Demographic shifts in the Balkans: Economic and political implications

1995 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 84-84
Author(s):  
Milica Z. Bookman
Keyword(s):  
The Balkans ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
Demographic Shifts

Land Reform and Serbian Colonization

2015 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-103
Author(s):  
Vladan Jovanović
Keyword(s):  
Ottoman Empire ◽  
Land Reform ◽  
Agrarian Reform ◽  
The Balkans ◽  
Archival Material ◽  
Demographic Shifts ◽  
Western Historiography

The disintegration of the Ottoman Empire caused major demographic shifts in the Balkans. After the forced exchange of Greek and Turkish populations, the experience of the new Yugoslav state has received the greatest historical attention. Western historiography has emphasized the statements and efforts of a Serbian-led government to replace Muslim Albanians and Turks with Serbs. This paper, based on relevant historiography and unpublished archival material, reexamines the process of Serb colonization in Macedonia and Kosovo between the Two World Wars, including the Muslim migration from Yugoslavia to Turkey. It acknowledges the Serbian rationale for repopulating Kosovo, in particular, but goes on to emphasize the problems of an agrarian reform intended to favor smallholders across all of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes, but also to facilitate the colonization project. Overseen by a new Belgrade Ministry for Agrarian Reform that was unable to fund the support needed for the colonists or to prevent local corruption, the reform failed to keep enough settlers in place to reverse the balance of population.

The Politics of Regionalist Science: The Balkans as a Supranational Space in Late Nineteenth to Mid-Twentieth Century Academic Projects

2012 ◽  
Vol 39 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 266-303 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diana Mishkova
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Political Support ◽  
World War ◽  
Political Values ◽  
Remarkable Feature ◽  
The Balkans ◽  
Western Discourse ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
The One ◽  
Political Decisions

The article looks into the various scholarly (and disciplinary) conceptualizations of the Balkans/Southeastern Europe, which were spawned within the region itself prior to World War II. These regionalist schemes drew heavily on political values and relied on political support, while at the same time seeking to spearhead and legitimize political decisions or reformulate (geo)political visions. The article discusses the political implications of this scholarship with the idea to underscore notions of the Balkans which differed considerably from the one summarily and, in recent years, persistently conceptualized as mirroring the Western (discourse of) Balkanism. Not only were those notions more subtle and differentiated than an ‘orientalizing perspective’ would make us expect; a remarkable feature of the academic projects discussed here was their counterhegemonic thrust and the assertion that the Balkans are and should be treated as a subject.

scholarly journals Agrokor: Political Aspects of the Crisis of Croatia’s Biggest Conglomerate

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 430-438
Author(s):  
Marta Zubovic
Keyword(s):  
Common Ground ◽  
The Balkans ◽  
Critical Situation ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
The Government ◽  
Owned Company ◽  
Privately Owned

When the conglomerate Agrokor, the biggest privately-owned company in Croatia and the Balkans, found itself on the verge of bankruptcy in 2017 due to its outstanding debts, the whole Croatian economy was under a threat of collapse. Since Agrokor accounts for 15% of the country’s economy and employs approximately 60000 people, the situation was particularly alarming for the government, which decided to intervene by starting the bailout process. Taking into consideration the fact that Agrokor’s biggest creditors were Russian banks Sberbank and VTB, the crisis also had certain political implications. In the midst of the critical situation, the Croatian leadership had to coordinate the country’s domestic and global policies, attempting to find a common ground with Russia and surmount the crisis.

The Commercial Treaty between Germany and Serbia of 1904

1976 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Horst M. Lorscheider
Keyword(s):  
Economic Impact ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Balkans ◽  
Economic Motivation ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
Historical Importance

On November 28, 1904, a new commercial treaty was signed between Germany and Serbia. Though limited in economic impact, the treaty carried political implications which greatly magnify its historical importance. For both signatories this treaty proved consequential to their respective relations with Austria-Hungary. Indeed, for Serbia it became one of the bases from which to carry on the struggle for the fulfillment of her national ambitions. But while its final importance is political, and emphatically so, the treaty can scarcely be understood without an appreciation of the economic motivation behind it. It will not do to dismiss the treaty as merely another manifestation of German expansionism; money, not empire, seems to have lured Germany into this rockiest part of the Balkans. The Serbo-German commercial treaty, therefore, must be studied against the background of two rivalries, separate both in membership and in kind— one the rivalry, mainly political and national, between Serbia and Austria-Hungary, and the other the commercial rivalry between Germany and Austria-Hungary in the Balkans. In the pages that follow an attempt will be made to pursue the second aspect in some detail; the first can here only be summarized.

scholarly journals Übersetzung und hermeneutische Phänomenologie

Labyrinth ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 52
Author(s):  
Domenico Jervolino
Keyword(s):  
Mediterranean Region ◽  
Hermeneutic Phenomenology ◽  
The Other ◽  
Linguistic Community ◽  
Mutual Understanding ◽  
Narrow Sense ◽  
The Balkans ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of

Translation and Hermeneutic PhenomenologyThe problem of translation has been reflected since the antiquity but it became a special field of research only later within the "traductorolgie" and the translation studies. Applying Paul Ricoeur's hermeneutic phenomenology, the author suggests that translation in the narrow sense (from one language to the other language) is felt also at the level of translation in a broader sense, that is, of mutual understanding within the same linguistic community; thus, it could serve as a model par excellence for the European community. In accordance of Paul Ricoeur's conception of "originary affirmation" and language hospitality, he argues that translation has not only ethical but also political implications: Matured by its century-long history of conflicts and wars, Europe is called to become a translator and mediator of the world and to promote the encounter between cultures, religions and nations with an active peace-policy, especially in the Mediterranean region and the Balkans.

scholarly journals Berlin Congress 1878 and its political implications to the Balkans

2020 ◽  
pp. 75-106
Author(s):  
Petr А. Iskenderov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Zones ◽  
The Balkans ◽  
Political Implications

The article is devoted to the Treaty of Berlin of 1878 and its aftermaths for the Balkans. The author pays particular attention to the situation in the conflict zones of the region. The Russia’s politics and interests are also under consideration.

scholarly journals SPACE AND PLACE OF THE BALKANS: A GEOCRITICAL PERSPECTIVE

2021 ◽  
Vol 70 (4/2020) ◽  
pp. 205-225
Author(s):  
Sanja Lazarevic Radak
Keyword(s):  
Balkan Peninsula ◽  
Academic Discourse ◽  
Physical Geography ◽  
The Other ◽  
Space And Place ◽  
The Political ◽  
Spatial Turn ◽  
The Balkans ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
Symbolic Geography

The literature that explores the representations of the Balkans is based on the assumption that the Balkans were constructed, imagined or invented. This claim is usually accompanied by the attempts to highlight the discrepancy between physical and imaginary geography and to point out the gap in semantics between the Balkan Peninsula and the Balkans. While the first one functions as physical geography, the other one refers to a place populated by representations, rather than people. Following the trend of linguistic and spatial turn, they hold the binary logic that insists upon the duality of the spatial. Some of the most important studies in this field can be read and interpreted as another in a series of texts about the Balkans. Thus, the aim of this paper is to: 1. Point out the places and passages where academic discourse on the Balkans separate physical and symbolic geography; 2. Highlight the political implications of this approach; 3. Suggest a geocritical aim that provides a sort of ballance between the material geography („real“) and imaginary spaces.

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