scholarly journals Memories from the future: constative and performed identities in ideologized spaces

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 173-186
Author(s):  
Felix Nicolau
Keyword(s):  
Identity Matrix ◽  
Iron Curtain ◽  
Southeastern Europe ◽  
Social Categories ◽  
The Future ◽  
Performed Identities

Although communism was a Western creation its last consequences were implemented in southeastern Europe. In addition to the imposed aspects, there were local enthusiasms and excesses of zeal (euphemistically speaking), which attest to the existence of an identity matrix and a common mentality. Countries with an authoritarian tradition have absorbed this ideology of simultaneous denationalization and supra-nationalization to the deepest. And after the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989, the Southeast European space preserved mass nostalgia: Stalin, Tito and Ceausescu are still guardianship figures for many of various social categories. Imperialist stability and/or glory are two of the most important reasons for forgetting communist terror. The research tries to identify and analyze the sources of historical instability that has an impact on the post-communist present - the communist heritage still looming large-, as well as to demystify certain stigmas unconditionally applied to Southeast European civilizations: corruption, laziness, negative Balkanization, frivolity and lack of consistency. This is a selective overview which aims to decant common mentalities of synchrony in relation to diachrony.

scholarly journals Habiletes Sociales Acquises Au Sein Des Familles Et Resilience Au Passage A L’acte Delictueux Chez Des Jeunes Vivant Dans Des Quartiers Defavorises A Abobo. (Abidjan)

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (29) ◽  
pp. 315
Author(s):  
Traore Massandjé ◽  
Crizoa Hermann ◽  
N’goran N’faissoh Franck Stéphane
Keyword(s):  
Social Skills ◽  
Young People ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Social Categories ◽  
Disadvantaged Neighborhoods ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Future ◽  
Object Of Study

This study aims to explain the link between the social skills acquired within families and the resilience to the criminal act in young people living in disadvantaged neighborhoods in Abobo. The research was carried out in Abobo commune and involved 74 participants from different social categories. The collection of information relating to the object of study was based on questionnaire, interview and observation. The information collected was analyzed from a quantitative and qualitative point of view. The results of the study indicate that youth who are resilient to delinquency in the community are of all ages and both sexes. The study shows that the resilience to the criminal act in certain young people living in the precarious neighborhoods of the Abobo commune is explained by the ability to ask for help, self-control, development of a sense of autonomy and a projection into the future.

scholarly journals FDI Time Series Forecasts: Evidence from Emerging Markets

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marina Dobrota ◽  
Nikola Zornić ◽  
Aleksandar Marković
Keyword(s):  
Time Series ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Emerging Markets ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Southeastern Europe ◽  
Western Balkans ◽  
Future Period ◽  
Fdi Inflows ◽  
The Future

Research Question: This paper investigates the trend and flow of foreign direct investments (FDI) in emerging markets, with the focus on FDI in Serbia in comparison with akin countries from the region. Motivation: FDI is an important factor of growth and prosperity in developing countries. It largely influences trade, productivity, and economic development of a receiving country. Based on UNCTAD’s World Investment Report of 2019, the share of global FDI in developing countries was 54 per cent, which was a record. Recently, Serbia has been recognized as one of the most popular destinations for FDI in Southeastern Europe. This motivated us to analyze the chances and possibilities of enlargement of FDI in Serbia, as well in other Balkan countries. Idea: The main idea of the paper is to analyze and estimate time series of FDI net inflows for Serbia. We strive to investigate whether FDI demonstrates the durable growth in the future period of time. Furthermore, we compare the state of Serbian FDI with the former Yugoslav countries, in search for disparities or similarities. Data: We observed the FDI net inflows that are measured in current US dollars, while the data were retrieved from the World Bank database. The earliest available time point is 1992, while the latest available year of observation is 2018. Tools: We estimated the FDI net flow time series using a list of suitable ARIMA models, and we have chosen the best model fit among them using AIC and BIC criteria. Findings: We have found that Serbia and North Macedonia show a mild growth in future investments. A significant percentage of the cumulative FDI inflows from EU companies have been invested precisely in Serbia, while in North Macedonia, fostering FDI has been promoted as one of the main instruments for employment and economic development. Oher Yugoslav countries tend to stagnate in the future period, which is in literature called a negative ‘Western Balkans’ effect on FDI. Contribution: Findings of the mild growth in FDI inflows in Serbia and North Macedonia contribute to the policy of attracting the FDI inflows in the countries of Southeastern Europe.

