The Security Council and the Obligation to Prevent Genocide and War Crimes

Author(s): Andreas Zimmermann / Language(s): English Issue: 32/2012

This article addresses the question of the obligations of both the Security Council as such, as well of its individual members (including the five permanent members), when faced with genocide or in situations where violations of the Geneva Conventions are being committed, given that the contracting parties of the Genocide Convention are under a positive obligation to prevent genocide and are under an obligation to secure respect for the provisions of the Geneva Conventions.

Book review:Brusil Miranda Metou, Le rôle du juge dans le contentieux international (2012)

Author(s): Anna Czaplińska / Language(s): English Issue: 32/2012

Book review: Brusil Miranda Metou, Le rôle du juge dans le contentieux international, Bruylant, Bruxelles, 2012, pp. 626

Book review: Chiara Giorgetti (ed.), The Rules, Practice and Jurisprudence of International Courts and Tribunals (2012)

Author(s): Anna Czaplińska / Language(s): English Issue: 32/2012

Book review of Chiara Giorgetti (ed.), The Rules, Practice and Jurisprudence of International Courts and Tribunals (series: International Law in Practice, Vol. 4), Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Leiden-Boston, 2012, pp. xxxii + 612

Targeted Killings (Drone strikes) and the European Convention on Human Rights

Author(s): Irmina Pacho,Adam Bodnar / Language(s): English Issue: 32/2012

More and more Member States of the Council of Europe are becoming interested in drone technology. Currently, a number of them either possess or wish to obtain unmanned aerial vehicles equipped with missiles. Due to the increased number of targeted killing operations committed with the use of drones by countries such as the United States or Israel, there is a probability that Member States might also use them for such operations, especially if their forces will be subject to joint command. Although the issue of targeted killings with the use of drones has not yet been subject to the scrutiny of the European Court of Human Rights, there are two main reasons why this may change in the near future. First, the Court has already ruled on the extraterritorial applicability of the European Convention on Human Rights, and second, the Convention places strict limits on any attempts to carry out targeted killings and leaves only a limited space for their use, even in the context of warfare. In this article we assess whether the Member States of the Council of Europe might be ever justified under the European Convention on Human Rights to carry out targeted killing operations using drones.

Book review: James Crawford, Martti Koskenniemi (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to International Law (2012)

Author(s): Karolina Wierczyńska / Language(s): English Issue: 32/2012

Book review: James Crawford, Martti Koskenniemi (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to International Law, Cambridge University Press, 2012, pp. 480

PolRevIEL: A Promising New Editorial Project

Author(s): Łukasz Gruszczyński / Language(s): English Issue: 32/2012

Journal review: Polish Review of International and European Law

Our Take: Rearing Its Ugly Head

Author(s): Tihomir Loza,Ky Krauthamer / Language(s): English Issue: 11/07/2006

Georgia is the latest target of Moscow's officially-sanctioned jingoism. Tomorrow it could just as easily be somebody else.

Eurozone: Converge Now

Author(s): Robert Anderson / Language(s): English Issue: 11/07/2006

There will never be a better time for Central European governments of all stripes to push for speedy euro adoption.

Tajikistan: Rakhmonov's Marathon Run

Author(s): Author Not Specified / Language(s): English Issue: 11/07/2006

Running against a bunch of unknowns, the Tajik leader can be certain of re-election on 6 November. His hold on power looks solid for the foreseeable future.

The Aspects of French Literature in the Belgrade Journal Delo 1894–1915

Author(s): Aleksandra Kolaković / Language(s): French Issue: 40/2009

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the press in Serbia underwent a substantial change and began to reflect cultural trends in society. Delo, defined as a magazine for science, literature and social life, attracted a wide circle of contributors, intellectuals with different outlooks and views. Its editors and contributors, mostly educated and trained in European cultural centres, contributed to the creation of a climate conducive to the modernization of Serbian culture. This paper focuses on the role of French cultural and literary trends launched in the Delo, whose editors and contributors closely followed the leading French journals, translating and publishing the texts they deemed important for Serbia’s cultural development. French literature offered guidelines and models to the realist and naturalist movements, subsequently also to modernist and avant-garde tendencies in Serbian literature. The start of the journal in 1894 is associated with the Radical Party, but the Radical ideological influence on the journal was not as strong as might be expected. Choosing science, literature and social life as the journal’s areas of interest the founders and editors demonstrated their commitment to modernizing the young Serbian state and society by way of culture.

Anglophiles in Balkan Christian States (1862–1920)

Author(s): Slobodan G. Marković / Language(s): English Issue: 40/2009

The life stories of five Balkan Anglophiles emerging in the nineteenth century - two Serbs, Vladimir Jovanović (Yovanovich) and Čedomilj Mijatović (Chedomille Mijatovich); two Greeks, Ioannes ( John) Gennadios and Eleutherios Venizelos; and one Bulgarian, Ivan Evstratiev Geshov — reflect, each in its own way, major episodes in relations between Britain and three Balkan Christian states (Serbia, the Hellenic Kingdom and Bulgaria) between the 1860s and 1920. Their education, cultural patterns, relations and models inspired by Britain are looked at, showing that they acted as intermediaries between British culture and their own and played a part in the best and worst moments in the history of mutual relations, such as the Serbian-Ottoman crisis of 1862, the Anglo-Hellenic crisis following the Dilessi murders, Bulgarian atrocities and the Eastern Crisis, unification of Bulgaria and the Serbo-Bulgarian War of 1885, the Balkan Wars 1912–13, the National Schism in Greece. Their biographies are therefore essential for understanding Anglo-Balkan relations in the period under study. The roles of two British Balkanophiles (a Bulgarophile, James David Bourchier, and a Hellenophile, Ronald Burrows) are looked at as well. In conclusion, a comparison of the Balkan Anglophiles is offered, and their Britain-inspired cultural and institutional legacy to their countries is shown in the form of a table.

