

Ing. Salih CAVKIC
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No more
Paris nor Brussels!
Stop
terrorism!
We want to live in peace with all
our neighbors.
regardless of their religion, color and origin.
Therefore, we condemn any
kind of terrorism!
*****
Ne više Pariz ni Brisel!
Stop terorizam!
Mi želimo živjeti u miru sa svim našim
komšijama,
bez obzira koje su vjere, boje kože i porijekla.
Zato mi osuđujemo svaku vrstu terorizma!


Prof. dr. Murray Hunter
University Malaysia Perlis


Eva MAURINA
20
Years to Trade Economic Independence for Political Sovereignty -
Eva MAURINA


Aleš Debeljak
In
Defense of Cross-Fertilization: Europe and Its Identity
Contradictions - Aleš Debeljak
ALEŠ
DEBELJAK - ABECEDA DJETINJSTVA
ALEŠ DEBEJAK
- INTERVJU; PROSVJEDI, POEZIJA, DRŽAVA


Rattana Lao
Rattana Lao holds a doctorate in Comparative and International
Education from Teachers College, Columbia University and is
currently teaching in Bangkok.


Bakhtyar Aljaf
Director of Middle-East and Balkan Studies (IFIMES) in Ljubljana,
Slovenia


Rakesh Krishnan Simha Géométrie variable of a love triangle – India, Russia and the US


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.


Eirini Patsea
Eirini Patsea is a Guest Editor in Modern Diplomacy, and
specialist in Cultural Diplomacy and Faith-based Mediation.


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?


Dubravko Lovrenović
Univ. prof. Dubravko Lovrenović is one of the leading
European Medievalist specialized in the Balkans, pre-modern and
modern political history.


Manal Saadi
Postgraduate researcher in International Relations and Diplomacy at
the Geneva-based UMEF University


doc.dr.Jasna Cosabic
professor of IT law
and EU law at Banja Luka College,
Bosnia and Herzegovina


Aleksandra Krstic
, studied in Belgrade (Political Science) and in Moscow
(Plekhanov’s IBS). Currently, a post-doctoral researcher at the Kent
University in Brussels (Intl. Relations). Specialist for the
MENA-Balkans frozen and controlled conflicts.
Contact: alex-alex@gmail.com


Dr.Swaleha Sindhi is
Assistant Professor in the Department
of Educational Administration, the Maharaja Sayajirao University of
Baroda, India. Decorated educational practitioner Dr. Sindhi is a
frequent columnist on related topics, too. She is the Vice President
of Indian Ocean Comparative Education Society (IOCES). Contact:
swalehasindhi@gmail.com


Barçın Yinanç
It is an Ankara-based
journalist and notable author.
She is engaged with the leading Turkish dailies and weeklies for
nearly three decades as a columnist, intervieweer and editor.
Her words are prolifically published and quoted in Turkish,
French an English.


By İLNUR ÇEVIK
Modified from the original: They killed 1
Saddam and created 1,000 others (Daily Sabah)


Aine O’Mahony
Aine O'Mahony has a bachelor in Law and Political Science at
the Catholic Institute of Paris and is currently a master's student
of Leiden University in the International Studies programme.Contact:
aine-claire.nini@hotmail.fr


Elodie Pichon
Elodie Pichon has a
bachelor in Law and Political Science at the Catholic Institute of
Paris and is currently doing a MA in Geopolitics, territory and
Security at King's College London. Contact :
elodie.pichon@gmail.com

Qi Lin
Qi Lin,
a MA candidate of the George
Washington University, Elliott School of International Affairs. Her
research focus is on cross-Pacific security and Asian studies,
particularly on the Sino-U.S. relations and on the foreign policy
and politics of these two.


ALESSANDRO CIPRI
Born in Chile and raised in Rome, Alessandro
Cipri has just finished his postgraduate studies at the department
of War Studies of King's College London, graduating with distinction
from the Master's Degree in "Intelligence and International
Security". Having served in the Italian Army's "Alpini" mountain
troops, he has a keen interest in national security, military
strategy, insurgency theory, and terrorism studies. His Master's
dissertation was on the impact of drug trafficking on the evolution
of the Colombian FARC.


Ms. Lingbo ZHAO
is a candidate of the Hong Kong Baptist
University, Department of Government and International Studies. Her
research interest includes Sino-world, Asia and cross-Pacific.
Contact:
harryzhaolin@gmail.com

INDEX 2017
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Verhofstadt best candidate for President of the European
Parliament
Verhofstadt best kandidaat voor voorzitter Europees Parlement
Verhofstadt najbolji kandidat za predsjednika Evropskog parlamenta
S. CAVKIC
Brexit –
Pakistanization finally comes home
(Who Needs Greater State Projects in
the Balkans?)
Dr. Zlatko Hadžidedić
Ever
since the end of the WWI, and especially since the end of the WWII,
the UK official foreign policy line was nearly always the same,
imperial - partition and division. Divide/atomise and rule (divide
at impere) ! Was it Asia, Latin America, Africa, Ukraine, Balkans or
the Middle East – Pakistanization was the UK classical (colonial)
concept, action and answer ! With the Brexit at sight, seems that
the Pakistanization (finally) came home.
However, certain destructive UK
quasi-intellectual circles are trying to postpone inevitable.
Following lines are about that ill-fated attempt.
Graduate of the
London School of Economics, prof. Zlatko Hadžidedić is
a prominent thinker, prolific author of numerous books, and
indispensable political figure of the former Yugoslav
socio-political space in 1990s, 2000s and 2010s.
Read more on the next
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December 30, 2016
Why is Europe able to
manage its decline, while Asia is (still) unable to capitalize (on)
its successes
Prof. Anis H. Bajrektarevic
How
to draw the line between the recent and still unsettled EU/EURO
crisis and Asia’s success story? Well, it might be easier than it
seems: Neither Europe nor Asia has any alternative. The difference
is that Europe well knows there is no alternative – and therefore is
multilateral. Asia thinks it has an alternative – and therefore is
strikingly bilateral, while stubbornly residing enveloped in
economic egoisms. No wonder that Europe is/will be able to manage
its decline, while Asia is (still) unable to capitalize its
successes. Asia clearly does not accept any more the lead of the
post-industrial and post-Christian Europe, but is not ready for the
post-West world.
Following the famous saying allegedly spelled by
Kissinger: “Europe? Give me a name and a phone number!” (when – back
in early 1970s – urged by President Nixon to inform Europeans on the
particular US policy action), the author is trying to examine how
close is Asia to have its own telephone number.
By contrasting and comparing genesis of multilateral
security structures in Europe with those currently existing in Asia,
and by listing some of the most pressing security challenges in
Asia, this policy paper offers several policy incentives why the
largest world’s continent must consider creation of the
comprehensive pan-Asian institution. Prevailing security structures
in Asia are bilateral and mostly asymmetric while Europe enjoys
multilateral, balanced and symmetric setups (American and African
continents too). Author goes as far as to claim that irrespective to
the impressive economic growth, no Asian century will emerge without
creation of such an institution.
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December 29, 2016

