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2008 - Issue 9
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InterCultural dialogue
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frontlines
Letter to the Editors Letter to the Editors
 Athens, May 19, 2008

 

Dear Editors,

I would like to congratulate you on your decision to collaborate with the Turkish Daily News. It goes without saying that joint ventur...read more »

EU Anchor in Turkish-Greek Rapprochement EU Anchor in Turkish-Greek Rapprochement

By Mustafa Aydin & Sinem A. Acikmese 

The long-standing conflictual cycle of Greek-Turkish relations has been fading away since 1999, mostly due to the impact of the EU. The recen...read more »

Opening Ledra Street -the beginning of the end? Opening Ledra Street -the beginning of the end?

By George Vassiliou 

Ledra Street in Nicosia, historically the main commercial avenue of Cyprus, has been closed for more than 40 years now. Efforts to lift movement restrictions across th...read more »

The Dynamics of Norms - Social Governance of the EU The Dynamics of Norms - Social Governance of the EU

By Sarah Seeger

The 'European social model' has become a metaphor that is often used to describe the uniqueness of the European Union. However, when trying to explore the content of this c...read more »

Grassroots diplomacy in the Southern Balkans Grassroots diplomacy in the Southern Balkans

By Spyros A. Sofos

Two decades after the onset of Yugoslavia’s disintegration, its aftershocks are still affecting the Balkans. Following Kosovo’s declaration of independence, the e...read more »

Kosovo To let it be or not? Kosovo To let it be or not?

By Panagiotis Paschalidis

It is hard to find the words best fit to describe the nature of Kosovo’s statehood following the declaration of its independence, adopted by its parliament on Fe...read more »

Action for the Mediterranean Action for the Mediterranean

By Alexandra Sarmas

The European Commission and the European Investment Bank on April 10 presented their report on potential investments addressing pollution hotspots in southern and eastern Me...read more »

dialogue
Dialogue Dialogue

On the occasion of NATO’s Bucharest Summit in the beginning of April, many issues concerning security in our neighborhood were brought on the table. The Summit revealed the future orientation ...read more »

themes
In search for the golden fleece In search for the golden fleece

By Constantinos Filis

In 2007, the groundwork was put in place for the implementation of three energy projects that are of major importance to Greece: the Burgas-Alexandroupoli oil pipeline; t...read more »

What about the pipelines What about the pipelines

By Theodore G. Tsakiris

As tensions seem to be climaxing along the Turkish-Iraqi frontier, with 100,000 troops amassing on the northern side of the border line, a series of theories regarding ...read more »

Water Infrastructure Security Water Infrastructure Security

By Christos Makropoulos

The word ‘security’ is as much a household word now as it has ever been – and nothing good can come of this. Or can it? The release of anthrax in the U...read more »

turquoise
Turquoise Turquoise

Keeping the pace of the pelting developments in our region, it is our duty to encourage cooperation among civil societies and to strengthen ties among citizens. This issue inaugurates a unique partn...read more »

impressions
Holding borders in my trouser pocket Holding borders in my trouser pocket

Heathrow Airport is probably Hell on Earth for the racist. All the world’s races and colors converge here. A couple of Sikhs, in their characteristic turbans, urge one to queue. At the passpor...read more »

culture
Welcome those who welcome change Welcome those who welcome change

By Zuhal Danyildiz

When I began to write this article, I was trying to think up ways to extend and enrich my work. At first, I just read a couple of articles about the Balkans and tried to find...read more »

Color of Balkan Sounds Color of Balkan Sounds

By Devrimsel Deniz Negriz

Balkan-Pop’ is an ascending music trend, which contains the diversity in a popular fashion; these days, it is the ‘party hit’ in Germany just as in m...read more »

The vintage Eastern European Immigrant The vintage Eastern European Immigrant

By Luiza Cristina Micu

Like most of the Eastern European countries, Romania has gone through many dramatic social and political changes. The best-known, most discussed, labels irrevocably remai...read more »

Impressions from Sarajevo Impressions from Sarajevo

By Maja Musi

I visited Sarajevo for the first and only time in July 2006, for an all too short stay dedicated to my work of research and collection of materials in the central offices of the Ar...read more »

activities
School on Borders building interculturality

The boundary can be a dividing line (between cultures, languages and people) or, on the contrary, an open door, a place of positive ‘contamination’, where school becomes an ideal environ...read more »

Forum on Water, Heritage and Civil Society Forum on Water, Heritage and Civil Society

The Anna Lindh Foundation in collaboration with Pedmont Regional Government and Paralleli Euro-Mediterranean Institute is organizing a Euro-Mediterranean Youth Forum in Italy from Tuesday 20 through...read more »

1001 Actions for Dialogue 2008

1001 Actions is a major campaign initiated by the Anna Lindh Euro-Mediterranean Foundation and its network of over one thousand civil society organizations, for the mobilization of people and acti...read more »

One Night, Thirty-Seven Countries, Everyone's Invited...

On the evening of Thursday May 22, 2008, groups and individuals in thirty-seven countries will unite together in a unique common event for the promotion of dialogue and coexistence.

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book reviews
Coping with Cultural Diversity

ImageThis important and much acclaimed book rapidly became a classic on first publication. In it, Bhikhu Parekh shows that the Western tradition of political philosophy has very limited theoretical res...read more »

 
 

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