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Cover -- Bridging the Gap -- Rethinking Integration and Regional Cooperation Together -- Theoretical Framework -- Organisation of the Book -- Part 1 . The EU Integration Process -- 1.1. Outside, Inside and Between -- In the Age of Flex Lives -- The Lost Momentum -- Imbalance Between the Technical and Political Levels -- From Lisbon Onwards -- What Should be Done Need not Wait -- 1.2. Breaking the Chains of Weariness -- The EU: With Divides or Flexibility? -- A New EU in a New World Order -- Enlargement: Wider or/and Deeper? -- Enlargement: Who, When and How -- Part 2 . SEE in a Broader Framework -- 2.1. See Regional Levels in Europe -- Conceptualizing Region and Regionalism -- Europe's Multiple Regional Groupings -- Euro-regions in the Framework of the Council of Europe -- Territorial Cooperation in the Framework of the EU -- 2.2. SEE Region-ness "Under Construction" -- SEE: from State-Building to Region-ness -- Multiple Regionalisms in South East Europe -- Region-ness in Wider Europe -- 2.3. SEE the Bigger Picture -- The Necessity of a Comprehensive Framework -- Structural Challenges in SEE -- Going Regional -- Part 3 . Thinking, Venturing Beyond -- Conclusion. Rethinking the New World Order -- A New Copernican Revolution -- Visualising the New World Order -- Another BRIC(k) in The Wall -- The China Dream -- Rethinking Regionalism Away from "Western Values"? -- Learning from Athens -- Bibliography

Thinking the Balkans out of the Box lässt die üblichen engen, oft staatszentrierten Auffassungen von der europäischen Integration und der regionalen Kooperation mit Blick auf Südosteuropa hinter sich.Auf der Grundlage von Fallstudien zeigt das Buch allgemeine wie spezifische Züge der Integration und der Regionsbildung im Rahmen der Konzepte eines "frühen", "alten", "neuen" und "vergleichenden Regionalismus", die sich eher ergänzen, als dass sie einander wechselseitig ausschließen.In einem weiten zeitlichen Horizont werden diese vier aufeinander folgenden Ansätze in ihrem jeweiligen Kontext betrachtet: der Nachkriegszeit, dem Kalten Krieg, der Zeit nach 1989 und der gegenwärtigen hypertextuellen oder multiplexen Weltordnung. Heute sind Integration und Regionalisierung eng miteinander verbunden und deutlich heterogener, offener, inklusiver, umfassender und multidimensional.

The tenth anniversary of the Dayton-Paris Peace Agreement in December 2005 provides an important milestone, encouraging a review of its achievements and shortcomings, and an examination of future challenges to Bosnia and Herzegovina and the international community. This book outlines some basic trends, focusing on three essential issues facing this country: democratisation and transitions processes, country ownership, and potential turning points. Addressing these issues in a non-dogmatic way, in the spirit of constructive criticism, the book concludes that both the EU and Bosnia must seize their opportunities and responsibilities. As the Dayton decade draws to an end, the next chapter in Bosnia's history must be a European one, and it must start now. "Christophe Solioz – an expert involved in the Balkans for over a decade – reviews key moments in Bosnia and Herzegovina's post-war development. Highlighting the complexity of the ownership process as well as the necessity to foster local responsibility, Solioz focuses on state-building and European integration that will evolve by implicit necessity and not by fiat or decree." Wolfgang Petritsch"With Turning Points in Post-War Bosnia Christophe Solioz not only provides a useful assessment of the Bosnian reality, but suggests truly workable solutions to the problems still facing our country, despite the many achievements of the Dayton decade. Indeed, adoption of at least some of these proposed solutions, by both the domestic and international political structures in Bosnia and Herzegovina, would move Bosnia forward." Jakob Finci

Dans Guerre et pluie (Gallimard, 2024), Velibor Čolić relève le défi d'écrire l'insoutenable anatomie de la guerre, avant de narrer une guérison par l'exil et l'écriture.