Geostrategic Pulse is studied at Harvard!
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December 29, 2016
Sino-Russian neighborhood policy:
Kazakhstan – Euroasian heart of gold
By Filippo Romeo
Quite untill recently Kazakhstan was commonly
identified as an impervious, legendary and fascinating place, one of
passionate, bloody dusks whose natural beauty, combined with the
landscape diversity, made it the most seductive country in Central
Asia. Today, though these features still distinguish it, it is
placed in the new global scenario with a fully renewed guise which
makes it the jewel in the area's crown.
Over 20 years it actually managed to endow itself with its own
structure and identity, doubtlessly more incisively and further
reachingly than other ex USSR countries. This data may be even more
appreciated if one considers its population, made up of only 17
million inhavitants, is subdivided into as many as 130 different
religious confessions, which the state authorities were wisely able
to harmonize, fleeing any attempt to ethnically-religiously
characterize the Country. State modernization was also the fruit of
smart economic choices, whose strategy did not stop on exclusively
exploiting the huge energy resources available, but focussed on
encouraging ambitious development projects based on the public -
private partnership and attracting foreign investors tempted by the
the privileged geographical position placing it near the greatest
markets in Russia, China and India.
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December 23, 2016
The Role of Europe in the
Balkan region's geopolitical crossing
FILIPPO ROMEO
Geopolitics,
the study of how spatial dimension impacts on and affects states'
politics, may offer an important contribution to analysing
strategies suited to developing rail infrastructures beween Italy
and the Balkans.
The Balkan idea sets and fixes the concepts and definitions between
real and ideological, so as to generate a counterposition of
geographical and geopolitical concepts.
While in some cases the term "Balkans" does refer to a mountainous
system, in others the definition tends to stretch to indicate the
peninsula, or an area of chronic instability, a Europe powder keg or
Continent underbelly, to the point of being used to decline a value
judgement (consider the expression “Balkanization”, a paradigm used
in other geographical contexts characterised by political
instability.)
The peculiarity of this space, which was for centuries a vehicle for
great migrations, wars, traffic and cultural exchange, is provided
by its physical form, which made it a fault, or point of contact,
between different areas (Western and Eastern), religious and
cultural models (Christianity and Islam, Catholicism and orthodoxy),
as well as between two opposing economic models. The Balkans,
observing a map, further present a triple "personality" in short
distances: Mediterranean and maritime along the coast,
Central-European in the Southern plains, Balkan in the continental
mass. The ethnic mosaic, another concept linked to the Balkans,
seems, then, to represent a sole aspect linked to a wider context,
characterised by being complex and fragmentary.
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December 4, 2016
TRUMP'S ELECTION AND ITS IMPACT ON
EUROPE
Authors:
Daniele Scalea, Alessandro Cipri
It is
particularly difficult to foretell what the foreign policy of a US
president-elect will be. We have plenty of examples of US presidents
who – after coming into office – did not follow through on their
electoral campaign pledges.
Even
though Obama did actually conclude the agreement with Iran – as
promised during his first presidential campaign – he was able to do
that only in his second term, after having embittered the sanctions
for years. While George W. Bush presented himself as an
“isolationist” – in opposition to Bill Clinton and his humanitarian
interventionism – he ended up launching two major wars in
Afghanistan and Iraq, restraining from others just because of the
poor-performances in these two. Richard Nixon, who won two terms on
anti-communism, ended the war against the Vietnamese Communists and
stroke a deal with Maoist China. Both Wilson in 1916 and Roosevelt
in 1940 campaigned on an isolationist platform, just to lead their
country into the first and second world war as soon as they were
re-elected.
Forecasting the foreign policy stances
of the upcoming administration is now even harder than with those of
the past, considering that the President-Elect is not a long-time
politician, and we do not even know who his Secretary of State will
be. Even though a Republican-controlled Congress is certainly good
for President Trump, the GOP is now bitterly divided among opposing
factions, with Trump's "populist" wing fighting an internecine war
against the mainstream conservatives within the party, many of whom
did not even endorse him in the general election. In fact,
regardless of the success of the insurgent candidate, Congress is
still filled up with Tea Partiers and establishment Republicans,
potentially harboring resentment towards the rising pro-Trump
hardliners. This internal conflict may well produce an hostile
Congress for President Trump, especially when it comes to the most
controversial points of his agenda, such as a review of foreign
trade strategies towards fair trade.
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December 4, 2016
ALLONS ENFANTS
By Michael Akerib
"The
treaty does not say that France must undertake to have children, but
it is the first thing which ought to have been put in it. For if
France turns her back on large families, one can put all the clauses
one wants in a treaty, one can take all the guns of Germany, one can
do whatever one likes, France will be lost because there will be no
more Frenchmen."
George Clemenceau
A bit of history
France went through the second demographic transition in the middle
of the eighteenth century and its population lagged behind those of
Germany and Great Britain. While citizens of these last two
countries immigrated, France imported migrants from other Catholic
countries such as Belgium, Italy, Poland and Spain. The French
government also took pro-natality measures such as such as family
allowances.
While originally Europe’s most populated country, France’s slide
into lower birth rates preceded the other countries of the continent
by approximately 100 years. At the end of the 1930s, the country had
the world’s oldest population.
The French population, which has doubled over a period of two
hundred years, has alternated periods of strong growth (in the first
half of the 19th century, early 1920s and from the end of
the Second World War to the 1960s) and of decline.
One of the reasons for France being a demography laggard was most
certainly the fact that French women had easier access to
contraception than other European women, and in particular than
German women. Further, the First World War killed or made prisoner
1.3 million men. One in eight Frenchmen aged between fifteen and
forty-nine died.
Petain’s government during the German occupation attempted to
increase birth rates through the distribution of medals, but
registered a total failure.
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December 4, 2016
PRESS RELEASE
Camilla Habsburg-Lothringen
becomes the new
Director at IFIMES
LJUBLJANA,
November 28, 2016 –
Her Imperial and Royal Highness
Camilla Habsburg-Lothringen,
Archduchess of Austria and Princess of Tuscany is the
new Director appointed for Euro-Mediterranean Diplomacy and
Intercultural Affairs at the International Institute for Middle-East
and Balkan Studies (IFIMES).
At the official ceremony the promulgation document has been handed
over to the new Director by the Institute’s Honorary President Stjepan Mesić (former President of Croatia), in the presence of
the Vice-Chair of the Institute’s Advisory Board Prof. Dr. Ernest
Petrič (former Constitutional Court President of Slovenia), and
Institute’s Directors Bakhatyar Aljaf and Dr. Zijad
Bećirović.
Upon the ceremony, the Institute’s Honorary President Mesić has
expressed his great satisfaction of being part of such esteemed
team. He emphasized his content that the Institute gets decisive
support from a prominent personality such as Her Highness Habsburg-Lothringen.
“Her reputation, experience and vigour will give a new impetus to
IFIMES. We are all honoured, thrilled and pleased having Her with us.”
Vice-chair of the Institute’s Advisory Board, Prof. Petrič has
pointed out importance of collaboration of different stake-holders
in our decisive build-up of society for the new century. “In the
world burdened with grave problems, but short of decisive and
lasting actions, it would be hard to imagine better team member than
Her Highness Habsburg-Lothringen. Once more, we are proud to have
Her in the leadership of IFIMES.”
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November 28, 2016
ORPHAN EUROPE
By Tomislav Jakić
After
Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential elections (which was,
by the way, a surprise only to those indoctrinated, seduced or
simply bought), Europe, or to be more precise: the European Union is
behaving like an orphan, abandoned by its strong father, whose hand
it held and whom he(she) followed wherever he went. Europe does not
know. Europe is asking. Europe has to know. Europe is warning. All
this is addressed to the new leader who will take over the White
House in mid-January next year. When we say “Europe” we think, it
should be repeated, on the European Union, although the countries,
just a few of them remaining, who are not already members of the EU
are equally puzzled, they don’t know what to do and who will give
them instructions for their behavior in the future.
This total disorientation and – let us put it frankly – the fear
