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Democratic transition in the Balkans: Romania's Hungarian and Bulgaria's Turkish minority (1989-99)
Nationalism and Ethnic Politics. 2002. Vol. 8. No. 1. P. 1-28.
Johnson C.
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This article is a comparative analysis of the Hungarian minority in Romania and the Turkish minority in Bulgaria during the first ten years of their transition to democracy. Despite austere assimilationist campaigns during the communist-era and the unstable political region of the Balkans in its post-communist-era, both countries have avoided protracted, inter-ethnic violence. This article examines three internal factors that have played an instrumental role in facilitating democratic transitions in these plural societies: (i) state control of minorities; (ii) political institutions chosen for their nascent democracies; (iii) and the accommodative role of each minority's ethnopolitical party.
Johnson C., Dumitru D., World Politics 2011 Vol. 63 No. 1 P. 1-42
The authors draw on a natural experiment to demonstrate that states can reconstruct conflictual interethnic relationships into cooperative relationships in relatively short periods of time. The article examines differences in how the gentile population in each of two neighboring territories in Romania treated its Jewish population during the Holocaust. These territories had been part of ...
Added: November 28, 2019
Johnson C., Civil Wars 2015 Vol. 17 No. 1 P. 25-50
This paper examines partition as a solution to ethnic civil wars and modifies the ethnic security dilemma, suggesting that strong state institutions are more important than demographically separating ethnic groups to achieve an enduring peace. The paper starts with a puzzle: if ethnic separation is required for peace, how do some partitions that leave minorities ...
Added: November 28, 2019
Semenenko I. S., Europe-Asia Studies 2015 Vol. 67 No. 2 P. 306-326
The post-Soviet period in Russia has seen the emergence of strong identities shaped around ethnicity issues. The current Putin presidency is marked by a political concern for the 'national question' with strong traditionalist connotations. State dominated politics of identity promoting an encompassing Russian (rossiyskaya) identity aim to become a game changer in nation-building. This agenda ...
Added: February 29, 2016
Melville A. Y., Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization 1999 Vol. 7 No. 2 P. 165-187
I have argued that specific conditions, departing points, and paths for transition (including the Russian democratic transition) can be considered as part of the current global democratic wave. Because of its multidimensional character and its ongoing evolution, post-communism can be conceptualized in various theoretical models. Among other things, we can find in postcommunism some of ...
Added: December 29, 2017
Johnson C., International Security 2008 Vol. 32 No. 4 P. 140-170
Some scholars have proposed partition as a way to solve ethnic civil wars. Partition theorists advocate the demographic separation of ethnic groups into different states, arguing that this is the best chance for an enduring peace. Opponents argue that partition is costly in terms of its human toll and that its advocates have yet to ...
Added: November 18, 2019
Moreva Y., Конфликтология 2019 Т. 14 № 2 С. 219-225
The present article contains a conflict analysis of the language policy of the Russian Federation. The stated problem seems to be particularly important considering that language plays a significant role in the process of people’s self-identification and self-consciousness formation of ethnic groups. The state regulates the languages through language policy. Language policy is carried out ...
Added: December 15, 2021
Aymaliev I., Журнал исследований социальной политики 2016 Т. 14 № 2 С. 213-228
In spite of institutional change, corrupt networks have been tremendously successful enterprises at the expense of the public good and continue to return and evolve with new elements. For corruption to prosper it must possess an efficient and resilient social organization. Given the understudied nature of organized police corruption and its detrimental consequences for socioeconomic ...
Added: June 7, 2016
Demidov A., Journal of Contemporary European Research 2018 Vol. 14 No. 2 P. 169-186
Existing research on how the involvement of civil society actors improves EU democratic legitimacy produces controversial results. This is the outcome of a top-down analytical strategy. Scholars regularly gauge partnership practices against different concepts of legitimacy, but rarely ask how actors themselves perceive and construct partnership, let alone how these understandings relate to existing concepts ...
Added: March 7, 2019
Johnson C., Horowitz M., Weisiger A., International Security 2009 Vol. 33 No. 4 P. 203-2010
Added: November 28, 2019
Gužvica S., , in : Decolonial Politics in European Peripheries: Redefining Progressiveness, Coloniality and Transition Efforts. : L. : Routledge, 2023. P. 297-318.
This chapter calls for rethinking socialism and its reception in the European periphery in the early twentieth century, by examining the development of Balkan Marxist thought. I will show how the critique of the peripheral position of the Balkans, developed by Marxists in the interwar period, converged with contemporary anticolonial movements in the Global South ...
Added: November 17, 2023
Piskunova N., / The Edwin Mellen Press. Series 111 "African Horn: Security Challenged". 2014.
This monograph reviews key challenges to security in the region of North-East Africa, specifically in the area of the African Horn region. The issues discussed in this book, include the problems of soft security in this region, namely the problem of democratic transitions and hybrid regimes, terrorism and radicalization of muslim organizations, foreign policy issues ...
