2015

OESTERREICHISCHE NATIONALBANK The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Oesterreichische Nationalbank (OeNB), in cooperation with the Joint Vienna Institute (JVI), hosted a conference in Vienna on March 10, 2015, marking 15 years of economic transition in the Western Balkan countries. Following on the heels of the IMF’s presentation of its recently published Regional Economic Issues Special Report on the Western Balkans by Aasim Husain, Deputy Director in the European Department of the IMF, the conference also delivered a platform for ministers and central bank governors of the region to exchange their views on economic policy issues.

KKI 4:1, 2021

In the 4:1 series of the Institute for Foreign Affairs and Trade, four experts give a short answer to the same question concerning international politics and economics. Our aim is to launch scientific debates in and beyond Hungary and promote dialogue among experts. In this issue our topic is “Should the Western Balkans participate in the Conference on the Future of Europe?”.

International University of Sarajevo, 2020

Balkan Studies Center (BSC) is pleased to announce the proceedings of the Western Balkans Youth Conference: Regional Cooperation and Integration (WBYS’20). The conference was held on July 10, 2020. The WBYC’20 has promoted a mission of the Balkan Studies Center for improving scholarship and research among young researchers worldwide. The WBYS’20 attempted to seek authors and papers primarily on the topics that tackle regional cooperation and integration. In this regard, the conference aimed to explore regional cooperation within the South-East European Cooperation Process (SEECP), the prospects of the Western Balkans countries in the EU, the Western Balkans post-conflict peace-building, the Western Balkans infrastructure, transportation, communication, telecommunications, energy, economic cooperation, and trade. Thus, the conference primarily aimed to explore realistic issues and challenges beyond the centuries-old conflicting issues of borders, wars, and divisiveness. One small step has been made to deconstruct the Western Balkans and to turn the discourse and attention to the universal, realistic, progressive, scientific, and liberal values. The proceedings of the Western Balkans Youth Conference: Regional Cooperation and Integration (WBYS’20) consist of eleven papers that were selected after a rigorous review process by two reviewers. Then, all submitted papers were checked for text similarity and plagiarism by licensed Turnitin software. Eleven papers in this book of proceedings explore the determinants of life expectancy in the EU and Western Balkans; legal and criminal consequences of money laundering; legislation, transnational justice, peace studies, and reconciliation; democratization in the Western Balkans; political participation in the Western Balkans; economic development and employment; diaspora and non-governmental sector.

2018

This volume is made up of a selection of peer-reviewed chapters originally presented at the 13th international conference on European Integration, organized by the University American College Skopje. Entitled: "Europe and the Balkans", the conference was held at the Macedonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Skopje, on 17 May 2018. The main purpose of the conference had been to re-examine the complex construct of the Balkans in the European political and cultural imagination. Although the Balkans have been claimed by local nations as the 'cradle of European civilization', for Western imagining the region has usually featured as a 'part of Europe, yet not of it'. It is to be hoped that the negative demi-orientalizing discourse which has stigmatized the Balkans as both a vortex of stagnation and violence, and as 'an incomplete self' of Europe will eventually fade away with the integration of the Balkan countries into the European Union. Nevertheless, t...

A TALENTED OTTOMAN DIPLOMAT OF ALBANIAN ORIGIN: TURHAN PASHA (PERMETI) AND SOME NEW INFORMATION ON HIS DIPLOMATIC CAREER-IBAC BOOK SERIES, 2021