from a situation in which they will have to think for themselves and
to take over the responsibility for what they are doing, this is the
main characteristic of European countries after Trump’s victory. If
we believe him “nothing will be as it was”, but let us be aware of
the fact that Europe got accustomed to the role of a US “lackey”
from the first days after victory in WW 2 and especially in the days
of the cold war and extremely tense relations between East and West.
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November 19, 2016
The Sino-US relations – Recalibration or
Repetition?
By Qi Lin
“The
Chinese grab for fossil fuels or its military competition for naval
control is not a challenge but rather a boost for the US
Asia-Pacific –even an overall– posture. Calibrating the contraction
of its overseas projection and commitments – some would call it
managing the decline of an empire – the US does not fail to note
that nowadays half of the world’s merchant tonnage passes though the
South China Sea. Therefore, the US will exploit any regional
territorial dispute and other frictions to its own security benefit,
including the costs sharing of its military presence with the local
partners, as to maintain pivotal on the maritime edge of Asia that
arches from the Persian Gulf to the Indian Ocean, Malacca, the South
and East China Sea up to the northwest–central Pacific. Is China
currently acting as a de facto fundraiser for the US?“– professor
Anis H. Bajrektarevic famously asked in his policy paper ‘What
China wants for Asia: 1975 or 1908?’.
Contextualizing the challenge, hereby a fresh take on
the issue. The U.S. pivot to the Asia-Pacific in Obama
Administration has concentrated on reinforcing traditional
alliances, redeploying Navy forces, and creating multilateral
cooperation mechanisms, such as Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).
Unfortunately, mounting suspicions have undermined the Sino-U.S.
relationship and stability and prosperity in the Asia-Pacific.
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November 19, 2016
(UN)EXPECTED PRESIDENT
By: Tomislav Jakić
Foreign Policy Advisor to
former Croatian President Stjepan Mesić
Shock!
Disbelief! Total surprise! Those media (and politicians) who have in
the preceding election campaign totally uncritically, but
systematically supported Hillary Clinton, try by using such words to
convince the public opinion (and themselves most probably) that the
election of Donald Trump as the next American President is a total
surprise (a mistake, almost). But – this is not how things really
are. This is, simply, not true.
On one hand Trump seems to be a surprise to those who conducted an
almost unprecedented media campaign for the former Secretary of
State and for those too who allowed to be convinced (if not
deceived) by this campaign, but on the other hand Trump’s victory is
no surprise at all for those who tried, free of all prejudices, to
analyze all elements of the election campaign and its foreseeable
result. Of course one could argue about the fact that it is tragic
for today’s America and its political scene, dominated by
Republicans and Democrats who successfully prevent any “third
candidate” to come even close to the presidential race, that in
these elections we witnessed the confrontation between an excentric
millionare, a somewhat dubious businessman and a figure from the
reality shows and a woman directly responsible for destabilizing the
whole Middle East and for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of
people. But, there is not one single word about this from those who
are “shocked” and “surprised”.
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November 12, 2016
The Trump Train is already heading
towards Europe
Daniele Scalea
The
“Trump Train” (once a Twitter hashtag and then a successful metaphor
of the assertive, and to date unstoppable, reform wind blown by
Donald Trump) is finally arrived at the White House. But this is
very likely not the final destination of its journey. The Trump
Train could soon arrive in Europe.
And it would be a return trip. As Donald Trump frequently referred
to, his campaign owes a lot of inspiration from the Brexit movement.
Surely Trump got in politics well before, but after June he's
started referring to his rise as a “Brexit plus plus plus”. And it
wasn't just a motivational motto.
The Trumpist and Brexiteer final arguments strictly resemble one
another: a proudly nationalistic rebuttal of adverse fallouts of
globalization, from industrial outsourcing to the (West)self-hating
ideology of extreme multiculturalism. The Trump Train and the Brexit
share also a common grass-roots social base of support, which are
the White working and middle classes of small cities and rural areas
especially.
Even if US society is still very different from the European one,
the rampant globalization of last decades has made them quite close
compared to half a century ago. Both US and Europe has experienced
massive deindustrialization with a geographical concentration of the
remaining high-tech industries in a few islands of happiness – few
compared to the many rust belts of the Western world. Both US and
Europe has seen a deep financialization of their economies. Both US
and Europe has been overwhelmed by the new ideology of the so-called
politically correct, a post-modern, constructivist, relativist and
anti-Western set of theories and practices.
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November 12, 2016
Multiculturalism is dead? Not quite yet.
(Recalibrate expectations and travel beyond
Europe)
Alessio Stilo*
Multicultural
approaches and policies vary widely all over the world, ranging from
the advocacy of equal respect to the various cultures in a society,
to a policy of promoting the maintenance of cultural diversity, to
policies in which people of various ethnic and religious groups are
addressed by the authorities as defined by the group to which they
belong.
Two different strategies, as recently pointed out by Ms.
Camilla Habsburg-Lothringen, have been developed through different
government policies and strategies: The first, often labelled as interculturalism, focuses on interaction and communication
between different cultures. The second one, cohabitative multi-culti
does center itself on diversity and cultural uniqueness; it sees
cultural isolation as a protection of uniqueness of the local
culture of a nation or area and also a contribution to global
cultural diversity.
A sort of “third way” between the two above-mentioned
strategies has been traditioned and further enhanced by core Asian
counties, e.g. Azerbaijan, where state policy has been accompanied,
in a complementary way, to a certain activism of intermediate bodies
(civil society, universities, think tanks).
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November 5, 2016
The (Trans-Siberian train of)
Heartland or (Mare
Liberum of) Rimland? Mega structures for the next century
By Filippo Romeo
This
year marks the centenary of the creation of the legendary
Trans-Siberian railway of Russia. By an ironic twist of fate, this
falls right in the middle of an epochal change in geopolitical and
geo-economical scenarios, whose main powers involved are also
responding by creating and planning great infrastructure works.
There is actually no doubt that in the profiled context the
continental infrastructures constitute an essential moment for
recovery, able to affect both technological modernisation processes
and foreign affairs stability. This is true if one considers a
nation's economic development, and by effect its geopolitical clout
on a global scale, depends heavily on 'voluntary geography'
improvement via implementing a modern, technologically advanced
transport infrastructure system able to face and overcome the
'distance' factor.
As well as works broadening the Suez Canal and Panama, which surely
highlighted the role maritime connections are playing, one must in
no way ignore the importance of the land ones, which see the Asian
continent as one of the main players. Asia is actually the continent
most concerned and involved in these projects foreseeing the
creation of Roads, tunnels and railways that should pass it from one
line to another. And for some years now China - playing a main role
in this process - has got down to creating some.
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October 10, 2016
The most dangerous Wizard in the EU
Gerald Knaus
One year ago ESI described Viktor Orban as the
"most dangerous man in the EU." Since then, Viktor Orban has
exploited the confusion and insecurities around the European refugee
crisis, and the weakness of mainstream political leaders, to further
expand his influence in EU capitals and in Brussel
This week we talked to
the Economist, explaining what made Orban so dangerous for the EU:
"Mr Orban presents a unique danger, argues Gerald Knaus of the
European Stability Initiative, a think-tank, because he injects a
far-right virus into the bloodstream of Europe's political centre.
Fidesz's membership of the European People's Party, a centre-right
pan-EU political group, gives Mr Orban the ear of Angela Merkel,
Germany's chancellor, and other mainstream conservatives. Yet while he
may spurn hard-right outfits like France's National Front or the
Austrian Freedom Party, he borrows from their playbook. He lays charges
of treason against those who seek to import "hundreds of thousands of
people" from "groups outside European culture". Migrants have turned
parts of cities like Berlin and Stockholm into "no-go zones", his
government argues."
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October 10, 2016
Europe –
Hell
is other people
(Europe after
the Brexit, NATO summit in Warsaw and Turkish geopolitical vertigo)
Anis H.
Bajrektarevic
A
freshly released IMF’s World Economic Outlook brings no comforting
