blended conflict’ as a novel approach for the understanding of the multi-levelled interconnectedness of factors that lead to, and sustain, complex conflicts. It assesses the impact of the European Union’s efforts to manage Kosovo’s blended conflict, focusing on the EU-facilitated dialogue and the establishment of the Association/Community of Serb Majority Municipalities. It shows that the EU’s tactic of constructive ambiguity has produced short-term results at the state level, but it endangers stability in the long term by exacerbating the situation on the ground. Empirically the study draws on data from repeated fieldtrips and semi-structured interviews with EU personnel, governmental, non-governmental and international actors in Kosovo and Serbia. This article contributes theoretically and empirically to the wider conflict management literature. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 103-120 Issue: 1 Volume: 22 Year: 2020 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2020.1715668 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2020.1715668 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:22:y:2020:i:1:p:103-120 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1506299_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Dalibor Savić Author-X-Name-First: Dalibor Author-X-Name-Last: Savić Author-Name: Anđela Pepić Author-X-Name-First: Anđela Author-X-Name-Last: Pepić Author-Name: Duško Trninić Author-X-Name-First: Duško Author-X-Name-Last: Trninić Title: Life-Stories of Labour Migrants from Bosnia and Herzegovina: Balkanist Discourse(s), Liminality and Integration Abstract: The paper focuses on the role of the ‘Balkanist discourse’, as a collection of negative prejudices on the Balkan people and cultures, in constructing the individual and collective identities of labour migrants from Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). Particular emphasis is given to investigating to what extent the Balkanist discourse meta-narrative affects the integration of the labour migrants in host countries’ societies and their reintegration into BiH upon their temporary or permanent return. Based on an analytical model that emphasizes the mutual conditionality of everyday and public discourses, i.e. the typology of Balkanist discourse variations, this study undertakes a discourse analysis of the life stories of 10 young labour migrants from BiH. The research results show that variations of the Balkanist discourse are a dominant referential framework for the migrants in interpreting their own experience and social phenomena in both host country and BiH, regardless of the migrants embracing these Balkanist discourse stereotypes as part of their personal identity or feeling resistance towards them. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 121-137 Issue: 1 Volume: 22 Year: 2020 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2018.1506299 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2018.1506299 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:22:y:2020:i:1:p:121-137 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1506298_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Tijen Demirel-Pegg Author-X-Name-First: Tijen Author-X-Name-Last: Demirel-Pegg Title: The Gezi Park Protests and the Escalation and De-Escalation of Political Contention Abstract: This study argues that escalation and de-escalation processes lie at the heart of protest campaigns. These processes are largely determined by the interactions between protesters and governments, as well as the timing and types of strategies and tactics employed. The study examines the dynamics between the Turkish government and the protesters during the 2013 Gezi Protest Campaign. This campaign escalated quickly by generating massive support from different segments of Turkish society in its earlier days, and then de-escalated and eventually demobilized without securing major concessions. By using original data collected from a Turkish newspaper, Cumhuriyet, the study illustrates how the trajectory of the Gezi campaign changed in response to the interactive dynamics between the government and the dissidents. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 138-155 Issue: 1 Volume: 22 Year: 2020 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2018.1506298 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2018.1506298 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:22:y:2020:i:1:p:138-155 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1506302_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Farooq Sulehria Author-X-Name-First: Farooq Author-X-Name-Last: Sulehria Title: Washington Post Scribe Orientalizes Afghanistan Abstract: For almost a decade, Afghanistan has been largely off the mainstream global discursive agenda. In this context, Joshua Partlow’s recent tome A Kingdom of Their Own: The Family Karzai and the Afghan Disaster is an exception. However, Partlow, who served as the Washington Post’s bureau chief in Kabul, offers a delineation grounded in what Edward Said describes as Orientalism. Offering a discourse analysis of Partlow’s title as a case study, this paper argues that the Washing Post scribe has portrayed Afghanistan—in line with Orientalist approach—as an unchanging polity. Exoticizing the country at times, Partlow presents Afghanistan as a brutal and inhuman space where practices are grounded in tribal customs instead of rationality. Moreover, Partlow’s representation of Afghanistan is aimed at audiences in the Occident. Judging Partlow’s representation of Afghanistan against facts, this paper also demonstrates the inaccuracies in Partlow’s narrative. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 156-174 Issue: 1 Volume: 22 Year: 2020 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2018.1506302 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2018.1506302 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:22:y:2020:i:1:p:156-174 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1506303_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Aysel Yıldız Author-X-Name-First: Aysel Author-X-Name-Last: Yıldız Author-Name: İrfan Kokdaş Author-X-Name-First: İrfan Author-X-Name-Last: Kokdaş Title: Peasantry in a Well-protected Domain: Wallachian Peasantry and Muslim Çiftlik/Kışlaks under the Ottoman Rule Abstract: Focusing on the relationship between the Porte, Wallachian peasants and the Danubian military notables, this study explores the nature of large-estate formation in Wallachia during the eighteenth century, and the aggressive policies pursued by the Ottoman imperial centre in the Danube region to halt the spread of animal farms (kışlaks) and large estates (çiftliks). In Balkan scholarship, there is a widely shared assumption that the Porte acted as a passive spectator of the agrarian changes in the eighteenth century as a result of its declining power and had no other option than to allow military magnates to establish large landholdings. This study, however, argues that the Porte was not a passive spectator of çiftlik politics in the eighteenth-century Balkans as regards the formation of large animal farms. It also suggests that the position of Ottoman rulers, peasants and military large-estate owners in the eighteenth-century Wallachian crisis resembles those that dominated the strategies and discourses centeed on the nineteenth-century çiftlik crisis. From this perspective, this study claims that the complex relationships between çiftlik holders and peasants, as well as the strategies of the Ottoman administration in Wallachia around the mid-eighteenth century, were the precursors of the nineteenth-century agrarian question in the Balkans. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 175-190 Issue: 1 Volume: 22 Year: 2020 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2018.1506303 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2018.1506303 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:22:y:2020:i:1:p:175-190 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1872014_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Constantine Tsoukalas Author-X-Name-First: Constantine Author-X-Name-Last: Tsoukalas Title: On National Anniversaries: Greece, 1821-2021 Abstract: Born in Athens in 1937, Constantine (Konstantinos) Tsoukalas belongs to that rare generation of organic intellectuals that experienced some of the most important historical events of the 20th century: Greece’s devastating German occupation, the Soviet interventions in Hungary and Czechoslovakia in 1956 and 1968 respectively, the social movements of the 1960s and 1970s, the Vietnam war and the collapse of the Bretton Woods system, the rise and fall of the Greek dictatorship (1967–1974), Turkey’s invasion of Cyprus, the two oil crises (1973 and 1979), the collapse of the Keynesian consensus in the 1980s, the break-up of the Soviet bloc and the transformations and expansions of NATO and the EU, the failure of Eurocommunism and the crisis of Marxism, the triumph of Thatcherism and Reaganism—to name but some of the most important ones. More recently, he experienced the global financial crisis and the Eurozone crisis that kneeled down his motherland, Greece, to an effective bankruptcy. In the course of his life, he lost precious comrades and friends, such as George Makris and Nicos Poulantzas, both of whom committed suicide in a similar manner: by throwing themselves from high buildings, the former in Athens, the latter in Paris. He taught in Universities in Paris and Greece—he is currently Professor Emeritus at the University of Athens—and spent many years in European and North American University institutions lecturing, researching and debating about how to understand the modern capitalist world and how to fight politically the social injustices embedded in it. In the Anglo-American world, he became known in the late 1960s, when Penguin published his short book, The Greek Tragedy, a magnificent historical account documenting Greece’s historical course and the advent of the dictatorship in 1967. In Greece he is a celebrated social theorist and sociologist with dozens of best-selling books in the combined fields of social theory and political and economic sociology. Some of us sitting on the Editorial Board of this journal were taught by Tsoukalas in the 1980s at the University of Athens. The theatre was always packed. His lectures were so well-informed and extraordinary that even accomplished professionals working at nearby legal firms were leaving their work to come to attend them. In 1998, when we were building this journal, he accepted our invitation to come to give a talk on the European project, which was about to launch perhaps the most ambitious component of it, the Euro. The lecture, held at the London School of Economics, was attended by hundreds of students and staff, including some of his old friends—the event was chaired by Perry Anderson and was attended, among others, by Donald Sassoon, Peter Gowan, Robin Blackburn, Mike Newman and many others of his generation. In 2014 he accepted our invitation to come to UEL’s STAMP lecture to commemorate the untimely death of Peter Gowan, an event co-sponsored with the Ralph Miliband and Barry Amiel Trust. In January 2015 he became a MP, elected on Syriza’s lists. In 1999, Tsoukalas published in this journal’s launching issue, ‘European modernity and Greek national identity’. This is a follow-up text in the same anti-nationalist vein on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the (March 1821) Greek uprising against the Ottomans. We have omitted heavy referencing to render the text with the immediacy it deserves. It is a great honour to have him on the Advisory Board of our journal. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 181-198 Issue: 2 Volume: 23 Year: 2021 Month: 03 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2021.1872014 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2021.1872014 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:23:y:2021:i:2:p:181-198 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1867808_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Elif Uzgören Author-X-Name-First: Elif Author-X-Name-Last: Uzgören Title: Globalisation and the struggle over hegemony in a peripheral context: Turkey’s membership bid to the European Union Abstract: Debating Turkey’s membership around the question of whether Turkey would become a member or not—form of integration—is a non-debate given the history of relations that is characterized by ‘ups and downs’ in the last five decades. Embarking on Gramscian historical materialism, this research debates socio-economic content of ongoing integration. It questions whether there is a hegemonic pro-EU membership and whether there are any alternatives. The analyses rely on interviews conducted at two critical junctures in 2010 and 2017. I shall argue that pro-membership is hegemonic which is contested by two rival class strategies: Ha-vet and neo-mercantilism, none of which stands as an overall alternative. The future trajectory is uncertain. Despite negative tone of the political discourses especially in the post-15th July coup attempt, pro-membership is still hegemonic. Yet, it is becoming more difficult for capital groups to lead through ‘moral and intellectual leadership’ for an integration model relying on market liberalization (negative integration) without a perspective of membership—without a clear social dimension (positive integration). Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 199-217 Issue: 2 Volume: 23 Year: 2021 Month: 03 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2020.1867808 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2020.1867808 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:23:y:2021:i:2:p:199-217 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1867806_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Emine Tutku Vardağlı Author-X-Name-First: Emine Tutku Author-X-Name-Last: Vardağlı Title: Grains and Cattles: Post-War Diplomacy of Survival on the Aegean Shores Abstract: This study scrutinizes on a postWWI refugee relief operation on the Aegean following the Turkish-Greek war between 1919 and 1922. The international diplomatic efforts to save the refugees are examined through a novel concept, which is called as ‘survival diplomacy’. The international response to the famine situation sweeping the refugee souls is taken under close consideration. The underlying reason is to manifest the regenerative effects of the survival matters over the international economic order, rather than merely displaying the ethico-political credentials of the international system. From this point of view, the notion of survival diplomacy is suggested here as a favourable ground to construe implicit renegotiations among the political establishments, economic agencies and scientific discourses as the chief pillars of the international system. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 218-232 Issue: 2 Volume: 23 Year: 2021 Month: 03 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2020.1867806 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2020.1867806 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:23:y:2021:i:2:p:218-232 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1867810_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Paul Kubicek Author-X-Name-First: Paul Author-X-Name-Last: Kubicek Title: Strictly Pragmatism?: Prospects for a Russian-Turkish Partnership Abstract: This article examines prospects for Russian-Turkish cooperation in a number of areas, including energy, security, and in Syria. It argues that possibilities for a Russian-Turkish partnership have significantly expanded since 2016, while at the same time Turkey’s relations with the West have deteriorated. It suggests that both Russia and Turkey are revisionist states, seeking changes to the existing global order. While some aspects of their ties are clearly pragmatic, this article also probes how similar developments in their domestic political systems might also advance their relationship. While noting that tensions remain and much remains unsettled, especially with respect to Syria, it suggests that there is far greater possibility for a Russian-Turkish partnership than in the recent past. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 233-250 Issue: 2 Volume: 23 Year: 2021 Month: 03 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2020.1867810 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2020.1867810 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:23:y:2021:i:2:p:233-250 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1867807_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Judith van Uden Author-X-Name-First: Judith Author-X-Name-Last: van Uden Author-Name: Joost Jongerden Author-X-Name-First: Joost Author-X-Name-Last: Jongerden Title: ‘Everyone is a Possibility’: Messy Networks of Refugees from Syria in Urfa, Turkey Abstract: Of the millions of Syrians who have fled their homes since the outbreak of civil war in Syria in 2011, some 3.4 million are registered in Turkey. Although the Turkish government and humanitarian organizations provide services and aid, these do not meet the needs of refugees to ensure their livelihoods. Research indicates that refugees build their livelihoods more upon informal support systems and personal choices than on formal support from the government and humanitarian organizations. Based on a case study in Urfa, Turkey, and using a qualitative approach, this study examines the nature and role of social networks among refugees from Syria and the roles they play. A wide diversity of partly overlapping networks are observed and no single, overarching Syrian community. This study also shows these social networks to be messy, in that they overlap and vary in their dynamics, diversity, and socio-spatial range. This messy nature of networks enables individual refugees to act on possibilities. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 251-268 Issue: 2 Volume: 23 Year: 2021 Month: 03 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2020.1867807 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2020.1867807 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:23:y:2021:i:2:p:251-268 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1867811_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Zvonimir Stopić Author-X-Name-First: Zvonimir Author-X-Name-Last: Stopić Author-Name: Robert Niebuhr Author-X-Name-First: Robert Author-X-Name-Last: Niebuhr Author-Name: David Pickus Author-X-Name-First: David Author-X-Name-Last: Pickus Title: Toward Nonalignment: The Improbable and Fateful Intersection of Yugoslavia and China in the Early Cold War, 1948–1951 Abstract: This article focuses on placing Yugoslav history in the context of how that country’s leaders understood the place of Mao Zedong’s China. Such an examination can help us navigate one of the least expected developments of the Cold War, namely Tito’s emergence as a world figure in the mid to late 1950s. Our goal is to show that there is a logic and coherence to how Yugoslavia responded to, competed with, and engaged China. Grasping this logic in its origins not only sheds lights on complicated international dynamics during the early Cold War era, but also opens venues for the renewed study of the historical currents that pull the Balkans and China. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 269-282 Issue: 2 Volume: 23 Year: 2021 Month: 03 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2020.1867811 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2020.1867811 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:23:y:2021:i:2:p:269-282 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1867809_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Vedit İnal Author-X-Name-First: Vedit Author-X-Name-Last: İnal Author-Name: Nur Merve Kılıçkan Author-X-Name-First: Nur Merve Author-X-Name-Last: Kılıçkan Title: Refugee Scholars of the 1930s and the German Contribution in the Development of Economics in Turkey Abstract: The 1933 University Reform was a crucial element in the transformation of the Ottoman Empire into the Republic of Turkey. The reform aimed to create an academia that was more in tune with the new regime while contributing to the scientific needs of the country. One of the most important contributions to the new university that was established during this reform came from an unexpected source: German academics who were forced out of their positions and countries by the Nazi regime. With the help of these refugee scholars, the first Faculty of Economics was established as part of the new university. This article analyzes the contributions of refugee economists and their students to the development of economic thought in Turkey. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 283-300 Issue: 2 Volume: 23 Year: 2021 Month: 03 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2020.1867809 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2020.1867809 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:23:y:2021:i:2:p:283-300 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1872013_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Mordechai Chaziza Author-X-Name-First: Mordechai Author-X-Name-Last: Chaziza Title: China’s Friendly Cooperative Relations with Tunisia in the Age of the New Silk Road Initiative Abstract: This article examines aspects behind the China-Tunisia friendly cooperative relations. It looks at the synergies between the Belt and Road Initiative and Tunisia’s economy and geographically strategic location to understand the extent of economic dimension and bilateral relations between the two nations. The main argument is that the PRC’s relationship with Tunisia is based on shared or mutually complementary commercial interests and a strategic geographical location, which especially support Tunisia’s economic growth, industrialization, and social development through integration in the BRI framework. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 301-320 Issue: 2 Volume: 23 Year: 2021 Month: 03 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2021.1872013 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2021.1872013 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:23:y:2021:i:2:p:301-320 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1867803_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Murat Tınas Author-X-Name-First: Murat Author-X-Name-Last: Tınas Author-Name: Özlem Tür Author-X-Name-First: Özlem Author-X-Name-Last: Tür Title: Lebanon and the Syrian Civil War: Sectarian Perceptions and Positions Abstract: This paper analyses the role of sectarian identity in foreign policy making by bringing sub-state sectarian actors into foreign policy studies. The paper takes Lebanon and the Syrian Civil War as a case study through a close scrutiny of the emergence and the consolidation of foreign policy orientations, preferences and behaviour of the Maronite, Sunni, Shia and Druze leaders in Lebanon. By doing so, it asks how sectarian groups behave as sub-state foreign policy actors in countries where society is divided along sectarian identities and how sectarian identities matter in terms of the definition of the self and the other and the ally and the enemy in weak states. It further questions to what extent sectarian groups can be considered as sub-state foreign policy actors with their own perceptions based on their identities. Building its main findings on various fieldworks in Lebanon conducted in 2016 and 2017, interviewing leaders of major sects; this study concludes that in the absence of a cohesive foreign policy stance in a weak state, the role of sectarian identity in defining self and other becomes central for understanding the foreign policy choices of sectarian leaders faced with an existential challenge. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 321-338 Issue: 2 Volume: 23 Year: 2021 Month: 03 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2020.1867803 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2020.1867803 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:23:y:2021:i:2:p:321-338 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1867805_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Tunahan Yıldız Author-X-Name-First: Tunahan Author-X-Name-Last: Yıldız Author-Name: Zana Çitak Author-X-Name-First: Zana Author-X-Name-Last: Çitak Title: The Multiple Identities of the Middle East: A Case of Iraqi Turkmen Refugees in Turkey Abstract: This article is an attempt to contribute to the empirical literature on the multiple identities of the Middle East through an under-studied ethnic group that has occupied the margins of the Middle Eastern politics, namely Iraqi Turkmens. It basically searches for the salience and interaction of a wide range of identity aspects. It attempts to break down and analyse the components of the identity of Iraqi Turkmens based mainly on the findings of a survey conducted among Sunni Iraqi Turkmens settled as refugees in Turkey following the ISIS attacks in Iraq starting from June 2014. Discovering ethnic, national, religious, sectarian and tribal aspects as the five main dimensions of the Iraqi Turkmen identity, the study proposes empirical evidence for how different identity aspects are simultaneously available, remain strong, and intermingle and conflict with each other. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 339-357 Issue: 2 Volume: 23 Year: 2021 Month: 03 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2020.1867805 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2020.1867805 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:23:y:2021:i:2:p:339-357 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1867804_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Sean Parramore Author-X-Name-First: Sean Author-X-Name-Last: Parramore Author-Name: Jonathan Webb Author-X-Name-First: Jonathan Author-X-Name-Last: Webb Title: Rejecting the Neoliberal Balkan Land Grab Hypothesis: The Absence of the EU’s Transformative Power in Land Use Governance in Bosnia and Serbia Abstract: Amidst doubts that it still has transformative power to drive institutional change in the Balkans, structuralists claim that the ‘neoliberal’ European Union (EU) helps enable ‘land grabbing’ by driving the region to liberalize land governing institutions. Based on our field research in urban contexts we reject this supposed causal relationship. We examined the processes that enabled two recent high-stakes land deals in the capitals of Serbia and Bosnia–Herzegovina, both Balkan countries seeking EU accession. Using the Institutional Analysis and Development framework, we find the EU’s transformative power absent in both cases. Instead, we observe national and local elites opaquely facilitating hand-picked investments and cooperating to change urban land-use rules. We thus argue that endogenous drivers, like the possibility of expanding rent-seeking in situations of unequal information access, better explain the Balkan land deal phenomenon; and that the generalization that the ‘neoliberal’ EU helps drive land grabbing needs serious reconsideration. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 358-377 Issue: 2 Volume: 23 Year: 2021 Month: 03 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2020.1867804 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2020.1867804 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:23:y:2021:i:2:p:358-377 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1872010_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Peter Siani-Davies Author-X-Name-First: Peter Author-X-Name-Last: Siani-Davies Title: The Great Cauldron: A History of Southeastern Europe Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 378-395 Issue: 2 Volume: 23 Year: 2021 Month: 03 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2021.1872010 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2021.1872010 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:23:y:2021:i:2:p:378-395 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1872011_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: William Mallinson Author-X-Name-First: William Author-X-Name-Last: Mallinson Title: Somewhere near to history: the wartime diaries of Reginald Hibbert, SOE officer in Albania, 1943-1944 Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 387-391 Issue: 2 Volume: 23 Year: 2021 Month: 03 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2021.1872011 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2021.1872011 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:23:y:2021:i:2:p:387-391 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1872012_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: William Mallinson Author-X-Name-First: William Author-X-Name-Last: Mallinson Title: The Greek Connection: The Life of Elias Demetracopoulos and the Untold Story of Watergate Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 391-395 Issue: 2 Volume: 23 Year: 2021 Month: 03 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2021.1872012 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2021.1872012 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:23:y:2021:i:2:p:391-395 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_190531_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: The Editors Title: MSc in International Conflict and Cooperation, University of Stirling Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 267-270 Issue: 2 Volume: 8 Year: 2006 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190600906118 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190600906118 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:8:y:2006:i:2:p:267-270 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_178675_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Caterina Paolucci Author-X-Name-First: Caterina Author-X-Name-Last: Paolucci Title: The nature of Forza Italia and the Italian transition Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 163-178 Issue: 2 Volume: 8 Year: 2006 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190600787260 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190600787260 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:8:y:2006:i:2:p:163-178 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_178701_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Paola Mattei Author-X-Name-First: Paola Author-X-Name-Last: Mattei Title: Book Reviews Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 255-265 Issue: 2 Volume: 8 Year: 2006 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190600787526 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190600787526 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:8:y:2006:i:2:p:255-265 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_178689_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Bruno Mascitelli Author-X-Name-First: Bruno Author-X-Name-Last: Mascitelli Author-Name: Emiliano Zucchi Author-X-Name-First: Emiliano Author-X-Name-Last: Zucchi Title: Whither the Democratici di Sinistra? Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 201-215 Issue: 2 Volume: 8 Year: 2006 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190600787401 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190600787401 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:8:y:2006:i:2:p:201-215 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_180111_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Stefano Fella Author-X-Name-First: Stefano Author-X-Name-Last: Fella Title: Introduction: One step forward or two steps back?—assessing the Italian transition Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 133-143 Issue: 2 Volume: 8 Year: 2006 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190600801665 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190600801665 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:8:y:2006:i:2:p:133-143 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_178692_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Nicolò Conti Author-X-Name-First: Nicolò Author-X-Name-Last: Conti Title: Party conflict over European integration in Italy: a new dimension of party competition? Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 217-233 Issue: 2 Volume: 8 Year: 2006 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190600787435 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190600787435 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:8:y:2006:i:2:p:217-233 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_178673_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Sergio Fabbrini Author-X-Name-First: Sergio Author-X-Name-Last: Fabbrini Title: The Italian case of a transition within democracy Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 145-161 Issue: 2 Volume: 8 Year: 2006 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190600787245 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190600787245 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:8:y:2006:i:2:p:145-161 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_178695_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Simon Parker Author-X-Name-First: Simon Author-X-Name-Last: Parker Title: Managing the political field: Italian regions and the territorialisation of politics in the second republic Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 235-253 Issue: 2 Volume: 8 Year: 2006 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190600787468 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190600787468 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:8:y:2006:i:2:p:235-253 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_178683_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Stefano Fella Author-X-Name-First: Stefano Author-X-Name-Last: Fella Author-Name: Carlo Ruzza Author-X-Name-First: Carlo Author-X-Name-Last: Ruzza Title: Changing political opportunities and the re-invention of the Italian right Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 179-200 Issue: 2 Volume: 8 Year: 2006 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190600787344 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190600787344 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:8:y:2006:i:2:p:179-200 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_221609_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Rabah Aissaoui Author-X-Name-First: Rabah Author-X-Name-Last: Aissaoui Title: History, cultural identity and difference: the issue of Turkey's accession to the European Union in the French national press Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 1-14 Issue: 1 Volume: 9 Year: 2007 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190701216896 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190701216896 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:9:y:2007:i:1:p:1-14 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_221619_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Richard Gillespie Author-X-Name-First: Richard Author-X-Name-Last: Gillespie Title: Spanish foreign policy: party alternatives or the pursuit of consensus? Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 29-45 Issue: 1 Volume: 9 Year: 2007 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190701216995 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190701216995 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:9:y:2007:i:1:p:29-45 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_221612_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Asteris C. Huliaras Author-X-Name-First: Asteris C. Author-X-Name-Last: Huliaras Title: Japan and Southeastern Europe Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 15-27 Issue: 1 Volume: 9 Year: 2007 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190701216920 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190701216920 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:9:y:2007:i:1:p:15-27 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_221621_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Vassilis K. Fouskas Author-X-Name-First: Vassilis K. Author-X-Name-Last: Fouskas Title: The poet of Turkish communism Journal: Pages: 79-81 Issue: 1 Volume: 9 Year: 2007 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190701217019 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190701217019 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:9:y:2007:i:1:p:79-81 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_221632_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Jasna Dragović-Soso Author-X-Name-First: Jasna Author-X-Name-Last: Dragović-Soso Title: Book Reviews Journal: Pages: 83-96 Issue: 1 Volume: 9 Year: 2007 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190701217126 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190701217126 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:9:y:2007:i:1:p:83-96 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_221797_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Salih Biçakci Author-X-Name-First: Salih Author-X-Name-Last: Biçakci Title: The Palestinian parliamentary legislative elections 25 January 2006 Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 65-78 Issue: 1 Volume: 9 Year: 2007 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190701218777 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190701218777 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:9:y:2007:i:1:p:65-78 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_221620_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Nikolaos Tzifakis Author-X-Name-First: Nikolaos Author-X-Name-Last: Tzifakis Title: EU's region-building and boundary-drawing policies: the European approach to the Southern Mediterranean and the Western Balkans Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 47-64 Issue: 1 Volume: 9 Year: 2007 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613190701217001 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613190701217001 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:9:y:2007:i:1:p:47-64 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_8413982_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Vasillis Fouskas Author-X-Name-First: Vasillis Author-X-Name-Last: Fouskas Title: Editorial Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 5-6 Issue: 1 Volume: 1 Year: 1999 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613199908413982 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613199908413982 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:1:y:1999:i:1:p:5-6 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_8413983_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Constantine Tsoukalas Author-X-Name-First: Constantine Author-X-Name-Last: Tsoukalas Title: European modernity and Greek national identity Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 7-14 Issue: 1 Volume: 1 Year: 1999 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613199908413983 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613199908413983 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:1:y:1999:i:1:p:7-14 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_8413991_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: The Editors Title: Southern Europe and the Balkans research events forum Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 101-105 Issue: 1 Volume: 1 Year: 1999 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613199908413991 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613199908413991 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:1:y:1999:i:1:p:101-105 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_8413981_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: The Editors Title: Editorial board Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: ebi-ebi Issue: 1 Volume: 1 Year: 1999 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613199908413981 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613199908413981 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:1:y:1999:i:1:p:ebi-ebi Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_8413990_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Mehmet Ugur Author-X-Name-First: Mehmet Author-X-Name-Last: Ugur Author-Name: Dejan Jovic Author-X-Name-First: Dejan Author-X-Name-Last: Jovic Author-Name: Sheila Lecoeur Author-X-Name-First: Sheila Author-X-Name-Last: Lecoeur Author-Name: John Foot Author-X-Name-First: John Author-X-Name-Last: Foot Author-Name: Vassilis Fouskas Author-X-Name-First: Vassilis Author-X-Name-Last: Fouskas Author-Name: Carrie Hamilton Author-X-Name-First: Carrie Author-X-Name-Last: Hamilton Author-Name: Gaia Danese Author-X-Name-First: Gaia Author-X-Name-Last: Danese Author-Name: Paul Rochford Author-X-Name-First: Paul Author-X-Name-Last: Rochford Author-Name: Dejan Djokic Author-X-Name-First: Dejan Author-X-Name-Last: Djokic Author-Name: Patrick Baker Author-X-Name-First: Patrick Author-X-Name-Last: Baker Author-Name: Stevan Pavlowitch Author-X-Name-First: Stevan Author-X-Name-Last: Pavlowitch Author-Name: Christos Mylonas Author-X-Name-First: Christos Author-X-Name-Last: Mylonas Title: Book reviews Abstract: Richard Gillespie (ed.), The Euro‐Mediterranean Partnership: Political and Economic Perspectives (Frank Cass, London, 1997), 184 pp., ISBN 0–7146–4370 (pb), £16.00 Thanos Veremis and Evangelos Kofos (eds), Kosovo. Avoiding Another Balkan War (Eliamep, Athens, 1998), 443 pp., ISBN 960–7061–403 (pb) Nicholas Doumanis, Myth and Memory in the Mediterranean. Remembering Fascism's Empire (Macmillan, London, 1997), 243 pp., ISBN 0–312–17243–5 (hb), £40.00 Donald Sassoon, Contemporary Italy. Economy, Society and Politics since 1945, Second Edition (First Edition, 1986) (Longman, London, 1997), 318 pp., ISBN 0–582–21428–9 (pb), £15.99 Martin Rhodes (ed.), Southern European Welfare States; Between Crisis and Reform (Frank Cass, London, 1997), 278 pp. (index), ISBN 0–7146–4788–8 (hb), £29.50 Daniele Conversi, The Basques, the Catalans and Spain: Alternative Routes to Nationalist Mobilization (C. Hurst & Co., London, 1997), xx + 312 pp., ISBN 1–85065–268–6 (pb), £16.50 Juan Díez Medrano (ed.), Divided Nations: Class, Politics, and Nationalism in the Basque Country and Catalonia (Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York, 1995), xvii + 236 pp., ISBN 0–8014–3092–5 (hb), £23.50 Russel King and Richard Black, Southern Europe and the New Immigrations (Sussex Academic Press, Brighton, 1997), 210 pp., ISBN 1898723613 (pb), £14.95 Hugh Poulton, Top Hat, the Grey Wolf and Crescent: Turkish Nationalism and the Turkish Republic (Hurst & Co., London, 1997), 350 pp., ISBN 1–85605–326–7 (pb), £16.50 Vesna Goldsworthy, Inventing Ruritania: The Imperialism of the Imagination (Yale University Press, New Haven, 1998), ix + 254pp., map, index, ISBN 0–300–07312–7 (hb), £19.95 Kenneth Maxwell, The Making of Portuguese Democracy (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1995), 250 pp., ISBN 0 521 58596 1 (pb), £14.95 James Gow, Triumph of the Lack of Will: International Diplomacy and the Yugoslav War (Hurst & Co., London, 1997), xi + 343 pp., ISBN 1–85065–322–4 (pb), £14.95 Hugh Poulton and Suha Taji‐Farouki (eds), Muslim Identity and the Balkan State (Hurst & Co. in association with the Islamic Council, London, 1997), 250 pp., ISBN 1 85065 348 8 (pb), £16.50 Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 81-100 Issue: 1 Volume: 1 Year: 1999 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613199908413990 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613199908413990 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:1:y:1999:i:1:p:81-100 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_8413988_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Spyros Spyrou Author-X-Name-First: Spyros Author-X-Name-Last: Spyrou Title: Financial liberalization or financial repression? The case of the Greek equity market Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 65-76 Issue: 1 Volume: 1 Year: 1999 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613199908413988 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613199908413988 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:1:y:1999:i:1:p:65-76 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_8413989_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Giulio Sapelli Author-X-Name-First: Giulio Author-X-Name-Last: Sapelli Title: Pervasive and post‐modern modernization Abstract: Jane Schneider (ed.), Italy's Southern Question: ‘Orientalism’ in One Country (Berg, Oxford, 1998), 320 pp., ISBN 1–85973–997–0 (pb), £17.99 Robert Lumley and Jonathan Morris (eds), The New History of the Italian South (University of Exeter Press, Exeter, 1997), 176 pp., ISBN 0–85989–506–8 (pb), £10.99 Tom Behan, The Camorra (Routledge, London, 1995), 240 pp., ISBN 0–415–09987–0 (hb), £35.00 Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 77-80 Issue: 1 Volume: 1 Year: 1999 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613199908413989 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613199908413989 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:1:y:1999:i:1:p:77-80 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_8413986_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Tobias Abse Author-X-Name-First: Tobias Author-X-Name-Last: Abse Title: Togliatti and 1956: A response to Sassoon Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 39-48 Issue: 1 Volume: 1 Year: 1999 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613199908413986 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613199908413986 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:1:y:1999:i:1:p:39-48 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_8413987_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Frank Brouwer Author-X-Name-First: Frank Author-X-Name-Last: Brouwer Title: European integration and the development of trade union strategies in Spain Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 49-63 Issue: 1 Volume: 1 Year: 1999 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613199908413987 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613199908413987 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:1:y:1999:i:1:p:49-63 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_8413984_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Hugh