Marketing in the Iron Curtain Countries

1966 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 3-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Reed Moyer
Keyword(s):  
Iron Curtain ◽  
The Future

What are the implications of a shift in the Iron Curtain countries toward marketing? How will they affect marketing functions and institutions? The author shows the weaknesses in the existing planned systems, and he charts the future of what may develop.

Bridging the Iron Curtain. Futurology as Dissidence and Control

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenny Andersson
Keyword(s):  
Computer Science ◽  
Ford Foundation ◽  
Transnational Networks ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Iron Curtain ◽  
Planning Systems ◽  
East European ◽  
Futures Research ◽  
The Future ◽  
And Control

East European futurists were part of the transnational networks of futures research. The Ford Foundation sent Daniel Bell on a study trip in 1960 during which he made contact with some of the key milieus of revisionist Marxist thought: the Polska 2000 group led by Andrej Sicinski as well as the group of sociologists under the leadership of Radovan Richta in Prague. After 1968, futurologists helped introduce forms of management and computer science into the planning systems of the socialist economies under the banner of prognostika. The chapter examines the way that East European futurists used the future as a way of constructing an argument about the need to revise Marxism, and how future research became a space of protest and dissidence.

The Soviet Concept of Satellite States

1949 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 184-195
Author(s):  
Sergius Yakobson
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Universal Declaration ◽  
Western World ◽  
Iron Curtain ◽  
Southeastern Europe ◽  
Clear Cut ◽  
Central Eastern ◽  
The United Nations

Is there a clear-cut Soviet concept of satellite states? Apparently not, for, from the official Soviet point of view a satellite state east of the Iron Curtain is an anomaly: ca n'existe pas. The very idea, the Soviets would have us believe, is an aberration, a falsification concocted, to use the Communist jargon, by the “ideological armbearers of the American monopolists and imperialists.” Unfortunately, this stand is not corroborated by facts. It is for us in the Western world as well as for the millions of private, honest citizens in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe that the existence of satellite states behind the Iron Curtain means a most disquieting and indeed a sinister reality.The term “satellite state” is first of all a question of political semantics. If one consults the records of the United Nations Commission which has just completed its work on the “Universal Declaration of Human Rights,” he can readily appreciate the polarity between our approach and that of the Soviet camp to a whole register of political definitions.

scholarly journals Looking Through a Veil

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 413-428
Author(s):  
Angela Ilić
Keyword(s):  
Identity Construction ◽  
Interreligious Dialogue ◽  
Southeastern Europe ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of

Abstract Identity construction processes in Southeastern Europe and particularly in Serbia have resulted in distinct ideals of identities that are perceived to be incompatible with each other. Such understanding makes it extremely difficult to overcome ethnic, linguistic or religious/confessional boundaries. Almost any interconfessional or interreligious contact is by its nature interethnic and vice versa. Interreligious dialogue therefore faces great challenges but is not impossible to achieve. In the article, highlights and failed attempts from the history of interreligious dialogue initiatives in Serbia and Yugoslavia are presented and perspectives for the future are explored.

A Visionary Behind the Iron Curtain: Cezary Berezowski on European Integration

2011 ◽  
Vol 13 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 43-57
Author(s):  
Adam Łazowski
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
European Integration ◽  
Iron Curtain ◽  
European Union Law ◽  
The Future

AbstractThis contribution presents the visionary work of Ceary Berezowksi. It focuses on an article published by Berezowski in 1958 entitled “Współpraca współistnienia i współpraca integracji” [Co-operation of co-existence and co-operation of integration], and examines how and to what degree his conclusions on the future of international and European Union law were or were not re-affirmed by later events and jurisprudence.

International determination of the total motion of the pole

1961 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 29-41
Author(s):  
Wm. Markowitz
Keyword(s):  
Secular Motion ◽  
The Future

A symposium on the future of the International Latitude Service (I. L. S.) is to be held in Helsinki in July 1960. My report for the symposium consists of two parts. Part I, denoded (Mk I) was published [1] earlier in 1960 under the title “Latitude and Longitude, and the Secular Motion of the Pole”. Part II is the present paper, denoded (Mk II).

Status of the Lick Proper Motion Program

1978 ◽  
Vol 48 ◽  
pp. 387-388
Author(s):  
A. R. Klemola
Keyword(s):  
Proper Motion ◽  
The Future

Second-epoch photographs have now been obtained for nearly 850 of the 1246 fields of the proper motion program with centers at declination -20° and northwards. For the sky at 0° and northward only 130 fields remain to be taken in the next year or two. The 270 southern fields with centers at -5° to -20° remain for the future.

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