picture to anyone within the G-7, especially in the US and EU. The Brexit after-shock is still to reverberate around.
In one other EXIT,
Sartre’s Garcin famously says: ‘Hell is other people’. Business of
othering remains lucrative. The NATO summit in Warsaw desperately
looked for enemies. Escalation is the best way to preserve eroded
unity, requires the
confrontational
nostalgia
dictatum. Will the passionately US-pushed cross-Atlantic Free
Trade Area save the day? Or, would that Pact-push drag the things
over the edge of reinvigorating nationalisms, and mark an end of the
unionistic Europe?
Is the extended EU
conflict with Russia actually a beginning of the Atlantic-Central
Europe’s conflict over Russia, an internalization of mega
geopolitical and geo-economic dilemma – who accommodates with whom,
in and out of the post-Brexit Union? Finally, does more Ukrainian
(Eastern Europe’s or MENA) calamities pave the road for a new
cross-continental grand accommodation, of either austerity-tired
France or über-performing Germany with Russia, therefore the end of
the EU? Southeast flank already enormously suffer. Hasty castling of
foes and friends caused colossal geopolitical vertigo in Turkey,
whose accelerated spin produces more and more victims.
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October 4, 2016
EU Reloaded?
by Dr. Peter Jankowitsch
Revisiting
and rethinking Europe recently on these very pages, prof. Anis
Bajrektarevic asked: “… is the EU the world’s last cosmopolitan
enjoying its postmodern holiday from history? Is that possibly the lost Atlántida or mythical Arcadia– a Hegelian
end of history world? ... a post-Hobbesian (yet, not quite a
Kantian) world, in which the letzte Mensch expelled Übermensch?”
Yet another take on the most critical EU debate comes from Austria,
this time from the long time insider into the rocky European
policy-making.
The narrow result of the UK referendum to leave the European Union
was not the catalyst for the increasingly pressing question of
whether the concept and practice of European integration, which has
defined the course of European history since the end of the Second
World War as well as enabled prosperity, security and the
advancement of the continent, are now exhausted and should be
replaced by other models.
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September 26, 2016
DMCA Abuse: How corporations
are using US copyright law to harass and silence individuals
Murray Hunter
The
Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) was unanimously passed by
the United States Senate on 12th October 1998, and signed
into law by President Clinton on 28th October the same
year. The Act was put into law to interpret and enact two 1996 World
Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) treaties which dealt with
copyright circumvention and providing Internet service providers
(ISP) and online service providers (OSP) safe harbour against
copyright liability, provided they meet specific requirements.
The DMCA criminalizes the production and dissemination of
technology, devices, or services intended to circumvent measures
(commonly called digital rights management) that control access to
copyrighted works. Further, the DMCA also criminalizes the act of
circumventing any access control, even if there is no actual
infringement of the copyrighted material itself, i.e., providing
a mere link to a third site where suspected copyright material
exists is criminal.
The Act has extended the reach of US law beyond its traditional
geographical jurisdiction. Moreover, the Act has given copyright
right holders a “lethal weapon” to utilize against parties
who allegedly breach their claimed copyright. That is, the ability
to claim copyright breach directly against any individual. Further,
the Act enables copyright holders to force ISPs and OSPs to take
down any identified alleged infringing material immediately from any
internet site.
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September 24, 2016
Italy and Egypt: from Regeni to
Libya, the difficult path towards normalization
Daniele Scalea
The
last, recent joint note of Italian and Egyptian attorneys on Giulio
Regeni's murder shows that a good degree of cooperation in the
investigation has been finally reached. Unfortunately that has
required various months during which Egyptian transparency wasn't so
high. Moreover, as the Italian attorney Pignatone has reminded, that
underway is not a joint but a mere Egyptian investigation, to whom
Italian investigators are only collaborating. So, the chances that
we will know one day who and why really killed Regeni are in the
hands of destiny and of Egyptian judiciary. For now, it appears
fallen at least the trail to the alleged gang of kidnappers killed
by the Egyptian police last March.
It is quite obvious that someone among the Egyptian apparatus has
tried to sabotage the investigation – too many false trails,
omissions and so on. That doesn't mean, however, that Regeni was
killed by Egyptian authorities, not to mention a direct involvement
of President al-Sisi, which is really unlikely (even if speculations
about that appeared on the Italian newspapers “La Repubblica”,
citing a mysterious Egyptian source). The admission that police
investigated on Regeni isn't an admission of guilt. Egyptian
authorities said that the denunciation came from an independent
trade union and that the investigation lasted only three days. Could
that support the hypothesis of a murder committed by union
officials? Whether or not, we are probably still far from any truth,
both real or official.
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September 23, 2016
BiH 2016 local election:
Dodik's referendum – opening Pandora's box in the Balkans?”
Bakhtyar Aljaf
Bosnia and Herzegovina will hold
local election on 2 October 2016. There are 3,345,486 registered voters in the
country. The number of voters who will vote by post at the forthcoming election
has significantly increased to 65,111. About 30,000 candidates are competing for
the positions in the future local government. Altogether 2,835 councillors will
be elected, of which 1,687 in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (FBiH),
1,117 in Republika Srpska (RS) and 31 in the Brčko District, as well as 301 city
council members of which 117 in FBiH and 184 in RS, 131 mayors of municipalities
and 12 mayors of cities. Election will be held in all local government units with the exception of the
city of Mostar where no election has been held since 2008. The greatest
responsibility for the situation in Mostar lies with two leading parties: the
Party of Democratic Action (SDA) and Croatian Democratic Union of BiH (HDZBiH).
Despite their optimistic announcements regarding the agreement to be concluded
on local elections in Mostar, the current political leadership has not reached
any solution yet.
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September 17, 2016
Geopolitics of Climate Change:
Future of
Tao and Quantum Buddhism[1]
Anis H.
Bajrektarevic
From
Rio to Rio with Kyoto, Copenhagen and Durban in between Paris right
after and the recent China’s G-20, the conclusion remains the same:
There is fundamental disagreement on the realities of this planet
and the ways we can address them. A decisive breakthrough would
necessitate both wider contexts and a larger participatory base to
identify problems, to formulate policies, to broaden and to
synchronize our actions. Luminaries from the world of science,
philosophy, religion, culture and sports have been invited to each
of these major gatherings. But, they – as usual – have served as
side-events panelists, while only the politicians make decisions.
Who in politics is sincerely motivated for the long-range and far
reaching policies? This does not pay off politically as such
policies are often too complex and too time-consuming to survive the
frequency and span of national elections as well as the taste or
comprehension of the median voter. Our global crisis is not
environmental, financial or politico-economic. Deep and structural,
this is a crisis of thought, a recession of courage, of our ideas,
all which leads us into a deep, moral abyss. Small wonder, there was
very little headway made at the Rio+20, Paris Summit and beyond.
Between the fear that the inevitable will happen
and the lame hope that it still wouldn’t, we have lived… That what
can be and doesn’t have to be, at the end, surrenders to something
that was meant to be…[2]
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page:.........
September 11, 2016
Gong
or Song from China’s Hong Kong?
Aine O’Mahony, Elodie Pichon
Aine O'Mahony has a bachelor in Law and Political Science
at the Catholic Institute of Paris and is currently a master's
student of Leiden University in the International Studies
programme.Contact: aine-claire.nini@hotmail.fr
Elodie Pichon has a bachelor in Law and Political Science at
the Catholic Institute of Paris and is currently doing a MA in
Geopolitics, territory and Security at King's College London.
Contact : elodie.pichon@gmail.com
Following the recent abduction of five Hong Kong publishers, alleged
to have edited books disclosing “inconvenient truths” about the
Chinese government, thousands of people took to the streets of Hong
Kong to protest and fight for their right to have Freedom of
Expression, which had already been enshrined in the Fundamental Law
of Hong Kong.
Read more on the next
page:.........
Augustus 2, 2016
Europe
– Hell
is other people (Europe after the Brexit, NATO summit in
Warsaw and Turkish geopolitical vertigo)
Anis H. Bajrektarevic
A
freshly released IMF’s World Economic Outlook brings no comforting
picture to anyone within the G-7, especially in the US and EU. The
Brexit after-shock is still to reverberate around.
In one other EXIT, Sartre’s Garcin famously says: ‘Hell is other
