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Regional cooperation has become a distinctive feature of the Balkans, an area known for its turbulent politics. Exploring the origins and dynamics of this change, this book highlights the transformative power of the EU and other international actors.
Selected papers from the International Conference "Global Environmental Change: Challenges for Science and Society in South-Eastern Europe" held 19-21 May 2008 in Sofia, Bulgaria. Covers changes in climate, land use, carbon and water cycles, air quality, etc.
"The 12th International Congress of South-East European Studies which took place in Bucharest from 2 to 6 September 2019 included a panel dedicated to the study of apocrypha and its transmission in South-Eastern Europe and related areas. Volume 16 of the "Bibliothèque de l'Institut d'Etudes Sud-Est Européennes" contains eleven chapters based on papers presented at this panel. Each chapter attests to the multifaceted and complex transmission history of apocryphal literature. This literature was transmitted in three main linguistic traditions, Greek, Slavonic, and Romanian, and it played an important role in the culture of South-Eastern Europe. Many apocryphal texts were translated from Gree...
The history of the Balkan Peninsula of the last two centuries is marked by deep transformations and upheavals. The emergence and disappearance of states, ethnic conflicts and wars, changes of political systems, economic crises, migration movements, and natural disasters are the more visible of such upheavals. Most of them have been experienced as deep crises that forced people to adapt to often radically new situations. All too often crisis management became a permanent way of life. The included essays focus on the cultures of crisis and on the reactions of societies and individuals to them: on their impact on everyday life, on peoples' strategies of coping, on the processes of adaptation, and on peoples' attitudes. (Series: Ethnologia Balkanica, Vol. 19) [Subject: Sociology, Balkan Studies, Politics, Migration, Crisis Management]