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The
International Institute for Middle-East and Balkan Studies (IFIMES)
in Ljubljana, Slovenia, regularly analyses events in the Middle East
and the Balkans. In view of politically motivated apprehensions that
have been carried out in the Republika Srpska entity of Bosnia and
Herzegovina, IFIMES has analysed the background and possible
consequences of current events. The most relevant parts from the
analysis entitled “Bosnia and Herzegovina: The final phase of
genocide?”are published below.
Bosnia and Herzegovina:
The final phase of genocide?
Director IFIMES: Bakhtyar Aljaf
Recent
events in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BH) have once again reminded how
fragile peace and stability remain in this country. Although the
European Union (EU) has announced it would pursue a more active
policy on Bosnia and Herzegovina after the formation of new state
government, other events may prevent the realisation of that
promise. The Ukraine conflict, the situation in the Middle East and
North Africa, an alarming increase in the number of refugees from
Africa and the fact that EU still has to devote much of its
attention to Greece as one of its Member States – all these elements
represent a real threat that the West Balkans will again be pushed
down on the list of priorities of European politics.
The situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina has culminated after latest
actions taken by the Ministry of the Interior of Republika
Srpska(MUP RS) to apprehend the members of marginalised Bosniak
ethnic minority living in the territory of Republika Srpska (RS), an
entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Those are the citizens who had
been expelled from their homes during the 1992-1995 war in BH. This
operation has been long prepared and represents the continuity of
activities of RS authorities led by President of Republika Srpska
Milorad Dodik. Almost 2000 attacks have been carried out and
recorded against non-Serb returnees and their property in the
territory of RS since the signing of the Dayton Peace Agreement,
without the offenders having been sanctioned.
Apprehensions represent the continuity
of ethnic cleansing policy
The apprehensions that followed the killing of a police
officer at Zvornik on 26 April 2015 represent the continuity of an
organised action by RS government and a special form of state
terrorism that has been carried out by political elites in RS since
the signing of the Dayton Peace Agreement. The father of the armed
young man who shot the police officer was killed by Serbian (para)police-military
structures in 1992 and the rest of the family was expelled from
their home in 1992. After the war he experienced many difficulties
before he could return home with his mother. On the other hand the
name of the killed police officer is on the list of persons who are
connected with and responsible for the 1995 genocide in Srebrenica.
Police officers involved in war crimes
and genocide
A worrying fact is that a significant number of police
officers employed at the Zvornik Police Station were involved in war
crimes while some of them are even responsible for the genocide
executed in Srebrenica in July 1995. This means that the security
sector employs individuals who should actually be the object of
activities carried out by that sector. It is paradoxical that
persons burdened with the suspicion of war crimes work for the
police institution and it is inconceivable that persons who should
be the object of proceedings of that institution are actually
employed by it. It is a special form of state terrorism that has
been seldom recorded in the history of political systems, while the
international community together with the Office of the High
Representative (OHR) failed to protect the returnees and to ensure
the implementation of Annex 7 of the Dayton Peace Agreement.
The Police of Republika Srpska, which the highest international
courts have declared responsible among other for the genocide
committed in Bosnia and Herzegovina, is now realising the final
phase of genocide in BH under the veil of fighting terrorism.
Through carefully planned apprehensions it aims to carry out ethnic
cleansing of the territory of RS and to fulfil the condition of
“ethnically clean territory” laid down in the declaration on
independence referendum that was adopted at the congress of Alliance
of Independent Social Democrats (SNSD) on 25 April 2015.
This is confirmed by the fact that SNSD President Milorad Dodik
publicly supported rocket attacks on Zagreb on 2 and 3 May 1995 (see
our analysis of 6 February 2012 entitled “Why wouldn't the
Republic of Croatia prosecute Milorad Dodik?”at: http://www.ifimes.org/en/8449-why-wouldnt-the-republic-of-croatia-prosecute-milorad-dodik).
State Attorney's Office of the Republic of Croatia (DORH) is still
expected to react on this case, since the statutory limitations do
not apply to war crimes. It is of vital importance to revise and
extend the judicial proceedings against Milorad Dodik which were
concluded in 2005 and which initially included 33 charges of crimes.
New evidence has confirmed that certain documents related to the
judicial proceedings were falsified and that pressure was exerted on
witnesses, which has been proven by certain sources of information
on which further evidence is still being gathered.
Anti-Semitic statements of SNSD
Several anti-Semitic statements by SNSD members have been
recorded, among other by Nikola Špirić, Dubravko Suvara and Rajko
Vasić (http://www.ifimes.org/en/8449-why-wouldnt-the-republic-of-croatia-prosecute-milorad-dodik).
Milorad Dodik, whose basic criterion of evaluating human beings is
by dividing them into „ours“ and „yours“, would not allow any
anti-fascist symbols. For years he has been blocking the passing of
the law prohibiting the use of fascist symbols and he constantly
calls for national homogenisation.
At the same time Dodik deprives the marginalised ethnic community of
Bosniaks in RS of the right to call their language the Bosnian
language and denies the genocide committed in Srebrenica although it
was confirmed by the judgements of ICTY as well as BH courts and
courts outside Bosnia and Herzegovina.
It is distasteful that Milorad Dodik, who regards the citizens of
Bosniak nationality as outsiders stating that the Muslims can not be
those who judge, has attended the celebration of victory over
fascism in Moscow on 9 May, presenting himself as a declared (anti)fascist.
When individuals pretend to be different from what they are we talk
about the phenomenon of social mimicry. By pretending to be
something that they are not they make an impression that they are
not who they really are. Dodik is a clear example of social mimicry.
Notably there is mimicry in his attitude towards the Jews and the
State of Israel.
The international community silently
supports attacks against returnees
How the international community's activities contribute to
creating the atmosphere of insecurity and fear as well as division
of BH can be best illustrated with two documents adopted in 2015:
the first one on the establishment of the third entity of BH was
adopted and by Croatian representatives in BH through Croatian
National Assembly (HNS), and the second one was SNSD's referendum
document. These documents represent a step back to 1990s when the
then presidents of the Republic of Croatia Franjo Tuđman and
the Republic of Serbia Slobodan Milošević tried to divide
Bosnia and Herzegovina by creating the Croatian republic of Herzeg-Bosnia
(HR-HB) and the Serbian republic of BH. Today, upon the adoption of
the above documents, the representatives of international community
have officially stated that BH is a stable and effected state.
Instead of having exercised their powers as provided for in the
Dayton Peace Agreement and sanctioning the above activities aimed at
dividing Bosnia and Herzegovina, the highest representatives of
international community are acting like once UNPROFOR acted in BH,
which may have devastating consequences for security and existence
of BH. The fight against terrorism should be carried out through a
uniform security system, highly standardised professional activities
and cooperation and never by misusing the system as is the case in
Republika Srpska.
The incident at Zvornik – a signal to
reform the security sector
The incident at Zvornik sent a clear message to the
international community and OHR that the BH security system is
disunited and that a reform of police sector is urgent in order to
organise united police forces on the model of BH armed forces.
Failure to reform the police sector and to set up uniform and
efficient police forces would jeopardise security in the region and
the EU.
Milorad Dodik's purges of Ministry of the Interior of Republika
Srpska early this year were aimed not only at dealing with political
opponents in order to preserve power but also to continue the
process of formal acquisition of the territory where severe
violations of international humanitarian law were committed during
the 1991-1995 war. The attack on police officers at Zvornik ideally
overlaps the continuation of the ethnic cleansing process to drive
non-Serbian population from RS territory while strengthening the
Ministry of the Interior and (para)military forces of RS. Dodik has
also taken advantage of the Zvornik incident as an excuse to form
his own intelligence service within RS in an attempt to split apart
the two state institutions (Intelligence-Security Agency (OSA) and
State Investigation and Protection Agency (SIPA)) and transmit their
powers to the entity level with the aim to establish entity-based
intelligence services. The international community is faced with the
challenge to prevent the splitting of already disunited security
system of Bosnia and Herzegovina, to stop Dodik's nationalistic
activities in his entity and to ensure professionalism and legality
of the BH security agencies by selecting the best qualified staff in
order to implement the legislation.
It is of vital importance to abolish (para)military-police and
intelligence structures that are blocking the functioning of legal
institutions. Their existence even points to the possibility that
the Zvornik incident was actually the product of Milorad Dodik's
regime. Analysts have noted that there are secret locations of
weapons and military equipment, notably in the broader region of
Banja Luka and Romanija. A significant part of trafficking in human
beings, drugs and weapons directed towards west Europe is carried
out through Republika Srpska, enabling certain individuals to gain
enormous profits by allowing transit and providing protection for
such international crimes. A part of that profit goes for financing
the (para)security forces. The leading western intelligence services
should strengthen their presence in the territory of Republika
Srpska where increased international criminal activities have been
observed.
Dodik – an exponent of Russia and its
interests
Global challenges related to terrorism have been exploited by
RS authorities in order to divide Bosnia and Herzegovina. With
Russia's assistance they want to bring the country back into the
situation as it was in late 1990s which then resulted in regional
war that was stopped when NATO carried out the bombing of Belgrade
and the military intervention in Kosovo. At the time when Dodik
adopted the referendum declaration it was actually Prime Minister of
the Republic of Serbia Aleksandar Vučić who – having
recognised that Serbia may profit from Dodik's activities – called
for Serbian-Bosniak dialogue which was a stab in the back of Dodik
and his war-instigating actions. Dodik is trying to create the
situation as it was in 1991, but desperate Serbia and Aleksandar
Vučić are not ready to support imprudent policy led by Dodik and his
political marionettes. Any direct support to Dodik would actually
represent support to Russian interests in the West Balkans. It seems
that due to inner weaknesses and divisions the Bosniak politicians
are missing a historical opportunity for transnational dialogue
offered by one of the Best Serbian leaders in the recent history.
The Zvornik case is an ideal opportunity to reveal any further
attempt of Republika Srpska to divide Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Besides the international community responsibility also lies with
political leaders who allegedly want to preserve BH and have
declared their support to BH. However, their dedication to fighting
terrorism should not be mixed with fighting for the statehood of
Bosnia and Herzegovina – these are two diametrically opposite
interests. Participation in the global alliance for fighting
terrorism may not be the reason for undermining the existence of the
state of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Political leaders should be aware
that their activities in the alliance against international
terrorism do not prevent them from taking clear action in order to
protect the existence of their state.
In the past few years the IFIMES Institute has pointed to the
destruction of the security system and inappropriate staffing,
including the appointment of Fahrudin Radončić as BH Security
Minister and numerous other positions in the hierarchical structure,
