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2025, History of Audio Drama in Central, Eastern, and Southern Europe. Proceedings of the European Symposium of the History of Audio Drama September 2024, Hungary

1938 marked the tenth anniversary of Albania's declaration of independence and the airing of the country's first radio drama. The drama, written by Albanian writer Andrea Skanjeti and centered on the war led by national hero Skanderbeg, was performed in Nacional cinematheater in Tirana and broadcasted live on Radio Tirana. It would be years before plays were again part of the radio broadcasts. Theatre on the Microphone was a huge hit with audiences, first shaped in brief thematic shows like Funny Hour and later Dramatic Hour; then live broadcasts from the theater; then performed and broadcasted live in the radio studios; and finally, post-produced. Having recognized the attraction of this setup, Radio Tirana proceeded to produce and air further pure or mixed radio dramas, such as The Heroism of our People in Centuries, Artistic Speech on the Microphone, Humor Show, Children Theater on the Microphone, and so forth. Given that radio dramas were used as a tool for propaganda during the communist era, one may reasonably anticipate that they would disappear following the political events of the 1990s. That is what happened for a while until BBC World Service Trust oversaw the production of The Pine Street, a radio soap opera produced in association with Radio Tirana by the end of 1990s and the beginning of 2000s. Then it was discontinued-This article aims to explore the genre's history and legacy, addressing current concerns and potentially revealing problematic spots that could be remedied to revive Albanian radio drama.

2025, Power and Protest in Central and Eastern Europe

Research on protests, social movements, and civil society in Central and Eastern Europe is indispensable in explaining global patterns of democratisation and de-democratisation, capitalism and its contestations, and geopolitical transformation. The collective volume takes a post-transition perspective, exploring contention after the institutionalisation of the region’s political, economic, and administrative orders. The chapters analyse the impact of protest events and social movements on political institutions and broader power structures, investigating the grievances, protest repertoires, socio-demographic structure, and territorial diffusion. In terms of effectiveness and outcomes, CEE protest matters, leading in many cases to party system change, to countering authoritarian tendencies, and, in other cases, to Europeanisation. However, protests and social movements have limited impact when facing authoritarian regimes engaged in widespread repression.

2025, Music, Dance, Inequality

This edited volume results from the international joint symposium of the ICTMD Study Groups on ' Music and Minorities' and 'Gender and Sexuality' (then 'Music and Gender') in September 2018, hosted by the Department of Folk Music Research and Ethnomusicology at the mdw -University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Austria. Authors of selected symposium contributions submitted their draft articles in spring 2019. As editors we were responsible for the double-anonymous peer review process, that we initiated in fall 2019. In spring 2020, this process was disrupted due to the global pandemic and changes in the department's personnel structure. In 2024, we resumed the editing work. We would like to extend our thanks to the authors for their productive cooperation and above all their patience. Sincere thanks also go to the reviewers of the individual articles, whose work guarantees the scholarly quality of this volume. We are grateful to the typesetter Martina Krammer, who is responsible for the design of the volume's layout. We have decided to italicize non-English words only on their first occurrence. Normalizing the frequently used word for the readers' eyes also aims to avoid a constant ‚visual Othering' of the the articles' most central concepts, genres, instruments, etc. and their meaning. This volume features a broad range of concepts, approaches and understandings of ethnographic research on music and dance. As editors, we think that the plurality and diversity of ethnomusicological and ethnochoreological research -often neatly related to geopolitical socializations and positionalities -must be promoted and is indeed ethnomusicology's great asset.

2025, Historijski zbornik

2025, Varieties of Economic Nationalism in Cold War Europe: Small State Responses to Economic Changes, 1960s-1980s

This paper explores how the Greek military regime (1967–1974), Austria, and the GDR pursued pragmatic economic policies that aligned with their respective Cold War goals, highlighting their financial interactions as tools of foreign policy. Drawing on primary sources, it shows how Greece sought international legitimacy through foreign investments, Austria expanded its economic footprint in Southeast Europe via projects like the Steyr-Hellas automobile plant, and the GDR established significant financial ties with the Junta even before official diplomatic recognition—demonstrating how smaller states actively shaped Cold War dynamics through economic diplomacy.

2025, OeZG 35

Diese Arbeit unternimmt den Versuch, Österreichs diplomatisches Vorgehen gegenüber Griechenland während der Militärdiktatur von 1967 bis 1974 neu zu analysieren. Im Rahmen der New Diplomatic History wird gezeigt, dass Österreich in dieser Zeit zwar häufig realpolitisch agierte, das griechische Regime verdeckt unterstützte oder wirtschaftlich in dessen Strukturen investierte. Dennoch kam es zu Belastungen im bilateralen Verhältnis zwischen Wien und Athen. Dazu trugen insbesondere die antidiktatorischen Aktivitäten griechischer Studierender in Österreich sowie das Engagement von Bruno Pittermann, dem Präsidenten der Sozialistischen Internationale, bei. Diese inoffiziellen diplomatischen Akteure wirkten maßgeblich auf die griechisch-österreichischen Beziehungen ein und führten zu erheblichen Spannungen – ohne jedoch einen völligen Bruch zwischen beiden Staaten herbeizuführen.

