The recent critical standpoint argues that the peace-building process in Bosnia and Herzegovina has not been successful since it has not achieved the state of broadly defined positive peace. According to this widespread opinion, the international peace-building policies have been formulated in terms of negative peace, and rather cemented the division of the country than...
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Based on the presumption that the public attitude towards security issues can be measured by analyzing certain public opinion survey variables, we have tested selected variables from the Slovenian Public Opinion Surveys on National and International Security (from 1990 to 2012) against the basic postulates of the Political Realist, Liberal, Constructivist and Critical Security theoretical...
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The present paper aims at offering a glance into the management of the Syrian-Armenian refugee-like situation by the Armenian government and the civil society. It covers the period between 2011 and 2014 and focuses on some of the particularities of the situation that make it a refugee-like crisis, at the same time taking in account...
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Political parties can be seen as agents of both integration and division. Attachment to political parties may function as an integrating mechanism by channeling political and ideological polarization away from system-challenging activities towards the regime support and acceptance of the prevailing political (democratic) order. At the same time, parties might also foster extremism and dissatisfaction...
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The present study is a comparative examination of the impact of diverse levels of administrative and fiscal decentralization has on the outlook of local political elites in East-Central Europe, namely: (a) the local elites’ degree of isolation; (2) their attitudes towards increased decentralization, and (3) their level of satisfaction as inhabitants of the towns they...
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The recent scholarship has mainly approached Islamic political parties (IPPs) through the lens of security and terrorism studies. Inspired by reductionist theoretical approaches, such studies either analyze IPPs from the perspective of threat or otherwise to global security; or assume an essential antagonism between the IPPs and modernity/globalization. The IPPs’ rise to state power is...
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