as well as to the connection of certain individuals in the BH
security system with Moscow. IFIMES has written about this topic in
its analysis entitled: “BiH: The Moscow – Belgrade – Banja Luka –
Sarajevo transversal” published on 28 August 2012 at: http://www.ifimes.org/en/researches/the-moscow-belgrade-banja-luka-sarajevo-transversal-2013-01-24/.
The final phase of genocide
Milorad Dodik has lanuched the final phase of genocide
against the Bosniak population. Judgements passed by the Hague
Tribunal as well as BH courts and courts outside Bosnia and
Herzegovina have confirmed and condemned the committed war crimes
and genocide. Reading the verdicts to Radovan Karadžić and
Ratko Mladić will be the grand finale. Dodik is worried about
the fact that all achievements resulting from crime will have to be
annulled, which means that the judgements on Karadžić and Mladić
will represent an introduction to changes in the inner structure of
Bosnia and Herzegovina. According to demographic projections the
Bosniaks would represent up to 30% of the population of Republika
Srpska at the next census. Milorad Dodik's regime is therefore eager
to stop the new wave of refugees from returning home and to
intimidate and force returnees to flee their homes once again.
A threat to no-visa regime and foreign
investments
The tense situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the
war-instigating rhetoric is causing most damage to potential foreign
investments, while it also represents a threat to no-visa regime for
the citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina due to armed attacks in
certain parts of the state. Nobody is willing to make investments
in the tense and insecure atmosphere that may develop into lasting
instability. However, Dodik benefits from constant conflicts which
enable his political survival.
For the future of Bosnia and Herzegovina it is of vital importance
to establish the truth and to ensure justice which will lead to
reconciliation, lasting peace and long-term stability in the
country. Certain individuals who participated in war crimes and
genocide are deeply involved in security and defence structures of
RS entity institutions and consequently also in the institutions at
the level of BH state. A thorough review of staff employed in those
structures should be carried out, making sure that those who
committed war crimes are prosecuted. It is inconceivable that
victims of genocide are daily faced with war crime suspects who are
dressed in police uniforms and who ensure law and order despite the
heavy burden of committed atrocities.
It is also of vital importance that BH Parliamentary Assembly
accepts the European Parliament (EP) Resolution of 15 January 2009
which calls upon EU Member States and West Balkan states to mark 11
July as the day of commemoration of the Srebrenica genocide. The
Resolution, which was anonymously adopted by EP, stresses the need
to commemorate and honour all the victims of atrocities during the
Balkan wars. A similar resolution should also be adopted by UN
General Assembly at its regular session in September 2015.
The European Union should thoroughly redefine its policy towards the
West Balkans which is still a “powder keg” that may easily become a
region of instability and a new security challenge for the EU.
Ljubljana, 15 May 2015
May 15, 2015
Media-clip: At the
occasion of a book launch
Geopolitics -
Europe of Sarajevo 100 years later by Anis
Bajrektarević
For his previous book Geopolitics of Technology – Is There
Life after Facebook, published by the New York’s Addleton,
former Austrian Foreign Minister Peter Jankowitsch has said: “Insightful,
compelling and original, this book is an exciting journey through
the rocky field of geopolitics. It is also a big-thinking
exploration of the least researched aspects of the discipline, which
will leave no one indifferent. This book, written by an experienced
lawyer and a former career diplomat, cleverly questions how we see
the world, and acts as an eye opener.”
And, the World Security Network’s Senior Vice President, rt. Brig
general of the German Army, close aid to the former NATO
Gen-Secretary Manfred Wörner and author of 5 books on security,
Dieter Farwick has noted: "The presence and future of our
globalised, interwoven world has become so difficult to comprehend
that many people refrain from even trying to understand it. It is
the merit of Professor Anis Bajrektarevic to fill this gap with
excellent analyses brought together in his brilliant book. It is a
must read for those who want to get a better understanding of the
complex world and who want to contribute to a better and safer
world."
“Anyone involved in the advancement of Geopolitics will treasure
this book because it provides useful views on nowadays critical
questions related to the geopolitical transition. Professor Anis treats technology, climate change, sovereignty, energy and
multiculturalism in a new and impressive way” concludes on his
previous book, Dr. Tiberio Graziani, President of the Rome-based
IsAG Institute on Advanced Studies in Geopolitics.
Endorsing his newest book, ‘Geopolitics – Europe of Sarajevo 100
years later (Dobra Knjiga, bilingual English-Bosnia edition), Yale
university doctor, philosophy of history professor Emanuel Paparella
notes: “A year or so ago I began reading and pondering the
political writings of Prof. Anis Bajrektarevic. Plenty of food for
thought, I am still reading them. What attracted me to them was
their invariable lucidity and coherence of thought buttressed by
well reasoned and well balanced logical arguments culminating in
insightful conclusions. This is quite rare nowadays and when
encountered it comes across like a breath of fresh air. What
prevails nowadays are political tracts that often espouse and
promote an ideology, often fanatically defended tooth and nail and
in- variably leading not to dialogue or symposiums but to diatribes
generating much heat and little light… To be convinced of all this,
all that the reader has to do is pick up Bajrektarevic book and
begin reading. One will not be disappointed.”
Member of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, professor
of political science of the Moscow’s Lomonosov university, Andrei V.
Manoilo endorses the following about the book: How does the
current geopolitical stage in Europe and worldwide look like? How
can we define current international order and power constellation?
Is it a multilateral world or is it Pax Americana? Or do we
experience “end of history” after the collapse of bilateral world?
All these issues are thoroughly examined in the book of Prof. Anis
Bajrektarevic “Europe of Sarajevo 100 years later – From WWI to www”
which is a complex study on geopolitical affairs in Europe in its
historical dimension. It’s a concise description of paradigmatic
shifts in the international agenda during the last 100 years. The
book gives us a key for understanding the origins of pan-European
ideas which stipulated the formation of the EU and well beyond.”
While the former Canadian Justice Minister (and of Treasury, in the
other call), and a long time OECD Secretary General, Donald J.
Johnson writes: „I admire your tireless efforts and enormous
energy to go wider and deeper everytime again”, prof. Noam
Chomsky, academian of nearly cult status, sends words of
encouragement: ”congrats for your brave counternarrative. Very
pleased to learn about the book. Wish I could disagree. Many real
opportunities were lost, with tragic results… You voice is so needed
in these dizzy days. People need an orientation and guide.”
Finally, the editor of this book, one of the leading European
experts on the medieval Balkans, member of the Academy of Science
prof. Lovrenovic concludes in his endorsement:
‘Not many people have enlightened the dissolution not only of
Yugoslavia and East but also of a system of values like professor
Bajrektarević. Since the following texts bring the necessary
geopolitical context, where the author is more than undisputed,
essential for the understanding of behavioural political practices
of liberal democracies, from the 1990s until the present day, they
can help us on our path of recovering the self- confidence and
self-esteem – those categories without which there is no meaningful
human existence. If we forgot them, this book will serve as our
reminder…The author decodes the relations of great powers, the role
of energy- generating products in the modelling of global relations
and the creations of present crisis points, the destiny of Near East
states which pay the high price of their geopolitical position. He
is interested in the ancient and deep historical processes which
gain their full meaning in the present light, the European and
global peace treaties, constants and variables of history: the
domino-effects of modern history. His views on contemporary history
of Europe and the World are situated within evolutional currents of
humanity, providing us with a specific image of the human
development and the planet which the humans inhabit. We spend,
arrogantly and irresponsibly, creating carbon in the name of profit,
the history of future. “How did we” – asks the author – “develop
this necrophilic obsession? How did we manage to focus our human and
economic development on carbons, and steadily develop the so-called
‘technologies’ that apparently take us right into a collision course
with the universe and with everything that surrounds our
biosphere?”… Our history, claims professor Bajrektarević, is a
history of “geopolitical imperative”. “In other words” – the author
stresses – “our crisis cannot only be ecological, as it never was
financial – our crisis must be moral”… We needed a history of South
Eastern Europe like this, within the history of the World, to expand
our narrowed horizons and to, at least for a moment, reduce the
anxiety of transition which – does anyone know this – leads: where?
We live in a Europe of genocide and unification: from WWI to
www. as the author states, the carrier pigeon was exchanged by
the Internet but, how did we change within ourselves and how have we
prepared for the technological advance without which our life
overnight became unthinkable? Comparing the psychological
consequences of Gulag and Google the author concludes: “This is a
cyber–iron cage habitat: a shiny but directional and instrumented,
egotistic and autistic, cold and brutal place; incapable of vision,
empathy, initiative or action. It only accelerates our disconnection
with a selfhood and the rest. If and while so, is there any
difference between Gulag and Goo(g)lag – as both being prisons of
free mind?”…
All of these, and other numerous issues, find their sensible
answer on the following pages. The historical questions of
yesteryear in the interpretation of the author become the questions
of the present, tomorrow – existential, planetary: questions of the
threatening ecologic holocaust. Therein lies the attraction of this
book – in the balanced combination of micro and macro perspectives,
in an interdisciplinary approach to a complex historical course.
From its first to its last page, the reader feels the erudition of a
Wissenschaftler who is interested in a scientific view of the World,
but a view which does not remain on the level of description but
rather offers us concrete solutions – can anybody hear them? The
author’s knowledge captivates and mesmerises: historiography, the
history of ideas, religions, civilizations, art, literature, poetry,
modern technologies – deep insights into historical mechanisms
represented in a simple way that is accessible to the average
reader, and all of this with the “implacability towards hypocrisy
and the falsehoods of sacred things”, in the spirit of Erasmus of
Rotterdam. “Why do we stubbornly insist on an inadequate
civilizational navigation?!”, is the question which permeates the
very essence of our advance, but ethically fallen civilization. The
man has, it seems, created history which he cannot control any more
but, on the contrary, it controls him (imprisoned by geopolitical
imperative) – this is one of the conclusions which comes after
reading professor Bajrektarević’s book.
“Chaos or Cosmos” – says the author – “it is a simple choice”.’
Anis H. Bajrektarević, professor and
chairperson for international law and global political studies, Uni-
versity IMC-Krems, Austria. This native Sarajevan, besides this very
title, authors the book FB – Geo- politics of Technology (Addleton,
New York 2013), and the forthcoming No Asian century. He is both
teaching and research professor on subjects such as the Geopolitics;
International and EU Law; Sustainable Development (institutions and
instruments). On the subject Geopolitical Affairs alone, professor
has over 1,000 teaching hours at his university as well as in many
countries on all meridians. His writings are frequently published in
over 50 countries in all five continents, and translated in some 20
languages worldwide. He lives in Vienna, Austria.
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BOSANSKA VERZIJA UDARITE OVDJE
May 11, 2015
Promocija
knjige prof. dr. Anisa Bajraktarevića
13.05.2015. (utorak) u 19
sati u Umjetničkoj galeriji BiH, Zelenih beretki 8,
Sarajevo, BiH
07.05.2015.
Berlin Congress of 1878
still in force in the Balkans
Prof. Anis H. Bajrektarević

