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	<title>Rumeli Observer &#187; Europe</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>Land borders in Europe. A dramatic story in three acts</title>
		<link>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2011/10/12/land-borders-in-europe-a-dramatic-story-in-three-acts/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2011/10/12/land-borders-in-europe-a-dramatic-story-in-three-acts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 11:06:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Border revolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Progress achieved in making European borders less onerous for travellers has long been seen as one of the most tangible successes of European integration. In recent months this progress has been been put into question, however, leading some to wonder whether the very basic ideas behind Schengen and various visa liberalisation agreements are likely to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Europe in decline. Sit back and enjoy (but not too much)</title>
		<link>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2010/12/15/europe-in-decline-sit-back-and-enjoy-but-not-too-much/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2010/12/15/europe-in-decline-sit-back-and-enjoy-but-not-too-much/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2010 11:28:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Decline]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[End of year]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[How long does it take for the whole proud city of New York to be swallowed by nature?
In his magical &#8220;The World without us&#8221; (a good christmas present for friends, by the way) Alan Weisman makes a thought experiment: he imagines a world without human beings and asks what would happen, among other things, to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A pledge to Zoran</title>
		<link>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2010/10/05/a-pledge-to-zoran/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2010/10/05/a-pledge-to-zoran/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Oct 2010 20:05:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Balkans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Enlargement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Greece]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Serbia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It was a fascinating, deeply emotional event: a commemoration gathering in Belgrade, on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the 5th of October, the day Serbian citizens took their country back from Slobodan Milosevic exactly 10 years ago. The most poignant moment came at the very end, when a visibly moved Greek prime minister, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>High noon in Slovenia. A referendum and the future of Balkan enlargement (Bender and Knaus)</title>
		<link>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2010/06/04/high-noon-in-slovenia-%e2%80%93-a-referendum-and-the-future-of-balkan-enlargement-bender-and-knaus/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2010/06/04/high-noon-in-slovenia-%e2%80%93-a-referendum-and-the-future-of-balkan-enlargement-bender-and-knaus/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 23:17:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Enlargement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Slovenia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On Sunday, Slovenia&#8217;s citizens will cast their votes in a referendum on a question of apparently modest global significance: Are you in favour of a law ratifying an arbitration agreement between Slovenia and Croatia over a minor territorial dispute?
As a matter of fact, in casting their votes Slovenian citizens will be answering a much more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coming soon. New ESI Report on Georgia</title>
		<link>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2010/04/06/coming-soon-new-esi-report-on-georgia/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2010/04/06/coming-soon-new-esi-report-on-georgia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 01:18:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Georgia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Libertarianism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Southern Caucasus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bendukidze]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Caucasus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Saakashvili]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[After two years of research, which took a team of ESI researchers across all of Georgia, from Batumi on the Georgian black sea coast to the wine-growing areas of Eastern Georgia, from Washington DC to Brussels and Moscow, we are now glad to be able to announce the upcoming publication of a brand-new ESI report [...]]]></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>Harvard presentation on Turkey&#039;s dark side and the Ergenekon case</title>
		<link>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2010/03/01/harvard-presentation-on-turkeys-dark-side-and-the-ergenekon-case/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2010/03/01/harvard-presentation-on-turkeys-dark-side-and-the-ergenekon-case/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 03:45:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Turkey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ergenekon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EU]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Military]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today I will give a presentation at the Kennedy School on an issue that has become ever more interesting in recent weeks: what is happening in Turkey currently in the field of civil-military relations? For more details please go here.
Turkey&#8217;s current transformation – in particular concerning the changing role of the Armed Forces &#8211; needs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where new ideas are born &#8211; ESI Anniversary Conference Story</title>
		<link>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2009/07/13/where-great-ideas-are-born-esi-anniversary-conference-story/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2009/07/13/where-great-ideas-are-born-esi-anniversary-conference-story/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:52:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[How ESI works]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Think Tanks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anniversary conference]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History of ESI]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Saturday 11 July 2009  is a special day in the life of this particular European think tank &#8230;