2025

Artificial intelligence is neither a new concept nor a completely new research topic. However, advances in data availability and accessibility of high computing power - combined with important achievements in the development of machine learning algorithms - have enabled an exponential growth of the field. By implementing artificial intelligence, investment fund management companies could see major benefits such as cost reduction and improved decision making across all of their departments. The main obstacles in leveraging artificial intelligence are data quality, lack of skilled personnel and maturity of existing technology infrastructure. In order to enable implementation of artificial intelligence in the investment funds sector, issues of auditability of machine learning models, bias of goal-directed models as well as potential implications for financial stability have to be properly addressed and regulated. Regulatory agency should aim to foster financial innovation, safeguard co...

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THE JERUSALEM-TEHRAN CONFLICT AND TURKEY’S LONG-TERM ENERGY SECURITY: A GATHERING STORM

2025, Journal of Political Ideologies

This paper examines Bulgaria's post-communist political landscape through the lens of Antonio Gramsci's concept of hegemony. It explores how the country's transition from communism has increased susceptibility to false and misleading information. The study posits that the failure to establish a cohesive hegemonic order has led to a fragmented ideological landscape where competing narratives vie for dominance. This landscape facilitates the erosion of trust in democratic and political institutions and significant contamination of the informational environment. By analyzing key political moments from 1997 to 2020, the paper outlines indicators of weak hegemony, including fragmented consensus, counter-hegemonic forces, recurring crises of authority, reliance on coercion rather than consent and, in the absence of moral and intellectual leadership, the paper explains how false and misleading information exploits these societal antagonisms, further undermining democratic institutions, entrenching public disillusionment and perpetuating elite control. The paper concludes that Bulgaria's political trajectory reflects a prolonged 'war of position', where ideological struggles and external pressures complicate the path to genuine democratic reform.

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Η τοπωνυμία στο τραγούδι του Δασκαλογιάννη (1786) αλ ζεο λα κάζεηο ησ θαθηψ ν ηφπνο ίληα βγάλεη, πεο ηζη Μαδάξεο λα ζνπ πνπλ γηα ηνλ Γαζθαινγηάλλε... -Αρη θαυκέλε Αλψπνιε, πνχλαη νη θαπεηάληνη θαη πνπλ νη γ αληξησκέλνη ζνπ θη νη ζπκβνπιάηνξέο ζνπ ; -Μα κέλα νη γ αληξησκέλνη κνπ θη νη ζπβνπιάηνξνί κνπ ε καχξε γεο ηζη ξέκπεηαη, θη ν ηφπνο κνπ ηζ"αξλάηαη» (Γηάλλε Μαπξαθάθε, Λανγξαθηθά Κξήηεο, Αζήλα 1983, ζει. 221-222). «Απνχρεη λνπλ θαη ξντζκφλ θαη γλψζη ζην θεθάιη Αο θάηζε λα ζπξξνγηαζηή ην Γάζθαξνλ ην Γηάλλε. Πάζα Ρακπξή θαη Κπξηαθή έβαλελ ην θαπέξν Κάζε Ρακπξνρξηζηφγελλα έβαλε ην θαπέξν». Γηάλλαξεο 23. 24, 1876 « Γίθαηνλ γάξ αὐηνῖο θαη πξέπνλ ἅκα ἐλ ηῶ ηνηῶδε ηελ ηηκελ ηαχηελ ηῆο κλήκεο δηδφζζαη» Θνπθπδίδεο 2. 35

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This paper collects, reevaluates, and analyses data from linguistically different historiographical and archival materials about the economic, social, political, and cultural history of the Ada Kaleh Island from the late 17th century to the present. It explores Ada Kaleh's history through the light of the Habsburg-Ottoman relations as well as of anthropological studies on the former islanders conducted in recent decades. This essay argues that orientalism, nationalism, and military issues still significantly distorted Ada Kaleh's history. In this essay, I demonstrate Ada Kaleh was significant marketplace and a rhizome of a trans-imperial and trans-Danubian East-and Central-European society. I also envision Ada Kaleh as the symbol of the denial of the Ottoman contribution to European history. This paper eventually addresses methodological and historiographical issues about writing the history of Muslims in early modern and modern Europe.