Aegean theatre of the Antique Greece was the place of
astonishing revelations and intellectual excellence – a remarkable
density and proximity, not surpassed up to our age. All we know
about science, philosophy, sports, arts, culture and entertainment,
stars and earth has been postulated, explored and examined then and
there. Simply, it was a time and place of triumph of human
consciousness, pure reasoning and sparkling thought.
However,
neither Euclid, Anaximander, Heraclites, Hippocrates (both of Chios,
and of Cos), Socrates, Archimedes, Ptolemy, Democritus, Plato,
Pythagoras, Diogenes, Aristotle, Empedocles, Conon, Eratosthenes nor
any of dozens of other brilliant ancient Greek minds did ever refer
by a word, by a single sentence to something which was their
everyday life, something they saw literally on every corner along
their entire lives.
It was an immoral, unjust, notoriously brutal
and oppressive slavery system that powered the Antique state.
(Slaves have not been even attributed as humans, but rather as the
‘phonic tools/tools able to speak’.) This myopia, this absence of
critical reference on the obvious and omnipresent is a historic
message – highly disturbing, self-telling and quite a warning.
Read more on the next page:
April 26, 2015
Can we trust the government to do the
right thing?
Belmir Selimovic
Can
we trust the government to do the right thing, are they really care
about essential things such as environmental conditions and
education in our life?
First issue here is, should businesses naturally be doing good? In
the case if they have more industry agency, answer would be yes.
However, when it comes to this case, we can't trust the government
because the drilling is taking place with minimal oversight from the
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Of course I would like to
emphasize that fracking is process of drilling and injecting fluid
into the ground at a high pressure in order to fracture shale rocks
to release natural gas inside. For example, Mr. Wasner lives in
Milanville but he moved away for six weeks last year while an
exploratory well was drilled nearby.
˝The noise, muddy water pouring from his taps, and chemicals that
turned up in a neighbor's well drove him off.˝ The U.S Environmental
Protection Agency did not do anything when it comes to this problem.
But, President Barack Obama enthusiastically backs gas drilling and
these days 90 percent of it is done by fracking. According to the
dangersoffracking.com ˝Along with wind, solar, and nuclear power,
natural gas is crucial to Obama's goal of producing 80 percent of
electricity from clean energy sources by 2035.˝ Thus, each gas well
requires an average of 400 tanker trucks to carry water. ˝It takes
1-8 million gallons of water to complete each fracturing job.˝
Fracking has a serious impact on environmental, safety, and health
hazards. Also, fracking has a positive side because it is creating
thousands of jobs and reviving the economy in state such as Wyoming,
Texas, and Louisiana. According to the businessweek.com ˝In
Pennsylvania, where 2,516 wells have been drilled in the last three
years, $ 389 million in tax revenue and 44,000 jobs came from gas
drilling in 2009, according to a Penn State report.˝
Read more on the next page:
April 25, 2015
Is it time for the rise of
local currencies?
Prof. dr. Murray Hunter
It's
an almost long forgotten historical fact that most trade was
undertaken by local based currencies right into the 20th Century.
Australia had a number of colonial currencies before federation in
1901. The United States of America had a number of currencies issued
by private banks before the Federal Reserve Bank was formed in 1913,
and individual states of the European Union had their own national
currencies before the mega-currency, the Euro was launched in 1999.
However given the trend to larger and "stronger"
currencies, the hype of the Euro, the protection of the US Dollar as
the major trading currency, a very quiet trend has been going the
other way. In contrast, more than 2,000 local currencies in some
form or the other have been launched in communities around the
world.
The phenomenon of the local currency almost doesn't
exist in contemporary economic literature. Therefore the purpose of
this article is to have a look at local currencies, and try and
answer the questions; Why do communities launch them? Do local
currencies have any benefit to these communities?, and What
is the real potential of these currencies?
A local currency, sometimes referred to as a
community currency, is a means of exchange used by members of a
community that have some common bonds. Any local currency is usually
not backed by a national government, nor is officially a legal
tender within the region it is circulated. A local currency is
usually intended for trade within a limited geographical area.
Money is essentially an agreement to use something as
a means of exchange. Any local currency can be denominated by the
prevailing national currency, or measured in any commodity, or even
labor units to provide create unit value, so people know how to use
it as a medium of exchange. This redemption measure is usually a
major factor giving users confidence in its present and future
value.
A local currency is a potential tool of monetarism,
where it helps to define an economic boundary which accepts it as a
medium of exchange by certain groups within that location.
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April 14, 2015
Eastern Europe –
The World’s Last Underachiever
Prof. Anis H.
Bajrektarević

