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	<title>Rumeli Observer &#187; Balkans</title>
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	<description>I live in Rumeli Hisari. It is from here, the very edge of the European landmass, that I observe the world. Some of these observations I will share on this blog  as a  Open Society Fellow.</description>
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		<title>IISS, trafficking and stereotypes about the Wild Balkans</title>
		<link>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2010/06/16/iiss-trafficking-and-stereotypes-about-the-wild-balkans/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2010/06/16/iiss-trafficking-and-stereotypes-about-the-wild-balkans/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 18:50:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As numerous European leaders are looking for excuses to slow down the EU accession path of Western Balkan nations it becomes all the more important to be extremely precise when it comes to describing the problems of the region. How not to do it can be seen by looking at a recent publication by the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is really wrong with Bosnia?</title>
		<link>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2010/03/12/what-is-really-wrong-with-bosnia/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2010/03/12/what-is-really-wrong-with-bosnia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:14:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bosnia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago I wrote  on this website that &#8220;recently, some people have argued that there is a possibility of a new violent conflict in the Western Balkans&#8221;.  Let me be more specific here.
Today I was sent an article by Bodo Weber and Kurt Bassuener. There they argue that &#8220;Bosnia is backsliding [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New wars? A comparison of the Balkans and the Caucasus</title>
		<link>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2010/02/06/new-wars-a-comparison-of-the-balkans-and-the-caucasus/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2010/02/06/new-wars-a-comparison-of-the-balkans-and-the-caucasus/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 12:53:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Balkans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Georgia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, some people have argued that there is a possibility of a new violent conflict in the Western Balkans. It there anything to this claim, which flies in the face of continued international troop withdrawals from the region?
Let me make the case why these claims are not only implausible but in fact dangerously misleading.
First, if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is the EU visa proposal anti-Muslim?</title>
		<link>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2009/07/18/is-the-eu-visa-proposal-anti-muslim/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2009/07/18/is-the-eu-visa-proposal-anti-muslim/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2009 10:35:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Balkans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bosnia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Enlargement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Visa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[European Commission]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Let me first say that ESI welcomes the recent Commission proposal on visa free travel to the Balkans.  Considering what expectations of progress were only 12 months ago &#8211; looking forward to a year with EU Parliamentary and German parliamentary elections, against a background of enlargement fatigue and a deepening economic crisis &#8211; this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Visas and the Czechs &#8211; savoring success</title>
		<link>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2009/06/15/visas-and-the-czechs-savoring-success/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2009/06/15/visas-and-the-czechs-savoring-success/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:21:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Balkans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Czech Republic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carl Bildt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EU enlargement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[OHR]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Half a year ago I wrote on Rumeli Observer about the upcoming Czech EU presidency.
At meetings in December, which ESI had organized in Prague, Czech politicians and civil servants had defined ambitious goals for the Western Balkans in 2009:
&#8220;We are expecting your countries&#8217; applications for membership during our presidency. We have been preparing to receive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why the Turks could not have built the bridge in Mostar &#8211; reflection on Bosnia</title>
		<link>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2008/08/03/why-the-turks-could-not-have-built-the-bridge-in-mostar/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2008/08/03/why-the-turks-could-not-have-built-the-bridge-in-mostar/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2008 22:57:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Balkans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bosnia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Raj]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bosnian ownership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ed Joseph]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lord Ashdown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[OHR]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wild Europe]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[

I am currently reading a thought-provoking and entertaining book with a serious  conclusion: Wild Europe &#8211; the Balkans in the Gaze of Western Travellers by Bozidar Jezernik, published by Saqi and the Bosnian Institute.
It is a book about continuities in approaches to the Balkans. As anthropologist Joel Martin Halpern writes in the foreword:
 &#8220;In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sleepless in Bucharest – Talking Balkans in Vienna</title>
		<link>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2008/04/05/sleepless-in-bucharest-talking-balkans-in-vienna/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2008/04/05/sleepless-in-bucharest-talking-balkans-in-vienna/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Apr 2008 14:30:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Balkans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Enlargement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Return to Europe - the film]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It was a stressful trip to Vienna, coming here straight from the Bucharest Nato summit, where I had slept through the unique chance of attending an early morning lecture by George Bush (having worked all night to complete and send out a discussion paper on Turkey&#8217;s Dark Side early in the morning). I sometimes enjoy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peddling ideas around Schuman II (Brussels in January: EPC)</title>
		<link>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2008/01/18/peddling-ideas-around-schuman-ii-brussels-in-january-epc/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2008/01/18/peddling-ideas-around-schuman-ii-brussels-in-january-epc/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2008 20:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Balkans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Enlargement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coweb]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EPC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EU enlargement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jacques Rupnik]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Judy Batt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Slovenia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the work of a think tank]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;. continued from Peddling Ideas Around Schuman I (Brussels in January: Coweb) 
EPC and the future of screening
                 
            Graham Avery        [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The good news problem &#8211; beyond the wild Balkans (Vienna)</title>
		<link>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2007/11/30/the-good-news-problem-beyond-the-wild-balkans-vienna/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2007/11/30/the-good-news-problem-beyond-the-wild-balkans-vienna/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2007 07:09:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Balkans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[progress paradox]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[success stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vienna]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ 
A presentation in Vienna, some 120 people in the House of Music in the first district of the city. We do something risky: talking about recent ESI research, we present success stories from the Balkans: Montenegro, Bosnia, even Albania.  The event is organised by Erste Stiftung.
Success stories?  In the Balkans? We should [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Talk in Vienna &#8211; Still the Wild Europe? Rethinking the Balkan experience 1997-2007</title>
		<link>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2007/11/29/talk-in-vienna-still-the-wild-europe-rethinking-the-balkan-experience-1997-2007/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2007/11/29/talk-in-vienna-still-the-wild-europe-rethinking-the-balkan-experience-1997-2007/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:38:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Balkans]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Where is the Balkans heading on the eve of the Slovenian presidency and intense discussions whether there should be an &#8220;Adriatic enlargement&#8221; of NATO in 2008? Do Europeans &#8211; including Austrians &#8211; fully grasp how much the region has changed?
ERSTE Stiftung and ESI jointly organised a public discussion hosted by the Haus der Musik  [...]]]></description>
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