2025, Ethnopolitics

This article focuses on Serbia’s largest minority group, the ethnic Hungarians, and the party of the Alliance of Vojvodina’s Hungarians/VMSZ. VMSZ emerges as an ethnic minority party that has developed a distinctly (right-wing) ideological profile. This profile appropriates and combines elements from Hungarian ‘illiberal democracy’ and Serbian ‘stabilitocracy’. VMSZ aligns with its larger partners’ (the Serbian Progressive Party/SNS and the Civic Democratic Union/FIDESZ) willingness for Serbia to join the EU under the condition that the EU ‘reforms’ towards a more conservative and sovereigntist direction so that it can also accommodate governments with ‘divergent’ outlooks on liberal democracy (e.g. stabilitocratic Serbia).

2025, Philomusica on-line Vol 23, N° 1

This article evolves from a musical project for the CD album Aromanian Songs from Drenova, (Squilibri, 2018) with
multipart songs from the aromanian-vlach minority of Drenova, a village in Korça’s district, in southeast Albania. This
area has been among the most vital ones in the three-part singing style and this minority has played a significant role.
Alongside the recording process, a research on the documentary level evolved, for investigating a rather neglected
presence of singing practices of this group. This article explores the human dimension focusing on four eminent aspects:
personal history, embodiment, self-expression, and joint action. The latter have been a driving force for creativity and
preservation in this singing practice.
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2025, Southeastern Europe

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2025, Southeastern Europe

Having gone through different phases of political action and facing various forms of suppression by the state, the Kurdish movement from 1990's persisted in establishing legal parties despite recurrent bans by the Constitutional Court. In the 2007 national elections DTP (after its ban the BDP) running as independent candidates formed a group in the Parliament which was followed by an extensive regional representation in eastern and southeastern Turkey in local elections of 2009. At the three levels of political activity (parliament, local government, civil society) the extent of women's presence exceeds well over the general percentage in Turkey while various civil society organizations at both the national and regional levels lend support for extension of minority/human rights. Although the new legal and political reforms as of early 2000's in line with Turkey's bid for accession to the EU have opened up a new venue for legitimization of Kurdish identity and recogni...

2025, Media and Civil Society Development Foundation “Mediacentar”, Sarajevo

This publication explores how citizen protests in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Macedonia communicate demands for public accountability. Through a series of case studies, it analyzes the role of traditional and digital media in shaping civic action and influencing institutional response. The volume offers insights into media framing, protests narratives, and democratic participation in transitional societies.

2025, Hungarian Studies Review

This article focuses on the historical contacts between the Habsburg Empire and the Ottoman Empire, with particular emphasis on the Pest-Buda-related mobility and commercial activities of Ottoman subjects during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Through a detailed analysis of three extensive, untapped archival registers from the Finanz-und Hofkammer Archiv in Vienna, the study reveals that Pest-Buda's crucial role in economic and cultural exchanges between these two empires did not diminish during this period. The research explores the connections between Transylvania and Pest-Buda, highlighting the importance of the Pest-Buda-Transylvania-Ottoman relationship in understanding transimperial communications. By closely examining individual profiles and their mobility patterns, this study not only provides insights into the prevailing socioeconomic circumstances and the interconnected communities moving between the two empires during the period, but also offers a nuanced understanding of Pest-Buda's role as a historical gateway for Habsburg-Ottoman contacts within the broader imperial context.

2025, Cercetări Arheologice

OBSERVATIONS REGARDING SOME DISCOVERIES FROM DWELLING NO. 2 OF SULTANA MALU ROŞU ENEOLITHIC SETTLEMENT Sultana Malu Roşu is one of the most spectacular sites belonging to Gumelniţa culture and generally to Encolithic Agc. The te/l-settlement is placed on Iezerul Mostiştei Lake shore at 15 km north ofthe Danube Valley. Thc archacological researches were restarted in 2001 with the discovery of interesting complexes, for example the housc no. 2, with a rich archaeological inventory. lnside the house there was discovered, among other things, a burnt clay structurc. maybc a sort of bench. Near it there was discovered a clay box with a big size stone, having a nat uppcr part, which was fit in thc clay box. This object was found in secondary position, under it there were discovcred loom wcights of burnt clay and vesscl fragments. lt was recovered from thc site and partially rebuilt in the laboratorics of Lower Danubc Museum-Călăraşi.

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2025, Matica

Prince Milo Petrović-Njegoš is certainly one of the mostfascinating figures in Montenegrin history, primarily due to histurbulent and very active life. In this paper, I have attempted toadd some new biographical details related to the prince’s life, aswell as the lives of his wife and daughter. Additionally, the goalis to confirm some previous speculations about his life andsupport them with historical sources.

