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Economic reform and political change in Eastern Europe: a comparison of the Czechoslovak and Hungarian experiences
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ISBN: 0333444566 Year: 1988 Publisher: London Macmillan

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East Central Europe from reform to transformation
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ISBN: 0861870883 0861870875 Year: 1991 Publisher: London Royal Institute of International Affairs

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The question of Serbia
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ISSN: 10177566 ISBN: 9291980773 9789291980772 Year: 2005 Volume: 81 Publisher: Paris : Institute for security studies,

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Five years after the fall of Slobodan Milosevic, it is still not clear where Serbia is heading. Indeed, it is not yet clear what, or even where Serbia is. Serbia’s borders and statehood remain open questions: the future status of Kosovo is unresolved and the survival of the State Union with Montenegro in doubt. As long as Serbia does not know what and where it is, its progress towards EU integration will be impeded. The political agenda remains heavily burdened by these open questions, and the baneful legacies of Milosevic’s misrule. These divert politicians’ attention from the equally demanding challenges of preparing for EU integration. Serbia needs to redefine its national identity and statehood in order to become capable of integrating into the EU. Serbia matters. With a population of 7.5 million, it is by far the largest country in the Western Balkans, and, as such, of crucial importance for the stability of the whole region. While the Serbs want to ‘join Europe’, they still do not fully trust it, and the feeling is reciprocated. Both sides now need to work to overcome their mutual incomprehension. This Chaillot Paper aims to make a start on that.


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Is there an Albanian question?
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ISSN: 10177566 ISBN: 9789291981205 9291981206 Year: 2007 Volume: 107 Publisher: Paris Institute for Security Studies

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Is there an « Albanian question » ? If so, what is it ? Is it a traditional « national question », centred on the dream of a « Greater Albania » that would gather in all the Albanian communities in the Balkans ? Many outside observers, in particular among the Albanians’ neighbours in the Balkans, see it that way and fear its destabilising consequences, but none of the contributors to this Chaillot Paper finds this scenario convincing. The core of the Albanian national question today is Kosovo, an issue that has the power to unite Albanians in the Balkans and in the sizeable diaspora communities spread across the globe. While the answer – for Albanians – is independence for Kosovo, beyond that, views diverge. It seems that only a minority of Albanians remain committed to the project of Pan-Albanian political unification. Most Albanians are fully aware of the diversity of interests of the various Albanian communities in the Balkans, who have lived in different states over the past century. The end of communism made it much easier for Albanians to keep in contact with each other, but this did not lead to greater national cohesion. The dramatic « high politics » of the Kosovo issue tends to obscure the fact that for most Albanians, the most urgent questions today are not « national » ones at all, but questions of economic underdevelopment, unemployment, the quality of democratic governance, political corruption and criminality, and the emigration of large numbers of the brightest and best of the younger generation. None of these challenges is unique to the Albanians, but they possess a particular asset in their young diaspora in the West, closely linked via the internet with young democracy activists in the Albanians’ Balkans homelands. This new generation of Albanians aims to leap out of the isolation and introversion of traditional village and clan-based politics to form a new ‘post-modern’ transnational political community, committed to building democracy within their states and across them


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The Western Balkans : moving on.
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Year: 2004 Publisher: Paris Western European union. Institute for security studies

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The question of Serbia.
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Year: 2005 Publisher: Paris European Union institute for security studies

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Region, state and identity in Central and Eastern Europe
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ISBN: 0714652431 071468225X Year: 2002 Publisher: London Cass

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Post-communist state transformations in Central and Eastern Europe have been accompanied by an upsurge of identity politics as newly-independent peoples sought to redefine themselves and their place in Europe. National unity has proved elusive in practice as new democracies have debated constitutional and territorial-administrative changes to prepare for the challenges of "returning to Europe" while at the same time integrating diverse historical regions and ethnic minorities. The case of regional reform and resurgent regional politics presented in this volume highlight the divergent concepts of statehood which have emerged as Central and East Europeans struggle to come to terms with the meaning of their statehood today. Competing models have been advocated in terms of their perceived conformity with national or local traditions and wider trends in modern European governance, but local interests and identities have challenged this emphasis on the imperatives of sovereignty, territorial unity and administrative efficiency. The contributors investigate these pressing issues as new and tougher controls are enforced at the EU's emerging external borders, posing fresh challenges to national, regional and minority identities.


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The long-term implications of EU enlargement: the nature of the new border: final report of the reflection group
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Year: 1999 Publisher: San Domenico di Fiesole European University Institute

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Border regimes and border protection in the enlarged European Union: report of the meeting of the reflection group on the "long-term implications of EU enlargement: the nature of the new border"
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Year: 1999 Publisher: San Domenico di Fiesole Robert Schuman Centre

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Partenaires et voisins : une PESC pour une Europe élargie
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Year: 2003 Volume: 64 Publisher: Paris : Institut d'études de sécurité de l'Union européenne,

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