In summer 1999 a group of friends gathered in Sarajevo and decided to set up  a new  institution to analyse international policy in the Balkans. Thus ESI is born.
Ten years later a much larger group [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Stockholm consensus on EU enlargement</title>
		<link>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2009/05/15/the-stockholm-consensus-on-eu-enlargement/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2009/05/15/the-stockholm-consensus-on-eu-enlargement/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 20:41:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Enlargement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sweden]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carl Bildt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EU enlargement]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
A disclosure at the very outset: since 2000 Swedish governments have been among ESI&#8217;s most faithful supporters.
This is hardly a coincidence. On every foreign policy issue important to us Sweden is a strong advocate within the EU, from support for EU enlargement to the Balkans and Turkey to a European perspective for countries in the Eastern neighbourhood.  Being one [...]]]></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>101 on the Turkish deep state &#8211; Nokta (Istanbul)</title>
		<link>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2008/03/20/101-on-the-turkish-deep-state-nokta-istanbul/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2008/03/20/101-on-the-turkish-deep-state-nokta-istanbul/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 21:01:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Turkey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[deep state]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nokta affair]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Turkish democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Umit Kardas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Umit Kardas welcomes my colleague Ekrem and me in his office just off the main pedestrian street in the busy Beyoglu quarter of Istanbul.
The office is filled with books, a new version of the Turkish Penal Code, reformed in 2004, lies on the desk.  Kardas smiles and offers us two glasses of Turkish tea. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Turkish weekend</title>
		<link>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2008/03/16/a-turkish-weekend/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2008/03/16/a-turkish-weekend/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Mar 2008 21:20:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Turkey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AKP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bosporus]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[After 10 days of travel and research in Bulgaria and Brussels the plane from Sofia arrives back in Istanbul early on Saturday morning.
It is a glorious early spring day, warm and sunny. At 9 in the morning, as the taxi goes from the airport in the west of the city along the Byzantine walls towards [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peddling ideas around Schuman I (Brussels in January: Coweb)</title>
		<link>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2008/01/18/peddling-ideas-around-schuman-brussels-in-january/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2008/01/18/peddling-ideas-around-schuman-brussels-in-january/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2008 19:27:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[How ESI works]]></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[

 
For the past seven years I have come to Brussels every few weeks.  These trips are all similar: walking between the buildings which surround Schuman square,   the Charlemagne (home to DG enlargement), Justus Lipsius (home to the European Council), the Berlaymont (the refurbished headquarter of the Commission) and the Residence Palace (home to the European Policy Centre, EPC, and to [...]]]></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>Jane Jacobs and the mystique of cities</title>
		<link>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2007/12/16/jane-jacobs-and-the-mystique-of-cities/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2007/12/16/jane-jacobs-and-the-mystique-of-cities/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Dec 2007 19:42:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jane Jacobs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Makers and tinkerers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New economic Geography]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Chain Bridge in Budapest
Any great city is a magic place, and the stories of great cities are the most concentrated version of the story of humanity. One should perhaps introduce a new subject at high schools across Europe, &#8220;Urban life &#8211; past present and future&#8221;, focused in particular on the history and functioning of European [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Launch of ECFR &#8211; A Moldovan in Berlin</title>
		<link>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2007/11/12/launch-of-ecfr-a-moldovan-in-berlin/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2007/11/12/launch-of-ecfr-a-moldovan-in-berlin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2007 15:39:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Berlin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ECFR]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joschka Fischer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nicu Popescu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[power audit]]></category>

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Berlin, city of ghosts: Landwehrkanal 
Faust&#8217;s Metropolis is the title of one of my favourite books on the history of Berlin. Alexandra Richie writes there:
&#8220;It is impossible to escape the ghosts of history which hover above the Reichstag and over Göring&#8217;s intact Air Ministry and around the Brandenburg Gate.  They waft around the remnants [...]]]></description>
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