25 years ago, the Russian historical empire melted
down. Although often underreported, this also marked the end of
alternative society in Europe. Collapse of the II world, made the 3rd
way (of Yugoslavia and further, beyond Europe – globally, of the
Nonaligned Movement) obsolete.
That 9/11 was a moment when the end of history
rested upon all of us, the day when the world became flat.
The EU entered East, but only as a ‘stalking horse’ of NATO. No
surprise that Eastern Europe –following the slaughter of its pivot,
Yugoslavia – has soon after abandoned its identity quest, and
capitulated. Its final civilizational defeat came along: the Eastern
Europe’s peoples, primarily Slavs, have silently handed over their
most important debates – that of Slavism, anti-fascism and of own
identity – solely to the recuperating Russophone Europe.
Read more on the next page:
Prof. Anis H.
Bajrektarević
Vienna, 26 MAR 2015
Contact:
anis@bajrektarevic.eu
Author is chairperson and
professor in international law and global political studies, IMC
Krems University of Austria. His previous book FB – Geopolitics
of Technology was published by the New York’s Addleton Academic
Publishers. His forthcoming book Geopolitics – Europe
100 years later is coming soon.
All displayed maps
per the author’s idea made by Anneliese Gattringer.
Vienna, March 26, 2015
Yemenisation or Confederalisation of Saudi Arabia?
By Brian Whitaker

