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

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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

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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.

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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.



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April 26, 2015

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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.˝

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April 25, 2015

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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

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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 3^rd 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.

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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

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Yemenisation or Confederalisation of Saudi Arabia?
By Brian Whitaker

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March 27, 2015

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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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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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