Abstract Security sector reform (SSR) has become an important part of the EU’s efforts to transform the Western Balkans from a conflict-ridden area into a stable and democratic part of Europe. This paper studies SSR in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) as an illustration of the multifaceted and complex Europeanization policies employed by the EU in the region. It does not present a study of the European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) missions, as there is already a wealth of material available on this subject, but offers instead a broader examination of changes in two sectors of BiH’s security system with the aim of improving understanding of the EU’s impact on the domestic environments of candidate states. Its main argument is that the EU used police and intelligence reforms in Bosnia, both of which were part and parcel of the SSR efforts in the country, as state-building tools. But because domestic competence in Bosnia was lacking and the EU was rather inexperienced in implementing SSR, the reforms have had a mixed record of success and reveal the limitations of the region’s Europeanization.
{"title":"Security sector reform in Bosnia and Herzegovina. A case study of the Europeanization of the Western Balkans","authors":"Anastasiia Kudlenko","doi":"10.1515/soeu-2017-0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/soeu-2017-0004","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Security sector reform (SSR) has become an important part of the EU’s efforts to transform the Western Balkans from a conflict-ridden area into a stable and democratic part of Europe. This paper studies SSR in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) as an illustration of the multifaceted and complex Europeanization policies employed by the EU in the region. It does not present a study of the European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) missions, as there is already a wealth of material available on this subject, but offers instead a broader examination of changes in two sectors of BiH’s security system with the aim of improving understanding of the EU’s impact on the domestic environments of candidate states. Its main argument is that the EU used police and intelligence reforms in Bosnia, both of which were part and parcel of the SSR efforts in the country, as state-building tools. But because domestic competence in Bosnia was lacking and the EU was rather inexperienced in implementing SSR, the reforms have had a mixed record of success and reveal the limitations of the region’s Europeanization.","PeriodicalId":51954,"journal":{"name":"Sudosteuropa","volume":"65 1","pages":"56 - 76"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/soeu-2017-0004","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45616756","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MunroGayle, Transnationalism, Diaspora and Migrants from the Former Yugoslavia in Britain, London et al.: Routledge 2017. 121 pp., ISBN 978-1-138-69778-2, £ 45.00.
{"title":"Transnationalism, Diaspora and Migrants from the Former Yugoslavia in Britain","authors":"Sara Bernard","doi":"10.1515/soeu-2017-0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/soeu-2017-0012","url":null,"abstract":"MunroGayle, Transnationalism, Diaspora and Migrants from the Former Yugoslavia in Britain, London et al.: Routledge 2017. 121 pp., ISBN 978-1-138-69778-2, £ 45.00.","PeriodicalId":51954,"journal":{"name":"Sudosteuropa","volume":"65 1","pages":"121 - 187 - 189"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/soeu-2017-0012","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46787090","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract This article analyses Macedonia’s Colourful Revolution and elections of 2016 against the background of the criticism and protests directed against the Skopje 2014 Project. It also provides a photographic reportage of Skopje 2014 during the political turmoil from July 2016. It examines the main grounds for resistance and opposition to Nikola Gruevski’s VMRO-DPMNE government by further investigating the controversies surrounding Skopje 2014. Those controversies are manifold but stem mainly from the project’s tremendous cost and corruption, its controversial rewriting of history and its exclusion of Albanians and other minorities. Finally, the article argues that the Colourful Revolution has until now failed to overturn or decisively upset Macedonia’s politics or political system, as is evident from election results there. However, it has borne fruit in one respect in that two Albanian MPs have been included in the Social Democratic Union of Macedonia (SDSM), a tentative step towards overcoming the ethnic deadlock of Macedonian politics.
{"title":"Macedonia’s colourful revolution and the elections of 2016. A chance for democracy, or all for nothing?","authors":"P. Reef","doi":"10.1515/soeu-2017-0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/soeu-2017-0009","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article analyses Macedonia’s Colourful Revolution and elections of 2016 against the background of the criticism and protests directed against the Skopje 2014 Project. It also provides a photographic reportage of Skopje 2014 during the political turmoil from July 2016. It examines the main grounds for resistance and opposition to Nikola Gruevski’s VMRO-DPMNE government by further investigating the controversies surrounding Skopje 2014. Those controversies are manifold but stem mainly from the project’s tremendous cost and corruption, its controversial rewriting of history and its exclusion of Albanians and other minorities. Finally, the article argues that the Colourful Revolution has until now failed to overturn or decisively upset Macedonia’s politics or political system, as is evident from election results there. However, it has borne fruit in one respect in that two Albanian MPs have been included in the Social Democratic Union of Macedonia (SDSM), a tentative step towards overcoming the ethnic deadlock of Macedonian politics.","PeriodicalId":51954,"journal":{"name":"Sudosteuropa","volume":"65 1","pages":"170 - 182"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/soeu-2017-0009","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49017030","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
1990s aff ected the sense of belonging of migrants from the former Yugoslavia in Britain. It also has the merit of giving pride of place to the complexity of individual identities, challenging prefabricated labels imposed by institutional actors to classify migrants. This is timely and relevant given the current migration crisis. However, the book does have certain regrettable shortcomings. Methodologically, it does not explain whether and how interviews and surveys differ, nor what questions were asked and how they were analysed. Moreover, the fact that extracts from survey participants and interviews are not contextualised and that ethnic identity received so much of the author’s att ention makes the illustrated nuances less powerful in challenging and problematising essentialist visions of transnational ties and diasporas.