Added: May 6, 2014
Никовская Л. И., М. : ИД "Ключ-С", 2012
В Сборнике особое внимание уделено конфликтным аспектам во взаимодействии власти и гражданского общества. Показывается, что в настоящее время публичная политика возрождается в пространстве конфликта, а участие граждан и структур гражданского общества становится одним из важных механизмов политического управления конфликтом. ...
Added: February 18, 2013
Burgas : Университет им. профессора доктора Асена Златарова, 2016
The collection “Two Cultures for a United World” synthesizes the search of scientists from Bulgaria and Russia - representatives of universities and research institutes from four European countries participating in a scientific and research project on the topic “Bulgarian-Russian parallels in linguistic-literary and pedagogic and historical context”. Within the frames of their priority research areas ...
Added: January 25, 2022
Zeveleva O., Bajomi-Lazar P., Schimpfössl E. et al., European Journal of Communication 2019
Self-censorship is often understood in relation to censorship (Simons and Strovsky, 2006; Kenny and Gross, 2008; Tapsell, 2012). While the word ‘self’ emphasises individual agency, ‘censorship’ indicates the presence of an external force that imposes itself on an individual or a collective. The mainstream literature on media and journalism has thus far fallen short of ...
Added: June 17, 2019
Ofitserov-Belskiy D. V., Sushentsov A. A., Сушенцов А. А. et al., ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2018
Providing a comprehensive overview of Russia’s foreign policy directions, this handbook brings together an international team of scholars to develop a complex treatment of Russia’s foreign policy. The chapters draw from numerous theoretical traditions by incorporating ideas of domestic institutions, considerations of national security and international recognition as sources of the nation’s foreign policy. Covering ...
Added: February 6, 2018
Iwanowski Z., Razumovskiy D. V., Rozental D. M., Izquierdas 2021 No. 50 Article 16
The article reviews the monograph ”Elements of a comprehensive and inclusive transition in Venezuela: a vision from the local”, published in April 2020. It is dedicated to the acute political and socio-economic crisis in this Latin American country. Leading scientists of the Bolivarian Republic, included in the expert group of the Institute for Integrated Transitions ...
Added: February 6, 2022
Medushevsky A. N., Сравнительное конституционное обозрение 2012 № 4 С. 45-60
Rethinking the standard theory of democratic transition the author shows the uneven character of Central Asian political regimes. He sketches different strategies of political modernization in order to represent the impact of Post-Soviet constitutional reforms regarding such items as separation of powers, parliamentarism, presidential power and the role of political leadership. He discusses the importance ...
Added: November 27, 2012
Budapest : CEU Press, 2018
In recent years, a remarkable flourishing of works on the postwar history of social science and humanities disciplines led to the growing configuration of a field of “Cold War social science” research. Yet in spite of its thematic diversity, and with few exceptions, the geography of the field remains overwhelmingly North American and Western European. ...
Added: March 5, 2019
Abingdon : Routledge, 2024
This book addresses the variety of right-wing illiberal populism which has emerged in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). Against the backdrop of weak institutional traditions, frequent and profound transformations, and deep historical traumas affecting the law, politics, economy and society in the region, the book critically examines the entanglements of legality in the region’s transformation from ...
Added: October 28, 2023
Bodishteanu N., Вопросы политологии 2023 Т. 13 № 6(94) С. 2723-2733
The collapse of the USSR and the acquisition of independence posed the problem of further self-determination for the former Soviet republics. The majority declared their desire to establish a stable democratic form of government. Among them is the Republic of Moldova, which until recently was considered by the West as one of the pioneers in ...
Added: July 26, 2023
Lukyanov F., Soloviev Alexander, Social Research 2019 Vol. 86 No. 1 P. 147-180
For 30 years, it was generally accepted that the globalizing world was entering a new, universal stage of democratization. Russia was meant to become a showcase of transition from an authoritarian system to a market-based democracy. However, almost from the beginning, Russia’s path deviated from the preset course and later drifted farther away from it. ...
Added: March 24, 2020
Ali S., Haiyan X., Xu P. et al., Journal of Systems Science and Systems Engineering 2019 Vol. 28 P. 356-381
This paper constructs a dynamic conflict model that considers Decision Makers’ (DMs) evolutional attitude using the option prioritization. The proposed evolutional attitude approach is based on the framework of the Graph Model for Conflict Resolution (GMCR). Compared with the existing state-based preference, the option prioritization is a more convenient and efficient approach to analyze larger ...
Added: November 19, 2023
Demidov A., Journal of European Integration 2016 Vol. 38 No. 2 P. 117-132
The literature views contestation over the partnership principle for Structural Funds as a failure produced by either macro differences in administrative and institutional traditions of the member states or, conversely, micro variation across partnership encounters. Practical implementation of partnership is seen as especially problematic in the CEE member states. The article argues that the default ...
Added: March 7, 2019
Soboleva E., Азия и Африка сегодня 2019 № 11 С. 9-15
In 2018 Northern Myanmar experienced another escalation of fighting between the armed forces of the central government and Kachin rebels. This conflict takes place in Kachin state, which lies just across the border from the PRC and hosts a number of China’s strategic investment projects. Traditionally the PRC insists on the principle of non-interference in ...
Added: October 4, 2019