people’. Business of othering remains lucrative. The NATO summit in
Warsaw desperately looked for enemies. Escalation is the best way to
preserve eroded unity, requires the confrontational nostalgia
dictatum. Will the passionately US-pushed cross-Atlantic Free Trade
Area save the day? Or, would that Pact-push drag the things over the
edge of reinvigorating nationalisms, and mark an end of the
unionistic Europe?
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page:.........
July 19, 2016
Blair + NATO + ISIL =
Genocide:
Immaculate Conception of the Iraqi mess
By İLNUR ÇEVIK
Britain
is receiving blow after blow these days. First, the British people
decided to pull their country out of the European Union. This was
then followed by threats from the Scots and the Northern Irish to
pull out of the United Kingdom. Just as the dust started to settle
down, England bade farewell to Euro 2016 in France when they lost to
tiny Iceland, a result that was seen as a disaster equal to pulling
out of the EU... But that is not all.
Now a report prepared by Sir John Chilcot, an official inquiry, has
shattered British confidence and has shown that the invasion of Iraq
by the United States and Britain 13 years ago was a great mistake
based on lies and deception and has served to ruin Iraq, divide it
into pieces, push the Shiites into the laps of the Iranians, create
DAESH and eliminate Saddam Hussein. But for the one Saddam Hussein
that was removed, another 1,000 Saddam's have emerged. It has also
led to the groundwork that has pushed neighboring Syria into utter
chaos...
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page:.........
July 18, 2016
Turkey’s Strategic Reset: engagement instead of contention
By
Barçın Yinanç
'The
EU loves to portray itself as a pan-European project. However,
it stubbornly rejects and systematically demonises the only two
European countries that have steady economic growth, Russia and
Turkey. Is the EU on its way to end up as the League of Nations
– pretending to be universalistic project, but by excluding
major powers, derogating itself to the margins of history?’ –
asked prof. Anis H. Bajrektarevic, well before the Brexit vote,
in his enlightening piece ‘Geopolitics of Technology’. What is
the new dynamics in this triangular equitation? Let’s examine
the Turkish take on this fundamental question.
Ever since the Justice and Development Party (AKP) came to
power, members of the Foreign Ministry have had ample
opportunity to witness the deeply-rooted relations established
between political Islamic movements all over the world and the
ruling party. One of the best one is with the Muslim
Brotherhood in Egypt. That’s why, it is not surprising to hear President R.T. Erdogan
put Egypt in a different category from Israel and Russia.
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page:.........
July 13, 2016
Summary of
INTERESTS & INFLUENCES OF
MAJOR EXTERNAL ACTORS IN CENTRAL ASIA
Prof. Anis H. Bajrektarevic & Samantha Brletich
H. Bajrektarevic
Anis H. Bajrektarevic is a
Professor and a Chairperson for International Law and
Global Political studies, Vienna, Austria. He is editor
of the NY-based Addlton’s GHIR Journal (Geopolitics,
History and Intl. Relations), as well as the Senior
Editorial member of many specialized international
magazines, including the Canadian Energy Institute’s
Journal Geopolitics of Energy. Samantha Brletich
Samantha Brletich, specializing
peace operations policy at George Mason University,
Arlington, VA, with a focus on Russia and Central Asia.
She is the prominent member of the Modern Diplomacy’s
Tomorrow’s People platform. Ms. Brletich is an employee
of the US Department of Defense.
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JULY 4, 2016
IT law - a challenge of
dispute resolution
doc. dr Jasna Čošabić
IT
law or cyber law or internet law, is evolving in giant steps. On its
way, it has many challenges to meet and a lot of burdens to cope
with. Being a part of international law, it is though specific in
its nature, mode of implementation and protection. While the classic
international law deals with classic state territories, state
jurisdictions, with a clear distinction between national laws, the
IT law is uncertain about the state jurisdiction, earthbound
borders, rules and proceedings regarding any dispute arising on
internet.
However, with a fast development of information technology, the
number of legal contracts and businesses on internet rises,
requiring the fast response by legal order in terms of regulating
and protecting it.
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page:.........
JUNE 08, 2016
Pakistan in the US, the
US in Pakistan: Self-denial is the biggest threat to world peace
By Rakesh Krishnan SIMHA
One
of the ironies of being a Pakistani living abroad, especially in the
West, is having to pose as Indian. According to Asghar Choudhri, the
chairman of Brooklyn’s Pakistani American Merchant Association, a
lot of Pakistanis can’t get jobs after 9/11 and after the botched
Times Square bombing of 2010, it’s even worse. “They are now
pretending they are Indian so they can get a job,” he told a US wire
service. That is because while Indians are highly integrated immigrants –
besides being the highest educated and best paid of all ethnic
groups in the US – Pakistanis have taken part in terrorist
activities in the very lands that gave them shelter. (Even the
frequent Gallup surveys conducted in the US, found out repeatedly
that the biggest threat to the international security and peace are:
nr. 3 Saudis; nr. 2 Pakistanis, and nr.1 – surprise, surprise – the
US itself.)
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page:.........
JUNE 01, 2016
MUSEUM 'INVISIBLE' GENERATION
Writes: Dzalila Osmanovic-Muharemagic
Many
still remember a sign at the door of National Museum of Bosnia and
Herzegovina stating „THE MUSEUM IS CLOSED“, which for years only
bothered few of the conscientious. Recently the museum has been
reopened in silence and without much fanfare, as if still someone
wants the public to be unaware of the times when Bosnia was not
prostrated, when it taught the others of tolerance, while its men
and women lived and died for its every corner. Right after the
reopening an unexpected route led me to the Museum, where a
prophetic recollection from my childhood made me realize I belong to
an „invisible“ generation. Long time ago, at the beginning of high school, some good teacher
considered it would be useful for high school students, the future
intellectuals (today mostly well-educated, unemployed young people
or doing a menial job in a foreign country) to visit the Museum,
that basic cultural institution. It was an interesting fieldtrip,
without too much work, a lot of photos and mingling. Great for us –
the high school rookies!
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page:.........
May 18, 2016
Suicidal Nuclear Gambit on
Caucasus
(Game of Poker at
best, Game of Chess at worst, and neither option should be
celebrated)
By Petra Posega
Nuclear
security is seemingly in the vanguard of global attention, but the
large framework of international provisions is increasingly
perceived as a toothless tiger. In the contemporary age where
asymmetric threats to security are one of the most dangerous ones,
the time is high to mitigate the risk of rouge actors having
potential access to materials, necessary to develop nuclear weapons.
Nowhere is this urgency more pivotal than in already turbulent
areas, such as the South Caucasus. With many turmoil instabilities,
lasting for decades with no completely bulletproof conflict
resolution process installed, adding a threat of nuclear weapons
potential means creating a house of cards that can cause complete
collapse of regional peace and stability. That is precisely why
recently uncovered and reoccurring actions of Armenia towards the
goal of building its own nuclear capacity must be addressed more
seriously. They should also attract bolder response to ensure safety
of the region is sustained.
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May 18, 2016
I FREE myself from Facebook
By Rattana Lao
BANGKOK – It was sometimes ago that the New Yorker
featured a cartoon that went something like this: “With the
internet, you can be a dog behind a computer and nobody knows.”
That's
my thought on the internet in general and social media in
particular. Behind the masks of perfectly manicured life or perfect
make up, there are multiple truth, reality, flaws and imperfection.
I joined Facebook when I was doing my Masters of Science in
Development Studies at the London School of Economics and Political
Science – far away from my hometown glory of Bangkok, Thailand.
Although I have known about Facebook from my highschool roommate
when it was only accessible for IVY League students, I was not quite
excited about it. I thought to myself “who in their right mind
published their lives to the public?”
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May 15, 2016
India’s Education – one view on Optimisation and
Outreach
Dr.Swaleha Sindhi
Introduction In
the present era of globalization, organizations are expected to work
with a creative rather than a reactive perspective and grow to be
flexible, responsive and capable organizations in order to survive.
In the existing scenario people are exposed to diverse knowledge
through internet, there is much to learn and more to assimilate.
Senge’s (1990) model of the five disciplines of a learning
organization emphasizes on the concept of systems thinking, personal
mastery, mental models, building shared vision and team learning.
This points on continuous learning for individuals and
organizations, with a great stress on the idea of bringing change
with innovation and creativity.
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page:.........
May 12, 2016