{"title":"Politicization of Religion. The Power of Symbolism. The Case of Former Yugoslavia and its Successor States","authors":"K. Boeckh","doi":"10.1515/soeu-2017-0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/soeu-2017-0013","url":null,"abstract":"1990s aff ected the sense of belonging of migrants from the former Yugoslavia in Britain. It also has the merit of giving pride of place to the complexity of individual identities, challenging prefabricated labels imposed by institutional actors to classify migrants. This is timely and relevant given the current migration crisis. However, the book does have certain regrettable shortcomings. Methodologically, it does not explain whether and how interviews and surveys differ, nor what questions were asked and how they were analysed. Moreover, the fact that extracts from survey participants and interviews are not contextualised and that ethnic identity received so much of the author’s att ention makes the illustrated nuances less powerful in challenging and problematising essentialist visions of transnational ties and diasporas.","PeriodicalId":51954,"journal":{"name":"Sudosteuropa","volume":"65 1","pages":"189 - 191 - 223 - 226"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/soeu-2017-0013","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42740886","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract The Second World War in Albania was a central topic of socialist historiography because of the importance laid upon the National Liberation War for the legitimation of the establishment of communist rule in 1944. History writing was a very centralized process, controlled by party institutions responsible for safeguarding the implementation of Marxist‒Leninist principles and party lines. Since the 1990s, the history of the Second World War has been revised in the framework of a general revision of Albanian national history. History writing developed as an open process and now included historians from countries other than Albania, as opposed to the previous state socialist isolation. The extent to which the war history had been distorted and manipulated during socialism has influenced the subsequent process of rewriting that first focused on adjusting the existing narratives. Thus, despite an increasing variety of research topics, the historiography on wartime Albania has remained dominated by political and military history, and by the national master narrative.
{"title":"Rethinking the Place of the Second World War in the Contemporary History of Albania","authors":"Gentiana Kera","doi":"10.1515/soeu-2017-0022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/soeu-2017-0022","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The Second World War in Albania was a central topic of socialist historiography because of the importance laid upon the National Liberation War for the legitimation of the establishment of communist rule in 1944. History writing was a very centralized process, controlled by party institutions responsible for safeguarding the implementation of Marxist‒Leninist principles and party lines. Since the 1990s, the history of the Second World War has been revised in the framework of a general revision of Albanian national history. History writing developed as an open process and now included historians from countries other than Albania, as opposed to the previous state socialist isolation. The extent to which the war history had been distorted and manipulated during socialism has influenced the subsequent process of rewriting that first focused on adjusting the existing narratives. Thus, despite an increasing variety of research topics, the historiography on wartime Albania has remained dominated by political and military history, and by the national master narrative.","PeriodicalId":51954,"journal":{"name":"Sudosteuropa","volume":"65 1","pages":"364 - 387"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/soeu-2017-0022","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48517535","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The two chapters in the last section further unveil the inaccuracy of the institutional and ideological narratives on BiH. Nebojša Šavija-Valha’s chapter on one of the ‘native’ concepts of gathering and perceiving one’s place in society is especially important. As Svjetlana Nedimović notes in her commentary, ‘by the standards of mainstream politics, raja is a political subject aborted’ (195), but it is nevertheless an important survival and pleasure-producing strategy that largely predates socialist Yugoslavia. Moreover, by enabling social conjunctions in otherwise disjunctive social situations, it fits to a considerable extent to the former concept of ‘brotherhood and unity’ but also, ironically, to hegemonic projections of a desirable future for the BiH’s society alike. Commenting on the volume’s chapters, Armina Galijaš and Hrvoje Paić note, perhaps generalizing too abruptly, that most of them have in common ‘the (un)calculated critical pessimism as the cognitive starting point’ (75). On the other hand, a cultural anthropologist’s particular sensitivity, referred to also in the volume’s introduction (Jansen, Brković, and Čelebčić, 18, 22), is supposed to be able to detect research topics that are either typical of the society in question or are especially important. So, if ‘the analyses are tendentially focused on social actors often giving an impression of being locked in trauma, crisis and related social structures’ (Galijaš and Paić, 75), we should presume that this focus is justified. However, I do understand the concerns Galijaš and Paić put forward about ‘scientifically legitimising new negative stereotypes of “Balkan” societies’ and, consequently, reproducing ‘colonial knowledge with its power hierarchy between the “Balkans” and “Europe”’ (76). Although one should not confront such a possibility by inventing resistance where there is only resignation to be found, some chapters in this volume present actors with the capacity to bring forth alternative models of an ‘ordinary everydayness’, to challenge the prevailing ones.