Click on Picture
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March 27, 2015
Bosnia as Wunderkind –
Corruption from Kosovo to Germany
Gerald Knaus
Ugly ducklings,
fairy tales and Bosnia in 2015
ESI newsletter 3/2015 - If corruption is
serious business, its assessment should be as well.
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March
19, 2015
Imperative
of an EU-Russia strategic reset
Eirini Patsea
Russia vs. the European Union. It is relationship
based and built upon a long history of protracted political
conflict. Lately, with the crisis in Ukraine and the subsequent
sanctions imposed to Russia, the diplomatic relations between the
two sides have reached a new historical low. But more importantly,
the mistrust among the peoples residing in both sides has reached a
new high. Unavoidably so. Since the Western and Russian media
started to be viciously launching campaign-like news reports, there
is nothing but confusion and loss of perspective by both the peoples
and their representatives. The big question is whether this would be
the case if the US politics were not involved in the game. Would
still Russia and the EU have so many excuses to be driven apart;
politically, culturally and ideologically?
After the warmhearted welcome by Peter Haider, UPF
Austria President, Prof. Bajrektarevic made more than a challenging
opening:
“The lonely superpower (US) vs. the bear of
the permafrost (Russia), with the world’s last cosmopolite
(EU) in between. Is the ongoing calamity at the eastern flank of
the EU a conflict, recalibration, imperialism in hurry,
exaggerated anti-Russian xenophobia or last gasp of
confrontational nostalgia?
Eirini Patsea is a
Guest Editor in ModernDiplomacy, and specialist in Cultural
Diplomacy and Faith-based Mediation.
First published by
www.moderndiplomacy.eu
Read more on the next page:
March 3, 2015
All European shades
of ISIL colour black: Neonazism of Europe and Fascism in the Arab
World
By Allan Bogle

