This paper discusses the experience of the Kansas Event Data System (KEDS) project in developing event data sets for monitoring conflict levels in five geographical areas: the Levant (Arab-Israeli conflict), Persian Gulf, former Yugoslavia, Central Asia (Afghanistan, Armenia-Azerbijan, former Soviet republics), and West Africa (Liberia, Sierra Leone). These data sets were coded from commercial ...

This article deals with the position of young people and role communist youth organizations in Istria years after World War II. During this period, Istrians were torn between Yugoslavia Italy, a diplomatic struggle for territory was being waged. It will briefly address some aspects Croats Italians’ daily lives, their political mobilization within larger organizations, challenges they faced due ...

Trichinellosis was recognized almost one century ago as a health and animal husbandry problem in Serbia. In the last 10 years, trichinellosis has been expanding from three endemic regions (Srem, Macva and Negotinska Krajina) to neighbouring regions. The infection rate detected by veterinary inspection in 1999 year was 0.17% in slaughtered swines. Simultaneously, the number of infected humans in...

Intensive epidemiological and seroepidemiological studies of Trichinella spiralis infection in swine have been carried out in the borough of Kladovo, one of the four regions in Yugoslavia where trichinellosis is endemic. A high prevalence (4.7%) of trichinellosis was discovered in three neighboring parishes adjoining the bank of the river Danube. Both geographically and epidemiologically these ...

Theories of modernization have assumed that the creation of nation-states involved the breakdown of parochial ethnic boundaries and increasing secularism, all of which resulted in a demographic transition from high to low fertility and mortality. Recent experiences suggests, however, that in some circumstances nation-states may be highly unstable as ethnic minorities assert their rights to self...

Based on unpublished historical sources from the archives of communist parties Yugoslavia and Italy (Archives Yugoslavia, Belgrade; Fondazione Istituto Gramsci, Archivio del Partito comunista Italiano, Rome), this paper analyzes two last meetings leaders parties, Josip Broz Tito Enrico Berlinguer. The topics are Berlinguer?s visits to in October 1977 1978, which took place at height inter-party...