Hungry of Hungary – One (senti)mental journey
By Julia Suryakusuma Some
days ago, I achieved historical continuity between Hungary and
Indonesia — well, at least in connection to my father and me. How so?In the early 1960s, my father was assigned to set up the
Indonesian Embassy in Budapest. Indonesia had already established
diplomatic relations with Hungary in 1955, but did not actually have
a physical embassy. During my father’s time there as chargé
d’affaires, he met with many high-ranking officials. Among the old
photos from those times, there is one of him shaking hands with
János Kádár, Hungary’s prime minister at the time. Kádár was PM from
1956 to 1988. Thirty-two years, just like Indonesia’s Soeharto.
As dad’s daughter, I was invited to a luncheon at the State Palace
on Feb. 1 — hosted by President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo naturally — in
honor of Victor Orban, the current Hungarian prime minister who was
here for an official visit. I had my photo taken with him.
Cut-to-cut: in 1962 my dad with the then Hungarian PM, in 2016, me
with the current Hungarian PM.
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April 26, 2016
450 Years of Jewish Life in Sarajevo

By
Mads Jacobsen In this week's long
read, Mads Jacobsen explores the Jewish experience in
Bosnia-Herzegovina through the eyes of Sarajevo-born Rabbi Eliezer Papo.
The Ashkenazi Synagogue in Sarajevo (Foto: Mads H. Jacobsen)
“If you imagine Bosnia to be a piece of somun,
that piece of bread you eat during Ramadan, you
cannot say that Jews are the water of that
somun, nor can you say that they are the flour,
but you can certainly say that they are the
black seeds on the top of it. Now, could a somun
survive without it? Yes. Would it still be the
same somun? Certainly not. Jews are currently a
small percentage of the Bosnian population, but
they are an important part of the urban
population, and they have contributed a great
deal to the country. So, could Bosnia do it
without Jews? Yes. Would it still be the same
Bosnia? Certainly not”, explained Rabbi Eliezer
Papo in an interview with the Post-Conflict
Research Center.
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April 24, 2016
Is Caucasus the next Syria - Don’t forget OSCE
By Aleksandra Krstic - Contact:
alex-alex@gmail.com
The
recent all-shoot out in Azerbaijan between the ethnic Armenians and
Azerbaijani forces brought yet another round of casualties,
psychological traumas and property destructions. Sudden and severe
as it was, the event sent its shock waves all over Caucasus and well
beyond. Is Caucasus receiving the ‘residual heat’ from the boiling
MENA? Is this a next Syria? Is a grand accommodation pacific
scenario possible? Or will it be more realistic that the South
Caucasus ends up violently torn apart by the grand compensation that
affects all from Afghanistan up to the EU-Turkey deal? Most observes would fully agree that for such
(frozen) conflicts like this between Azerbaijan and Armenia,
mediation and dialogue across the conflict cycle have no
alternative. Further on, most would agree that the OSCE
(Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe) with its Minsk
Group remains both the best suited FORA as well as the only
international body mandated for the resolution of the conflict.
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page:.........
April
20, 2016
PRIVACY I(N)T CONTEXT doc. dr. Jasna Cosabic -
jasnacosabic@live.com
The
right to privacy, or the right to respect for private life, as the
European Convention on Human Rights guarantees it, has been affected
by the IT growth era. Privacy has long been protected, but will face
a new dimension of protection for the generations to come. The right
to respect for private life is not an absolute one, and may have a
different feature in different context. By Niemitz v. Germany judgment (1992) the European Court on Human
Rights ('the ECtHR') included the right to connect with other
individuals into the notion of private life, saying that it would be
too restrictive to limit the notion of an 'inner circle' to personal
life and exclude therefrom entirely the outside world not
encompassed within that circle. The right to communicate was thus
inscerted into the the privacy context. But the extent of communication and technologies which enable it
signifficantly changed since.
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April 18, 2016
Saudi – Iranian future: 3 games – 3 scenarios
By Manal Saadi
There
is no need to argue on Saudi Arabia and Iran as the two biggest
regional powers in the Gulf, the rising tension between the two
countries who are engaged in proxy wars in Syria, Yemen, Iraq and
somehow Bahrein had installed a climate of Cold War.2. How did we get there?
Saudi Arabia existed since 1932 as a Sunni country and the
birthplace of Islam. Its history of creation is so unique,
mesmerizing and fascinating. Iran, has a glorious past, with various empires that conquered the
Arab-Islamic world at certain period of time. While the Shah was in
power, Iran’s relations with the Arab Gulf States were normalized,
Iran’s navy used to act as the policeman of the gulf. The situation
has changed when the Iranian Islamic revolution occurred in 1979,
with consequences on both countries and on their relationships.
Iran’s Ayatollah wanted to export their respective model and
undermine Saudi Arabia that Iranian officials see as corrupt and
unworthy due to its relation with the United States and the West.
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April 4, 2016

