I wish to address both a substantive and a methodological issue in this chapter. Substantively, I will discuss the process of state disintegration and reconstruction. Here, I will draw on the experience of Eastern Europe following the collapse of Communism. Today, more than twenty new states occupy the territories formerly held by the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, and Czechoslovakia. Furthermore, t...

The contemporary international relations still include Russia as one of the key actors in the Balkans politics. The relations between Russia and Yugoslavia were marked with an outright denouncement of Slobodan Milosevic and his regime, which was also reflected in Russian s attitude toward NATO intervention in Kosovo. However, Russian politics is not unanimous vis-a-vis Yugoslavia-on the one han...

Yugoslav-Italian relations between two world wars, besides the diplomatic-political, also had a very significant economic aspect. Italy was one of most important foreign trade partners Kingdom Yugoslavia, and this paper will explore exchange countries, especially import materials necessary for textile industry, which substantially contributed to positive balance trade. Beside quantitative analy...

The establishment of two international ad hoc tribunals for Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia, and the creation of an International Criminal Court within the next fi ve years, has increased the need for archaeologists who can assist in the exhumation of individual and mass graves associated with war crimes and genocide throughout the world. This work examines the efforts of teams of archaeologis...

This paper focuses on business-to-business marketing communications of industrial firms in the Slovenian, Croatian, Bosnian, Serbian, and Montenegro markets. The paper presents three main research issues: 1) the most important communication tools in the business-to business markets; 2) the most important characteristics of logistical providers when communicating to business-to-business markets;...

Although reports of wartime atrocities in the former Yugoslavia began circulating at the onset of the conflict in 1991, it was not until news stories began featuring evidence of widespread rape and sexual violence that the general public began pressuring their leaders to effectively respond. Women’s groups around the world were particularly vocal in demanding that the international community ta...

Since the Gulf war, the French Army has been exposed to harsh stress conditions on its missions abroad with the U.N.O. It has been observed during the late missions of the French Army in ex-Yugoslavia and Rwanda, that the confrontation with the reality of death and with apocalyptic scenes have unfortunately caused many psychological and emotional traumas. Based on these disturbing facts the Cen...

In the past two decades Albania and the former Yugoslavia have become associated with some of Europe’s most dramatic emigration movements. During the four decades of the communist regime, the Republic of Albania was a blind spot in the imagination of Europe and the world. It was brought back into the collective consciousness in 1991 when media all over the world showed dramatic pictures of impo...

Neighbor-on-neighbor killing causes lasting harm to individuals, communities and societies. Even though the territory has been divided, a geographical proximity that has particular consequences remains along ethnic lines. In such context, when antagonist parties must live as proximate neighbors, post-conflict trauma must be addressed for reconciliation to occur. In ex-Yugoslavia, years of vario...