2025, Southeastern Europe

Since the fall of communism and all the way up to the present day, various international initiatives aimed at influencing justice reform in Bulgaria have sought to compel domestic actors to abandon inherited practices characterised by patrimonialism and political clientelism through imported professional and organisational standards. On the basis of an extensive qualitative study of the implementation of international technical assistance initiatives in the Bulgarian judicial system, we revisit the theory of relations between transfers and learning as it has been elaborated in studies of Europeanisation. Starting with an examination of specific reforms to modify the methods of recruiting, appointing and promoting magistrates, the article tackles the construction of an alternative conceptualisation that understands learning as the emergent and cumulative effect of a conjunction of social processes. This effect not only puts into play the process of appropriating exported elements but also carries with it endogenous dynamics, in particular political struggles between groups of justice professionals.

2025, Environmental Archaeology

New stable carbon (δ 13 C) and nitrogen (δ 15 N) isotopic values of charred plant and bone collagen remains from 6 th mill. BCE Halai, central Greece, together with datasets from 6 th mill. BCE Kouphovouno, southern Greece, and later 6 th /early 5 th mill. BCE Makriyalos, northern Greece, demonstrate how early farming communities in mainland Greece adapted mixed farming strategies to distinct local environmental and cultural settings. Intra-site similarities or differences in δ 13 C and δ 15 N values of distinct crop species, along with the intra-species variabilities in stable isotopic values, are used to assess the cultivation choices that farmers at the three sites made to fulfill distinct economic goals. At Halai, farmers cultivated multiple crops under variable soil conditions, a strategy likely geared towards minimizing overall risk in a relatively arid coastal setting. At better-watered Kouphovouno, by contrast, farmers practiced strategic manuring to maximize the yield of free-threshing wheat, likely grown exclusively for human consumption and rotated with nitrogen-fixing pulses. At Makriyalos, the limited sample size of cereal remains suggests a lack of intensive manuring, in contrast to the two other sites. Assessment of which crops may have been consumed by livestock sheds further light on symbiotic relationships between crop cultivation and animal husbandry.

2025, Southeastern Europe

For over a decade media legislation, controversial as it was, has been a matter of controversy in Serbia. It was only in 2011 that a newly adopted media strategy developed by European Union and Council of Europe criteria hinted at change for the better as it envisaged the amendment of the entire media legislation (about 18 laws). Consequently, three new laws were passed in 2014: on public information and the media; on broadcast media; and, on public broadcasting service. Ten laws are still pending – either to be amended or adopted. After the change of the regime in 2000, the media legislation was changed but not in line with a democratic value system. This specially refers to media freedoms. Repression against the media characteristic of the 1990s was replaced by “soft censorship” and self-censorship. Serbia’s media market is small and underdeveloped, and under strong influence of the government. The adopted strategy provides against state ownership of the media except in the case o...

2025, Southeastern Europe

For over a decade media legislation, controversial as it was, has been a matter of controversy in Serbia. It was only in 2011 that a newly adopted media strategy developed by European Union and Council of Europe criteria hinted at change for the better as it envisaged the amendment of the entire media legislation (about 18 laws). Consequently, three new laws were passed in 2014: on public information and the media; on broadcast media; and, on public broadcasting service. Ten laws are still pending -either to be amended or adopted. After the change of the regime in 2000, the media legislation was changed but not in line with a democratic value system. This specially refers to media freedoms. Repression against the media characteristic of the 1990s was replaced by "soft censorship" and self-censorship. Serbia's media market is small and underdeveloped, and under strong influence of the government. The adopted strategy provides against state ownership of the media except in the case of the two public broadcasting services. Media outlets, especially electronic, are too many for such a limited media market; the state has a hand in media businesses in many ways, including subsidies and paid advertisements for large public enterprises. Non-transparent media ownership and money flow are among key problems of media transition.

2025, Verfassungsblog

On 30 April 2025, the CJEU handed down its much-anticipated judgment in joined cases C-313/23, C-316/23, C-332/23, which, among other pertinent questions on the GDPR, concerns the compatibility of Article 19 TEU and Article 47 of the EU Charter with a situation in which the members of a judicial inspection body have de facto remained in office indefinitely. Regrettably, however, the highly formalistic ruling will hardly make a difference in Bulgaria from where the preliminary references originated. It fails to address the underlying rule of law challenges faced by both the Judicial Inspectorate and the Supreme Judicial Council in Bulgaria at their core. As such, the judgment is a missed opportunity-an attempt to hand off a hot "rule of law" potato.

