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The Srebrenica region: Waiting for its saviours even in peace
The responsibility for the regeneration of the Srebrenica region lies with the governments of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, and the separatist government of Republic Srpska, as well as the European and international political community, says Croatian sociologist Novalic. [more]
Globalization: Fear and hope of small European peoples
A historical perspective
As processes of unification envelop Europe, Darko Dukovski looks at communication and national identities among peoples of a globalizing world: language(s) as one defining factor in European identities and developments. [more]
Imagines et loci
The city as narrative
Powerful memories inhere in a city and its sites. Only poetry and architecture can overcome human oblivion. [more]
Overcoming the West?
(The errors of occidentalism)
How can the "orientalism/occidentalism" discourse lose its meaning? [more]
"Ach Europa"
Questions about a European public space and ambiguities of the European project
National media prove remarkably resilient to attempts to create a European public sphere, while transatlantic communication flows continue to dominate. What does this mean for the future of the much talked-about European public sphere? [more]
My Balkan master
Ales Debeljak discusses the political, moral and historic implications of Danilo Kis's writings. [more]
The Limits of the Anti-Globalisation Movement
The anti-globalisation movement is so variegated that a decisive profile would be difficult to define. Wolfgang Kraushaar writes that one can, however, find one definitive aspect: its limits. [more]
The Emergence of a Transnational People
Contribution to the discussion following the political unrest in Gothenburg and Genoa
In the events in Gothenburg and Genoa the Swedish sociologist Michael Carleheden sees the emergence of a transnational people. When this political people is confronted with politicians and institutions representing particular and national interests, the result is a deep crisis of legitimacy. [more]
Democracy at the Barricades
Genoa and Violence
Genoa marked an escalation of the attempts to criminalise the opponents of neo-liberal globalisation. Susan George says that the decisions made in Genoa clearly show that the hopes and demands of the demonstrators will not be recognised. [more]
A History of the Anti-Globalisation Protests
A historical background to the globalisation protests: from the first G7 meeting in Rambouillet, 1975, to the G8 in Genoa, July 2001. [more]
Learning from Genoa
Four lessons in globalization
Boaventura de Sousa Santos sees two different kinds of globalisation that now have to enter into a dialouge. As counter-hegemonic globalisation grows, the responsibility of its protagonists increases. [more]
Globalisation is not like rain
Globalisation and antiglobalisation in a cultural context
How can alternative models to current globalisation trends be formulated? [Macedonian version added] [more]
The Poet - An Intellectual or a Barbarian?
Can poets maintain their intellectual integrity or is their work inevitably bound to be used for aggressive, nationalist propaganda? Boris Biletic discusses with regard to Balkan Literatures. [more]
The Regional as the Universal in the Planetary Village
Practicing a better life and the liability of mental borders