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Against the background of an introductory note on Boris Pahor's writings, this contribution focuses on one particular example of his work. It is an urban miniature that blurs the boundaries between literary, musical, and architectural writing—and from mutually antagonistic positions it converges towards some measure of coherence. Pahor explores the urban space by conceiving it as an open-ended musical score, but combining poetry, music, film, and architecture to pave the way for a new kind of investigation of the urban space. Removed from centralized and object-defined urbanism, the action and context-related city is experienced differently, as a space of possibility, as if it were itself a creative process amounting to a performance. That viewpoint corresponds to a shift from the ontological "what" to the performance of "how", and demands acknowledgement of the city's state of constant change, shaped by its users' agency.

This review article looks at Attila Àgh's Awaking Europe in the triple global crisis, published in 2021. Àgh cites the triple crisis facing Europe – the socioeconomic crisis, the climate crisis and the Covid-19 crisis – to which Christophe Solioz adds a fourth: the security crisis with reference to the war in Ukraine. These add up, in sum, to a systemic crisis which Solioz argues points to an impending Age of Transition affecting not just south-eastern Europe, whose countries are particularly vulnerable, but leading to the establishment of a new world order in which Europe will need to reconceptualise itself. In the background of current events, Àgh sees Europe as 'awaking', and thus beginning to rise to the challenges; Solioz is a little less optimistic as a result of the processes of fragmentation that have affected the EU in the last fifteen years, while the autocracies in the region present their own challenges. It also remains true that actual action is awaited. Nevertheless, he is clear that, as Europe's centre of gravity shifts to the east, largely as a result of the geopolitical impact of the invasion of Ukraine, it matters that it listens to a clear voice from the region.

In this essay, introducing a new volume considering Sarajevo as a 'multiplex city' – ceaselessly active and perpetually changing, rooted in the existence of a multidimensional and collaborative system composed of separate projects – the author scrutinises Sarajevo's urban space from diverse standpoints inspired by architecture, urbanism, literature, art, anthropology, history, philosophy, social sciences and politics. In the process, he draws expressly on Sarajevo's history allowing people to be one with another. Here examining graffiti and outdoor wall art, which not only structure the urban space but facilitate the city to speak to and of itself, the author demonstrates how outdoor art, and walls, operates additionally as an agent of power to mediate resistance and to contest, subvert and negate violence. In the process, he addresses how 'being with' – co-existence, exposure to each other and hybridisation – is translated into the permanent metamorphosis of a city bonding its past and its future and, in so doing, healing the tragedies, suffering and failures of humanity of its recent past.

This article was written to inform the author's presentation to the SEER Journal online workshop on the Dayton Agreement held on 2 July 2021. Focusing on the issues of de-consolidation and de-democratisation which are inhibiting Bosnia and Herzegovina (among other western Balkan states) from becoming a credible EU accession candidate, the article locates the question of 'othering' within the need to rethink international relations given the global issues which are shaping today's world. Drawing on recently published work in the areas of philosophy and international relations, the author identifies three approaches in the failures of cotransformation and transition, concluding that new democratic vistas may be opened for BiH up by the pursuit of interregional programmes as well as, in response to the climate emergency and its impact on flooding and other natural disasters, within a revitalised bioregional paradigm. None of the maps which arise out of the risks of natural disasters bear any resemblance to the 'logic' of the map drawn at Dayton and, in peacetime, may represent a viable way forward although time is required.

Christophe Solioz explores the use of 'Pathétique' from Tchaikovsky's sixth symphony in 1395 days without red, a 2011 film project focused on the Siege of Sarajevo, and locates it in the complex 'age of immunology' in which we now live.

This article reviews the third decade of the post-Wall transition of central and eastern Europe, paying particular attention to the western Balkans. It focuses on European integration and the indicators of deconsolidation - notably, the lack of trust which has characterised the 'crisis of confidence' induced by the EU's own series of crises since the middle of the 2000s. Additionally, the rise of authoritarianism and populism across the region is often viewed as a symptom of a possible 'de-democratisation', or reverse wave. From a process-oriented perspective, the author suggests a rethinking of the various polarisations under which, instead of seeing democratisation and de-democratisation as opposing forces, we may recognise instead that both are actually continuous, interconnected processes related to democracy itself - and not (at least, not necessarily) to a growing state of non-democracy. Oscillation between these two states may well characterise the next decade of the transition but, if we are to address the problems that this causes, we must first understand precisely how we have got where we are.