2025, What exactly is the official language of the Skopje state

During the 18th century, in the geographical area of the Vilayet of Thessaloniki and in the southernmost part of the Vilayet of Monastir, there was, for practical reasons, a need for closer communication between non-Slavic populations, resulting in the formation of a Slavic spoken idiom, with roots in a Western Bulgarian dialect, to which significant grammatical and phonetic changes (simplifications) were made, while a multitude of Greek, Turkish, Vlach and Albanian words were added. This resulted in a kind of idiom/dialect that is linguistically classified in the category of auxiliary languages known as pidgins. This idiom (entόpika as its speakers call it, meaning "local" in Greek) is obviously not identical to the Bulgarian language and this was the reason why it was referred as the "Macedonian language" in the sense that it was spoken in Macedonia. This idiom was used by Turks, Greeks, Bulgarians, Serbs, Gypsies, etc. in the aforementioned areas during the Ottoman administration, but after the wars of 1912-13 it lost its usefulness, resulting in its gradual decline in use.

2025

Autor se bavi drustvenom ulogom hrvatskih medija u posljednja dva desetljeca, analizirajuci njihove pozitivne i negativne utjecaje. Posebno se fokusira na promjene na hrvatskoj medijskoj sceni od pocetaka „demokratizacije“ i razvoja hrvatskog medijskog tržista do pada profesionalnosti i gubitka povjerenja, nastojeci proniknuti u njihove uzroke. Autor zakljucuje kako se novinarska profesija u Hrvatskoj nalazi u svojevrsnoj krizi te kako je imidž hrvatskih novinara poljuljan, sto je povezano s padom kredibiliteta hrvatskih medija a time i njihovih naklada, odnosno gledanosti, slusanosti i citanosti. Uzrok tome zasigurno je nesnalaženje medija, ali i profesionalnih organizacija u izazovima koje je donijela najprije drustvena tranzicija u Hrvatskoj, tijekom raspada komunistickog sustava, rata i nestabilne demokracije, a potom njihova komercijalizacija i utrka za zaradom, koje su pak usporile globalna kriza i recesija. Kao preduvjete za izlazak iz krize i vracanje digniteta i utjecaja no...

2025

Autor se bavi društvenom ulogom hrvatskih medija u posljednja dva desetljeća, analizirajući njihove pozitivne i negativne utjecaje. Posebno se fokusira na promjene na hrvatskoj medijskoj sceni od početaka »demokratizacije« i razvoja hrvatskoga medijskog tržišta do pada profesionalnosti i gubitka povjerenja, nastojeći proniknuti u njihove uzroke. Autor zaključuje kako se novinarska profesija u Hrvatskoj nalazi u svojevrsnoj krizi te kako je imidž hrvatskih novinara poljuljan, što je povezano s padom kredibiliteta hrvatskih medija, a time i njihovih naklada, odnosno gledanosti, slušanosti i čitanosti. Uzrok tomu zasigurno je nesnalaženje medija, ali i profesionalnih organizacija u izazovima koje je donijela najprije društvena tranzicija u Hrvatskoj, tijekom raspada komunističkoga sustava, rata i nestabilne demokracije, a potom njihova komercijalizacija i utrka za zaradom, koje su pak usporile globalna kriza i recesija. Kao preduvjete za izlazak iz krize i vraćanje digniteta i utjecaja novinarstvu autor navodi sljedeće elemente: bolja obrazovanost i pismenost novinara; pridržavanje profesionalnih i etičkih standarda; izbjegavanje manipulacija i senzacionalizma; veća objektivnost u izvještavanju; objavljivanje provjerenih, istinitih, uravnoteženih, zanimljivih i korisnih informacija; manji utjecaj interesnih skupina, vlasnika i politike; produkcija kvalitetnijih i društveno korisnijih sadržaja te više dobrih i optimističnih vijesti... Naime, samo profesionalni, »zdravi« i društveno odgovorni mediji mogu razvijati i promicati vrjednote, infor-

2025, The Carpathian obsidians reconsidered

This paper reviews previous research on the chemical characterization of Carpathian obsidians to distinguish between geological sources and correlate archaeological finds with specific sources. We also present new Portable X-ray Fluorescence (pXRF) measurements for obsidian samples collected from seven geological locations in the Carpathian obsidian province and compare the results with those obtained by previous researchers employing laboratory-based EDXRF, LA-ICP-MS, ICP-MS and NAA. Our findings have implications for the terminology applied to obsidian sources in the Carpathians and emphasize the importance of accurately georeferencing the obsidian samples used for source characterization.