Near East and the
Nearer Brussles Euro(h)ope possible ?
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 – in a
grand metanarrative of dogmatic universalism – their
appearance as of the coherent Union, as if they themselves lived a
long, cordial and credible history of multicul-turalism. Hence, this
claim and its resonating debate is of course false. It is also
cynical because it is purposely deceiving. 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. This was repeatedly followed by
the selective and contra-productive foreign policy actions of the
Union over the last two decades. Twin Paris shootings and this fresh Brussels horror,
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. Terrorism,
terror, terrorism!! –
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24 MAR 2016
Poles Saving Jews in
Bangkok: History Lesson for Humanity by Rattana Lao
BANGKOK –
Polish,
Israeli and Thai diplomats, academics and students gathered together
to listen and learn about the courage of Polish people saving the
Jews during the Second World War. Chulalongkorn
University hosted “The Good Samaritans of Markowa” exhibition to
honor the innocent and brave Polish families in Markowa who risked
their lives saving the Jews from Nazi extermination. The event took
place in Bangkok to celebrate the 40th year of lasting
friendship between Poland and Thailand. During the course of World War II, more than 50,000 Jews were saved
by Polish people. Each Jewish survivor needed to change their
shelter at least 7 times and required as many as 10 people to be
involved in the process. Irena Sandler, a Polish nurse, was one of the brave Poles who saved
at least 2,500 children from the Warsaw Ghetto. At the end of the
War, 6,600 Polish people were awarded with the Israeli Righteous
Amongst the Nation. However, not every brave Pole survived
Nazi capture. Approximately, 1,000 to 2,000 Poles were executed as
punishment to save the Jews.
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page:.........
24.03.2016
Bosnia and the first
circle of hell Gerald Knaus
In the first half of the 1990s, Bosnians found themselves in the
deepest circles of hell, in a world of war, genocide and ethnic cleansing.
Following the Dayton Peace Agreement in 1995 Bosnians were able to escape war,
but have since remained trapped in a different European underworld: isolated,
looked down upon, seen as hopeless and treated as such. In Inferno, the first book of his Divine Comedy, Dante describes his journey
through nine circles of hell. The Bosnian predicament brings to mind the first
circle of Dante's inferno, Limbo, which hosts "virtuous pagans struck with grief
from a lack of God's presence." Pagans had the misfortune to be born at the
wrong time and in the wrong place. They might be good people but, unbaptized,
they could not enter purgatory. Paradise is forever closed, not because of their
deeds, but because of who they are. It is time for Bosnia to be allowed to
escape from Limbo. A new ESI report sets out how:
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page:.........
24.03.2016
PUBLICATIONS: 2016
Brexit
– Pakistanization finally comes home - Dr. Zlatko Hadzidedic
Why
is Europe able to manage its decline, while Asia is (still)
unable to capitalize (on) its successes - Prof. Anis H.
Bajrektarevic
Geostrategic
Pulse is studied at Harvard! - (Format-PDF)
Kazakhstan
– Euroasian heart of gold - By Filippo Romeo
The
Role of Europe in the Balkan region's geopolitical crossing -
FILIPPO ROMEO
TRUMP'S
ELECTION AND ITS IMPACT ON EUROPE - Authors: Daniele Scalea,
Alessandro Cipri
ALLONS
ENFANTS - By Michael Akerib
Camilla Habsburg-Lothringen becomes the new
Director at IFIMES
ORPHAN
EUROPE - By Tomislav Jakić
The
Sino-US relations – Recalibration or Repetition? - Qi Lin
(UN)EXPECTED
PRESIDENT - By: Tomislav Jakić
The
Trump Train is already heading towards Europe - Daniele Scalea
Multiculturalism
is dead? Not quite yet - Alessio Stilo
The
(Trans-Siberian train of) Heartland or (Mare Liberum of)
Rimland? - Mega structures for the next century - By Filippo
Romeo
The
most dangerous Wizard in the EU - Gerald Knaus
Europe
– Hell is other people - Anis H. Bajrektarevic
EU
Reloaded? - by Dr. Peter Jankowitsch
DMCA Abuse: How corporations are using US copyright law to harass and
silence individuals - Murray Hunter
Italy
and Egypt: from Regeni to Libya, the difficult path towards
normalization - Daniele Scalea
BiH
2016 local election: Dodik's referendum –opening Pandora's box
in the Balkans?”
Geopolitics of Climate Change: Future of Tao and Quantum
Buddhism - Anis H. Bajrektarevic
Gong
or Song from China’s Hong Kong? - Aine O’Mahony, Elodie Pichon
Europe – Hell is other people - (Europe after the Brexit, NATO
summit in Warsaw and Turkish geopolitical vertigo) - Anis H.
Bajrektarevic
Blair
+ NATO + ISIL = Genocide: Immaculate Conception of the Iraqi
mess - By İLNUR ÇEVIK
Turkey’s Strategic Reset: engagement instead of contention - By
Barçın Yinanç
Summary of INTERESTS & INFLUENCES OF MAJOR EXTERNAL ACTORS IN
CENTRAL ASIA - Prof. Anis H. Bajrektarevic & Samantha Brletich
IT
law - a challenge of dispute resolution - doc. dr Jasna Čošabić
Pakistan in the US, the US in
Pakistan: Self-denial is the biggest threat to world peace - By
Rakesh Krishnan SIMHA
MUSEUM 'INVISIBLE' GENERATION - Writes: Dzalila
Osmanovic-Muharemagic
Suicidal Nuclear Gambit on Caucasus - Petra Posega
I
FREE myself from Facebook - By Rattana Lao
India’s Education – one view on Optimisation and Outreach -
Dr.Swaleha Sindhi
Hungry of Hungary – One (senti)mental journey - By Julia
Suryakusuma
450
Years of Jewish Life in Sarajevo - By Mads Jacobsen
PRIVACY I(N)T CONTEXT - doc. dr. Jasna Cosabic
Saudi
– Iranian future: 3 games – 3 scenarios - By Manal Saadi
Near East and the Nearer Brussles Euro(h)ope possible? - Anis H.
Bajrektarevic
Poles
Saving Jews in Bangkok: History Lesson for Humanity - by Rattana
Lao
Bosnia and the first circle of hell - Gerald Knaus
Mongolia and the New Russian Oil Diplomacy - By Samantha
Brletich
Noah, Peter Pan and the Sleeping Beauty (Europe – Identity
Imagined) - Anis H. Bajrektarevic
Key to Stop Refugee Flows: Unique higher education programme for
Conflict zones - Prof. Dr. DJAWED SANGDEL
Quantum Islam: Towards a new worldview - Murray Hunter and Azly
Rahman
Currency dictatorship – the struggle to end it - by Rakesh
Krishan Simha
Creative Economy and the bases of UNCTAD’s Creative Economy
Programme as instrument for growth and development - by
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prof. dr. Anis Bajrektarevic
Editor - Geopolitics, History, International Relations (GHIR) Addleton Academic
Publishers - New YorK
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
originator
Head of mission and department head - strategic studies on Asia
Professor and Chairperson Intl. law & global pol. studies