How did Europe manage to drag Arabs to the wrong side
of history – a confusion, pride, shame and denial – all which
resurfaces again, 75 years after. How is this possible that the
‘never-again’ takes place today? Do we fake our surprise? How
expensive is our European denial, and Monarchist Arabs claim of
innocence?
Read more on the next page:
March 4, 2015
Greed is good…but
only for cancer
Amna Whiston
Amna Whiston is a London-based writer specialising in moral
philosophy. As a PhD candidate at Reading University, UK, her main
research interests are in ethics, rationality, and moral psychology.
Don’t be bad with 1%, don’t accuse them for having it all
and doing nothing to earn it. 99% firmly believes that a greed is
good… Spoiling mood, but being good for your food, as it should?
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Amidst the many maladies of today’s global
society, a tide of optimism brought by the latest cancer research
news reflects a defiant response to one of the biggest challenges
facing humanity. But although massive investments that involve
venture capital companies and funds may be necessary for the pursuit
of current and future large-scale scientific projects and ambitions,
it is still sensible to ask the following questions: To what extent
should capitalism be credited for rapid progress in cancer research
and treatment? Moreover, can the profit motive, being an essential
feature of capitalism, justify future investments in bioscience and
related fields?
Read more on the next page:
14.02.2015
70 years after
Auschwitz – deliberate attempts to rewrite history
MD Editorial Board
The
last week’s Auschwitz ceremony marking 70 years since the notorious
death camp’s liberation had a huge turnout. Three hundred survivors
of the camp attended. Given the age of Holocaust survivors, the
importance of passing their story on to new generations has never
been greater. Comparing politicians to Hitler or countries to nazi
Germany has become a commonplace insult. But the unspeakable horrors
unleashed by history’s most vicious regime bear no comparison.
The Holocaust marked a systematic effort to exterminate entire
ethnic groups — most prominently the Jews but also the Roma and
Sinti — alongside the slaughter of homosexuals and the disabled.
Millions of prisoners of war from the Soviet Union, Polish civilians
and political and religious opponents of the nazis including
communists, trade unionists, Freemasons and Jehovah’s Witnesses were
also exterminated.
The world anti-fascist war which defeated the nazis resulted in
efforts to ensure such atrocities would never happen again. But the
collapse of the Soviet Union — which played by far the greatest part
in defeating the fascist menace, as well as being the liberator of
Auschwitz — has seen a deliberate attempt to rewrite history.
The European Parliament sponsors a Day of Remembrance for Victims of
Stalinism and Nazism, a pernicious attempt to equate communism with
fascism. As Russian communist Il Melnikov said yesterday, virulently
anti-Russian regimes in the Baltic states openly celebrate Waffen SS
veterans.
Read more on the next page:
11.02.2015
Géométrie variable
of a love triangle – India, Russia and the US
Written by the MD’s Board Member Rakesh Krishnan Simha
The Modi-Obama romance
won’t last as India’s relationship with the US does not have the
kind of strategic dimension and weight that marks New Delhi’s ties
with Moscow.
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Russia
is a country with which India has had a strategic relationship for
decades. America is a place where Indians migrate to for a better
lifestyle. That is how Indians view the world’s two leading powers.
It’s as simple as that. US President Barrack Obama’s recent visit to
India will not change that reality, and those speculating about
dramatic changes in India's foreign policy are either fools or
amateurs – or both.
“Good relations with the US reflect aspiration, ties with Russia are
hard reality,” says Bharat Karnad, professor of national security
studies at the Centre for Policy Research. “No substantive shift in
policy is on the anvil, certainly nothing at the expense of India's
relations with Moscow, especially because, unlike the US, Russia has
partnered, and continues to partner, India in strategically
sensitive technology projects ranging from missiles, ship
submersibles, ballistic, nuclear submarines to the Fifth Generation
Fighter Aircraft,” he told Defense News.
Over the decades a clutch of US presidents has visited India.
Likewise, Indian prime ministers have been to America. But the
dynamics of the India-US relationship hasn’t changed much. And why
would it? The US is the leader of the western world whose prosperity
largely rests on the domination of the rest of the world. India, on
the other hand, is a member of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India,
China and South Africa) grouping that aims to end the American-led
bloc’s dominance.
Modi’s operandi
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11.02.2015
Europe of the human
face… with a little help from Greece
by Dimitra Karantzeni
Days
after the last parliamentary elections, something is eventually
moving in Greece. People are hesitant and restrained, do not want to
get too excited. However, one can see that a humble smile, between
hope and faith, is on faces of Greeks. For the first time in the
post-dictatorship period, a leftist government took over the
leadership of the country, insisting on its pre-election commitments
to overthrow the corrupt political system and reverse the economic
disaster.
During the pre-election campaign, voters were bombarded with
terrifying messages concerning the day after Syriza’s victory,
describing more or less a socio-economic chaos, with banks with no
liquidity, a paralyzed public sector and markets out of stock.
However, the overall propaganda of terror and intimidation of
citizens by the predominant political Parties not only failed to
limit the social impact of SYRIZA’s actions, but it also seems that
the will of determination of the new government somehow managed to
positively affect the rest of Europe.
The negotiation process is still ongoing but what Syriza has
achieved so far is that its well prepared anti-austerity plan today
gives the impression not of just a grand-standing utopic program but
of a specific project built on realistic bases.
What is of high importance though is that this political change in
Greece has stimulated a great wave of active support from various
European leftist political parties, helping Syriza to immediately
avoid the risk of diplomatic isolation. Furthermore, for different
reasons of geopolitical importance both the US and Russia have a
very positive attitude towards the new Greek government,
strengthening its negotiating power against EU lenders. On the one
hand, a closer cooperation between the two orthodox countries would
benefit the development of Greek energy sector, even set Greece as a
major strategic player in the international negotiations field about
energy and at the same time provide Putin with a valuable European
ally. Besides, Greek refusal to approve an EU statement aiming to
expand sanctions against Moscow is a first good step in that
direction. On the other hand, Washington couldn’t but respond to
this diplomatic game by supporting the end of austerity, recalling
US bad fiscal experiences and expressing its concerns about EU,
which is currently lacking a tangible plan for growth in Europe.
Read more on the next page:
11.02.2015
The International Institute for Middle-East and Balkan Studies
(IFIMES) in Ljubljana, Slovenia, regularly analyses events in the
Middle East and the Balkans. IFIMES has analysed the current
situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina in view of the delayed process
of setting up the government following the general election that
took place on 12 October 2014. The most interesting sections from
the analysis entitled “Bosnia and Herzegovina: German-British
initiative overshadowed by party political games” are published
below.
Bosnia and
Herzegovina:
German-British initiative overshadowed by
party political games
JOINT ACTION BY SNSD AND SBB
A delay in setting up the government in Bosnia and Herzegovina
following the general election that took place on 12 October 2014 is
mostly the result of obstructions caused by Milorad Dodik's Alliance
of Independent Social Democrats (SNSD) from Republika Srpska (RS)
and Fahrudin Radončić's Union for a Better Future (SBB) and the
Social Democratic Party (SDP) from the Federation of Bosnia and
Herzegovina (FBiH). While SNSD is aguishly trying to enter the
government at the state level, SBB – being excluded from the
post-election coalition forming – is concocting plans to get hold of
power, even using its Avaz daily newspaper to create a negative
political atmosphere in Bosnia and Herzegovina, inciting riot among
the citizens and preparing last year's February protests scenario.
Clearly SNSD and SBB are making a joint action - their delegates
carried out a joint attempt to overthrow the President of the House
of Representatives of the Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and
Herzegovina Šefik Džaferović (SDA). Moreover, analysts have related
the activities of the outgoing Vice President of the Federation of
Bosnia and Herzegovina Mirsad Kebe with attempted obstructions aimed
at slowing down or preventing the formation of government by SDA-HDZ-DF-Alliance for Changes, thus promoting the formation of
another parliamentary coalition composed of SNSD, SBB and even SDP.
Read more on the next page:
January 31, 2015
On history and humility: What students need to know ?
Rattana Lao
Rattana
Lao holds a doctorate in Comparative and International Education
from Teachers College, Columbia University and is currently teaching
in Bangkok.
BANGKOK – Not so long ago, some Thai university students used
Hitler image as the poster child for superhero and just recently,
the Thai state used Nazi symbol in their propaganda for education.
This short documentary intends to promote the 12 values of
education. These values include respect seniority, desire for
knowledge and understand democracy.
Democracy and Hitler?
To make things worse, the director of the film gave public interview
seeing nothing wrong with it.
Kulp Kaljaruek, the director, said to Khaosod, one of the Thai
newspapers that “ I didn't think it would be an issue. As for
Hitler's portrait, I have seen so many people using it on T-Shirts
everywhere. It's even considered a fashion. It doesn't mean I agree
with it, but I didn't expect it to be an issue at all."
Seriously?
The Ambassador of Israel to Thailand, His Excellency Simon Roded,
issued a public statement on the 10th
of December 2014. It read:
“I was surprised that throughout the screening
process this movie must have gone through to be approved for public
broadcast, none of the smart, well educated people checking it had
identified it as being problematic and offensive.”
In an interview with Thailand's renown historian, professor Thanet
Aphornsuwan, the problem that has happened reflects an endemic
problem in Thailand.
Read more on the next page:
January 24, 2015.
GLOBAL MARKETS OF MISERY
Marján Attila[1]
– Szuhai Ilona[2]
Is our
The global humanitarian system in
transition? If so, what are the key issues b – Before the 2016 World
Humanitarian Summit
"Today's needs are at unprecedented levels and without more support there simply
is no way to respond to the humanitarian situations we're seeing in region after
region and in conflict after conflict."
António Guterres, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees
Abstract
The international community is preparing for the World
Humanitarian Summit. The United Nations will host the event in Istanbul, in
2016. Before the meeting, regional consultations are held in several parts of
the world. Expectations are high since the historical moment of changing the
twenty-five-year-old humanitarian system is approaching. Growing conflicts
demand growing funds for humanitarian action. The change in the trends of
conflicts demands more effective humanitarian solutions. 2014 was a dramatic
year in the number of people affected by conflict and of being forced to flee.
Unprecedentedly, more than 100 million people became dependent on humanitarian
aid for their survival. This rise is reflected in the inter-agency strategic
response and regional response plans as global financial requirements to cover
humanitarian needs rose to the highest amount ever requested in a single year.
The study forecasts how the EU can continue the donor activities in the future.
Read more on the next page:
January 24, 2015.
Human rights violations inside EU
What is the Ostrich Protocol?
H.E. Dr. Walter Schwimmer