2025, Arheologia Moldovei

In the focus of this article are two graves G18 and G51 discovered in the Iclod B-D cemetery, one of the two cemeteries related to the well-known fortified settlement at the Iclod-Pămăntul Vladicii point, chronologically framed at the border between the Neolithic and the Copper Age. The graves are distinguished from the rest by several aspects, but at the same time they are integrated into the general funerary picture of the cemetery. The authors of the discovery assigns them to the hunters spent by the community in the afterlife with a customized set of objects, in various combinations-ceramic pots, Spondylus adornments, axes, horn objects, obsidian chips, bone hook, opal grater and remains of offering represented by deer and cattle bones. The present study focuses on the correlation of the two sets of data, archaeological and anthropological, to reveal the type of daily physical activities of these two individuals. Thus, the hypothesis put forward by the archaeologists is strengthened by the results of the anthropological analysis. The skeletons come from robust, vigorous males with no dental pathologies, with osteoarthritic changes aggravated by movement, with enthesopathic changes caused by terrestrial hypermobility.

2025

Portable X-ray fluorescence (pXRF) spectrometry was used to obtain source determinations for 11 obsidian artefacts from five archaeological sites in Bulgaria. The results show that all the archaeological specimens can be linked to obsidian sources in the Carpathian Mountains in the border region between Hungary and Slovakia. Obsidian from the C2E source in Hungary occurred in very early Neolithic contexts at Dzhulyunitsa, while the majority of samples from later contexts at Ohoden, Dzherman and Varna came mainly from the Slovakian (C1) source. The data hint at a shift from the use of C2 obsidian in the Neolithic before 5900 cal BC, to a preference for C1 obsidian in later periods – however, more finds and better contextual and chronological data are required to verify this trend.

2025

Az államfői hatalomgyakorlás formális és informális aspektusai, különös tekintettel az államfői hatalom megerősítésére Az 1990-es években az államfői hatalom megerősítésére, illetve az alkotmányban rögzítetten túl, további jogkörök gyakorlására irányuló tevékenység figyelhető meg Kelet-Közép-Európa és a posztszovjet térség egyes országainak államfői részéről. Előbbiben az államfők jellemzően csak szimbolikus jogkörökkel rendelkeztek, ugyanakkor rendszeresen túllépték azokat a további jogkörök gyakorlása érdekében. A fenti időszakban ez jellemezte Csehországot, Romániát, Lengyelországot, tehát főként azon országokat, ahol az államfő viszonylag gyengébb szerepet töltött be a parlamentáris vagy félelnöki kormányformában, és ahol az államfő és a miniszterelnök között folyamatos konfliktus volt a további jogkörökért. 1 A másik csoportot a posztszovjet térség egyes országai képezik, ahol jellemzően egy erős államfői jogkörrel felruházott elnöki vagy félelnöki kormányforma jött létre, ennek ellenére az államfők kiterjeszteni igyekeztek a jogköreiket. Az államfői hatalom megerősítése, illetve kiterjesztése a hatalom formális, valamint informális gyakorlása által is megvalósulhat. 2 Tanulmányom középpontjában ez utóbbi

2025

Heritage should not be confused with history. History seeks to convince by truth … Heritage exaggerates and omits, candidly admits and frankly forgets, and thrives on ignorance and error'.(1) David Lowenthal's remarks on the difference between these two enterprises go a long way to explain why historians have had a rather negative view of public historical practices. Understandably, there is concern at how the past can be easily misrepresented and falsified by forms of historical representation that do not adhere to the rules of evidence and standards of academic rigour. There is, however, something of an irony here, since historians, who still think of themselves as having a public audience and a duty to inform their sense of the past (as I believe they do), lack an informed perspective on popular contemporary engagements with history.

2025

Event Overview This workshop explores contemporary democratic resistance movements in Southeastern and Eastern Europe, focusing on Serbia, Georgia, and Slovakia. It examines how civil resistance not only contests political regimes but... more

2025, New Eastern Europe

Future of Russia-West relations 7 End of an era. Three scenarios for the future of Russia-West relations Tony van der Togt Understanding the future of relations between Russia and the West depends largely on how the war in Ukraine plays out. In this way, three possible scenarios need to be examined: a Ukrainian victory, a Russian victory, and a long, drawn-out stalemate. 14 What would be the consequences of a Russian collapse? Agnieszka Legucka No one knows how the war in Ukraine will end. However, Russia's weakening position in Ukraine may be an indication of something much greater internally. Three scenarios outlined below can help us understand what might be next for Vladimir Putin and the Russian Federation. 20 Russia-Ukraine. Only one will remain Yevhen Magda The Russo-Ukrainian War, which on February 24th 2022 transitioned from a hybrid phase to full-scale conventional war, is not only attracting the attention of the whole world. It also gives us reason to think about what the configuration of relations between the two states will be after the end of the war -a war in which only one of the states may have a chance to survive intact. 26 After Ostpolitik. Perspectives for future relations between Moscow and Berlin Jan Claas Behrends Any normalisation of relations with Russia will only take place once Moscow gives up its imperial ambitions and pays for its crimes. There should be no notion of a new policy towards the Kremlin without change at the top and the complete removal of its threat to European security. We cannot repeat the mistakes of 1991.

