There are many American and other Western journalists and political analysts who have been severely criticizing U.S. policy in the Balkans during the last 30 years but especially in the 1990s during the time of the brutal destruction of ex-Yugoslavia followed by the bloody civil war primarily because the U.S. […]
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Kosovo: Land, Demography, Economy, And Religion (II)
Part I Economy: Gastarbeiters and criminal business In Kosovo-Metochia (KosMet) traditionally part of the gastarbeiters’ (guest workers) money is proliferated by financing criminal business but first of all a drug smuggling, which from the Middle East goes via KosMet to West Europe. It is one of the principal occupations of […]
The Revival Of Russia And The Way Forward
It was President Putin who led Russia and played a vital role in its revival. After the disintegration of the former USSR in 1991, it was a mega-disaster and collapse of the political system, leading to dissolution. The first thing President Putin realized the mistakes of the Communist Party and […]
Tolerance And Co-Existence Are Key To Global Peace And Stability
The United Nations General Assembly has unanimously approved a resolution co-sponsored by Pakistan and several OIC and other countries on “Promoting a Culture of Peace and Tolerance to Protection of Religious Sites.” Consistent with Prime Minister Imran Khan’s visualization, this resolution is part of Pakistan’s continuing diplomatic efforts to safeguard […]
The Middle East On The Crossroad Of Civilizations (IV)
Part I, Part II, Part III What is Arab? To understand Arab culture and the values based on it are the crucial points for the proper understanding of the modern Middle East and its fundamental features. Nevertheless, it has to be noticed that all people in the region of the […]
The Middle East On The Crossroad Of Civilizations (III)
Part I, Part II The Middle East as a “powder keg” The focal feature of both the history and the politics of the region of the Middle East in the Modern and Contemporary Age (during the last 250 years) is the constant conflicts between different internal and external conflicts. Therefore, […]
The Middle East On The Crossroad Of Civilizations (II)
Part I Religious diversity The Middle East is commonplace from which three global religions originated: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. All three confessions recognize the Prophet, Abraham. Judaism Judaism is a monotheistic religion of the Jewish people, i.e. with a belief in one God and foundations in Mosaic and rabbinical […]
The Islamic Militarization Of Bosnian-Herzegovinian Muslims (III)
Part I, Part II Bosnia-Herzegovina after the 1995 Dayton Peace Accords Politically speaking, the Dayton Peace Accords signed on December 14th, 1995, stopped the civil war in B-H and brought temporary peace between the Serbs, Croats, and Bosniaks following the destruction of the ex-Yugoslavia. The Bosnian War, which started on […]
The Islamic Militarization Of Bosnian-Herzegovinian Muslims (II)
Part I Bosnia-Herzegovina in the Yugoslav federation In 1945, B-H found itself as one of the six socialist republics of new communist-run Yugoslav federation according to the pre-WWII political projects by the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (the CPY). The new federal project of re-composition of the Yugoslav state had to […]
The Islamic Militarization Of Bosnian-Herzegovinian Muslims (I)
Islam in the Balkans It is the truth that the Balkan Peninsula is a mosaic of different and in some cases antagonistic religious communities with the Christian Orthodoxy, Roman Catholicism, and Islam as the principal religious denominations followed by different types of Protestants, followers of Judaism, Armenian Christian Orthodox, etc. […]
The Historical Background Of The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (III)
Part I, Part II The British Mandate for Palestine The focal point of the British Mandate for Palestine between two world wars was the rising tide of Jewish immigration from Europe to Palestine followed by land buying and organizing of the Jewish settlements. Naturally, such British policy generated increasing protests […]
The Church And National Identity: The Case of Serbs (III)
Part I, Part II Among other privileges, the Patriarchate of Peć was granted land properties, the right to collect one ducat (gold currency) for each priest and the right to collect the so-called bir – 12 akçes (Ottoman currency) per house. The Serbian church had the autonomy to elect its […]
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