最后一节的两章进一步揭示了关于波黑的制度和意识形态叙述的不准确性。Nebojša Šavija-Valha关于聚集和感知一个人在社会中的位置的“本土”概念之一的章节尤为重要。正如Svjetlana nedimovovic在她的评论中所指出的，“按照主流政治的标准，raja是一个被废除的政治主题”(195)，但它仍然是一种重要的生存和制造快乐的策略，在很大程度上早于社会主义南斯拉夫。此外，通过在其他分离的社会情况下实现社会连接，它在很大程度上符合以前的“兄弟情谊和团结”概念，但具有讽刺意味的是，它也符合波黑社会理想未来的霸权预测。在评论这本书的章节时，Armina galijasi和Hrvoje paiski注意到，他们中的大多数人都有一个共同点，即“(不)计算的批判性悲观主义作为认知的起点”(75)。另一方面，文化人类学家的特殊敏感性，也提到了在卷的介绍(Jansen, brkoviki，和Čelebčić， 18,22)，应该能够检测研究课题，要么是典型的社会问题或特别重要。因此，如果“分析倾向于关注社会行为者，往往给人一种被困在创伤、危机和相关社会结构中的印象”(galijasi and paiki, 75)，我们应该假设这种关注是合理的。然而，我确实理解galijasi和paiki提出的担忧，即“科学地使‘巴尔干’社会的新负面刻板印象合法化”，从而再现“‘巴尔干’和‘欧洲’之间的权力等级的殖民知识”(76)。尽管一个人不应该通过发明抵抗来面对这种可能性，在那里只能找到顺从，但本卷中的一些章节展示了行动者提出“普通日常生活”的替代模式的能力，以挑战主流模式。
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Abstract This article surveys the existing literature on the occupation policy Italy conducted in Southeastern Europe during the Second World War. The whole subject was largely neglected by scholars of contemporary Italian history up to the 1990s, but in the last twenty years a consistent flow of studies has begun to appear. The reasons for the previous disregard of the topic and, now, the growing interest in it are investigated in the first part of this article. The second part focuses on work done in recent years. It evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of this new literature, and maps out a series of a blank spots that should be addressed by future research.
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Abstract The Holocaust and other mass killings committed during the Second World War in the Yugoslav territories play a more significant role in current public debates than they do in education and research. 85% of Yugoslavia’s Jews were annihilated in the period between 1941 and 1945. In socialist Yugoslavia, it was Holocaust survivors in particular who collected materials that documented the execution of exterminist policies. How has the examination of the Holocaust changed since the dissolution of Yugoslavia; and how have the newly established states of Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as Serbia coped with this part of their history? The author asks whether an exclusive exploration of Jewish suffering is possible—or even desirable—in today’s post-Yugoslav societies. She gives an overview of the evolution of a specific ‘Yugoslav’ approach to the history of the Holocaust, and depicts recent Croatian, Bosnian, and Serbian efforts in this field. Furthermore, she looks at what kind of attention the Holocaust in Yugoslavia has received in international Holocaust Studies.
{"title":"Holocaust Research in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Serbia. An Inventory","authors":"Marija Vulesica","doi":"10.1515/soeu-2017-0018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/soeu-2017-0018","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The Holocaust and other mass killings committed during the Second World War in the Yugoslav territories play a more significant role in current public debates than they do in education and research. 85% of Yugoslavia’s Jews were annihilated in the period between 1941 and 1945. In socialist Yugoslavia, it was Holocaust survivors in particular who collected materials that documented the execution of exterminist policies. How has the examination of the Holocaust changed since the dissolution of Yugoslavia; and how have the newly established states of Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as Serbia coped with this part of their history? The author asks whether an exclusive exploration of Jewish suffering is possible—or even desirable—in today’s post-Yugoslav societies. She gives an overview of the evolution of a specific ‘Yugoslav’ approach to the history of the Holocaust, and depicts recent Croatian, Bosnian, and Serbian efforts in this field. Furthermore, she looks at what kind of attention the Holocaust in Yugoslavia has received in international Holocaust Studies.","PeriodicalId":51954,"journal":{"name":"Sudosteuropa","volume":"65 1","pages":"260 - 283"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/soeu-2017-0018","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47728646","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article is a presentation and assessment of Greek historiography and public memory regarding the period of occupation, resistance, and civil war during the 1940s. It examines historical production and culture from the first postwar years until 1989 and explains the relation between the changing visions of the past and political developments in Greece. In addition, the article evaluates works published after 2000, in order to discuss new questions that were raised and the ensuing debates. The article concludes by addressing themes that can revitalize the study of the 1940s, regarding the analytical framework, the territorial and social dimension, the notion of state and governmentality, and the issue of memory and public history.
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Abstract The author outlines the way identity perspectives determine the understanding of World War Two in Moldovan society, and the role of historians in this conception. She discusses how historians have adjusted their writing to fit a certain political discourse and have influenced how and what should people ‘remember’. Further questions at stake touch on the standing of Moldovan history writing in comparison with World War Two research published outside the country; the new tendencies in history writing; and whether these emerging currents might lead in the near future to the transcendence of the politicised approaches that are currently dominant.
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