How the EU member states play ostrich when it comes to
human rights violations inside EU?
H.E. Dr. Walter Schwimmer -
Vice Chair of the Modern
Diplomacy Advisory Board, Former Secretary General of the Council of
Europe -
Chairman of the International Coordinating Committee of the World
Public Forum – Dialogue of Civilizations
The
Treaty on the European Union, in its current format also known as
the Lisbon Treaty, as well as the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights
claim to establish an area of freedom, security and justice, founded
on the values of respect for human dignity, freedom, democracy,
equality, the rule of law and the respect for human rights[1].
That sounds perfect. After centuries of inhuman treatment of people
very often by their own governments, culminating in the tyrannies of
communism and Nazism in the 20th century, EU citizens should be able
to feel safe from brutal attacks and illegal operations of a violent
state, if not ....If they are not refugees from another EU member
state and they do not try to look for protection because they were
subject in their own state to political persecution, inhuman
treatment or even torture.
The Geneva Convention about status of and asylum for
refugees, persons subject to political persecution, is one of the
great international achievements in the field of human rights. The
European Union as a successful project of peace, freedom and justice
promises in Art.18 of its Charter that "the right to asylum shall be
guaranteed with due respect for the rules of the Geneva Convention..[2]"
But why is this guarantee denied when the asylum seeker comes from
an EU country?
Read more on the next page:
January 19, 2015
FUTURE OF DAVOS IS IN
KYRGYZSTAN
Francesco Brunello
Zanitti
Francesco Brunello Zanitti,
Southern Asia Research Program’s Director, and one of the Scientific
Directors of the Italian Institute for Advanced Studies in
Geopolitics and Auxiliary Sciences (Istituto di Alti Studi in
Geopolitica e Scienze Ausiliarie – IsAG, Rome). Member of Editorial
Committee of “Geopolitica” (IsAG’s journal) Rome.
Is the new Russian
approach towards China and India, vector for a multipolar world
order? Will the new Davos – gathering between vanity fair and summit
of the mightiest – in future take place in Kyrgyzstan – Central
Asian country surrounded by the most prosperous and promising
powers?
The last months of 2014
were marked by a series of significant bilateral agreements and
summits involving Russia, India and China. According to many
international analysts, the research of better relations with the
two Asian giants by Moscow represents another further step towards
global transformation from an unipolar order ruled by United States
to a multipolar one.
A key point in order to
analyze the fundamental reasons of Moscow’s approach towards China
and India is connected to difficulties emerged in the last year with
European Union and United States. Complications in Russia-West
relations are clearly exemplified by the Ukrainian imbroglio.
However, it’s also
necessary to dwell on long-term strategic interests of the countries
involved. Despite the current shaky situation of Eastern Europe and
Middle East, generally speaking Beijing and New Delhi look at Russia
as a reliable partner with whom it’s fundamental continue to
dialogue, cooperate and trade. China-Russia dialogue is growing from
mid-nineties, while Indian strategic relationship with Moscow is
heir of the one established during Cold War with Soviet Union.
Moreover, it should not to be underestimate the fact that Russia,
India and China are already actively cooperating in other
multilateral organizations, such as BRICS forum (Brazil, Russia,
India, China, South Africa), and have the opportunity to develop new
platforms for political, economic and military cooperation, for
example within the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation
(SCO). The strategic triangle Russia-India-China (RIC), taken into
account difficulties of relations especially considering
Indo-Chinese bond characterized at the same time by cooperation and
competition, could therefore be an interesting model of dialogue in
the new multipolar world order.
Read more on the next page:
January 14, 2015
The Paris Killings: Who
Are the Real Heroes of Press Freedom?
By
Jamil Maidan Flores
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By
Jamil Maidan Flores |
Placards are seen placed amongst other tributes to the satirical
magazine Charlie Hebdo on the statues at the Place de la Republique
in Paris on Saturday. (Reuters Photo/Youssef Boudlal)
In the wake of the terrorist assault last week on the
offices of the French magazine “Charlie Hebdo,” in which 12 persons
were killed, many people all over the world were moved to say, in an
outpouring of anger at the perpetrators and sympathy for the
victims, “I am Charlie.”
Apart from two police officers, who were slain as
they responded to the attack, the victims were cartoonists and
editors marked for death by Muslim extremists because of their
slanderous depiction of the Prophet of Islam in past issues of the
magazine.
Read more on the next page:
January 12, 2015
Denazification – urgently
needed in Europe
Anis H. Bajrektarevic,
There
is a claim constantly circulating the EU: ‘multiculturalism is
dead in Europe’. Dead or maybe d(r)ead?... That much comes from
a cluster of European nation-states that love to romanticize their
appearance thought the solid Union, as if they themselves lived a
long, cordial and credible history of multiculturalism. Hence, this
claim is of course false. It is also cynical because it is purposely
misleading. No wonder, as the conglomerate of nation-states/EU has
silently handed over one of its most important debates – that of
European anti-fascistic identity, or otherness – to the
wing-parties, repeatedly followed by the selective and
contra-productive foreign policy actions.
The Paris shooting, terrible beyond comprehension,
will reload and overheat those debates. However, these debates are
ill conceived, resting from the start on completely wrong and
misleading premises. Assassins in the Parisian Satirical Magazine
are Islamofascists. The fact that these individuals are
allegedly of the Arab-Muslim origins does not make them less
fascists, less European, nor does it abolish Europe from the main
responsibility in this case.
Fascism and its evil twin, Nazism are 100% European
ideologies. Neo-Nazism also originates from and lately unchecked
blossoms, primarily in Europe. (Some would say, über-economy
in the center of continent, surrounded from all sides by the
recuperating neo-fascism.) The Old continent tried to amortize its
deepening economic and demographic contraction by a constant
interference on its peripheries, especially meddling on the Balkans,
Black Sea/Caucasus and MENA (Middle East–North Africa). What is now
an epilogue? A severe democratic recession. Whom to blame for
this structural, lasting civilizational retreat that Europe suffers?
Is it accurate or only convenient to blame a bench of useful idiots
for returning home with the combating behavior?
Read more on the next page:
http://moderndiplomacy.eu/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=481:den&Itemid=569
January 8, 2015
Paris Massacre and Islamic Terror
World Security Network reporting from Paris in France, January 7, 2015
Dear Friends of the World
Security Network,
What should we do, after three heavily armed and
professional gunmen killed twelve and wounded seven in the office of the French
satire magazine Chalie Hebdo today as „revenge for the Prophet“?
I. The silent majority of 1.6 billion Muslims must stand up against the tiny, but
active and dangerous minority of the radicals of maybe five percent openly and
defend the true, peaceful Islam, their Prophet and the Holy Qur’an.
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi did so on New Year’s Day at the
famous Al Azhar University in Cairo, demanding „a religious revolution in
Islam“. „It is inconceivable that the thinking that we hold most sacred should
cause the entire Islamic World (umma) to be a source of anxiety, danger, killing
and destruction for the rest oft he world. Impossible!“
Without fear Jordans beautiful and wise Queen
Rania told the Abu Dhabi Media Summit 2014, November 18th:
Read more on the next page:
Dr Hubertus Hoffmann President and Founder
World Security Netw
January 7, 2015
PUBLICATIONS:
Bosnia and Herzegovina: The final phase of genocide? - Director
IFIMES: Bakhtyar Aljaf
Geopolitics -
Europe of Sarajevo 100 years later by Anis
Bajrektarević
Berlin Congress of 1878 still in force in the Balkans - Prof.
Anis H. Bajrektarevic
Can
we trust the government to do the right thing? - Belmir
Selimovic
Is it
time for the rise of local currencies? - Prof. dr. Murray Hunter
Eastern Europe – The World’s Last Underachiever - Prof. Anis H.
Bajrektarević
Yemenisation or Confederalisation of Saudi Arabia? - By Brian
Whitaker
Bosnia as Wunderkind –
Corruption from Kosovo to Germany - Gerald Knaus
Imperative of an EU-Russia strategic reset - Eirini Patsea
All
European shades of ISIL colour black: Neonazism of Europe and
Fascism in the Arab World - By Allan Bogle
Greed
is good…but only for cancer - Amna Whiston
70
years after Auschwitz – deliberate attempts to rewrite history -
MD Editorial Board
Géométrie variable of a love triangle – India, Russia and the US
- Rakesh Krishnan Simha
Europe of the human face… with a little help from Greece - by
Dimitra Karantzeni
Bosnia and Herzegovina: German-British initiative overshadowed
by party political games - Bakhtyar Aljaf
On
history and humility: What students need to know? - Rattana Lao
GLOBAL MARKETS OF MISERY - Marján Attila – Szuhai Ilona
Human rights violations inside EU - H.E. Dr. Walter Schwimmer
FUTURE OF DAVOS IS IN KYRGYZSTAN - Francesco Brunello Zanitti
The
Paris Killings: Who Are the Real Heroes of Press Freedom? - By
Jamil Maidan Flores
Denazification – urgently needed in Europe - Anis H.
Bajrektarevic
Paris Massacre and Islamic Terror
- Dr Hubertus Hoffmann
COLOR REVOLUTIONS: TECHNIQUES IN BREAKING DOWN MODERN POLITICAL
REGIMES - ANDREI MANOILO[1], OLEG KARPOVICH[2]
Lima
2014: Climate Change – Humans Remain the Same - Anis H.
Bajrektarevic
THE ASIAN
SQUARE DANCE – PART IV - By Michael Akerib
NEW AGE
DIPLOMACY - Samantha Brletich
Nuclear Commerce –
essentials - Prof. Anis H. Bajrektarevic and Petra Posega
THE ASIAN
SQUARE DANCE – THIRD PART - By Michael Akerib
Vietnamese Australians’ Community: Realities and Prospect - By Prof.
Dr. Nguyen Anh Tuan

