Publication Year: within 25 Years

Author:: Nathalie Tocci
Publication Date:: 10-2001
Content Type:: Policy Brief
Institution:: Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS)
Abstract:: Today's southeast Turkey has historically been the homeland of a large number of diverse ethnic groups. Nowadays, in many town and villages of the region the largest ethnic group is Kurdish. Turkish officials under Turgut Özal in the 1990s for the first time admitted there may be around 10 million Kurds living in Turkey. Other estimates indicate a Kurdish population of around 15 million. Adding to this figure the additional 10 million or so Kurds living in Iran, Iraq, Syria and the former Soviet Union, the Kurdish people represent the largest ethnic group in the world without a state of their own.
Topic:: Security and NATO
Political Geography:: Iraq, Europe, Iran, Turkey, Middle East, and Syria

Author:: Daniel Gros and Michael Emerson
Publication Date:: 09-2001
Content Type:: Policy Brief
Institution:: Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS)
Abstract:: Ten days now after 11 September, the policy agenda becomes a huge set of interlocking issues – political, strategic, economic. The present note makes a first survey of these issues, and expresses opinions on some of them. However the main purpose is to establish a template or framework to help monitor and evaluate the evolution of the world's response to this massive event. It will be updated and revised in further CEPS Policy Briefs as the story unfolds.
Topic:: Security and Terrorism
Political Geography:: Europe

Publication Date:: 12-2001
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: International Crisis Group
Abstract:: Kosovo cannot have a stable future without sustainable economic development. This report considers the task of promoting such development. After surveying the present state of the economy, it assesses the international efforts so far to lay the groundwork for future prosperity. It also considers the prospects for the former socially owned sector, including plans for privatisation and prospects for restructuring and investment.
Topic:: Economics, Emerging Markets, and Government
Political Geography:: Eastern Europe and Kosovo

Publication Date:: 12-2001
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: International Crisis Group
Abstract:: On 16 November 2001, Macedonia's parliament passed a set of constitutional amendments that were agreed in August, when Macedonian and Albanian minority leaders signed the Ohrid Framework Agreement. Later that day, President Trajkovski clarified the terms of an amnesty for Albanian rebels, in line with international requests.
Topic:: Conflict Prevention, Government, and International Cooperation
Political Geography:: Eastern Europe, Macedonia, and Albania

Publication Date:: 11-2001
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: International Crisis Group
Abstract:: The global focus on Islamist extremist-inspired terrorism resulting from the 11 September atrocities has raised the question of the potential for such terrorist activity in, or emanating from, the Balkans.
Topic:: Politics, Religion, and Terrorism
Political Geography:: Eastern Europe and Balkans

Publication Date:: 11-2001
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: International Crisis Group
Abstract:: After six years and billions of dollars spent, peace implementation in Bosnia and Herzegovina remains far from complete. Reshaping (ërecalibratingí, in local jargon) the international community (IC) presence is vital if the peace process is to have a successful outcome.
Topic:: International Relations, Government, and Politics
Political Geography:: Bosnia and Eastern Europe

Publication Date:: 10-2001
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: International Crisis Group
Abstract:: On 8 October 2001, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) confirmed an indictment charging Slobodan Milosevic, the former president of Serbia and of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY), with crimes committed in Croatia. This indictment had been keenly awaited for years in Croatia, where a widespread perception of international indifference to Serb crimes perpetrated against Croats between 1991 and 1995 has been ably encouraged and manipulated by the right wing.
Topic:: Development, Human Rights, and Politics
Political Geography:: Eastern Europe, Yugoslavia, Serbia, and Croatia

Publication Date:: 10-2001
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: International Crisis Group
Abstract:: By recognising Republika Srpska (RS) as a legitimate polity and constituent entity of the new Bosnia, the 1995 Dayton Peace Agreement embraced a contradiction. For the RS was founded as a stepping stone to a ëGreater Serbiaí and forged in atrocities against ñ and mass expulsions of ñ non-Serbs.
Topic:: Foreign Policy, Government, and Politics
Political Geography:: Bosnia and Eastern Europe

Publication Date:: 09-2001
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: International Crisis Group
Abstract:: The 3 August 2001 murder of former State Security (DB) official Momir Gavrilovic acted as a catalyst for the emergence of a long-hidden feud within Serbia's ruling DOS (Democratic Opposition of Serbia) coalition. Inflamed by Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica's closest advisers, the 'Gavrilovic Affair' has driven a wedge into DOS that could spell the end of the coalition in its present form. In so doing, Kostunica's Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) has been exposed more clearly than before as a conservative nationalist party intent on preserving certain elements of the Milosevic regime.
Topic:: Security, Government, and Politics
Political Geography:: Eastern Europe and Serbia

Publication Date:: 09-2001
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: International Crisis Group
Abstract:: The war option has, for the moment, been checked, but Macedonia is very far from being at peace. Neither the agreement signed on 13 August 2001 2 by the four Macedonian governing parties – two ethnic Macedonian, two ethnic Albanian – nor the subsequent limited NATO deployment, nor the first-stage approval of necessary constitutional amendments by the Macedonian parliament on 6 September have yet given anyone confidence that peace is sustainable. The parliamentary vote, for example, came only after an acrimonious debate in which markers were laid down that ultimate approval of the legislative package could not be taken for granted.
Topic:: Conflict Resolution, Security, and Human Rights
Political Geography:: Eastern Europe, Macedonia, and Albania

Refine your search