Keywords: Radomir Radovic; state secret; death
For twenty one years now, on April 30. each year, we have been marking a day of death of Radomir Radovic. On that day Radomir Radovic was found dead. Many things have changed in these twenty one years in country, society, lifes of Radomir's friends from Open University, but one thing stayed the same. Last days of life of Radomir Radovic and the way he died remained state secret.
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Keywords: critical thought; crime;
Major opstical on our path towads conquering painful past is, obviously, strong resistance, not only in politics but in culture, critical thought and creating of intitutional or any other rational frames for reserche and overcomeing of complecs problems of our today, and a crime is a part of that resistance...
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Keywords: Slobodan Milosevic; Mira Markovic;
In a yearbook of Pozarevac secundary school there are no more names of Mira Markovic and Slobodan Milosevic, in a list of well-known ex students...
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Keywords: George W. Bush; heritage; geopolitical heritage;
We could have read in newspapers these days that George W. Bush is interested in his historical heritage. What will historians remember him, in their texts 25 years from now?...
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Keywords: ecology;
A meeteng was held in Belgrade from June 5. to June 8. year 2005. headlined “Enviroment towards Europe” as a part of a preparation for Pan-european ministry conference about eviroment that will also be held in Belgrade in year 2007. ...
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Keywords: legalists; loyalists;
Serbia is not yet ready to face itself. It saw, in the first days of June shacking shots from Srebrenica, and exposition i Paviljon “Veljkovic”, heard mothers of murdered, unarmed boys...
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Keywords: translators; Belgrade;
Though, by nature of their work, solitaire - and maybe becasue of that - literary translators like to be around people that are in the same business and share their interests. That is way their guild every year, since 1975, organizes international conference, bigest of its kind in our country.
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Keywords: media; media etics;
A part of the book "Media globalisation of the World" by Fahira Fejzic.
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Keywords: crimes; Bosnia; war;
In his three volume book “Human taint” published by “Prelom” from Banjaluka, one of rare few non nationalistic publishers in Republic Srpska, publisher that do not care about still alive heretage of Karadzic's shovinistic-fashist ideas about special task from God for “suffering and barehanded serbian people”, profesor Krstan Malesevic writes about, to simlify it, moral dimension of meaninig of human existence...
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Keywords: calendar; gospel; astronomy; Julian calendar;
For yaers have Serbs and Russians - and few of other members of orthodox churche - had problems when travel West, with their Julian calendar, that is still in use by Serbian Orthodocs Churche, Russian Orthodocs Churche and Jerusalem patriarchy, Sinay and Athos in Greece.
More...Keywords: National socialism; Transylvania; school; teacher
Presents a synthetic overwiev about the influence of national socialism on the professional associations, meetings and publications of transylvanian-saxon teachers. In the period between 1920 and 1933, no direct national-socialist influence can be found. From 1933 to 1935, the evolution in Nazi Germany was observed with interst, trying in the same time to keep nazi influences out. The time from 1935 to 1939 saw the rapprochement and eventually adoption of the positions of a (so called "moderate") current of the "Erneuerungsbewegung". From 1939 to 1942 the "Gleichschaltung" (enforced conformity) was realised. The "Deutsche Volksgruppe" (german ethnic group) controlled all spheres of the school. A majority of teachers accepted the national-socialist influence not for ideological, but for practical reasons, assuming that finally important goals could be achieved that had not been realised in the interwar period.
More...Keywords: Kronstadt; Brasov; Brasso; Transylvania; Castle; Fortification; Architecture; war
Based on archival sources (accounts, plans) from the Kriegsarchiv in Vienna from the 18th and 19th centuries, the contribution presents the history of the castle of Kronstadt (Brasov, Brasso) beginning with the earliest informations from 1524 until the middle of the 19th century, when it was no longer of military importance. The detailed description of the fortification includes images and plans from the 18th and 19th centuries.
More...Keywords: Transylvania; research; debates
Contains contributions and debates by different scholars about controverted thesis, new directions in research and other problems.
More...Keywords: Johannes Honterus; humanism; astronomy; cosmography; geocentric world view; Transylvania
The first part of Honterus' Cosmography contains astronomical remarks that have been little studied up to now. Even though both the first and the second edition from 1530 and 1541/42 are based on the same geocentric world view, there can be detected fundamental changes in the presentation. These changes make it possible to trace the development of Honterus from a medieval thinker to a humanist in exemplary manner.
More...Keywords: national peasant party; national party; economic programmes; economic policy; economy; ideology; peasantry; modernization; populism; Romania; interwar period
Presents the economic thinking of the romanian peasant party and the national peasant party respectively in the interwar period. Rejects an earlier thesis that based on the assmption that after the unification of the peasant party with the romanian national party in 1926, the influence of populist peasant ideology became irrelevant and the economic policy of the newly established national peasant party was orientated exclusively to middle-class peasants. In response to the economic policy of the dominant national libral party, that neglected the peasantry, but also in continuation of populist peasant ideology, the national peasant party adopted a policy that gloryfied the peasantry, but neglected in the same time the adoption of solutions to modernise agriculture and resolve the main structural problems of the peasantry.
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Keywords: energy diplomacy; foreign energy policy; Russian Federation; multinational energy companies; mutual interdependence
A cyclical energy crisis (2006–2009) strongly affected the long-lasting existing energy relations between the Russian Federation and the EU. The EU generally perceives the Federation’s energy diplomacy as a negative tool of its external foreign policy. According to this perception, the main objectives of Russian energy diplomacy are primarily (geo)political, with a special emphasis on a "divide-et-impera" policy (so-called "energy imperialism"). In this article we attempt to look beyond this dominant scientific and political discourse and further develop alternative approaches (for example the "mutual interdependence" approach) to analyse the main characteristics of the formation and implementation of Russian energy diplomacy. This article develops the view that Russian energy diplomacy must be understood multidimensionally (beyond the dominant (neo)realist approaches), particularly with regard to the role and importance of Russian energy multinational companies in the process of formulating Russian foreign (energy) policies. The central objectives of Russian energy diplomacy in relation to the EU are not (geo)political, but economic.
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Keywords: diplomacy; environmental diplomacy; climate diplomacy; international relations; international environmental law
The article discusses the concept of environmental (and climate) diplomacy. The author firstly defines the concept, then outlines its historical development and key features with the help of a case study of the climate conference in Copenhagen in 2009. The final part rounds up the article and finds the concept of environmental (and climate) diplomacy to be a distinct form of multilateral diplomacy – in the course of finding a consensus on global environmental questions important dimensions represent conference diplomacy along with summit diplomacy, with the latter gaining weight in the final parts of conferences. Environmental diplomacy has helped the international community to solve some grave environmental problems in the past. Nevertheless, the quest for a solution to global climate change issues after Copenhagen in 2009 and Cancun in 2010 goes on.
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Keywords: economic diplomacy; French Revolution; consul; diplomat; statecraft
The article focuses on the history of diplomacy and its economic component. The author presumes that diplomacy has, throughout history, been conditioned by the economic interests of its actors (states, private merchants etc.) and began to take on its modern form in Italian city states, representing the first step in the international community’s institutionalisation. The momentum of the French Revolution changed the position of economic interests in diplomacy, replacing it with the political component which dominated world diplomacy for a century. However, a shift in the world economy after the end of WWII created a sense of déjà vu in which the economic component of diplomacy regained its pre-French Revolution position by becoming one of the most important activities of diplomacy.
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