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	<title>Rumeli Observer &#187; Bosnia</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>Minna Jarvenpaa: Interventions from Bosnia to Afghanistan</title>
		<link>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2010/11/24/minna-jarvenpaa-interventions-from-bosnia-to-afghanistan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Nov 2010 23:20:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bosnia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liberal Imperialism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Later this week - on Friday at 3 pm in Haus der Musik in Vienna - ESI and Erste Stiftung will organise a public debate on lessons from internationnal interventions.
One of the panelists, Minna Jarvenpaa,  is an ESI founding member who was already present at our creation in 1999 in Sarajevo.  She is also both a previous and [...]]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[Balkans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bosnia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Enlargement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[conflict]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ECFR]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Europeanisation]]></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>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>
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		<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>Lebanon under my skin</title>
		<link>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2008/10/26/lebanon-under-my-skin/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2008/10/26/lebanon-under-my-skin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Oct 2008 19:04:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bosnia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lebanon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beirut]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mazower]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reconciliation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Lebanon got under my skin.
It was not the beauty of the place.  Beirut is a city with little to discover for the classical tourist.  One can walk along the Corniche &#8211; the  boulevard along the Mediterranean coast. One can spend time getting lost in the shopping streets of Muslim West Beirut.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Translating cultures in Al-Andalus</title>
		<link>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2008/08/10/translating-cultures-in-al-andalus/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2008/08/10/translating-cultures-in-al-andalus/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Aug 2008 10:06:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bosnia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andalusia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Intolerance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sarajevo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Toledo]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Toledo &#8211; a story of translation
What does it take to sustain a &#8220;culture of tolerance&#8221; in a society marked by genuine differences? It is a question central to the issues discussed on this blog: from Kosovo to Kakheti, from Timisoara to Thessaloniki. Let me share impressions of one particularly interesting effort to answer it: Maria [...]]]></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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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>Las Ramblas in November (Barcelona)</title>
		<link>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2007/12/20/las-ramblas-in-november-barcelona/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2007/12/20/las-ramblas-in-november-barcelona/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2007 22:06:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bosnia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Balkans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barcelona]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cidob]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Narcis Serra]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[

Anybody who in their youth has read George Orwell&#8217;s book on the Spanish Civil war in Catalonia is likely to think of him when visiting Barcelona.  Not that there is anything that reminds a visitor in November 2007 of the Spain in 1937 that Orwell evokes. His city was one in which armed guards [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How criminals rule Bosnia</title>
		<link>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2007/11/23/how-criminals-rule-bosnia/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2007/11/23/how-criminals-rule-bosnia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Nov 2007 02:46:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bosnia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[crime in Bosnia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EUPM]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#160;
There is no end to the alarming news coming from Bosnia. This is beginning to alarm me too.
On 20 November The Times reports on Bosnia under the title &#8220;Outnumbered and in the dark: on patrol in badlands of the Balkans.&#8221;  The article describes a remote border crossing between Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro and [...]]]></description>
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