SudosteuropaPub Date : 2020-03-01DOI: 10.1515/soeu-2020-0005
Elise Feiersinger
{"title":"The Archive Iris Meder in Vienna, Austria","authors":"Elise Feiersinger","doi":"10.1515/soeu-2020-0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/soeu-2020-0005","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Iris Meder (1965–2018) was a Vienna-based art historian. A large portion of her work and library is dedicated to the Danube region. On 15 November 2019, the Österreichische Gesellschaft für Architektur (Austrian Society for Architecture, ÖGFA) inaugurated the Archive Iris Meder. The author examines how Iris Meder, who grew up on the western border of Baden-Württemberg, Germany, became an expert in her field. Historical chronicles and the experience of the present are in accord: seldom can a private library’s books be preserved as a coherent and recognizable collection. The author gives a glimpse into the inner workings of an impressively versatile, highly knowledgeable independent scholar, and the journey undertaken by the ÖGFA to make her archive available to the public.","PeriodicalId":51954,"journal":{"name":"Sudosteuropa","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/soeu-2020-0005","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46522278","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SudosteuropaPub Date : 2020-03-01DOI: 10.1515/soeu-2020-0006
Pieter Troch
{"title":"Kosovo. Geschichte und Gegenwart eines Parastaates","authors":"Pieter Troch","doi":"10.1515/soeu-2020-0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/soeu-2020-0006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51954,"journal":{"name":"Sudosteuropa","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/soeu-2020-0006","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41945734","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SudosteuropaPub Date : 2020-03-01DOI: 10.1515/soeu-2020-0001
C. Griessler
{"title":"The Berlin Process. Bringing the Western Balkan Region Closer to the European Union","authors":"C. Griessler","doi":"10.1515/soeu-2020-0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/soeu-2020-0001","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract For the countries of the Western Balkans, the path to membership in the European Union (EU) has been particularly tortuous. Its slow progress has created frustration among applicant countries. In 2014 Germany, stepping into the political void that had formed, inaugurated what has come to be known as the Berlin Process, an initiative aimed at injecting new energy into the dormant EU enlargement process. The author examines the political activities initiated between 2014 and 2019, analysing the official documentation of the Berlin Process along with publications such as policy papers and media commentaries. She concludes that although meaningful and proactive measures have been taken, such efforts have not been successful in persuading or enabling the Western Balkan states to implement the political and economic reforms required for EU accession.","PeriodicalId":51954,"journal":{"name":"Sudosteuropa","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/soeu-2020-0001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47077765","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SudosteuropaPub Date : 2020-03-01DOI: 10.1515/soeu-2020-0010
Mihail Ceropita
{"title":"Novak Bjelić, Kazivanja o Trepči, 1303-2018","authors":"Mihail Ceropita","doi":"10.1515/soeu-2020-0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/soeu-2020-0010","url":null,"abstract":"bán’s governance actually reinforced neoliberalism and produced an idiosyncratic variety. In describing the differences between Fidesz’ neoliberalism and the neoliberalism pursued by his predecessors, Fabry argues that by combining some of neoliberalism’s central tenets with authoritarian and ethnicist politics, Orbán created what he himself refers to as an ‘illiberal democracy’. Fabry’s book, alongside a small but growing body of Marxist, neo-Gramscian, world system theory based social science approaches to the analysis of the political economies of the Central East European countries, makes a much needed contribution to the understanding of the consequences of postsocialist transformation. Although written to academic standards, it is not only the scholar who will benefit from this book. Its accessibility in terms of language, clarity, and length makes it a good choice for readers also outside academia who seek to understand the contradictory political and economic landscape of Hungary, as well as the other countries that once constituted the ‘Eastern bloc’.","PeriodicalId":51954,"journal":{"name":"Sudosteuropa","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/soeu-2020-0010","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46079463","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}