While the EU and the US must reassess risks and potential investments in the Western Balkans they must also learn to separate the politics from the true security threats.
The relations between Albania and Serbia depends on a precondition: mutual recognition as equals which means relinquishing the idea of hegemony in favour of cooperation.
Responses provoked by the religious identity of insurgents may be as crucial to explaining the dearth of negotiated settlements as how religion shapes rebel behavior.
Reconciliation is a slow process but when there is political will, changes can occur and victims can eventually get redress through justice, truth and memory.
Performative scholarship as activism promises further advances in Social Justice. Ethically, there is no ‘mere criticality’; there is always also societal responsibility.
Climate change is a production issue, not a matter of environmental protection. Recognizing that the world is changing rapidly is the key to successful social adaptation.
Even if political categories are sometimes taken for granted, Lorenzo’s text shows how rich an engagement with literature can be to a critical reflection on politics.
Scaling down the revered cult of counterinsurgency in future interventions, may be the only way to provide missions with a sense of real international purpose.
This brief exploration highlights the extent to which emotions have a social, cultural and political dimension that is pervasive at the international level.
The Roma story has not been the story of the powerful. It is a story of the ones that have done whatever they could in order to survive in a very adverse environment.
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