Bibliography of Dimitrije V. Djordjević

Author(s): Valentina Babić / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 40/2009

The Sixteenth-century Altar Painting of the Cattaran (Kotor) Fraternity of Leather-makers Fraternity of Leather-makers

Author(s): Valentina Živković / Language(s): English Issue: 40/2009

The altar painting that the Cattaran Fraternity of Leather-makers commissioned from the Venetian painter Girolamo da Santa Croce in the first half of the sixteenth century contains the images of Sts Bartholomew, George and Antoninus. The presence of the first two saints is looked at from the perspective of a long established religious tradition, while the reasons for depicting the archbishop Antoninus giving alms to the poor appear to reside in the then prevailing religious policy and the local social situation.

La Yougoslavie titiste vue par les diplomates français (1955–1974)

Author(s): Gilles Troude / Language(s): French Issue: 40/2009

Les  relations entre  la France et  la Yougoslavie pendant  a période où cette dernière était dirigée par Tito,  étaient marquées d’abord par  l’aide yougoslave aux insurgés algériens,  et ensuite par le refus de générale De Gaule de rencontrer le président Yougoslave.  L’aide aux FLN algérien s’inscrivait dans la politique de nonalignement de Tito dont un aspect important était la coopération avec les pays musulmans dans le Tiers Mondes, facilité en partie par les liens mis en place entre les pays musulmans et les Musulmans Yougoslaves.  Général De Gaule,  considérait le sort que Tito avait réservé à général Mihailovic comme inacceptable,   et estimait en plus que la fédération yougoslave en tant que telle est une structure étatique plus que fragile.

Upper Moesian Bacchic Worshippers as Reectedinas Reected in Jewellery and Cosmetic Objects

Author(s): Sanja Pilipović / Language(s): English Issue: 40/2009

The paper looks at the anepigraphic material such as jewellery and cosmetic objects recovered from the province of Upper Moesia. The quality of the material used in their manufacture, their findspots and iconography, serve as a basis in an attempt to shed light on the origin and social status of Bacchic worshippers in that part of the Roman Empire.

Kassandra in the Ottoman documents from Chilandar Monastery (Mount Athos) in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Author(s): Aleksandar Fotić / Language(s): English Issue: 40/2009

The rich archive of the Athonite Monastery of Hilandar contains a group of Ottoman documents relating to the promontory of Kassandra. Hilandar did not begin to acquire land in Kassandra until the very end of the sixteenth century. No link has been found between the newly-acquired landed property and the metochia Hilandar had held under Byzantine rule. Bits of information gleaned from the documentary material on Hilandar’s metochia within the village boundaries of Kalandra and Mavrokol, of the now non-existent village of Plastara, and of Valta, modern Kassandria, have been used to look at the ways of land acquisition, the composition of estates, forms of tenure, relations with the “master of the land”, taxes, and disputes in the course of the two centuries.

Reviews

Author(s): Mihailo Vojvodić,Miloš Luković,Ljiljana Stošić / Language(s): English Issue: 40/2009

Mihailo Vojvodić: Dušan T. Bataković’s trilogy on Kosovo and Metohija Miloš Luković: Ladislav Hladký & Václav Štĕpánek, eds., František Alexander Zach 1807–2007 Ljiljana Stošić: Irena Arsić, Srpska pravoslavna crkva u Dubrovniku do početka XX veka

John Stuart Mill in Nineteenth-century Serbia: Influence on Political Thought and Gender Issues

Author(s): Ivana Pantelić / Language(s): English Issue: 40/2009

The paper deals with the reception of J. S. Mill’s writings by contemporary Serbian intellectuals. As shown in the paper, the impact that Millean ideas made on many important Serbian politicians and philosophers from all parts of the political spectrum was broad and profound. Special attention is paid to the work of liberal and socialist thinkers, notably Vladimir Jovanović and Svetozar Marković. The influence of Mill’s ideas on Serbia’s political development is also examined, as well as how Mill’s attitude towards the question of women’s rights impacted contemporary Serbian political thought.

Women Vaqfs in the Sixteenth-century Sanjak of Kruševac (Alaca Hisâr)

Author(s): Dragana Amedoski / Language(s): English Issue: 40/2009

The role of the vaqf in the Ottoman Empire, as in the whole Islamic world, was quite significant, especially in a period marked by the founding of new oriental settlements. The first endowers in the newly-conquered lands were sultans, begs and prominent government officials. Affluent citizens also took part in endowing their cities, and women are known to have been among them. The aim of the paper, based on Ottoman sources, is to shed light on the participation of Muslim women in this kind of humanitarian and lucrative activity using the example of the Sanjak of Kruševac (Alaca Hisâr) in the sixteenth century.

Leading Serbian and Serbian-American expert on Balkan history

Author(s): Dušan T. Bataković / Language(s): English Issue: 40/2009

A Tribute to Dimitrije V. Djordjević (1922–2009)