2025, FONS

A kutatás során az osztrák-magyar adminisztráció a megszállt tartományokban foganatosított kolonizációs politikájának főbb mérföldköveit azonosítva igyekeztem beazonosítani azokat a tényezőket, amelyek a megszállás első éveiben gyorsították vagy lassították a bosznia-hercegovinai kolonizáció előrehaladását.
A kutatás egyik legfontosabb következtetése, hogy az Osztrák-Magyar Monarchia Bosznia-Hercegovinában alkalmazott kolonizációs politikáját nem lehet csupán egy értelmezési keretben elhelyezni, hiszen a telepítések hátterében meghúzódó szándékok és érdekek a megszállás négy évtizedének folyamán folyamatosan változtak, s az egyes elképzelések a közigazgatás eltérő érdekek szerint működő szintjei között lévő dinamika függvényében kerültek megvalósításra.

2025, Világtörténet

The article aims to explore the Austro–Hungarian colonial policy in the occupied Bosnia-Herzegovina through the confrontation of the two approaches most often used in historiography, namely the modernization mission discourse and the postcolonial perspective, with the help of previously unpublished archival material. The paper introduces the main theoretical approaches: the modernization paradigm, which is still embedded in Austro–Hungarian historiography, and which, in recent decades, has been subjected to sharp criticism from not only Said’s Orientalism and Todorova’s Balkanism, but also from the postcolonial discourse. Drawing on archival sources, the paper attempts to explore the economic and political considerations behind colonial politics, pointing to its dynamically changing and contradictory nature, and thus demonstrating that neither the modernization paradigm nor the postcolonial interpretation of colonial politics can be convincingly justified.

2025

This volume brings together twenty-two articles by the European ethnologist Paul Henri Stahl (1925-2008), director (1999-2007) and member of the Institute for South-East European Studies in Bucharest since its founding in 1963, honorary member of the Romanian Academy (1993), and professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris (1969-1999). Paul H. Stahl’s extensive and multifaceted body of work continues the legacy of the Bucharest School of Sociology (1925-1948) – one of the most significant collective scientific projects of the interwar period – being situated the crossroads of several disciplines: sociology, ethnology, and history. This collection is the result of a carefully curated selection from his complete works, focusing on the overarching theme of the structures that organize the life of traditional societies in South-East Europe. The selected texts are grouped around several interrelated subthemes: archaic pre-state formations, old village communities, the relationship between the built environment (house, church, village) and the social group, biological and symbolic kinship, personal identity, and naming.

2025

Croatia held parliamentary elections on 8 November, with the two mainstream coalitions, headed by the centre-left SDP and centre-right HDZ, ending in a virtual dead heat. The HDZ’s Patriotic coalition secured 59 seats, including 3 seats representing the Croatian diaspora, while the SDP’s Croatia Grows coalition reached 56, while also being able to count on 3 seats pledged to them by a regional party, IDS. The elections also saw the rise of a strong third contender, Most Nezavisnih Lista (Bridge of Independent Lists), who secured 19 seats and could act as potential kingmakers in coalition negotiations. We asked five experts for their reactions to the result and their views on what might happen next. Kresimir Macan: Over the next week, the HDZ will try everything to win over Most’s candidates one by one Will Bartlett: Croatia’s economy needs a radical change if it wants to avoid six more years of stagnation Senada Selo Sabic: Counter-intuitively, the refugee crisis did not benefit the...

2025, Echoes of Europe : Cultural Transfer Europe-Serbia in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (2025) Article 2 (p. 45–65)

A form of mass communication, advertising has been regarded as an influential medium of cultural transfer among developed and underdeveloped nations. Both social and economic aspects of advertising explain its role as an inevitable channel through which foreign cultures, values, and behavioral patterns may be promoted abroad to become locally adopted in exposed societies. While critics may see advertising as an intrusive phenomenon allowing "cultural invasion" through the promotion of different consumption patterns and behaviors, its proponents advocate the positive role of advertising in the economic development and modernization of societies through cultural transfer initiated by foreign brands. Following the latter standpoint, we build upon the positive role of advertising, focusing on its contribution to the development and modernization of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in the interwar period. The main aim of the paper is to analyze and discuss European and American cultural influence through advertising messages of foreign brands in the most influential national daily papers of the period. To achieve that, we compared print ads published in Politika (the Kingdom of Yugoslavia), Le Figaro (France), and The Times (UK). The primary focus is on international brands and their advertising approaches based on Anglo-American cultural values and consumption patterns. We analyze a set of selected ads to assess the direct transfer of foreign culture or its subtle adaptation to the local context f to gauge the overall influence of ads on socioeconomic development and modernization. Our findings show that advertising substantially developed in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia over the analyzed period, following the pattern of more developed countries such as France and the UK. This is supported by the appearance of new types of products and services advertised and the changes in advertising formats and creative ideas bringing liberal advertising appeals directed at diverse target groups. Thus, we conclude that cultural transfer through foreign brands that advertised their products and services in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia contributed to the adoption of novel consumption patterns and the overall economic development and modernization of the country in the first half of the 20 th century.