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Editor - Geopolitics, History, International Relations (GHIR) Addleton Academic
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Senior Advisory board member, geopolitics of energy Canadian energy research
institute - ceri, Ottawa/Calgary
Advisory Board Chairman Modern Diplomacy & the md Tomorrow's people platform
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Head of mission and department head - strategic studies on Asia
Professor and Chairperson Intl. law & global pol. studies

Critical Similarities and Differences in SS of Asia and Europe - Prof.
Anis H. Bajrektarevic

MENA Saga and Lady Gaga - (Same dilemma from the MENA) - Anis H. Bajrektarevic

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HE ONGOING PUBLIC DEBT CRISIS IN THE EUROPEAN UNION: IMPACTS ON AND
LESSONS FOR VIETNAM - Dr. Nguyen Anh Tuan, Assos. Prof.[1]
Nguyen Linh[2]


Carla BAUMER
Climate
Change and Re Insurance: The Human Security Issue SC-SEA Prof. Anis
Bajrektarevic & Carla Baumer

Igor Dirgantara
(Researcher and Lecturer at the Faculty of Social and Politics,
University of Jayabaya)


Peny Sotiropoulou
Is the ‘crisis of secularism’ in Western Europe the result of
multiculturalism?


Dr. Emanuel L. Paparella
A Modest “Australian”
Proposal to Resolve our Geo-Political Problems
Were the Crusades Justified? A Revisiting - Dr. Emanuel L. Paparella


Alisa Fazleeva earned an MA in International Relations from
the University of East Anglia in Norwich, United Kingdom in 2013. Her
research interests include foreign policy decision-making, realism and
constructivism, and social psychology and constructivism.


Corinna Metz
is an independent researcher specialized in International Politics and Peace
& Conflict Studies with a regional focus on the Balkans and the Middle East.

Patricia
Galves Derolle
Founder of Internacionalista
Săo Paulo, Brazil
Brazil – New Age


Dimitra Karantzeni
The political character of Social Media: How do Greek Internet users perceive
and use social networks?


Michael Akerib
Vice-Rector
SWISS UMEF UNIVERSITY


Petra Posega
is a master`s
degree student on the University for Criminal justice and
Security in Ljubljana. She obtained her bachelor`s degree in
Political Science- Defense studies.
Contact:
posegap@live.com


Samantha Brletich, George Mason University School of Policy,
Government, and Intl. Relations She focuses on Russia and Central
Asia. Ms. Brletich is an employee of the US Department of Defense.


Prof. dr. Anis Bajrektarević

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