Poulton Author-X-Name-First: Hugh Author-X-Name-Last: Poulton Title: The struggle for hegemony in Turkey: Turkish nationalism as a contemporary force Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 15-31 Issue: 1 Volume: 1 Year: 1999 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613199908413984 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613199908413984 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:1:y:1999:i:1:p:15-31 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_8413985_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Donald Sassoon Author-X-Name-First: Donald Author-X-Name-Last: Sassoon Title: Togliatti, Stalin, Hungary and the tasks of historians Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 33-38 Issue: 1 Volume: 1 Year: 1999 X-DOI: 10.1080/14613199908413985 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14613199908413985 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:1:y:1999:i:1:p:33-38 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_10020068_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Panayiotis Liargovas Author-X-Name-First: Panayiotis Author-X-Name-Last: Liargovas Author-Name: Dionysios Chionis Author-X-Name-First: Dionysios Author-X-Name-Last: Chionis Title: Barriers to the transition of enterprises from central plan to market economy: The Balkan case Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 191-206 Issue: 2 Volume: 4 Year: 2002 X-DOI: 10.1080/1461319022000021620 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/1461319022000021620 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:4:y:2002:i:2:p:191-206 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_10020069_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: The Editors Title: Debates Journal: Pages: 207-208 Issue: 2 Volume: 4 Year: 2002 X-DOI: 10.1080/1461319022000021639 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/1461319022000021639 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:4:y:2002:i:2:p:207-208 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_10020066_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Wolfgang Deckers Author-X-Name-First: Wolfgang Author-X-Name-Last: Deckers Title: Germany and the Balkans: Reflections on an uneasy relationship Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 157-170 Issue: 2 Volume: 4 Year: 2002 X-DOI: 10.1080/1461319022000021602 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/1461319022000021602 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:4:y:2002:i:2:p:157-170 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_10020067_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Mary Farrell Author-X-Name-First: Mary Author-X-Name-Last: Farrell Title: Meeting the conditions of monetary union: The challenge to the Spanish model of regionalization Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 171-189 Issue: 2 Volume: 4 Year: 2002 X-DOI: 10.1080/1461319022000021611 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/1461319022000021611 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:4:y:2002:i:2:p:171-189 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_10020064_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Dejan Djokić Author-X-Name-First: Dejan Author-X-Name-Last: Djokić Title: The Second World War II: Discourses of reconciliation in Serbia and Croatia in the late 1980s and early 1990s Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 127-140 Issue: 2 Volume: 4 Year: 2002 X-DOI: 10.1080/1461319022000021585 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/1461319022000021585 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:4:y:2002:i:2:p:127-140 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_10020065_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Lily Hamourtziadou Author-X-Name-First: Lily Author-X-Name-Last: Hamourtziadou Title: The Bosniaks: From nation to threat Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 141-156 Issue: 2 Volume: 4 Year: 2002 X-DOI: 10.1080/1461319022000021594 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/1461319022000021594 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:4:y:2002:i:2:p:141-156 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_10020063_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: The Editors Title: Histories behind names: An interview with Stevan K. Pavlowitch Journal: Pages: 117-125 Issue: 2 Volume: 4 Year: 2002 X-DOI: 10.1080/1461319022000021576 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/1461319022000021576 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:4:y:2002:i:2:p:117-125 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_10020071_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: The Editors Title: Book Reviews Journal: Pages: 215-240 Issue: 2 Volume: 4 Year: 2002 X-DOI: 10.1080/1461319022000021657 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/1461319022000021657 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:4:y:2002:i:2:p:215-240 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_10020072_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: The Editors Title: Erratum Journal: Pages: 241-241 Issue: 2 Volume: 4 Year: 2002 X-DOI: 10.1080/1461319022000021666 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/1461319022000021666 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:4:y:2002:i:2:p:241-241 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_10020070_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: José Magone Author-X-Name-First: José Author-X-Name-Last: Magone Title: 'Lessons to be learned from the Portuguese experience with the European Union (1985-2000). Reviewing a Rich Manual for Practitioners of European Integration in the Candidate Countries' Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 209-214 Issue: 2 Volume: 4 Year: 2002 X-DOI: 10.1080/1461319022000021648 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/1461319022000021648 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:4:y:2002:i:2:p:209-214 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_10020079_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Bulent Go¨KAY Author-X-Name-First: Bulent Author-X-Name-Last: Go¨KAY Title: 'Pax Americana'. Is it all about oil? Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 83-86 Issue: 1 Volume: 5 Year: 2003 X-DOI: 10.1080/1461319032000062679 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/1461319032000062679 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:5:y:2003:i:1:p:83-86 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_10020077_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Denisa Kostovicova Author-X-Name-First: Denisa Author-X-Name-Last: Kostovicova Title: The Albanians in Great Britain: Diasporic identity and experience in the educational perspective since 1990 Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 53-69 Issue: 1 Volume: 5 Year: 2003 X-DOI: 10.1080/1461319032000062651 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/1461319032000062651 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. 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Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:5:y:2003:i:1:p:71-81 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_10020075_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Pavlos Hatzopoulos Author-X-Name-First: Pavlos Author-X-Name-Last: Hatzopoulos Title: 'All that is, is nationalist': Western imaginings of the Balkans since the Yugoslav wars Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 25-38 Issue: 1 Volume: 5 Year: 2003 X-DOI: 10.1080/1461319032000062633 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/1461319032000062633 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:5:y:2003:i:1:p:25-38 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_10020076_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Florian Bieber Author-X-Name-First: Florian Author-X-Name-Last: Bieber Title: Approaches to political violence and terrorism in former Yugoslavia 1 Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 39-51 Issue: 1 Volume: 5 Year: 2003 X-DOI: 10.1080/1461319032000062642 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/1461319032000062642 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:5:y:2003:i:1:p:39-51 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_10020073_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: The Editors Title: Editorial Journal: Pages: 5-7 Issue: 1 Volume: 5 Year: 2003 X-DOI: 10.1080/1461319032000062615 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/1461319032000062615 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. 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Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:5:y:2003:i:1:p:99-122 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_10020080_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Stevan Pavlowitch Author-X-Name-First: Stevan Author-X-Name-Last: Pavlowitch Title: Review Article Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 87-89 Issue: 1 Volume: 5 Year: 2003 X-DOI: 10.1080/1461319032000062688 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/1461319032000062688 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:5:y:2003:i:1:p:87-89 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_10020081_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Veljko Vujacčić Author-X-Name-First: Veljko Author-X-Name-Last: Vujacčić Title: Why nationalist discourse really matters: Two studies of Serbian nationalism Journal: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Pages: 91-97 Issue: 1 Volume: 5 Year: 2003 X-DOI: 10.1080/1461319032000062697 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/1461319032000062697 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:5:y:2003:i:1:p:91-97 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_415388_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Diana Bozhilova Author-X-Name-First: Diana Author-X-Name-Last: Bozhilova Title: Energy security and regional cooperation in South-East Europe Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 293-311 Issue: 3 Volume: 11 Year: 2009 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448950903152151 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448950903152151 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:11:y:2009:i:3:p:293-311 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_415400_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Didem Buhari-Gulmez Author-X-Name-First: Didem Author-X-Name-Last: Buhari-Gulmez Author-Name: Seckin Baris Gulmez Author-X-Name-First: Seckin Author-X-Name-Last: Baris Gulmez Author-Name: Rigels Halili Author-X-Name-First: Rigels Author-X-Name-Last: Halili Author-Name: Sheila Lecoeur Author-X-Name-First: Sheila Author-X-Name-Last: Lecoeur Author-Name: Branislav Radeljić Author-X-Name-First: Branislav Author-X-Name-Last: Radeljić Author-Name: Klaus Schmider Author-X-Name-First: Klaus Author-X-Name-Last: Schmider Author-Name: Christopher Walsch Author-X-Name-First: Christopher Author-X-Name-Last: Walsch Title: Book Reviews Journal: Pages: 347-358 Issue: 3 Volume: 11 Year: 2009 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448950903152276 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448950903152276 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:11:y:2009:i:3:p:347-358 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_415386_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Ronald H. Linden Author-X-Name-First: Ronald H. Author-X-Name-Last: Linden Title: The burden of belonging: Romanian and Bulgarian foreign policy in the new era Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 269-291 Issue: 3 Volume: 11 Year: 2009 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448950903152136 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448950903152136 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:11:y:2009:i:3:p:269-291 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_392382_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Christopher Lamont Author-X-Name-First: Christopher Author-X-Name-Last: Lamont Title: Negotiating justice: from liberal legalism to war crimes realism? Journal: Pages: 339-346 Issue: 3 Volume: 11 Year: 2009 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448950902922109 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448950902922109 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:11:y:2009:i:3:p:339-346 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_415392_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Vassilis K. Fouskas Author-X-Name-First: Vassilis K. Author-X-Name-Last: Fouskas Author-Name: Bülent Gökay Author-X-Name-First: Bülent Author-X-Name-Last: Gökay Title: Editorial Journal: Pages: 233-233 Issue: 3 Volume: 11 Year: 2009 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448950903152193 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448950903152193 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:11:y:2009:i:3:p:233-233 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_415390_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Roberto Belloni Author-X-Name-First: Roberto Author-X-Name-Last: Belloni Title: European integration and the Western Balkans: lessons, prospects and obstacles Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 313-331 Issue: 3 Volume: 11 Year: 2009 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448950903152177 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448950903152177 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:11:y:2009:i:3:p:313-331 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_415384_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Reuel R. Hanks Author-X-Name-First: Reuel R. Author-X-Name-Last: Hanks Title: ‘Multi-vector politics’ and Kazakhstan's emerging role as a geo-strategic player in Central Asia Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 257-267 Issue: 3 Volume: 11 Year: 2009 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448950903152110 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448950903152110 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:11:y:2009:i:3:p:257-267 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_415395_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Maritsa V. Poros Author-X-Name-First: Maritsa V. Author-X-Name-Last: Poros Title: Backlash 9/11 Journal: Pages: 333-337 Issue: 3 Volume: 11 Year: 2009 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448950903152227 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448950903152227 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:11:y:2009:i:3:p:333-337 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_415382_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Selver B. Sahin Author-X-Name-First: Selver B. Author-X-Name-Last: Sahin Title: The use of the ‘exceptionalism’ argument in Kosovo: an analysis of the rationalization of external interference in the conflict Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 235-255 Issue: 3 Volume: 11 Year: 2009 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448950903152094 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448950903152094 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:11:y:2009:i:3:p:235-255 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_789298_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Jovo Ateljevic Author-X-Name-First: Jovo Author-X-Name-Last: Ateljevic Title: Economic Development and Entrepreneurship in Transition Economies: A Contribution to the Current Scholarly Debate Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 237-239 Issue: 3 Volume: 15 Year: 2013 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2013.789298 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2013.789298 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:15:y:2013:i:3:p:237-239 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_789330_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Suzana Stefanovic Author-X-Name-First: Suzana Author-X-Name-Last: Stefanovic Author-Name: Maja Ivanovic-Djukić Author-X-Name-First: Maja Author-X-Name-Last: Ivanovic-Djukić Author-Name: Vesna Jankovic-Milic Author-X-Name-First: Vesna Author-X-Name-Last: Jankovic-Milic Title: The Analysis of Key Challenges and Constraints to the Stability and Growth of an Entrepreneurial Sector in Serbia Abstract: Macroeconomic business conditions in Serbia are still quite unfavourable in the post-recession period. Data submitted by the Serbian Business Registers Agency show that the number of newly established entrepreneurs in Serbia, in 2010, is for the first time less than the number of those that have gone out of business over that year. These data were the basis for the analysis of constraints and factors that brought about this situation. The high mortality rate of entrepreneurial ventures indicates the presence of a large number of problems that limit the development of entrepreneurship in Serbia. A survey carried out on entrepreneurs and managers of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) by the Republic Agency for Development of small and medium enterprises and entrepreneurs (SMEEs) revealed key constraints for their expansion, such as: lack of financial resources, administrative obstacles, insufficient qualified labour, lack of information on markets and technologies, non-compliance with standards and other less significant issues. Therefore, the objective of the paper is to stress the influence of the major problems and restrictions to the development of the entrepreneurial sector in Serbia. Constraints to the growth of entrepreneurship are going to be perceived through the prism of (insufficient) financial investments that the government makes to overcome them. In addition, by statistical analysis methods, it will be tested whether and to what extent each of these factors affect the number of start-ups. Based on the results, certain recommendations to the economic policymakers will be given. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 346-365 Issue: 3 Volume: 15 Year: 2013 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2013.789330 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2013.789330 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:15:y:2013:i:3:p:346-365 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_789319_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Jovo Ateljevic Author-X-Name-First: Jovo Author-X-Name-Last: Ateljevic Author-Name: Tony O'Rourke Author-X-Name-First: Tony Author-X-Name-Last: O'Rourke Author-Name: Branka Poljasevic Author-X-Name-First: Branka Author-X-Name-Last: Poljasevic Title: Local Economic Development in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Role of Local Development Agencies Abstract: This paper examines the local economic development agencies, their entrepreneurial or leadership behaviour and their ability to contribute to local/regional development in the context of a transitional economy. The research employs qualitative research methodology by combining in-depth interviews and focus groups on 36 local development agencies (LDAs) and other actors ‘responsible’ for the economic development in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Inductive theory or the bottom-up model for regional development provides the conceptual structure for this research. The research identifies a number of important factors that determine the trajectory of the local/regional economic development, as well as the challenges that LDAs and other local actors are facing in one of the most unpredictable economic environments. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 280-305 Issue: 3 Volume: 15 Year: 2013 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2013.789319 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2013.789319 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:15:y:2013:i:3:p:280-305 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_789305_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Saurav Pathak Author-X-Name-First: Saurav Author-X-Name-Last: Pathak Author-Name: André Laplume Author-X-Name-First: André Author-X-Name-Last: Laplume Author-Name: Emanuel Xavier-Oliveira Author-X-Name-First: Emanuel Author-X-Name-Last: Xavier-Oliveira Title: A Multi-level Empirical Study of Ethnic Diversity and Shadow Economy as Moderators of Opportunity Recognition and Entrepreneurial Entry in Transition Economies Abstract: Our multi-level model about the relationship between opportunity recognition and entrepreneurial entry in transition economies suggests that ethnic fractionalization along with the size of the shadow economy are moderators of individual-level opportunity recognition. Whereas ethnic diversity increases entrepreneurial entries, a large informal sector appears to decrease them. We also find that opportunity recognition may be a more important predictor of entry when ethnic diversity is low and when the shadow economy is small. Thus, our study contributes to the literature examining the influence of contextual factors on entrepreneurial entry. Succinctly, ethnic diversity can substitute for opportunity recognition, whereas the informal economy increases its importance. Consequently, it appears that ethnic heterogeneity in transition economies may be a valuable driver of entrepreneurial entry even in the absence of opportunity recognition, while the size of the informal economy makes opportunity recognition dearer. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 240-259 Issue: 3 Volume: 15 Year: 2013 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2013.789305 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2013.789305 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:15:y:2013:i:3:p:240-259 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_789315_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Marjan Svetličič Author-X-Name-First: Marjan Author-X-Name-Last: Svetličič Author-Name: Aljaž Kunčič Author-X-Name-First: Aljaž Author-X-Name-Last: Kunčič Title: FDI, the Crisis and Competitiveness of Transition Economies Abstract: We evaluate the impact of the crisis on foreign direct investment (FDI) and differences between selected transition and Western economies regarding their policies and attitudes towards FDI. Transition economies have been affected by the crisis more than Western countries, but remain more optimistic about the current and future role of FDI's influence on competitiveness, and also see FDI as a relatively more important instrument for enhancing competitiveness than their Western counterparts. In addition, the investment promotion agencies seemingly have a completely different set of excelling factors in transition economies in comparison to their Western counterparts. Transition and Western countries differ in terms of their need, environments and attitudes when it comes to FDI. Thus, one of the crisis-related implications is the need to tailor the FDI policy and promotion approach to each group's specific needs. