scholarly journals For the Liberation of the 'Captive Nations': A Comparison of Political Organizations of Anti-Communist Exiles from East-Central Europe and the Balkans

2012 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-70
Author(s):  
Martin Nekola
Keyword(s):  
Central Europe ◽  
Political Organizations ◽  
East Central Europe ◽  
East Central ◽  
The Balkans

scholarly journals Cross-border cooperation: A major element in regional policy in the new East Central Europe

2002 ◽  
pp. 149-166
Author(s):  
David Turnock
Keyword(s):  
Central Europe ◽  
Regional Policy ◽  
East Central Europe ◽  
East Central ◽  
The Balkans ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
The North ◽  
Eu Eastern Enlargement ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Cross Border Cooperation

Borders in East Central Europe have become much more permeable over the past ten years as formalities have been simplified and many new crossing points have opened. At the same time, cooperation in border regions has increased, thanks mainly to the EU 'Interreg' programmes, to include a range of business cultural and conservation interests. In many cases these arrangements have been formalized through Euroregions which have become an indicator of good international relations. The paper reviews these trends with reference to examples and pays particular attention to environmental projects and the joint planning initiatives being undertaken in a number of Euroregions. At a time when regional policy has been generally weak, cross-border cooperation has contributed significantly to cohesion and it is also a good indicator of stability in the region. However, the impact has been greater in the north than in the Balkans and the first round of EU eastern enlargement will have implications for cooperation across the new external borders.

NIKOLAI TODOROV, Society, the City and Industry in the Balkans, 15th–19th Centuries (Aldershot: Ashgate Variorum, 1998).

2002 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 140-142
Author(s):  
Isa Blumi
Keyword(s):  
Central Europe ◽  
Historical Materialism ◽  
Early Career ◽  
East Central Europe ◽  
East Central ◽  
The Balkans ◽  
The City

This collection of essays, the latest in a long list of collected works put together by Variorum's Studies in East–Central Europe, 1500–1900, is supposed to give the reader a broad range of Nikolai Todorov's lifetime work. Todorov's contribution to the field is not in doubt, although this collection hardly does justice to that contribution. The fourteen separate articles often overlap in theme, and on one occasion they almost reproduce the same article, as they span a period that reaches back to Todorov's early career in Bulgaria (1964–92). The essays somewhat misplace Todorov's importance to the field, as most of the language appropriated has become outdated with the collapse of the Bulgarian institutions that funded Todorov's research until 1989. I would like to think Todorov can survive the fall of historical materialism.

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