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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.


Dr Filippo ROMEO,


Julia Suryakusuma
is the outspoken Indonesian thinker,
social-cause fighter and trendsetter. She is the author of Julia’s Jihad.
Contact:
jsuryakusuma@gmail.com




Mads Jacobsen
Mads is an intern at PCRC. Mads Jacobsen is from Denmark and is currently
pursuing his Master's degree in 'Development and International Relations' at
Aalborg University...


Dzalila Osmanovic-Muharemagic
University of Bihac, Faculty of Education,
Department of English Language and Literature - undergraduate
University of Banja Luka, Faculty of Philology, Department of English Language
and Literature - graduate study


Rakesh Krishnan Simha
New Zealand-based journalist and foreign affairs analyst. According to him, he
writes on stuff the media distorts, misses or ignores.
Rakesh started his career in 1995 with New Delhi-based Business World magazine,
and later worked in a string of positions at other leading media houses such as
India Today, Hindustan Times, Business Standard and the Financial Express, where
he was the news editor.
He is the Senior Advisory Board member of one of the fastest growing Europe’s
foreign policy platforms: Modern Diplomacy.


Damiel Scalea
Daniele Scalea, geopolitical
analyst, is Director-general of IsAG (Rome Institute of Geopolitics) and Ph.D.
Candidate in Political studies at the Sapienza University, Rome. Author of three
books, is frequent contributor and columnist to various Tv-channels and
newspapers. E-mail:
daniele.scalea@gmail.com


Alessio Stilo,
Research Associate at Institute of High
Studies in Geopolitics and Auxiliary Sciences (IsAG), Rome, Italy, and Ph.D.
researcher at University of Padova, is IMN Country Representative in Italy.


Tomislav Jakić
Foreign Policy Advisor to former Croatian
President Stjepan Mesić


Zlatko Hadžidedić
Graduate of the London School of Economics,
prof. Zlatko Hadžidedić is a prominent thinker,
prolific author of numerous books, and indispensable political figure of the
former Yugoslav socio-political space in 1990s, 2000s and 2010s.







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