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Balkan holocausts?
This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. Comparing and contrasting propaganda in Serbia and Croatia from 1986 to 1999, this book analyses each group's contemporary interpretations of history and current events. It offers a detailed discussion of Holocaust imagery and the history of victim-centred writing in nationalist theory, including the links between the comparative genocide debate, the so-called Holocaust industry, and Serbian and Croatian nationalism. There is a detailed analysis of Serbian and Croatian propaganda over the Internet, detailing how and why the Internet war was as important as the ground wars in Kosovo, Croatia and Bosnia-Hercegovina, and a theme-by-theme analysis of Serbian and Croatian propaganda, using contemporary media sources, novels, academic works and journals.
Kosovo’s Foreign Policy and Bilateral Relations
This edited book analyzes Kosovo’s foreign policy and bilateral relations with the United States and several European countries. After the 1999 liberation from Serbia, Kosovo built close relations with various countries that supported it in the process of reconstruction, economic stabilization, institution-building, and state-building. From 1999 to 2008, many of these states were politically and operationally engaged in Kosovo under the leadership of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK). Since its independence in 2008, the Republic of Kosovo has adopted a foreign policy in accordance with its values and str...
Le Nouveau Capitalisme criminel
Financiarisé, mondialisé et dérégulé à l’excès, le capitalisme n’est-il pas devenu criminogène, tant il offre désormais d’opportunités et d’incitations aux déviances frauduleuses ? C’est ce qu’indique la dimension criminelle qu’ont prise certaines crises financières, au Japon, en Albanie, en Espagne ou encore au Mexique et en Colombie. C’est ce qu’implique l’extension du trading de haute fréquence, qui permet de négocier à la nanoseconde des milliers d’ordres de Bourse. Et c’est enfin ce qu’induit le blanchiment d’argent sale à travers les narcobanques. Éclairant toujours plus profondément la géo-économie et la géopolitique du crime organisé,...
Business Ethics
“Morten: And what are we going to do, when you have made liberal-minded and high-minded men of us? Dr. Stockman: Then you shall drive all the wolves out of the country, my boys!” (Ibsen, An Enemy of the People, Act V) The theoretical and empirical research of this book describes how the traditional safeguards of the rights of minority shareholders have failed in their duty and how those shareholders have remained practically without any protection against the arbitrariness of the companies and majority shareholders. The law, the SEC, society, boards of directors, independent directors, auditors, analysts, underwriters and the press have remained in many cases worthless panaceas. Neverthe...
Crisis and Rebellion in the Ottoman Empire
In 1807 the reformist Sultan Selim III was overthrown in a palace coup enacted by the elite special forces of the day-the Janissaries. The Ottomans were bankrupt and had been forced to make peace with Napoleon after Austerlitz, but it was Selim III's efforts to reform an empire that had suffered successive military defeats, and to reform along the lines of modern principles-with an end to the privileged 'feudal' position of many in elite Ottoman civil-military society-which sealed his fate. This book seeks to situate Turkey's reactionary revolutions of 1807 into a wider European context, that of the French Revolution and the outbreaks of revolutionary activity in the German states, Britain and the US. The Ottoman Empire was an interconnected and crucial part of this early-modern world, and therefore, Aysel Yildiz argues, must be analyzed in relation to its European rivals. Focusing on the uprising, and the socio-economic and political conditions which caused it, this book re-orientates Ottoman history towards Western Europe, and re-situates the late-Ottoman Empire as a key battle-ground of political ideas in the modern era.
Aux sources française de Serbie démocratique (1804-1914)
" Nous avons affaire ici, au-delà du titre même de ce livre, à une véritable histoire du développement politique et institutionnel de la Serbie avant 1914, dans le contexte de ses rapports avec la France.Le grand livre de Dušan T. Batakovic', dont les conclusions sont toujours actuelles, montre admirablement l'évolution progressive et la modernisation d'un pays qui doit résoudre à la fois son problème politique interne et son problème national, cas fréquent à cette époque. Mais la Serbie disposait d'une base de départ, la démocratie agraire, qui n'existait pas ailleurs dans cette partie de l'Europe. Elle recevait d'autre part des influences multiples, françaises mais aussi britanniques, et pas seulement russes et austro-hongroises. Ce qui contribue à expliquer la situation très particulière de la Serbie dans cette partie du monde. Plus que d'autres pays de la région, la Serbie s'est montrée très tôt ouverte aux influences de l'Europe occidentale, et on comprend que l'alliance privilégiée franco-serbe reposait sur des réalités profondes, et pas seulement sur des considérations tactiques transitoires. "
Criminal Prosperity
Drug trafficking is the most visible part of the profits of organized crime, which have grown considerably since the end of the cold war. The mirror of history shows us the impact of the drug trade in the colonization of Asia. The post cold war geopolitical context reproduces elements of the past, with new opportunities for drug trafficking in the globalization process, as can be seen in the example of China, and the lasting impunity in terms of money laundering. With the growing role of offshore locations in the global financial system, criminal prosperity has even affected the economic stability of some countries. This book presents a new and heterodox interpretation of the post cold war f...
Music and Gender
Although scholars have long been aware of the crucial roles that gender plays in music, and vice versa, the contributors to this volume are among the first to systematically examine the interactions between the two. This book is also the first to explore the diverse, yet often strikingly similar, musics of the areas bordering the Mediterranean from comparative anthropological perspectives. From Spanish flamenco to Algerian raï, Greek rebetika to Turkish pop music, Sephardi and Berber songs to Egyptian belly dancers, the contributors cover an exceedingly wide range of geographic and musical territories. Individual essays examine musical behavior as representation, assertion, and sometimes tr...
Activist Business Ethics
“The truth can wait, for it lives a long life” (Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher, 1788-1860) The philosopher Schopenhauer believed in the eventual triumph of truth, despite the disappointments engendered by his indifferent contemporaries. Two centuries later, we live in a time of accelerated changes, and we do not have the long life to wait for the truth. Activist business ethics, business ethics with a more activist militant approach, is needed in order to remedy the wrongdoing committed to the stakeholders and minority shareholders. This will be achieved by cooperation between ethical businessmen and businesswomen, activist academics and associations of stakeholders and minority...
A Legal Geography of Yugoslavia's Disintegration
The author explains the violent break-up of the former Yugoslavia in the early 1990s in the context of two legal principles - sovereignty and the self-determination of peoples. She also offers an analysis of Kosovo's future status, international recognition of secession, implications for other conflicts, and much more.