Book review: "František Šístek (ed.), Imagining Bosnian Muslims in Central Europe: Representations, Transfers and Exchanges, Berghahn Books, 2021, 302", Südost-Forschungen, 82, Oldenburg, 2003, 474 - 477.

2025, Südost-Forschungen, 82

Especially since the violent breakup of Yugoslavia, the history of Bosnian Muslims and their existence on European soil attracted the attention of many researchers. Due to this increased interest, the number of books and articles of different quality and importance also grew. The latest book in such a series is entitled "Imagining Bosnian Muslims in Central Europe: Representations, Transfers, and Exchanges" and was published by the Berghahn Books publisher in 2021. The book contains 13 chapters authored by researchers who already have addressed Bosnia and Herzegovina and Bosnian Muslims in their earlier research. The chapters are preceded by an introduction (1-27) in which the editor František Šístek speaks about the motives which have led to the creation of this book, the terminology and concepts adopted in the book, and the topics of the chapters. Ladislav Hladký and Petr Stehlík authored the chapter "The 'Turkish Threat' and Early Modern Central Europe: Czech Reflections" (28-41). They point to the influence of the Ottoman conquests in Europe on the formation of the Habsburg Monarchy. The authors write about the importance and contribution of Czech lands in defence against the Ottoman Empire and about different perceptions of Turks that had developed in the area since the 16th century when the presentation of Turks as archenemies who plundered and oppressed Christian countries and populations began. This lasted until the second war, aus religiösen Gründen ein neues Besitzsystem eingeführt hätten. Die traditionalistisch-radikalen kadızadeli und ihr Einfluss auf die großen Angriffskriege des 17. Jh.s werden in diesem Zusammenhang gar nicht erwähnt. So kann man festhalten: der Titel des Buches ist irreführend. Aber selbst wenn der Verlag einen weniger reißerischen Aufmacher gewählt hätte, bliebe die Frage, was denn die vielen Jahrhunderte der Angriffskriege jenseits des reinen Beutemachens denn ideell geprägt hat? Bedeutet "muslimische Eroberung" nur, dass Muslime die wesentlichen Akteure waren? Oder trug die Eroberung einen islamischen Charakter? Der Verfasser beantwortet diese Fragen nicht. Er ist seinem Zugang treu geblieben, der eine technische Militärgeschichte mit einer klassischen Ereignisgeschichte verbindet. Und in diesem Rahmen ist sein Werk sehr gelungen. Ob dieser Rahmen aber auch künftig noch in einer weitgehend unhinterfragten Art Gültigkeit haben soll und haben kann, sollte die Osmanistik vertieft diskutieren.

2025, Oncologist

This article analyzes the availability of different diagnostic procedures of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and the reimbursement landscape of drugs for NSCLC in countries of central and southeastern Europe (CEE). A survey was conducted by the Central European Cooperative Oncology Group. Results of the survey show that both availability and reimbursement of diagnoses of molecular alterations in NSCLC, the detection of which is essential for therapeutic decisions, varies widely between countries of CEE. Not only is "reflex" testing often substituted by analyses performed only "on demand," but reimbursement of such assessments varies widely between unavailability and payments by the health care system or even pharmaceutical companies. It was concluded that a structured access to testing and reimbursement should be the aim in order to provide patients with appropriate therapeutic options. The Oncologist 2018;23:e152-e158 Implications for Practice: This article provides an overview of the limitations in lung cancer treatment in countries of central and southeastern Europe, as well as the reimbursement status of various lung cancer treatment regimens in these countries, which directly impacts treatment options.

2025, The Oncologist

This article analyzes the availability of different diagnostic procedures of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and the reimbursement landscape of drugs for NSCLC in countries of central and southeastern Europe (CEE). A survey was conducted by the Central European Cooperative Oncology Group. Results of the survey show that both availability and reimbursement of diagnoses of molecular alterations in NSCLC, the detection of which is essential for therapeutic decisions, varies widely between countries of CEE. Not only is “reflex” testing often substituted by analyses performed only “on demand,” but reimbursement of such assessments varies widely between unavailability and payments by the health care system or even pharmaceutical companies. It was concluded that a structured access to testing and reimbursement should be the aim in order to provide patients with appropriate therapeutic options. Implications for Practice This article provides an overview of the limitations in lung cancer...

2025, Environmental Archaeology