organizes the International Balkan Annual Conference (IBAC) every year in close cooperation with respected scienti c institutions in the Balkans. is conference brings together scientists and experts from various countries who share their knowledge, among others, on the history, culture, art, economy, and intercommunal relations of the Balkan people. e International Balkan Annual Conference (IBAC) is very important in terms of approaching the historical and current issues of the region, and providing an opportunity to generate ideas about the past and present of the Balkans. erefore, we were very pleased to come together for such a fruitful scienti c event in Kosovo, the youngest and most dynamic country in the Balkans. e Republic of Turkey was the rst country that o cially recognized the Republic of Kosovo, and greatly appreciates Kosovo's strategic importance in the region. ere have always been bonds of love and the sharing of a common fate between the two nations. We were very pleased to cooperate with Kosovo scienti cally, and believe that such events enhance the friendship of our countries and nations. In this respect, the meeting we organized with University of Prishtina "Hasan Prishtina" was the beginning of a close relationship that will develop in many di erent elds in the future. I am grateful for the cooperation of the University of Prishtina "Hasan Prishtina, " which hosted us at the conference held in Kosovo in the best way. e theme of the conference was " e Role of Diplomacy in the History of the Balkans" and many di erent scholars and researchers from various countries such as Romania, Poland, Japan, Montenegro, Albania, and Russia as well as Turkey and Kosovo made contributions to the conference. I would like to thank all of them for their valuable contributions to the scienti c world. e Presidency of the Republic of Turkey, the Directorate of the State Archives organized an exhibition on the presence of Kosovo in the Ottoman archival documents. I would like to thank the organizers of this exhibition. Finally, I would like to express my gratefulness to the members of the organizing committee of the IBAC Prishtina Conference for their e orts, and to extend my sincere gratitude to the Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency Directorate (TİKA) and the Union of Turkish World Municipalities for their support and sponsorship.

We, the librarians, teachers and scholars have the duty to promote and organize events and manifestations dedicated to knowledge and education. „Alexandru și Aristia Aman” Dolj County Library thus continues this year, the tradition of organizing international conferences. If the International Conference “State and Society in Europe” reached the 9th edition – this autumn we are organizing the 10th edition -, the International Conference “Politics. Diplomacy. Culture.” opens today for the forth time.

Hungarian Geographical Bulletin, 2014

The roots of the conference go back to the year 2010, when the fi rst regional conference on the "Geographical environment and cross-border cooperation within the Danube lower basin", was organized by the University of Craiova (Romania) gathering geographers and other researchers from European countries who shared their experiences, knowledge and research results about all aspects of geography. The fi rst conference took place in Craiova and it was organized by the Geography Departments of the University of Craiova and the University of Timisoara. The second conference was held in Eger, and it was organised by the Department of Economic and Social Geography of the University of Szeged in 2012. The third conference was initiated by the Faculty of Geography (

Journal of Economics and Political Economy, 2017

Abstract. The 8th International Conference of Political Economy (ICOPEC) was held in Belgrade on June 28-30, 2017. The main theme of the conference was "Institutions, National Identity, Power and Governance in the 21st Century". Since its first year, these conference series have been successful to bring together all academicians, students that are all interested in the topics of political economy. Keywords. Political Economy, State, Taxation, Institutions, Poverty. JEL. F50, P16, H20, H70.

Europe and the Balkans - 13th annual international academic conference on European integration (conference proceedings), 2018

This volume is made up of a selection of peer-reviewed chapters originally presented at the 13th international conference on European Integration, organized by the University American College Skopje. Entitled: “Europe and the Balkans”, the conference was held at the Macedonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Skopje, on 17 May 2018. The main purpose of the conference had been to re-examine the complex construct of the Balkans in the European political and cultural imagination. Although the Balkans have been claimed by local nations as the ‘cradle of European civilization’, for Western imagining the region has usually featured as a ‘part of Europe, yet not of it’. It is to be hoped that the negative demi-orientalizing discourse which has stigmatized the Balkans as both a vortex of stagnation and violence, and as ’an incomplete self’ of Europe will eventually fade away with the integration of the Balkan countries into the European Union. Nevertheless, the controversial term ’Western Balkans’, invented as a seeming mask of political correctness, testifies to prevailing prejudice and obstacles to the process of European integration. It should also be noted that as a catch-all expression for the successor states of the former Yugoslavia, the term ’Western Balkans’ used to designate a geographical space once referred to more generally as South Eastern Europe was contested throughout the conference. The conference which involved about 20 prominent Macedonian and international scholars as well as over 120 attendees afforded an excellent opportunity to contribute to a better understanding of the Berlin Process and to other initiatives related to the integration of the Western Balkans into the EU.