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 260-279 Issue: 3 Volume: 15 Year: 2013 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2013.789315 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2013.789315 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:15:y:2013:i:3:p:260-279 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_789326_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Veland Ramadani Author-X-Name-First: Veland Author-X-Name-Last: Ramadani Author-Name: Shqipe Gërguri Author-X-Name-First: Shqipe Author-X-Name-Last: Gërguri Author-Name: Gadaf Rexhepi Author-X-Name-First: Gadaf Author-X-Name-Last: Rexhepi Author-Name: Selajdin Abduli Author-X-Name-First: Selajdin Author-X-Name-Last: Abduli Title: Innovation and Economic Development: The Case of FYR of Macedonia Abstract: Innovation is essential for sustainable growth and development, and it is one of the key European Union (EU) strategies. The Programme for Competition and Innovation of the EU is especially important for the economic revival and small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) development in transition countries. There are several core conditions which enable innovation and encourage economic growth and development. According to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) the most important are: strong standards and effective enforcement of intellectual property protection; dynamic competition and contestable markets; a strong and sustainable fundamental research and development infrastructure; encouraging information and communications technology developments and a strong emphasis on education at all levels. The current paper examines the most critical and interlinked conditions in the context of the FYR of Macedonia. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 324-345 Issue: 3 Volume: 15 Year: 2013 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2013.789326 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2013.789326 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:15:y:2013:i:3:p:324-345 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_789322_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Biljana Predić Author-X-Name-First: Biljana Author-X-Name-Last: Predić Author-Name: Danijela Stošić Author-X-Name-First: Danijela Author-X-Name-Last: Stošić Title: Networking Strategies among Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises: The Example from South Serbia Abstract: The aim of this paper is to show possible effects of networking strategies and to examine the realization of these effects in the case of clustering of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The Nišava District Textile Cluster has been chosen in order to test the impact of clustering on the performance of SMEs. The dynamics of cluster members' growth and development indicators during the four-year period shows that some improvements have been achieved. Nevertheless, further statistical analysis does not confirm the existence of positive effects of this cluster on its members' business performance, that is, their growth and development. The cluster's short lifespan, effects of the world economic crisis and, the most important, the inadequate structure and support of the examined cluster are seen as the main reasons for this absence of positive effects. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 306-323 Issue: 3 Volume: 15 Year: 2013 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2013.789322 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2013.789322 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:15:y:2013:i:3:p:306-323 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1267364_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Constantine P. Danopoulos Author-X-Name-First: Constantine P. Author-X-Name-Last: Danopoulos Title: Civil Liberties and Rights, Equality and the Quality of Democracy in Greece Abstract: This article assesses the content quality of democracy in Greece. Theoretically, the quality of democracy is assessed in three different but interrelated dimensions: procedure, result, and content. Procedure is about the character and workings of the environment in which governance takes place; result refers to the overall quality of government performance and citizen satisfaction; and content involves the quality of the substance of governance, and it is gauged through two variables: freedom and equality. Freedom involves political, civil, and socioeconomic rights, including speech, property, and social protection. Equality is about prohibition of discrimination on the basis of gender, ethnicity, race, political orientation, or other extraneous conditions. Using various indices as well as more substantive information, the essay assesses the content dimension of the quality of democracy in post-1974 Greece. The study concludes that the country’s quality of democracy is fair, but is in need of improvement. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 225-242 Issue: 3 Volume: 19 Year: 2017 Month: 5 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2017.1267364 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2017.1267364 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:19:y:2017:i:3:p:225-242 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1267394_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Gordana Đurović Author-X-Name-First: Gordana Author-X-Name-Last: Đurović Author-Name: Miloš Bigović Author-X-Name-First: Miloš Author-X-Name-Last: Bigović Author-Name: Nikola Milović Author-X-Name-First: Nikola Author-X-Name-Last: Milović Title: Support for Further Enlargement of the EU: Statistical Analysis of Regional Differences Abstract: The present paper is based on the statistical analysis of regional differences at the level of the European Union, according to the Eurobarometer survey conducted in 2014, in relation to the question of support for further enlargement of the EU regions. The aim of the paper is to demonstrate the existence of statistically significant variability in support for further EU enlargement by applying adequate statistical methods—the ANOVA method and the Kruskal–Wallis test. A total of two EU regions have been identified that are, in accordance with a factor of urbanization, placed in the framework of three separate areas divided by type or size of the community. From the standpoint of the region of the old member states (EU-15), confirmation is found that there are significant differences among regional units in terms of support for further enlargement of the EU. On the other hand, from the viewpoint of the region of the new member states (EU-13), it has been confirmed that there are no significant differences among regional units with respect to the support for further enlargement of the EU. Such research findings have certain theoretical and practical implications. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 243-258 Issue: 3 Volume: 19 Year: 2017 Month: 5 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2017.1267394 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2017.1267394 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:19:y:2017:i:3:p:243-258 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1267417_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Mete Kaan Kaynar Author-X-Name-First: Mete Kaan Author-X-Name-Last: Kaynar Author-Name: Gökhan Ak Author-X-Name-First: Gökhan Author-X-Name-Last: Ak Title: A Forgotten Moment in Turkish Intellectual History: 24 Hours and Mediha Berkes Abstract: When the intellectual history of the Republic of Turkey is examined through its political and press interactions, it sheds light on the fact that the 1940s was a gloomy environment but with a dense vividness and diversity with regard to mass media and communication affairs. The main factor for that could be escalating political pressure and censorship imposed on the mass media, even resulting in close-downs, a situation which was quite in contrast with the striking increase in newspapers/periodicals being published during those years. The 24 Saat, which is the main subject of our study, was a newspaper published for only 13 days by Mediha Berkes, who was forced to resign her post as a teacher in the sociology department of the Faculty of Language, History and Geography in Ankara. In this frame, the main aim of this research is to investigate intellectual considerations at the time of 24 Saat newspaper which entered into the Turkish intellectual and press history in 1947, as well as its owner Mediha Berkes in the context of the political and social developments of that decade. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 259-275 Issue: 3 Volume: 19 Year: 2017 Month: 5 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2017.1267417 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2017.1267417 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:19:y:2017:i:3:p:259-275 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1277084_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Canan Yildirim Author-X-Name-First: Canan Author-X-Name-Last: Yildirim Title: Turkey’s Outward Foreign Direct Investment: Trends and Patterns of Mergers and Acquisitions Abstract: The aim of this study is to examine the recent evolution of Turkish outward foreign direct investment together with Turkish firms’ cross-border acquisitions across time, countries and industries. The article suggests that macro-economic restructuring and institutional reforms, together with strengthened competition at home and globally, not only allowed but also forced Turkish firms to expand internationally. It shows that Turkish acquisitions are mostly directed towards European countries and are concentrated more in manufacturing than in the services industry. In addition, most of the acquisitions involve firms operating in low-technology manufacturing and less knowledge-intensive services. These findings imply that Turkish firms might be motivated mainly towards accessing new markets and that the acquisitions do not seem to be utilized for technological upgrading and productivity improvements. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 276-293 Issue: 3 Volume: 19 Year: 2017 Month: 5 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2017.1277084 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2017.1277084 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:19:y:2017:i:3:p:276-293 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1277086_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Veland Ramadani Author-X-Name-First: Veland Author-X-Name-Last: Ramadani Author-Name: Abdylmenaf Bexheti Author-X-Name-First: Abdylmenaf Author-X-Name-Last: Bexheti Author-Name: Gadaf Rexhepi Author-X-Name-First: Gadaf Author-X-Name-Last: Rexhepi Author-Name: Vanessa Ratten Author-X-Name-First: Vanessa Author-X-Name-Last: Ratten Author-Name: Sadudin Ibraimi Author-X-Name-First: Sadudin Author-X-Name-Last: Ibraimi Title: Succession Issues in Albanian Family Businesses: Exploratory Research Abstract: Family businesses represent one of the oldest forms of business organizations. Family businesses are an important source for generating jobs generation after generation in most countries, including transition ones. The main focus of this article is on succession in the family business, which is seen as the biggest challenge faced by companies in the long run. Succession in general terms can be defined as a replacement or transfer of the management and control of the business from generation to generation. The purpose of this article is to share findings related to succession in family businesses in Albania. In order to gain a better picture of the current situation, problems and perspectives facing families with respect to succession a survey was conducted. The questionnaire was distributed physically and through e-mail. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 294-312 Issue: 3 Volume: 19 Year: 2017 Month: 5 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2017.1277086 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2017.1277086 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:19:y:2017:i:3:p:294-312 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1277087_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Glenn Diesen Author-X-Name-First: Glenn Author-X-Name-Last: Diesen Author-Name: Conor Keane Author-X-Name-First: Conor Author-X-Name-Last: Keane Title: The Two-tiered Division of Ukraine: Historical Narratives in Nation-building and Region-building Abstract: Narratives are instrumental in constructing both national and regional identities. A divided Europe produces conflicting narratives that are constructed to lay claim over privileged, if not exclusive, dominion of the shared neighbourhood. The profoundly polarized historical narratives about the Ukraine are heavily influenced by divergent accounts of its relationship with Russia, ranging from Kievan Rus to the Soviet Union. Both the West and Russia seek to encourage a particular historical narrative in Ukraine that is compatible with their interests in the region. The West emphasizes a binary division of values on the continent, endowing it with a civilizing mission to cement collective hegemony in an exclusive ‘Europe’. Russia, meanwhile, embraces a historical narrative centred on a shared ‘Russian world’ based implicitly on sovereign inequality, in which Moscow holds a privileged position. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 313-329 Issue: 3 Volume: 19 Year: 2017 Month: 5 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2017.1277087 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2017.1277087 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:19:y:2017:i:3:p:313-329 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_1277088_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Alexandru Dragan Author-X-Name-First: Alexandru Author-X-Name-Last: Dragan Author-Name: Nicolae Popa Author-X-Name-First: Nicolae Author-X-Name-Last: Popa Title: Social Economy in Post-communist Romania: What Kind of Volunteering for What Type of NGOs? Abstract: This article analyses the social economy from the perspective of NGOs and voluntary work. The research was conducted on four different territorial levels in the Western Region of Romania and employed both quantitative (questionnaires administered to the general population and within NGOs, bivariate analyses) and qualitative (semi-structured interviews within NGOs) methods of analysis. This method of working has allowed a picture of NGOs and volunteering to be formed that is correlated with territorial realities in the western part of Romania. It has thus been possible to see what underlies the coming into existence of NGOs, their economic scale, and what areas they succeed in addressing. Secondly, a description is provided of the typical Western Region volunteer, focusing mainly on social and motivational aspects. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 330-350 Issue: 3 Volume: 19 Year: 2017 Month: 5 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2017.1277088 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2017.1277088 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:19:y:2017:i:3:p:330-350 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2167162_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Mirjana Dokmanović Author-X-Name-First: Mirjana Author-X-Name-Last: Dokmanović Author-Name: Neven Cvetićanin Author-X-Name-First: Neven Author-X-Name-Last: Cvetićanin Title: Serbia in Light of the Global Recomposition Abstract: The article assesses the effects of the current global geopolitical recomposition on Serbia, especially in the light of the multidimensional consequences of the current war in Ukraine. The effects of the dominant policies of the main external factors—i.e., the United States, the European Union, Russia, and China—have been analysed from a geopolitical perspective, with the argument put forward being that, following the war in Ukraine, Serbia will find itself on the western side of a New Iron Curtain, which will fall across Europe from the Baltic to the Black Sea as the main geopolitical consequence of current conflict in Ukraine. The aim of the article is to contribute to the existing scholarship in the field by the exploring issues yet to come into the focus of geopolitical analysis in the Serbian context: ‘green’ initiatives, energy and climate change, and COVID-19 vaccines. All these have become extensions of the geopolitics and geo-economics of the key global powers in their efforts to position themselves as best they can in developing a multipolar world. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 586-603 Issue: 4 Volume: 25 Year: 2023 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2023.2167162 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2023.2167162 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:25:y:2023:i:4:p:586-603 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2167165_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Branka Topić Pavković Author-X-Name-First: Branka Author-X-Name-Last: Topić Pavković Author-Name: Tijana Šoja Author-X-Name-First: Tijana Author-X-Name-Last: Šoja Title: Post-Pandemic Inflation and Currency Board Arrangements in the Balkans Abstract: Maintaining monetary stability is the first and fundamental objective of the currency board regime, especially after political and economic crises such as the one in the Balkans in the 1990s. The very limited role of the central bank has disciplined financial institutions and governments, but at the same time is not conducive to long-term growth and employment. This policy ties the domestic currency to the ‘peg’ currency, leading to inflationary tendencies in the country whose currency is used as the ‘peg’. Currently, the high inflation rates are caused by the pandemic crisis, but also by the war in Ukraine. This paper analyses the causes of inflation in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Bulgaria as countries with currency boards. The results show that inflation in these two countries is ‘imported inflation’ from two points of view: the monetary policy of the European Central Bank and the inflation trend in the EMU, but mainly due to the Ukraine crisis and consequently the energy and food crisis. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 644-670 Issue: 4 Volume: 25 Year: 2023 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2023.2167165 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2023.2167165 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:25:y:2023:i:4:p:644-670 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2167163_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Andreas Stergiou Author-X-Name-First: Andreas Author-X-Name-Last: Stergiou Title: Eastern Mediterranean Energy Geopolitics Revisited: Green Economy Instead of Conflict Abstract: Dramatic technological advances in renewable sources of energy and environmental concerns have set in motion a global energy transformation that is expected to have profound geopolitical consequences. For example, the Eastern Mediterranean has been recently affected very hard by the fallouts of the ongoing climate crisis. While frictions among the countries of Eastern Mediterranean about maritime zones and continental shelf delimitation related to sovereign claims and to some degree with ambitions of finding oil and gas have abounded in recent years, the impact of a climate crisis on the same countries has been in recent years extreme. The Mediterranean’s more than half-a-billion inhabitants seem to face highly interconnected climate risks. Reasons for concern include sea-level rise-related risks, land and marine biodiversity losses, risks related to drought, wildfire, alterations of water cycle, endangered food production, health risks in both urban and rural settlements from heat and altered disease vectors. Historically, all these have led to mass migration to the cities, crossing borders to other countries, civil wars, ethnic conflicts and tensions. Against this background, energy transition and fight against common existential threats such as climate change or climate crisis are emerging as more daunting challenges as geopolitical competition to secure control of fossil fuels or to assert sovereign claims in the Mediterranean Sea. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 604-625 Issue: 4 Volume: 25 Year: 2023 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2023.2167163 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2023.2167163 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:25:y:2023:i:4:p:604-625 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2167167_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Borce Trenovski Author-X-Name-First: Borce Author-X-Name-Last: Trenovski Author-Name: Dragan Gligorić Author-X-Name-First: Dragan Author-X-Name-Last: Gligorić Author-Name: Kristijan Kozheski Author-X-Name-First: Kristijan Author-X-Name-Last: Kozheski Author-Name: Gunter Merdzan Author-X-Name-First: Gunter Author-X-Name-Last: Merdzan Title: Do Wages Reflect Growth Productivity – Comparing the European East and West? Abstract: The research determines the gap (Great Decoupling) between labour productivity and workers’ compensation in the two blocks of EU countries (Western versus Eastern). The division of countries into two groups provides a basis further to determine whether the previous socio-economic and political evolutionary development of these countries blocks still has a significant impact on the functional distribution of national income, on the extent to which labour productivity growth is transmitted to workers. The results are heterogeneous. In the sample of highly developed Western EU countries where higher levels of labour productivity, as well as high levels of technological development, lead to an increase in labour productivity to be followed by a lower increase in workers’ compensation. On the sample of Eastern EU countries, results indicate different relationships and the strength of causality between productivity and labour compensation. Central-East EU countries had a more positive relationship between real workers’ compensation and labour productivity, compared to the Southeast Europe (Balkan) countries where an increase in workers’ compensation causes a reduction in labour productivity. The results also offer a solid basis for understanding wage/income/productivity relationships d for creating policies for a more efficient distribution of national income. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 683-699 Issue: 4 Volume: 25 Year: 2023 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2023.2167167 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2023.2167167 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:25:y:2023:i:4:p:683-699 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2167166_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Svetlana Sabljic Author-X-Name-First: Svetlana Author-X-Name-Last: Sabljic Author-Name: Tajana Serdar Rakovic Author-X-Name-First: Tajana Author-X-Name-Last: Serdar Rakovic Author-Name: Vladimir Vasic Author-X-Name-First: Vladimir Author-X-Name-Last: Vasic Title: The New Challenges of the Western Balkan Banking Industry During Ongoing Global Crisis Abstract: The current energy crisis, COVID-19 pandemic and the ongoing crisis in Ukraine have been negatively affecting several channels, including energy, trade and the financial sector. As banks play the main role in all real sector business activities, it is of great importance to examine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Ukraine crisis on bank performances. Currently, banks are showing weaker profitability after the strong recovery in 2021, while the world is facing the impact of the war on energy prices, inflation and growth, which reinforces the existing vulnerabilities. This article assesses the impact of the current crisis on the financial performance of the banking sector in the Western Balkans. Our study shows that the energy and COVID-19 crisis have had a detrimental effect on the financial performance of banks in the Western Balkans. Furthermore, the Ukraine crisis will prolong and extend these negative effects on the financial stability and liquidity of the banking sector in Western Balkans. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 671-682 Issue: 4 Volume: 25 Year: 2023 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2023.2167166 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2023.2167166 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:25:y:2023:i:4:p:671-682 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2167168_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Bojan Ćudić Author-X-Name-First: Bojan Author-X-Name-Last: Ćudić Author-Name: David Hazemali Author-X-Name-First: David Author-X-Name-Last: Hazemali Author-Name: Matjaž Klemenčič Author-X-Name-First: Matjaž Author-X-Name-Last: Klemenčič Author-Name: Jernej Zupančič Author-X-Name-First: Jernej Author-X-Name-Last: Zupančič Title: From Bosnia and Herzegovina to China in the 21st Century: A Case Study of Personal Migration Histories Abstract: This study is the first to examine recent migration from Bosnia and Herzegovina to China in the 21st century. It gives an overview of new Chinese geopolitical and economic circumstances, a historical analysis of migration flows between China and the rest of the world from the 19th to the 21st century, and a survey of recent emigration flows from Bosnia and Herzegovina. The second part presents the results of an empirical study of labour migration from Bosnia and Herzegovina to China and the experiences of 25 migrants, which was conducted using structured interviews The research results show that most in the group plan to stay in China permanently. Some would like to move to North America or Australia. It is characteristic that there are no gender gaps in terms of qualifications or career ambitions. The measures to combat COVID-19 implemented by the Chinese government affected the respondents in different ways. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 700-717 Issue: 4 Volume: 25 Year: 2023 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2023.2167168 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2023.2167168 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:25:y:2023:i:4:p:700-717 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2167164_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Danijela Jaćimović Author-X-Name-First: Danijela Author-X-Name-Last: Jaćimović Author-Name: Joel I. Deichmann Author-X-Name-First: Joel I. Author-X-Name-Last: Deichmann Author-Name: Kong Tianping Author-X-Name-First: Kong Author-X-Name-Last: Tianping Title: The Western Balkans and Geopolitics: Leveraging the European Union and China Abstract: The European Union (EU) is the dominant political and economic influence in the Western Balkan (WB) region, but in the view of many of the region’s citizens, EU integration is associated with strict and painful convergence criteria and burdensome reforms as well as the inertia of unfulfilled accession requirements. China’s involvement in the region is focused mainly on much-needed but controversial infrastructure investments; accordingly, it has attracted increasing international attention over the past decade. At the same time, Turkey, the Arab States, and Russia have also shown heightened interest in the region. This paper addresses the important geopolitical question of whether a mutually-beneficial relationship for all participants is possible. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 626-643 Issue: 4 Volume: 25 Year: 2023 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2023.2167164 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2023.2167164 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:25:y:2023:i:4:p:626-643 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2167169_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Jovo Ateljevic Author-X-Name-First: Jovo Author-X-Name-Last: Ateljevic Title: Balkan’s (Political) Economy: Learning from the Past Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 583-585 Issue: 4 Volume: 25 Year: 2023 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2023.2167169 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2023.2167169 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:25:y:2023:i:4:p:583-585 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2167173_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Galip Emre Yildirim Author-X-Name-First: Galip Emre Author-X-Name-Last: Yildirim Title: Why Decentralization Fails: A Case Study of Turkey Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 850-870 Issue: 5 Volume: 25 Year: 2023 Month: 09 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2023.2167173 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2023.2167173 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:25:y:2023:i:5:p:850-870 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2167176_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Vladimir Bakrač Author-X-Name-First: Vladimir Author-X-Name-Last: Bakrač Author-Name: Marko Dokić Author-X-Name-First: Marko Author-X-Name-Last: Dokić Author-Name: Branislav Radeljić Author-X-Name-First: Branislav Author-X-Name-Last: Radeljić Title: The Complexities of Interreligious Dialogue in the Post-Yugoslav Context Abstract: The post-Yugoslav context has experienced major instances of intolerance, suggesting that the success of initiatives dedicated to interreligious dialogue and lasting peaceful coexistence has been limited. While being aware of what is expected of them, political elites and religious leaders have approached each other as an asset useful to legitimize their rule, which has directly restrained prospects for a prejudice-free dialogue in the fragile societies. This article sees interreligious dialogue and tolerance as an imperative prerequisite for multiconfessional reconciliation in the area of the former Yugoslavia, so that religion is not used as a means for social and political agendas. Accordingly, religious dialogue and debates concerning tolerance should be treated as a sort of incomplete conversation, which should also welcome contributions from a wide range of civic actors in charge of monitoring pursued processes. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 811-831 Issue: 5 Volume: 25 Year: 2023 Month: 09 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2023.2167176 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2023.2167176 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:25:y:2023:i:5:p:811-831 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2167182_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Ali Omidi Author-X-Name-First: Ali Author-X-Name-Last: Omidi Author-Name: Hande Orhon Özdağ Author-X-Name-First: Hande Author-X-Name-Last: Orhon Özdağ Title: Analyzing the Mutual Geopolitical and Security Complementarity of Iran and Turkey: Border, Energy, and Water Abstract: In recent decades, particularly since 2002, relations between Iran and Turkey have been on the rise and generally expanding. The aim of this paper is to analyse and clarify the reasons for the sustainability of the two countries’ relations while undergoing intermittent eruptions of disputes over the years. In other words, the main question is: why have Iran and Turkey, with their political frictions, routinely embraced rapprochement and collaboration in recent decades? Accordingly, the hypothesis proposed is that a key reason for the ongoing cooperation between Tehran and Ankara in different fields, is the rationale of geopolitical complementarity engendering their security needs in broad meaning, particularly energy security and natural gas. Whilst the logic also applies to water security, both states attach greater importance to border security and energy. In short, their common geopolitical destiny over-rides individual state preferences. To examine this hypothesis, Barry Buzan’s theory based on a broad definition of security as well as regional security complex has been deployed through descriptive analytics. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 923-943 Issue: 5 Volume: 25 Year: 2023 Month: 09 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2023.2167182 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2023.2167182 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:25:y:2023:i:5:p:923-943 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2167175_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Shaimaa Magued Author-X-Name-First: Shaimaa Author-X-Name-Last: Magued Title: Upgrading Authoritarianism During the Arab Uprisings: Armed Non-State Actors’ Confessional Alliances and Aborted Democratization in Syria Abstract: How did authoritarian rulers succeed to consolidate their rule during the Arab uprisings? In answering this question, this study sheds light on al-Assad regime’s resilience through the mobilization of armed non-state actors’ sectarian alliances. Unlike scholarly writings touching upon authoritarianism in the Middle East, this study builds on alliance politics theory in arguing for authoritarian upgrading during the uprisings where armed non-state actors’ sectarian alliances manifested a balance of interests, plunged calls for democratization into a security dilemma, and asserted dictators’ grip on power. Drawing on a Critical Discourse Analysis of al-Assad and warlords’ speeches, statements, and video releases, this study extends debates on authoritarian restitution in the Middle East towards armed non-state actors’ sectarian alliances as an innovative mechanism for rule sustainability. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 871-887 Issue: 5 Volume: 25 Year: 2023 Month: 09 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2023.2167175 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2023.2167175 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:25:y:2023:i:5:p:871-887 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2167174_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Cristian Constantin Author-X-Name-First: Cristian Author-X-Name-Last: Constantin Title: Sailing Through Totalitarian Regimes. The Profile of a Shipping Company at the Lower Danube: Maritime Intercontinental Abstract: This study presents the context of the emergence and evolution of the Maritime Intercontinental shipping company in Brăila. The methodological approach rests on novel methods used entrepreneurship history researchers, who have developed patterns of analysis of entrepreneurs. In this article, the shipping company and its shareholders are superimposed on the template developed by the researcher Carlos Dávila. In writing this study, beyond the theoretical and statistical information known to specialists in the history of economics and entrepreneurship, we have managed to identify unpublished sources stored in the archive collections of Romanian ports. The archival materials analysed took us through the borderless universe of entrepreneurship around the Second World War. Based on the sources consulted, we sailed the Danube and the seas of the world to reach from Brăila to Naples, the port where ‘Il Comandante’ Achille Lauro thrived. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 832-849 Issue: 5 Volume: 25 Year: 2023 Month: 09 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2023.2167174 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2023.2167174 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:25:y:2023:i:5:p:832-849 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2167178_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Panayiotis Papadopoulos Author-X-Name-First: Panayiotis Author-X-Name-Last: Papadopoulos Title: Cyprus: Korea by Transposition? Abstract: Cyprus’ recent past is composed of elements that make it a lethal cocktail: colonialism, the struggle for independence, geography, ethnic composition, political and ideological differences among the indigenous population, inter and intra-communal conflict, all gravely affected by regional and international politics. Its immediate geographic area, i.e., the Middle East, along with Asia, acquired another dimension within the new climate of a global confrontation of the two superpowers since 1945 with many unforeseen and devastating consequences. Turkey’s invasion in July 1974 and the forcible partition that resulted have created a deadlock on the ground that still persists. The inability to come up with a just and viable solution, due to the unwillingness of the occupying power to yield, have led many voices advocating a clean solution instead, the euphemism for the creation of two independent states in the island. Employing history as guidance for similar circumstances, mutatis mutandis, the article seeks to demonstrate how such talk is not only dangerous, but pernicious as well, grossly unjust to the Cypriot people. The not-too distant past and its offspring, i.e., partition, which was implemented in the Middle East and Asia, still haunt memory and serve as warning against adopting similar practices in Cyprus. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 737-777 Issue: 5 Volume: 25 Year: 2023 Month: 09 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2023.2167178 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2023.2167178 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:25:y:2023:i:5:p:737-777 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2167179_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Biljana Vankovska Author-X-Name-First: Biljana Author-X-Name-Last: Vankovska Title: Constitutions Octroyées And International State-Building: The Macedonian Case in Focus Abstract: This article critically examines international state-building efforts through (imposed constitutions) and constitutional revisions, a phenomenon that gains a reinvigorated significance in the modern world. The analysis differentiate the constitutions octroyées (imposed constitutions) and constitutional engineering. The empirical focus is on the peculiar Macedonian case study. The main hypothesis is that the recent constitutional history (1991–2021) involves both phenomena with a disastrous outcome of an unfinished state: what started as constitutional engineering has ended up with imposed constitutional changes, thus gradually diminishing and cancelling popular sovereignty. The process is ongoing, and the perspectives of the state are grim and paradoxical: more constitutional changes, fewer statehood elements. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 719-736 Issue: 5 Volume: 25 Year: 2023 Month: 09 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2023.2167179 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2023.2167179 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:25:y:2023:i:5:p:719-736 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2167180_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Nevin Coşar Author-X-Name-First: Nevin Author-X-Name-Last: Coşar Author-Name: Ecem Doygun Author-X-Name-First: Ecem Author-X-Name-Last: Doygun Author-Name: Sevtap Demirci Author-X-Name-First: Sevtap Author-X-Name-Last: Demirci Title: The Role of Railways in the Ottoman Empire During the First World War Abstract: Some of the most important factors influencing the course and outcome of the First World War were the strength of national economies, mobilization of the army, and the supply of basic products and military supplies. The railway networks played a strategic role in the war. The Ottoman Empire joined the Central Powers in the First World War in November 1914. Due to the war conditions in each country and the destruction of the railway network in Serbia, the expected level of imports could not be reached in the first 2 years. The capital city dwellers particularly experienced serious shortages of staple products during the war. The purpose of this article is to shed light on the role of railways in the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. The article examines the role of the Edirne-Istanbul railways in the battle of Gallipoli and also the provision of goods to Istanbul during the war. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 906-922 Issue: 5 Volume: 25 Year: 2023 Month: 09 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2023.2167180 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2023.2167180 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:25:y:2023:i:5:p:906-922 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2167181_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Cem Yilmaz Author-X-Name-First: Cem Author-X-Name-Last: Yilmaz Title: Polar Silk Road Challenge to Sino-Egyptian Economic Relations in the Belt and Road Era Abstract: ‘Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)’, Egypt’s geostrategic location and policy preferences unite China and Egypt on various subjects, including trade, investment, and finance. Egypt is just one of many actors that have joined the BRI, but due to its possession of the Suez Canal, it is of special interest to China. This article investigates the dynamics of Sino-Egyptian economic relations following the launch of BRI. As an Initiative to establish ‘connectivity’, BRI seeks to develop the transportation infrastruct ure along the routes, with Egypt serving as a hub. Although Egypt benefits from Chinese investments and financing, bilateral economic relations face a solid challenge. That is the process of developing the Polar Silk Road (PSR), which will be enabled by rapid de-icing in the Arctic. The article questions how much the PSR threatens Egypt’s central role in the BRI. Based on relevant data, it concludes that the PSR may lower Egypt’s worth to China. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 797-810 Issue: 5 Volume: 25 Year: 2023 Month: 09 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2023.2167181 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2023.2167181 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:25:y:2023:i:5:p:797-810 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2167177_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Çetin Önder Author-X-Name-First: Çetin Author-X-Name-Last: Önder Author-Name: Şükrü Özen Author-X-Name-First: Şükrü Author-X-Name-Last: Özen Title: Bearing the Brunt of Legitimacy and Power Challenges: The Turkish Armed Forces’ Fall from Grace, 1997-2018 Abstract: In this paper, we present an analytical narrative of the events that culminated in the Turkish Armed Forces’ (the TAF) fall from grace between 1997 and 2018. The narrative is guided by a conceptual framework that features organizational legitimacy and power as key to strategizing by societal constituencies. Based on this framework, we describe how the Turkish government consecutively raised legitimacy and power challenges to the TAF, underscoring adaptation of the Turkish government’s strategy to the emergent outcomes. We conclude the paper with a discussion of the usefulness of our framework for an enhanced understanding of civilian control over the military. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 888-905 Issue: 5 Volume: 25 Year: 2023 Month: 09 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2023.2167177 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2023.2167177 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:25:y:2023:i:5:p:888-905 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2167183_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Fatih Çağatay Cengiz Author-X-Name-First: Fatih Çağatay Author-X-Name-Last: Cengiz Title: The Rise of the Right-Wing Good Party (İYİP) in Turkey: Authoritarian Turn, Anomie, and Regulatory Nostalgia Abstract: This article analyzes the rise of a newly established nationalist right-wing political party in Turkey—namely the Good Party (İYİP)—with respect to the concept of anomie. In contrast to the mainstream literature, which exclusively concentrates on the concept of populism in its analysis of the rise of right-wing political parties, this study explains the İYİP’s advancement using Institutional Anomie Theory, along with the fall of the ‘Turkish Dream’, wherein the democratic and economic aspirations of the 2000s were hindered in the 2010s by the authoritarian turn and the entrenchment of the neoliberal economic order. In other words, a contradiction between historically embedded goals (democratization and wealth) and the political means exercised (authoritarian turn and neoliberalism) led to anomie in Turkey, which created a window of opportunity to be exploited by a right-wing political party. The article concludes, based on İYİP rhetoric, that the backlash against the authoritarian turn may surface in the form of regulatory nostalgia for the parliamentary system and exclusionary attitudes towards Syrians living in Turkey. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 778-796 Issue: 5 Volume: 25 Year: 2023 Month: 09 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2023.2167183 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2023.2167183 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:25:y:2023:i:5:p:778-796 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2167342_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Jonilda Rrapaj Kolasi Author-X-Name-First: Jonilda Author-X-Name-Last: Rrapaj Kolasi Author-Name: Klevis Kolasi Author-X-Name-First: Klevis Author-X-Name-Last: Kolasi Title: The Political Economy of Passive Revolution in Albania: The Neoliberal Paradox and Transformation-Democratization Nexus Abstract: What factors account for the transformation-democracy nexus and the failure of democratization in Albania? Current literature assumes that while neoliberal policy frameworks promoted by transnational actors have inextricably a democratizing effect, the failure of democratization results from internal features that are thought to be peculiar to Albania. This article challenges this assumption. Building on Antonio Gramsci’s concept of passive revolution, we show that, while the demise of ‘real socialism’ unlocked the potential towards a freer society, it was the neoliberal restructuring that placed limits on the process of democratization. The failure of Albanian democratization is associated, therefore, not with cultural peculiarities, but with neoliberal passive revolution, that led to the thwarting of democratic gains and establishment of a new class domination in line with a neoliberal accumulation strategy. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 963-981 Issue: 6 Volume: 25 Year: 2023 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2023.2167342 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2023.2167342 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:25:y:2023:i:6:p:963-981 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2167339_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Barçın Boğaç Author-X-Name-First: Barçın Author-X-Name-Last: Boğaç Title: An Island Getting Divided at the Cinema: Transformational Microhistory of Cinemagoing and Nationalism in Cyprus Abstract: This study offers an alternative perspective for examining the rise of Turkish nationalism in the Eastern Mediterranean in relation to cinema culture within the political and historical contexts of Cyprus. The cinema business and its practices had their golden age in the 1950s through the distribution of Turkish films from Turkey and the increasing number of movie theatres in Turkish Cypriot neighbourhoods. This period was also crucial in terms of political developments on the island due to the drastic rise in ethnic and national divisions. Drawing on archival research and oral history; this article aims to examine how Turkish nationalism was provided with the ideal conditions to grow rapidly at Cypriot cinemas and how multi-communal cinemagoing experiences of the early 1950s had transformed into nationally divided Cypriot audiences during the last years of British colonial rule in Cyprus. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 1037-1056 Issue: 6 Volume: 25 Year: 2023 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2023.2167339 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2023.2167339 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:25:y:2023:i:6:p:1037-1056 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2167364_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Pınar Çağlayan Author-X-Name-First: Pınar Author-X-Name-Last: Çağlayan Title: Constantinos Adamides, Securitization and Desecuritization Processes in Protracted Conflicts: The Case of Cyprus Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 1104-1108 Issue: 6 Volume: 25 Year: 2023 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2023.2167364 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2023.2167364 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:25:y:2023:i:6:p:1104-1108 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2167354_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Klearchos A. Kyriakides Author-X-Name-First: Klearchos A. Author-X-Name-Last: Kyriakides Title: ‘A Longdrawn-Out Game of Chess’ and the Camouflaged Partition of the Island of Cyprus that followed on 16 August 1960: A Review of Achilles C. Emilianides, A Longdrawn-Out Game of Chess: The Secret Negotiations About the British Bases (1959–1960) (Nicosia: Hippasus Communications & Publishing Ltd., October 2021) Abstract: Bearing in mind the geostrategic ramifications of Brexit, this review offers a critical assessment of a significant new book with one primary purpose—to analyse the negotiations over the two areas of the Crown Colony of Cyprus, which, upon the establishment of the Republic of Cyprus on 16 August 1960, were retained by the United Kingdom and renamed as the Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia. This review explains why the book is a welcome addition to the existing academic literature. The review also provides certain pieces of constructive criticism largely centred on issues that are unexplored in the book. As such, the review seeks to place the narrow subject matter of the book into a much wider historical and legal context. For example, the review touches on the largely hushed-up geostrategic interests served by those involved in the negotiations. The review depicts the principal outcome of those negotiations as ‘the camouflaged partition’ of the Island of Cyprus on 16 August 1960. The review ends by suggesting that there is a causal link between the negotiations explored in the new book and the conspicuous post-Brexit role of RAF Akrotiri in supporting the UK's strategy towards Russia and Ukraine.Acknowledgment: Sovereign Base Areas Administration website, as archived on 3 January 2018 by the UK Government Web Archive, National Archives of the UK, Kew Gardens, Surrey, https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20180103163958/https://www.sbaadministration.org/index.php/maps (accessed 19 June 2021). Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 1075-1097 Issue: 6 Volume: 25 Year: 2023 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2023.2167354 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2023.2167354 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:25:y:2023:i:6:p:1075-1097 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2167344_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Başak Akgül Author-X-Name-First: Başak Author-X-Name-Last: Akgül Title: Can Nacar, Labor and Power in the Late Ottoman Empire: Tobacco Workers, Managers, and the State, 1872-1912 Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 1102-1103 Issue: 6 Volume: 25 Year: 2023 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2023.2167344 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2023.2167344 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:25:y:2023:i:6:p:1102-1103 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2167349_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Michael Kaeding Author-X-Name-First: Michael Author-X-Name-Last: Kaeding Author-Name: Marko Milenković Author-X-Name-First: Marko Author-X-Name-Last: Milenković Title: Candidate Countries’ Engagement with European Union Agencies – Alternative Modes of EU Integration? Abstract: Decentralized EU agencies have played an important role in the Union’s institutional landscape over the last three decades. Various engagement logics and types of cooperation have previously been investigated for the European Economic Area and EU Eastern Partnership countries, but not for the five countries that received EU candidate status by 2021—Turkey and four Western Balkans countries—Montenegro, Serbia, Albania, and Northern Macedonia. Covering the period between 1999 and 2021 analysis found that 23 out of 34 agencies observed had some type of engagement with these candidates, while serving both EU’s broader foreign policy interests and advancing the sector-specific alignment of candidates. This also suggests that it is possible to frame these engagements as a form of external EU differentiation. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 1002-1019 Issue: 6 Volume: 25 Year: 2023 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2023.2167349 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2023.2167349 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:25:y:2023:i:6:p:1002-1019 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2168074_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: John Henry Author-X-Name-First: John Author-X-Name-Last: Henry Title: Review: Communism, Atheism, and the Orthodox Church of Albania: Cooperation, Survival and Repression Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 1111-1114 Issue: 6 Volume: 25 Year: 2023 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2023.2168074 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2023.2168074 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:25:y:2023:i:6:p:1111-1114 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2167341_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Hüseyin Ergüven Author-X-Name-First: Hüseyin Author-X-Name-Last: Ergüven Author-Name: Nur Köprülü Author-X-Name-First: Nur Author-X-Name-Last: Köprülü Title: Back to Basics: The Re-Securitization of Cyprus by Turkey After Crans Montana Abstract: Utilizing the theory of securitization and security sectors of the Copenhagen School, this article analyses the re-securitization process of Turkish foreign policy on Cyprus after the collapse of the peace talks at the Crans Montana Conference in 2017. The failure of the negotiation process to reach a solution based on the UN Parameters and the subsequent outbreak of the Arab Uprisings in 2011 along with the rivalry that arose over the exploration and discovery of offshore gas resources in the Eastern Mediterranean have all contributed to the revival of Turkey’s traditional and ‘securitized’ Cyprus policy. The discourse analysis reveals three types of threat projections under the military and societal sectors and a case of counter-securitization under the political sector. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 1057-1074 Issue: 6 Volume: 25 Year: 2023 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2023.2167341 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2023.2167341 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:25:y:2023:i:6:p:1057-1074 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2167353_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Vedrana Baričević Author-X-Name-First: Vedrana Author-X-Name-Last: Baričević Title: Beyond Ethnonationalism? Ethnos, Market and Culture in Croatian Policies of Citizenship Abstract: This paper analyses discourses and policies of citizenship and immigration in Croatia, with a special focus on marketization and culturalisation of citizenship. Along with many other Central and Eastern European states, Croatia is commonly studied as a model case of ethnonationalism. This study seeks to warn that in an ethnocentric state, there can also be other important notions of deservingness that structure one’s route to membership today, showing us that we need to move beyond an exclusive focus on ethnonationalism. The paper explores how socioeconomic status and (ethno)cultural origin impact the ability of non-ethnics to claim and receive citizenship rights. The research focuses on two cultural groups: traditional immigrant populations coming from post-Yugoslav states and the new immigrant groups coming from countries in the Middle East. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 982-1001 Issue: 6 Volume: 25 Year: 2023 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2023.2167353 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2023.2167353 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:25:y:2023:i:6:p:982-1001 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2167363_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Erdal Çiftçi Author-X-Name-First: Erdal Author-X-Name-Last: Çiftçi Title: Hicret, Dîn ü Devlet: Osmanlı Göç Politikası(1856- 1908)[Hegira, the Religion and the State: The Ottoman Policy of Migration(1856- 1908)] Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 1108-1110 Issue: 6 Volume: 25 Year: 2023 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2023.2167363 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2023.2167363 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:25:y:2023:i:6:p:1108-1110 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2167352_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Nikos Kourachanis Author-X-Name-First: Nikos Author-X-Name-Last: Kourachanis Title: Greece’s (Un)competitive Capitalism and the Economic Crisis: Critical Thoughts Under the Lens of Social Policy Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 1098-1102 Issue: 6 Volume: 25 Year: 2023 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2023.2167352 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2023.2167352 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:25:y:2023:i:6:p:1098-1102 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2167337_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Samer Bakkour Author-X-Name-First: Samer Author-X-Name-Last: Bakkour Author-Name: Rama Sahtout Author-X-Name-First: Rama Author-X-Name-Last: Sahtout Title: The Dimensions and Attributes of State Failure in Syria Abstract: While state failure was undoubtedly a factor in, and influence on, the uprising, it has become more clearly apparent in the ongoing civil war. The Syrian state can now be said to be ‘failed’ because it cannot meet its citizens’ economic, political and social needs and requirements. This apparent regression is even more striking because pre-war Syria was a regional leader in a number of development fields whose progress was evidenced in associated outputs and levels of performance. This article will provide insight into a number of different dimensions of the country’s statehood, in so doing, trace the process through which the state’s internal and external legitimacy has been sharply diminished. In addition, the paper also highlights how the Syrian state has adjusted to the condition of state failure. The article therefore proposes to examine different aspects and dimensions of state failure, as opposed to the general condition that has been reproduced across various contexts. In concluding, the article puts forward a number of propositions for how international actors can address a number of the challenges and problems associated with state failure. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 1020-1036 Issue: 6 Volume: 25 Year: 2023 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2023.2167337 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2023.2167337 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:25:y:2023:i:6:p:1020-1036 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2167343_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Efrat Aviv Author-X-Name-First: Efrat Author-X-Name-Last: Aviv Title: Turkish–Israeli Relations in the 1960s: Trade, Trade Unions, and the Arab–Israeli War Abstract: Studies on the relationship between Israel and Turkey have mostly ignored earlier decades, concentrating especially on the 2000s. In particular, the 1960s have only superficially been referenced, mainly because of the Cold War. Therefore, using documents from the Israeli and Turkish State Archives, this study examines Turkish—Israeli relations during the 1960s from an economic perspective, showing how economic and trade relations caused a shift in Turkey’s foreign affairs. The study asserts that Turkey attempted to conceal its political and economic ties with Israel and, to some extent, preferred cooperating with Arab states. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 945-962 Issue: 6 Volume: 25 Year: 2023 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2023.2167343 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2023.2167343 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:25:y:2023:i:6:p:945-962 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2233280_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20231214T103247 git hash: d7a2cb0857 Author-Name: Ambreen Yousuf Author-X-Name-First: Ambreen Author-X-Name-Last: Yousuf Title: International Intervention and the Problems of Legitimacy: Encounters in Postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 146-148 Issue: 1 Volume: 26 Year: 2024 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2023.2233280 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2023.2233280 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:26:y:2024:i:1:p:146-148 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2197635_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20231214T103247 git hash: d7a2cb0857 Author-Name: Alan Cafruny Author-X-Name-First: Alan Author-X-Name-Last: Cafruny Author-Name: Vassilis K. Fouskas Author-X-Name-First: Vassilis K. Author-X-Name-Last: Fouskas Title: Ukraine, Europe, and the re-routing of Globalization Abstract: The dominant Western narrative—now virtually obligatory within its media and foreign policy establishments—asserts that Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022 was unprovoked, deriving from domestic political imperatives and messianic imperial nostalgia. Yet, while these factors must be included within a comprehensive causal argument, a deeper and more satisfactory explanation for the invasion situates the predicament of the Russian ruling class—and thus government—within the context of the systematic, decades-long project of NATO expansion and a series of specific provocative actions and decisions taken by Kyiv and Washington in the second half of 2021. The United States has consistently opposed integration between Russia and Western Europe. The key parameter of U.S. neo-imperial strategy in Europe-Asia remains embedded in Cold War geo-politics, namely that U.S. hegemony in Eurasia rests on the exclusion of Russia from European affairs and the prevention of a geo-economic axis between Berlin, Moscow and Beijing. However, even as the war may result in a final settling of accounts in the U.S.-Russia relationship and beyond, it has also thrown into increasingly sharp relief the growing conflict of class interests and complex geopolitical asymmetries and contradictions in the transatlantic relationship. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 1-22 Issue: 1 Volume: 26 Year: 2024 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2023.2197635 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2023.2197635 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:26:y:2024:i:1:p:1-22 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2233276_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20231214T103247 git hash: d7a2cb0857 Author-Name: Monika Gabriela Bartoszewicz Author-X-Name-First: Monika Gabriela Author-X-Name-Last: Bartoszewicz Author-Name: Kristýna Pavlíčková Author-X-Name-First: Kristýna Author-X-Name-Last: Pavlíčková Title: From East to East: Reconceptualization of NATO’s Eastern Flank Engagement in the Middle East Abstract: The role of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and its influence on the peace and conflict dynamic in the Middle East has always been a discussed and controversial issue. While the United States and the countries of the NATO Southern flank are active in the discussions on NATO engagement in the region, the perspectives of NATO Eastern flank countries is often forgotten. This work contributes to the discussion with a comparative analysis of four NATO member states from Central and Eastern Europe: the Czech Republic, Estonia, Romania and Poland. Their position is analysed based on their strategic interests and level of engagement in the Middle East, which leads to categorizing them within a created typology. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 63-80 Issue: 1 Volume: 26 Year: 2024 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2023.2233276 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2023.2233276 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:26:y:2024:i:1:p:63-80 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2233282_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20231214T103247 git hash: d7a2cb0857 Author-Name: Emre İşeri Author-X-Name-First: Emre Author-X-Name-Last: İşeri Title: Erdoğan’s War: A Strongman’s Struggle at Home and in Syria Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 143-146 Issue: 1 Volume: 26 Year: 2024 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2023.2233282 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2023.2233282 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:26:y:2024:i:1:p:143-146 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2233283_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20231214T103247 git hash: d7a2cb0857 Author-Name: Kadir Uysal Author-X-Name-First: Kadir Author-X-Name-Last: Uysal Author-Name: Cemil Boyraz Author-X-Name-First: Cemil Author-X-Name-Last: Boyraz Title: Autonomy and Control in the Gig Economy and Platform Work: Domestic and Home Repair Workers in Turkey Abstract: The rise of digital labour platforms and the gig economy has provoked debate among scholars and policymakers. Some emphasize the platforms’ contribution to efficient labour processes by facilitating transactions between customers and service providers. In contrast, others highlight the precarity of gig work in platforms and call for greater regulation of the platform economy. This article reports a field study on the experience of Turkish platform workers in the domestic work and home repair sectors, focusing on the growing platform Armut. The impact of the platform economy on labour processes is explored, with particular attention to the concepts of autonomy and control with reference to alternative perspectives on labour platforms and the gig economy. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 23-40 Issue: 1 Volume: 26 Year: 2024 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2023.2233283 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2023.2233283 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:26:y:2024:i:1:p:23-40 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2233287_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20231214T103247 git hash: d7a2cb0857 Author-Name: Fedor Sinitsyn Author-X-Name-First: Fedor Author-X-Name-Last: Sinitsyn Title: Political and Legal Problems of the Soviet–Yugoslav Military Co-Operation During the World War II: The Case of the 1st Yugoslav Rifle Brigade Abstract: The first, fundamental step of Soviet-Yugoslav military co-operation during the Second World War was the formation of the 1st Yugoslav Rifle Brigade. It was made on the own initiative of the Soviet leadership, without the participation of the any Yugoslav authorities. The political state of this military unit from the very beginning was unstable due to the obviously low loyalty of most of the personnel. The Soviet authorities chose a cautious, soft course for their political work in the unit. However, the leadership of the People’s Liberation Army of Yugoslavia (PLA), which incorporated the Yugoslav military unit created in the USSR, considered it necessary to take decisive measures to eradicate any disloyalty. Gradually, at the direction of the leadership of the PLA, the brigade underwent a radical ‘political reformatting’. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 125-142 Issue: 1 Volume: 26 Year: 2024 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2023.2233287 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2023.2233287 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:26:y:2024:i:1:p:125-142 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2233278_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20231214T103247 git hash: d7a2cb0857 Author-Name: Yiannos Katsourides Author-X-Name-First: Yiannos Author-X-Name-Last: Katsourides Title: Intra-Party Struggles and the Making of the Cypriot Left Abstract: Unlike other countries where the Left remained electorally marginal and marked by introversion and fragmentation, the Cypriot communist party AKEL consistently dominated the Cypriot Left bloc. AKEL is here placed in context by looking the way it developed its arguably peculiar (communist) organizational and ideological identity through an inward looking emphasizing three important intra-party crises in a period extending from the early 1920s until the end of the Cold War. Notwithstanding (external) environmental influences, this article focuses on the intra-party level and the struggle amongst competing intra-party groups, identifying the main issues of controversy, the opposing actors and the outcome of each crisis. It is hereby argued that party choices were at least equally informed by the outcome of intra-party tensions. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 103-124 Issue: 1 Volume: 26 Year: 2024 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2023.2233278 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2023.2233278 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:26:y:2024:i:1:p:103-124 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2233275_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20231214T103247 git hash: d7a2cb0857 Author-Name: Viorel Mionel Author-X-Name-First: Viorel Author-X-Name-Last: Mionel Author-Name: Oana Mionel Author-X-Name-First: Oana Author-X-Name-Last: Mionel Author-Name: Gabriela Țigu Author-X-Name-First: Gabriela Author-X-Name-Last: Țigu Title: Betting on Dark Literary Tourism: Exploratory Research on Sulina Town (Romania) Abstract: Exploring the tourist potential of the easternmost town in the European Union and also the only one that can only be reached by water, this article highlights the role of dark and literary destinations as ‘additional attractions’ related to other types of tourism. The article is based on careful analysis and review of abundant literature and on the consultation with several actors involved in tourism: institutions, tour operators, NGOs, bloggers and media. The analysis highlights that, as long as the institutions and economic actors involved in the field of tourism do not consider other participants in the tourism phenomenon, the opportunity of a pragmatic approach to managing and attracting as many and diverse tourists as possible is lost. The study also demonstrates that officials approach tourism differently, as compared to NGOs and tourism bloggers, the latter being more pragmatic in highlighting the real dimension of the tourist attractions of the destination. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 81-102 Issue: 1 Volume: 26 Year: 2024 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2023.2233275 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2023.2233275 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:26:y:2024:i:1:p:81-102 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2233281_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20231214T103247 git hash: d7a2cb0857 Author-Name: Cristian Constantin Author-X-Name-First: Cristian Author-X-Name-Last: Constantin Title: Multinationals in the Grain Trade: The Louis Dreyfus Company at the Lower Danube, 1889–1948 Abstract: The story of the grain export company founded by Léopold Louis-Dreyfus is perhaps as compelling as that of the 17th century East and West Indian state companies. The French trader’s adventure seems not to have the denouement of Thomas Mann’s novel Buddenbrooks: Decline of a Family (Buddenbrooks: Verfall einer Familie). This article brings to light the organizational capacity and network of the Louis Dreyfus trading house in the Lower Danube throughout its existence, as well as the international context in which the Romanian branch was liquidated. The production of this material is mainly based on the use of archival documents from Brăila (the Romanian headquarters of the company’s operations), Bucharest and Paris. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 41-62 Issue: 1 Volume: 26 Year: 2024 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2023.2233281 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2023.2233281 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:26:y:2024:i:1:p:41-62 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2233361_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20231214T103247 git hash: d7a2cb0857 Author-Name: Elif Çağlı Kaynak Author-X-Name-First: Elif Author-X-Name-Last: Çağlı Kaynak Title: Jazz as Soft Power in Turkey–US Relations During the Early Cold War Period Abstract: The 1950s was an era when Turkish-US relations were developing in various arenas. In addition to hard power instruments, such as NATO membership, the Truman Doctrine and Marshall Aid, elements of soft power were also being used to promote the relationship between the two states. One element of this latter power was jazz which became tool of US public diplomacy used to export its cultural values. This paper explores how jazz was used as such in Turkey–US relations in the 1950s. The original aspect of this article lies in its dealing with the influence of jazz music, a relatively little mentioned soft power element in Turkey–US relations of this period. The main finding of the article may be conceptualized as follows: Turkey’s relationship with the US was based not only on economic and military interests, but also cultural ties between the two which were also crucial to strengthening their bilateral relations. In this context, musicians were key agents of cultural diplomacy with their music and songs legitimizing a new and different 20th century. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 226-245 Issue: 2 Volume: 26 Year: 2024 Month: 03 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2023.2233361 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2023.2233361 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:26:y:2024:i:2:p:226-245 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2233363_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20231214T103247 git hash: d7a2cb0857 Author-Name: Ümit Kurt Author-X-Name-First: Ümit Author-X-Name-Last: Kurt Title: The Fate of Armenian and Greek Properties in the Post-First World War Period Abstract: This article examines the practices of the new parliament formed in Ankara and the fledgling republican regime with a particular focus on laws and regulations as of 1922. It discloses how these ‘legal’ mechanisms were employed to thwart Armenians and Greeks to return home and claim their properties back. Finally, this article explores what types of ‘precautions’ the new Turkish nation-state took to not give confiscated properties to Ottoman Christians, particularly before the forthcoming Lausanne peace negotiations. Turkey could not even tolerate the existence of Armenians and Greeks inside the country, let alone give back their expropriated assets. The state considered abandoned properties as an important source of revenue. However, there was an obligation to return these properties to their owners according to the Vahdettin Regulation of January 1920, which was still valid. Consequently, it was necessary to abrogate this regulation before the commencement of the Lausanne negotiations. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 164-182 Issue: 2 Volume: 26 Year: 2024 Month: 03 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2023.2233363 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2023.2233363 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:26:y:2024:i:2:p:164-182 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2233362_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20231214T103247 git hash: d7a2cb0857 Author-Name: Hrustan Šišić Author-X-Name-First: Hrustan Author-X-Name-Last: Šišić Title: Ford’s Scholarships in Yugoslavia During the Cold War: Exposure to Western Ideology and Culture Abstract: This research paper analyzes the activities of the Ford Philanthropic Foundation in Yugoslavia during the Cold War with a special emphasis on Ford’s Education Programme through which a significant number of Yugoslavs had the opportunity to study and work in the United States. Using the Ford Foundation archives, this research reveals the foundation’s intentions to expose influential individuals from Yugoslavia to Western ideology and culture with the goal of suppressing communist ideology at the beginning of the Cold War. With enormous financial resources and reputation among the Yugoslav population and leadership, the Ford Foundation during its ten years of intense activity in the country (1959–1969) was completely subordinated to the official foreign policy of Washington, which was based on support for an independent Yugoslavia within the communist bloc. Ford’s operational activities reduced the stereotypes of Yugoslavs about the United States and greatly contributed to the cultural rapprochement of the two countries. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 246-276 Issue: 2 Volume: 26 Year: 2024 Month: 03 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2023.2233362 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2023.2233362 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:26:y:2024:i:2:p:246-276 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2233364_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20231214T103247 git hash: d7a2cb0857 Author-Name: Margarit Petrosyan Author-X-Name-First: Margarit Author-X-Name-Last: Petrosyan Title: The Role of Non-State Actors in Modern Warfare: The Case of Syria and Nagorno-Karabakh Abstract: The changes in the nature of modern warfare and armed conflicts is largely due to the revolutionary advances in science and technology, as well as to the rapidly changing ‘geopolitical context’. These changes have significantly transformed the scale and form of war and warfare, the political and economic prospects, as well as the key actors, with non-state armed groups playing a key role in various stages of hostilities. The tendency to involve non-state actors in hostilities became more pronounced in the post-Cold War period; it has been directly related to the hybrid nature of modern warfare. Even when the non-state armed groups do not affect the course and outcome of the war at the strategic level, they may accomplish their task at the operational-tactical level with no less efficiency, using the latest technological weapons, artificial intelligence-led devices, etc. The article examines the role of non-state actors in modern warfare and in hostilities, drawing upon the case of Syria and Nagorno-Karabakh. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 149-163 Issue: 2 Volume: 26 Year: 2024 Month: 03 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2023.2233364 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2023.2233364 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:26:y:2024:i:2:p:149-163 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2233355_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20231214T103247 git hash: d7a2cb0857 Author-Name: Petros Papasarantopoulos Author-X-Name-First: Petros Author-X-Name-Last: Papasarantopoulos Title: The Far-Right Redox Reaction: The Transformation of Populist Radical Right Parties from Marginal ‘Groupuscules’ into Considerable Political Forces Abstract: The paper examines the factors for the ‘big moment’ of the far right, its Big Bang, i.e, when far-right parties transform from marginal ‘groupuscules’ into considerable political players. It is the moment when political supply and social demand interact, like two elements in a chemical reaction, and are transformed into far-right vote; the far-right redox. What are the conditions and the catalyst that allow the far-right redox to take place? Discussing the importance of the media as a resource for all political actors, and especially the far-right party family and analysing examples from three Balkan countries (Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia), Greece and France, the working hypothesis is that a necessary and sufficient condition is the occurrence of a media-induced event that acts as a catalyst, leading to their rise from the political margins to the political mainstream. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 277-288 Issue: 2 Volume: 26 Year: 2024 Month: 03 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2023.2233355 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2023.2233355 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:26:y:2024:i:2:p:277-288 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2233354_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20231214T103247 git hash: d7a2cb0857 Author-Name: Akın Sefer Author-X-Name-First: Akın Author-X-Name-Last: Sefer Author-Name: Efe Erünal Author-X-Name-First: Efe Author-X-Name-Last: Erünal Author-Name: M. Erdem Kabadayı Author-X-Name-First: M. Erdem Author-X-Name-Last: Kabadayı Title: Mid-Nineteenth-Century Gemlik and Its Environs: A Survey of a West Anatolian Region and Its Long-Term Economic and Demographic Development Abstract: This paper discusses the interrelations between migration, agricultural production, class, and cultural belonging, focusing on the economic and demographic transformation of Gemlik, an Ottoman district that underwent substantial change over the course of the nineteenth century. Based on the mid-nineteenth-century population and tax registers of the town of Gemlik and of two villages in the district, Kurşunlu and Kumla-i Sagir, we demonstrate that the agricultural economy in the district was heavily shaped by commodity production in the context of the district’s increasing integration into global markets. By tracing specific patterns of mobility and settlement over time, we show that the process of global integration was entangled with class and cultural differentiation in the region. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 183-202 Issue: 2 Volume: 26 Year: 2024 Month: 03 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2023.2233354 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2023.2233354 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:26:y:2024:i:2:p:183-202 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2233360_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20231214T103247 git hash: d7a2cb0857 Author-Name: Shabnam Dadparvar Author-X-Name-First: Shabnam Author-X-Name-Last: Dadparvar Author-Name: Vali Kaleji Author-X-Name-First: Vali Author-X-Name-Last: Kaleji Title: The Persian Gulf-Black Sea International Transport and Transit Corridor: Goals and Constraints Abstract: The Persian Gulf-Black Sea International Transport and Transit Corridor is a multimodal and combined network of ships, rails, and road freight routes connecting Iran, Armenia, Georgia, Bulgaria, and Greece. Iran is the trustee of the agreement and has played the central role in establishing a transit route to the Black Sea region as ‘Tehran’s forgotten bridge to Europe’ since its inception in 2016. Nonetheless, the Persian Gulf-Black Sea Corridor faces significant obstacles and challenges: resolving Iran’s nuclear issues, resolving disputes between Armenia and the Republic of Azerbaijan, and stabilizing the security situation in the Black Sea following the Ukraine war, all of which reduce its efficiency and quality. In these circumstances, connecting the Iranian railway to the Caucasus and Armenia and building Armenia’s North-South highway and the deep port of Anaklia on Georgia’s Black Sea coast can stretch the capacities of the Persian Gulf-Black Sea Corridor. It can also strengthen the Wider Black Sea Region and the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC). Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 203-225 Issue: 2 Volume: 26 Year: 2024 Month: 03 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2023.2233360 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2023.2233360 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:26:y:2024:i:2:p:203-225 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2236517_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20240209T083504 git hash: db97ba8e3a Author-Name: Ali Onur Tepeciklioğlu Author-X-Name-First: Ali Onur Author-X-Name-Last: Tepeciklioğlu Author-Name: Elem Eyrice Tepeciklioğlu Author-X-Name-First: Elem Author-X-Name-Last: Eyrice Tepeciklioğlu Author-Name: Can Karabıyık Author-X-Name-First: Can Author-X-Name-Last: Karabıyık Title: (Exploring) the Impact of Turkey’s Embassies on Trade with sub-Saharan Africa Abstract: This paper empirically investigates the impact of Turkey’s embassies on trade with sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). It uses a panel data set that covers 28 African countries for the period of 2002 to 2020 in order to measure if the opening of an embassy increases Turkey’s exports to relevant countries. The study found a positive relationship between exports and diplomatic representation via embassies. More precisely, the empirical results indicate that the presence of an embassy in an African country increases Turkey’s exports to this country by 108%. The study also found that the presence of business councils has the same positive effect on Turkey’s export performance albeit at a moderate level. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 360-377 Issue: 3 Volume: 26 Year: 2024 Month: 05 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2023.2236517 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2023.2236517 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:26:y:2024:i:3:p:360-377 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2236514_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20240209T083504 git hash: db97ba8e3a Author-Name: Elem Eyrice Tepeciklioğlu Author-X-Name-First: Elem Author-X-Name-Last: Eyrice Tepeciklioğlu Author-Name: Francois Vreÿ Author-X-Name-First: Francois Author-X-Name-Last: Vreÿ Author-Name: Bahar Baser Author-X-Name-First: Bahar Author-X-Name-Last: Baser Title: Introduction Turkey and Africa: Motivations, Challenges and Future Prospects Abstract: Turkey's presence in Africa has experienced significant growth over the last two decades. In recent years, Turkey's expanding African outreach has transformed media narratives and generated a surge of scholarly studies on Turkey's involvement in Africa. Turkey's renewed focus on the continent and its commitment to establishing an equal partnership with African nations came after years of neglect. Previously, Turkey's relationship with African countries followed a cycle of ups and downs. The interest in Africa was largely driven by short-term foreign policy considerations, such as breaking Turkey's international isolation and securing diplomatic support from African nations. Understanding how Turkey's carefully crafted discourses resonate with African countries in the face of competition from other external actors is a challenging task. Despite the existence of a rich and extensive literature on how external players engage with Africa, Turkey's role and the long-term impact of its involvement have often been overlooked. This special issue aims to contribute to the existing literature by exploring different dimensions of Turkey's multifaceted Africa policy, including its engagement in the security landscape, the African arms market, humanitarian efforts, and public diplomacy initiatives. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 289-294 Issue: 3 Volume: 26 Year: 2024 Month: 05 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2023.2236514 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2023.2236514 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:26:y:2024:i:3:p:289-294 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2236511_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20240209T083504 git hash: db97ba8e3a Author-Name: Brendon J. Cannon Author-X-Name-First: Brendon J. Author-X-Name-Last: Cannon Author-Name: Federico Donelli Author-X-Name-First: Federico Author-X-Name-Last: Donelli Title: Turkey-Africa Relations and Turkey’s National Role Conception as the Centre Country: Continuity or a Break with the Past? Abstract: The increase in Turkey’s visibility and power in Sub-Saharan Africa has attracted great attention. The rise of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the AK Party, the story goes, engendered an abrupt shift from a cautious to a proactive foreign policy. We posit, however, that the seeds of Turkey’s opening to Africa date back decades and are an extension of its centre country (merkez ülke) national role conception. Turkey only appeared cautious prior to the 2000s because of resource constraints. Instead, Ankara’s political leaders of all stripes have shared a common conception of Turkey as something far bigger than the nation-state, and have fostered policies aimed at enhancing its agency of action (limited by structural and resource constraints) so as to resume Turkey’s role as Afro-Eurasia’s centre country. This national role conception coupled with an increase in Turkey’s national power since the 1980s have resulted in its opening to and subsequent engagement with Sub-Saharan Africa. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 295-310 Issue: 3 Volume: 26 Year: 2024 Month: 05 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2023.2236511 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2023.2236511 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:26:y:2024:i:3:p:295-310 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2236510_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20240209T083504 git hash: db97ba8e3a Author-Name: Jens Heibach Author-X-Name-First: Jens Author-X-Name-Last: Heibach Author-Name: Hakkı Taş Author-X-Name-First: Hakkı Author-X-Name-Last: Taş Title: Beyond the Soft–Hard Power Binary: Resource Control in Turkey’s Foreign Policy Towards Sub-Saharan Africa Abstract: Once depicted as a flagship case for the soft power—based foreign policy of young democracies, Turkey’s conduct of foreign affairs following its authoritarian backsliding has been increasingly associated with hard power. Using the case of Turkey’s Africa policy under the AKP, this article challenges this reading and its underlying conceptual assumptions. To overcome the spurious democracy—soft power vs. autocracy—hard power dichotomy, it argues for adopting a process-oriented approach to analysing the foreign policies of (autocratising) states by focusing on, firstly, the foreign policy situations in which they mobilize power resources to a particular end; and, secondly, the extent to which they attempt to gain control over societal power resources. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 311-326 Issue: 3 Volume: 26 Year: 2024 Month: 05 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2023.2236510 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2023.2236510 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:26:y:2024:i:3:p:311-326 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2236515_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20240209T083504 git hash: db97ba8e3a Author-Name: Çağlar Kurç Author-X-Name-First: Çağlar Author-X-Name-Last: Kurç Title: No Strings Attached: Understanding Turkey’s Arms Exports to Africa Abstract: Turkey’s defence industries have shown significant development in recent years. But the limited domestic market and the financial crisis created sustainability problems for the industry. To increase its arms sales, Turkey began to search for potential markets to expand, and Africa emerged as an excellent market to enter. Turkey had already invested in Africa through its multi-track diplomacy, a necessary condition for arms sales. While the multi-track diplomacy and increased engagement helped Turkey’s arms exports, they are insufficient to explain the recent rise of Turkish arms exports, which have been showing an upward trend since 2021. This paper argues that the increase in arms exports is the function of multi-track diplomacy, no-strings-attached arms export policy and the demonstration effect. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 378-395 Issue: 3 Volume: 26 Year: 2024 Month: 05 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2023.2236515 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2023.2236515 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:26:y:2024:i:3:p:378-395 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2236516_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20240209T083504 git hash: db97ba8e3a Author-Name: Mehmet Özkan Author-X-Name-First: Mehmet Author-X-Name-Last: Özkan Author-Name: Serhat Orakçı Author-X-Name-First: Serhat Author-X-Name-Last: Orakçı Title: Summitry Diplomacy in Turkey–Africa Relations: Statements, (Non-)Accomplishments and Effectiveness Abstract: Over the last two decades, summits have gained great importance in developing relations with African countries and they have become useful tools to understand intersecting roadmaps on the continent. China, India, Japan, the United States, European countries and Russia conducted various summits and business forums targeting to develop their political, economic and military relations with Africa. In this vein, FOCAC (Forum on China–Africa Cooperation), European Union–Africa Business and Investment Summits, Japan’s Africa Development Summits and Russia–Africa Summit provide some details of these powers’ Africa policy. Turkey has also emerged as a new actor and summit organizer in Africa since it opened a new page for Africa in its foreign policy in 2005. After being a strategic partner to the African Union in 2008, Turkey has conducted three Turkey–Africa summits, Istanbul (2008), Malabo (2014) and Istanbul (2021), to form its roadmap in Africa. This work aims to analyse the role of Africa–Turkey summits in the development of Turkey’s Africa policy and its relationship with African countries. The paper looks at all declarations comprehensively to evaluate Turkey’s foreign policy discourse on Africa. Moreover, it examines Turkey’s Africa policy implementations and achievements on the continent through the lens of summits. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 396-410 Issue: 3 Volume: 26 Year: 2024 Month: 05 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2023.2236516 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2023.2236516 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:26:y:2024:i:3:p:396-410 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2236513_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20240209T083504 git hash: db97ba8e3a Author-Name: Francois Vreÿ Author-X-Name-First: Francois Author-X-Name-Last: Vreÿ Author-Name: Mark Blaine Author-X-Name-First: Mark Author-X-Name-Last: Blaine Title: Exploring the Maritime Nexus in Turkey’s African Agenda Abstract: Turkey is labelled an emerging middle power and aspiring to play a more visible role in world affairs with Africa as one prominent region where Turkey expanded its diplomatic presence. Turkey’s growing presence in Africa unfolds along hard and soft diplomatic endeavours with each avenue featuring its own objectives and set of policy instruments to pursue Turkish foreign policy goals. Overall, the countries featuring within Turkey’s Africa policy drive include several coastal states like Sudan, Somalia, Eritrea, Nigeria, and Libya. While Libya represents an aggressive Turkish response, other coastal states like Somalia, Sudan and Eritrea receive security sector support encased in softer capacity building terms. On balance, demarcating and describing the maritime and naval avenues of Turkey’s diplomacy and how Africa features in this shift are underplayed in the growing body of literature on Turkey’s African agenda. To this end, Turkey’s security objectives, the use of its military assets, and mixing soft and hard diplomatic instruments offer scope to also explore the maritime security, and naval diplomacy avenues of Turkey’s interests in Africa. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 346-359 Issue: 3 Volume: 26 Year: 2024 Month: 05 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2023.2236513 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2023.2236513 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:26:y:2024:i:3:p:346-359 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2236512_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20240209T083504 git hash: db97ba8e3a Author-Name: Yunus Turhan Author-X-Name-First: Yunus Author-X-Name-Last: Turhan Title: Turkish Humanitarian Assistance During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Focus on Africa Abstract: As the global health crises unfolded a novel phenomenon, COVID-19 related aid has ushered in a new chapter in the development landscape which has currently taken on the interest of scholars. This research probes Turkish humanitarian aid policy in the context of COVID-19 towards sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) for the period of March 2020 to September 2022, by investigating various indicators to establish the relationship between Turkey’s aid behaviour and the recipient’s economic, diplomatic, political and religious standpoint. Scrutinizing sectorial breakdown, the scope of aid and country profiles of Turkey’s medical aid to SSA, it unveils the volatile nature of Turkey’s aid behaviour, at the time of the recent global crises, towards the region which is by its nature located on the fringe of the traditional Turkish foreign policy landscape. Based on the public diplomacy paradigm, this research questions to what extent benevolence humanitarianism was pertinent to Turkey’s medical aid practices during the COVID-19 period? This research claims that humanitarian aid is a potential component of Turkish soft power paradigm, often framed within the public diplomacy context as it fosters a better image to those being represented. Consequently, it purports that Turkey’s medical aid could provide new scope to foster Turkey’s further engagement with Africa, at a time when Ankara already enjoys a strategic partnership in relation to the continent. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 327-345 Issue: 3 Volume: 26 Year: 2024 Month: 05 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2023.2236512 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2023.2236512 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:26:y:2024:i:3:p:327-345 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2307821_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20240209T083504 git hash: db97ba8e3a Author-Name: Haian Dukhan Author-X-Name-First: Haian Author-X-Name-Last: Dukhan Title: Processes of Cohesion and Fragmentation among Arab Tribes During the Syrian Civil War Abstract: With the rise of ISIS in eastern Syria after 2014, there was a discussion among Western powers about the possibility of arming Arab tribes to lead the fight against ISIS on the ground. This paper challenges the assumption that tribes are cohesive units and argues that internal differences and contested leadership run counter to the image of tribes as unified groups. While tribes are fragmented, one can, however, observe some examples that testify to the existence of tribal solidarity during the course of the Syrian civil war. Overall, this paper attempts to answer the following questions: What caused fragmentation among members of the Syrian tribes during the Syrian Civil War? What inspired cohesion in other instances? It argues that multiple factors, such as violence, patronage networks with internal and external authorities, and competition among leaders to represent the group internally and externally, can have a fundamental effect on the processes of cohesion and fragmentation. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 452-466 Issue: 4 Volume: 26 Year: 2024 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2024.2307821 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2024.2307821 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:26:y:2024:i:4:p:452-466 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2307818_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20240209T083504 git hash: db97ba8e3a Author-Name: Andrei Miroiu Author-X-Name-First: Andrei Author-X-Name-Last: Miroiu Title: Early Cold War Counterinsurgency: The Romanian Campaign in Comparative Perspective (1944-1962) Abstract: This paper offers a comparison between Romanian communist counterinsurgency (1944–1962) and similar campaigns fought by Western and Eastern governments in the early Cold War, in particular those waged by the British and French governments in their African, Asian and European colonies and those of the Soviet Union in its borderlands. The comparison focuses on three main components, population control, intelligence and military operations. Highlighting both similarities and differences across different cultural, economic, geographical, ethnic and political landscapes, the perspective laid out in this paper is an argument in favour of systematic and sustained comparative approaches to asymmetric warfare. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 486-503 Issue: 4 Volume: 26 Year: 2024 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2024.2307818 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2024.2307818 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:26:y:2024:i:4:p:486-503 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2307820_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20240209T083504 git hash: db97ba8e3a Author-Name: Digdem Soyaltin-Colella Author-X-Name-First: Digdem Author-X-Name-Last: Soyaltin-Colella Author-Name: Deniz Sert Author-X-Name-First: Deniz Author-X-Name-Last: Sert Title: The Strategic Use of Narratives and Governance of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Major Autocratisers in Europe Abstract: By the end of 2022, scholars had published heavily on authoritarian consolidation at the time of COVID-19 and explored how governments adopted measures weakening democratic checks and balances yet strengthened their regimes during the COVID crisis. Yet, we do not know much about how political leaders narrated the pandemic in their domestic and foreign policy choices in a way that reinforces their power. By focusing on the major autocratisers in Europe (Hungary, Poland, Turkey, and Serbia) whose democracy scores have fallen the most over the last 10 years, we reveal a set of influential narratives identified in the discourses of state leaders and government representatives which were constructed around the governance of the COVID-19 pandemic. These narratives were utilized by political leaders to legitimize their repressive policies geared towards controlling the society, and to contest the European Union (EU) in particular and the liberal democratic order in general. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 565-583 Issue: 4 Volume: 26 Year: 2024 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2024.2307820 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2024.2307820 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:26:y:2024:i:4:p:565-583 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2307812_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20240209T083504 git hash: db97ba8e3a Author-Name: Spyros Sakellaropoulos Author-X-Name-First: Spyros Author-X-Name-Last: Sakellaropoulos Title: The Confrontation About Enosis (Union) Between Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots in the Legislative Council of Cyprus (1902-1931) Abstract: This article discusses the confrontation between Greeks of Cyprus (GoC) and Turks of Cyprus (ToC) in the Legislative Council of Cyprus regarding the issue of the Enosis (Union) and the changes of content since 1902. The question arises, yet to a limited extent, during the period 1902–1914, given the formal subordination of Cyprus to the Ottoman Empire. From 1915 to 1918, due to the placement of the Ottoman Empire on the side of Britain’s opponents and the participation of Greece within the Entente front, the Greek pressure on the British became very intense, while the Turkish were in a defensive position. In the period from 1918 to 1930, the main argument of the ToC was that even Greece no longer raised the issue of Enosis. Finally, in 1931, the GoC raised the issue urgently facing the strong reaction both of the ToC, as well as the British. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 504-523 Issue: 4 Volume: 26 Year: 2024 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2024.2307812 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2024.2307812 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:26:y:2024:i:4:p:504-523 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2307816_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20240209T083504 git hash: db97ba8e3a Author-Name: Ayda Bektaş Author-X-Name-First: Ayda Author-X-Name-Last: Bektaş Title: Religious Reform in the Late Ottoman Empire: Institutional Change and the Professionalization of the Ulema Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 584-586 Issue: 4 Volume: 26 Year: 2024 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2024.2307816 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2024.2307816 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:26:y:2024:i:4:p:584-586 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2307814_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20240209T083504 git hash: db97ba8e3a Author-Name: Samuele Carlo Ayrton Abrami Author-X-Name-First: Samuele Carlo Ayrton Author-X-Name-Last: Abrami Title: Turkey in Africa: Turkey’s Strategic Involvement in Sub-Saharan Africa Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 588-590 Issue: 4 Volume: 26 Year: 2024 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2024.2307814 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2024.2307814 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:26:y:2024:i:4:p:588-590 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2307810_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20240209T083504 git hash: db97ba8e3a Author-Name: Ilia Xypolia Author-X-Name-First: Ilia Author-X-Name-Last: Xypolia Title: The Evolution of the Political, Social and Economic Life of Cyprus, 1191–1950 Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 586-587 Issue: 4 Volume: 26 Year: 2024 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2024.2307810 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2024.2307810 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:26:y:2024:i:4:p:586-587 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2307822_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20240209T083504 git hash: db97ba8e3a Author-Name: Fatma Sel Turhan Author-X-Name-First: Fatma Author-X-Name-Last: Sel Turhan Title: Conversion of War Captives in the Ottoman Lands During the Eighteenth Century: Rules, Applications and Abuses Abstract: This article focuses on the issue of conversion among war captives in the Ottoman Empire during the eighteenth century and examines the release process of captives in relation to religious conversion. Starting from the Treaty of Carlowitz, the article first discusses the changes in the release process of captives based on treaties. Since conversions were considered as exceptional cases in which the converted captives were excluded from release, methods and procedures to detect conversion, as well as manipulative and pragmatic practices in the application of conversions, are studied in detail. Hence the issue of whether conversions were made voluntarily or by force is evaluated with examples. Finally the study focuses on the issue of conversion among child captives. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 524-541 Issue: 4 Volume: 26 Year: 2024 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2024.2307822 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2024.2307822 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:26:y:2024:i:4:p:524-541 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2307819_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20240209T083504 git hash: db97ba8e3a Author-Name: Jasmin Komić Author-X-Name-First: Jasmin Author-X-Name-Last: Komić Title: Analysis of Developmental and Other Aspects of Investments in Research and Development of a Group of Countries in the Southeast Europe Abstract: The purpose of this article is to analyse the state and the dynamics of developmental and other aspects of investments in research and development (R&D) in the group of countries in Southeast Europe. The analysis is performed for several countries in Southeast Europe together and by individual countries. The period from 1996 to 2020 is observed in the analysis. In most countries of Southeast Europe, the allocation for R&D is relatively small. Applied research is the most represented. Significant differences can be noticed regarding the sources of financing and to the implementation of allocations for R&D. A particularly important part of this work is devoted to the analysis of the impact of the gross expenditures on R&D on economic growth. This analysis was performed on the basis of regression analysis. Several regression models were formed in which the dependent variable was gross domestic product per capita It can be concluded that the parameters of the financial condition of the observed economy have the greatest influence on the economic growth of the observed group of countries. Allocations for research and development still do not have a significant enough impact on economic growth in observed countries in Southeast Europe. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 467-485 Issue: 4 Volume: 26 Year: 2024 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2024.2307819 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2024.2307819 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:26:y:2024:i:4:p:467-485 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2307808_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20240209T083504 git hash: db97ba8e3a Author-Name: Themistoklis Tzimas Author-X-Name-First: Themistoklis Author-X-Name-Last: Tzimas Title: The Impact of the Minsk Agreements on Ukrainian Sovereignty Abstract: The war in Ukraine constitutes one of the most significant conflicts in recent decades. Given its prolonged duration, it is reshaping international relations on a global scale and has resulted in immense suffering and loss of life. Furthermore, it has brought forth a number of crucial issues for consideration. One such issue pertains to the nature and impact of the Minsk agreements, particularly in light of the claims of remedial secession, which the Russian side has invoked as justification for initiating the so-called ‘Special Military Operation’. In this context, this article takes into account relevant precedents, including the one in Kosovo. Within this framework, special attention is dedicated to analysing the role of the two Minsk agreements and their impact on Ukrainian sovereignty. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 432-451 Issue: 4 Volume: 26 Year: 2024 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2024.2307808 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2024.2307808 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:26:y:2024:i:4:p:432-451 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2307806_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20240209T083504 git hash: db97ba8e3a Author-Name: Jadranka Petrović Author-X-Name-First: Jadranka Author-X-Name-Last: Petrović Author-Name: Jovo Ateljević Author-X-Name-First: Jovo Author-X-Name-Last: Ateljević Title: Neo-Liberalism, Depopulation and Economic Stagnation in the Balkans Abstract: The paper deals with the population decline in Balkan countries in the last three decades, since 1990. It researches the scale of depopulation in the Balkans and analyses the causes and possible consequences of the population decline. It argues that the failure of imposed neoliberal economic policies in the Balkan countries in the 1990s caused deindustrialization, GDP stagnation and high unemployment rates, especially of young people. Together with the shift in values from traditional to neo-liberal ones which promote materialism, hedonism, consumerism and liberal middle-class feminism, it caused dramatic reduction in fertility (live births per woman) as well as a significant brain drain and economic emigration from the Balkan countries in the last 30 years. Depopulation is becoming a limiting factor for sustainability of Balkan societies. It imposes a long-term danger for demographic survival of these societies, and generates an array of other negative economic, social and political consequences. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 411-431 Issue: 4 Volume: 26 Year: 2024 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2024.2307806 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2024.2307806 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:26:y:2024:i:4:p:411-431 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2307807_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20240209T083504 git hash: db97ba8e3a Author-Name: Marina Angelaki Author-X-Name-First: Marina Author-X-Name-Last: Angelaki Title: Social Security in the Balkans—Volume 1. An Overview of Social Policy in Croatia, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Romania and Bulgaria Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 590-592 Issue: 4 Volume: 26 Year: 2024 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2024.2307807 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2024.2307807 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:26:y:2024:i:4:p:590-592 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CJSB_A_2307813_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20240209T083504 git hash: db97ba8e3a Author-Name: Cristian Constantin Author-X-Name-First: Cristian Author-X-Name-Last: Constantin Title: Romanian Grain for Entrepôts in the Netherlands (1883–1914): Productive Structures, Transport Infrastructure and Market Integration Abstract: This article presents a unique chapter in the history of Romanian-Dutch relations. During the 19th century, the hinterland at the mouth of the Danube was an important centre for the supply of grain to European warehouses, and from the 1880s onwards, international trading houses became increasingly interested in placing the main commodity of Moldo-Wallachian production structures on the markets of Amsterdam and Rotterdam. Due to its entrepreneurial and infrastructural connections with Germany, the port of Rotterdam became a transit and temporary storage point for grain dedicated to the Rhine-Ruhr industrial region. This study is based on unpublished documents from archives, databases, and statistical yearbooks in the Netherlands and Romania. Journal: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Pages: 542-564 Issue: 4 Volume: 26 Year: 2024 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2024.2307813 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19448953.2024.2307813 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:26:y:2024:i:4:p:542-564