Publication Series Perspectives Southeast Europe





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Politics of Denial and Dealing with the Past in Western Balkan

Published: 30 May 2023
Magazine
The Belgrade and Sarajevo offices of the Heinrich Böll Foundation, together with our editor Miloš Ćirić, have invited relevant voices to reflect on what was achieved over the past decades in the fields of documentation, memorialization, and processing of recent history.
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Perspectives Southeastern Europe #9: Women in Western Balkans - Rights and Fights

Published: 30 October 2020
Magazine
This issue of Perspectives is about women. Their rights and struggles for gender equality, which have existed for generations in the Western Balkans, are presented by authors who are themselves part of the feminist struggles.
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Perspectives Southeastern Europe #8: Kosovo 1999-2019 - A Hostage Crisis

Published: 26 December 2019
Magazine
Twenty years on from the Kosovo War, the collective memory of both parties in the conflict remains burdened by myths and incontestable truths about what actually took place. In this issue of Perspectives we aim to highlight the fact that Kosovo is not just a toponym, but a country burdened by its recent violent history, where common people are struggling to rebuild the broken societies that the conflict has left behind.
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Perspectives Southeastern Europe #6: Still stuck in the past

Published: 29 August 2018
Magazine
This issue of Perspectives is dedicated to climate change mitigation in the Western Balkans, because of both the global need to limit global warming but also because mitigating climate change, as the articles show, goes hand in hand with development both in terms of economic growth and in terms of health, wellbeing and societal development. With this context in mind, the articles before you shed light upon some of the commonly overlooked aspects of it but also point to solutions which are good starting points for any future changes in how we think of energy, development, and public good more broadly
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Perspectives Southeastern Europe #5: Captured states in the Balkans

Published: 29 September 2017
The international community, especially the EU and its member states, seems clumsy and even over-burdened in light of the recklessly proceeding patronage networks in the Balkans: The approach of local ownership which has been propagated for a long while is dangerously ignoring the real balance of power in those countries. How could citizens deal with very diffuse networks, if there are no intact correctives, no free, no independent justice?
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Perspectives Southeastern Europe #3: 'International Community' and the Limits of External Intervention

Published: 16 November 2016
Magazine
Any international intervention has crucial limits: It can change the rules of the game, but it cannot empower local players. The articles collected in this issue of Perspectives Southeast Europe tell stories about the current challenges of international intervention in Albania,  Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia and Serbia.
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Perspectives Southeastern Europe #2: Bottom-up approaches fom the Balkans to the EU

Published: 14 November 2015
Magazine
Approaches to understanding the meaning of accession to the European Union vary significantly among the post-Yugoslav countries. For some the process has been an important driving force for changes in their legal and institutional systems.
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