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219Book Review: The Price of a Dream: The Story of the Grameen Bank and the Idea That Is Helping the Poor to Change Their LivesInternational Third World Studies Journal and Review 8 91-92. 1996.Bornstein, David. The Price of a Dream: The Idea of the Grameen Bank and the Idea That Is Helping the Poor to Change Their Lives. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996. 370 pp. $25.00 (cloth).
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210Book Review: Chechnya: Tombstone of Russian Power (review)International Third World Studies Journal and Review 10 81-84. 1998/99.[1] From December 1994 to August 1996, Russia was engaged in the Chechen War, a Vietnam-style quagmire that exemplified, on the one hand, the end of Russia as a great military and imperial power, and, on the other hand, "one of the greatest epics of colonial resistance in the past century.'' No analysis can hope to understand the totality of forces that lend to the stability (or instability) of nations with large minority populations unless it first examines the conditions that led to the Russia…Read more
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192Book Review: To End a WarInternational Third World Studies Journal and Review 10 77-79. 1998/99.[1] If asked to name career diplomats who have tackled some very difficult international crises, many foreign policy makers would put Richard Holbrooke near the top of the list. Not many negotiators have wielded moral principle, power, and reason as well as Holbrooke. His book on the Bosnia negotiations leading up to the 1995 Dayton Peace Agreement is timely, given the ethnic cleansing that is being carried out in Kosovo, a southern province of Yugoslavia's Serb Republic. Once again we are faced…Read more
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185Rumsfeld's Known Unknowns: The Graying of Terror(ism) and Dark TerrorBosnia Daily (3263): 10-11. 2014.
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183Book Review: The Decolonization of Imagination: Culture, Knowledge and Power (review)International Third World Studies Journal and Review 8 73-75. 1997.Pieterse, Jan Nederveen and Parekh, Bhikhu (eds.). The Decolonization of Imagination: Culture, Knowledge and Power. London: Zed Books, 1995. 265pp. $59.95 (cloth), $22.50 (paper).
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168Coming to Grips with the Queer Festival and Deeper ConcernsBosnia Daily (September 8) 9. 2008.There has been a great deal of talk about the upcoming Queer Festival in Sarajevo. However, the discussion has taken on a bitter tone because some have made much of the fact that the organizers plan to hold the festival during the month of Ramadan. To hold the festival during that time, according to some pious Muslims, is a blasphemous act, one that is rude and disrespectful towards those of the faith. Of course, we must not forget that this festival is following on the heels of another festival…Read more
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142Pedagogy for Understanding Kosovo Society: (II) Greater Than Its PartsBosnia Daily (3569): 10-11. 2015.
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126We dwell in a world of physical things. When it comes to the environments that we live in, we usually become oriented to the place, and eventually feel at home in it. Facing death during war and pandemic are times of extreme disorientation, and we sometimes exhibit an impulse to flee. It is no wonder that in those desperate times, some with means and ability consider fleeing to a safer place. But are we morally obliged to act in ways that would ask us to sacrifice our deepest personal commitment…Read more
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121Fleeing from War or Pandemic, and Returning HomeID: International Dialogue, A Multidisciplinary Journal of World Affairs 11 78-80. 2021.
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65The role of the hyperintellectual in civil society building and democratization in the BalkansStudies in East European Thought 59 (3): 195-214. 2007.Although intellectuals have been a part of the cultural landscape, it is in post-conflict societies, such as those found in Kosovo and Bosnia, that there has arisen a need for an intellectual who is more than simply a social critic, an educator, a man of action, and a compassionate individual. Enter the hyperintellectual. As this essay will make clear, it is the hyperintellectual, who through a reciprocating critique and defense of both the nationalist enterprise and strong interventionism of th…Read more
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50Unified pluralism: Fostering reconciliation and the demise of ethnic nationalismStudies in East European Thought 54 (4): 285-302. 2002.
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20Book Review: How to Cure a FanaticInternational Third World Studies Journal and Review 17 27-28. 2006.How to Cure a Fanatic by the internationally acclaimed mately mean “compromise,” not surrender. novelist and peace activist Amos Oz, is a book I took with me on a recent trip to the Balkans. I decided to read the book and write my review in my flat on Gradacacka Street in the Otoka neighborhood of Sarajevo, given the book’s topic and the problems that have plagued the people of Bosnia for the past fifteen years.
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10Something Called the ‘False Dilemma Fallacy’ (FDF): A Return to Formalization Just This TimeInformal Logic 43 (2): 280-289. 2023.This work is a revision of the False Dilemma Fallacy (FDF). The formalized model (FM)of this fallacy has as its centerpiece a valid disjunctive syllogism, but the disjunctive premise is presumed to be false, thus making the argument unsound. Our revised model (FM2.0) focuses on the formal structure by comparing the given vs. the real argument, which is unsound because of its invalidity. This approach we believe is more pedagogically useful and a better explanation of the fallacious nature of the…Read more
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6Blurred Visions: Philosophy, Science, and Ideology in a Troubled WorldPeter Lang. 1997.Blurred Visions fills an important gap in the literature on applied philosophy. It explores the relationship between ideological disputes and evidence and attempts to establish the ways in which the intractability of some ideological disputes is a function of the disputants adopting the notion of brute evidence, and the extent to which a change of epistemological venue might affect the resolution and prevention of ideological disputes. It declares that scientific theory and ideology are conceptu…Read more
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4The European Union ambassadors revenue are lost to fraud and crime,” the of the Council of Minister, Mr. in BiH follow very closely develrelease read. Papandreou, and Mr. Solana, urged the opments as regards the issue of “We also have in mind the positive effect authorities of BiH recently to reach a the adoption, at a state level of single..
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Herët në mëngjes fillova të lexoja “Të bijën e Agamemnonit” të Ismail Kadaresë dhe pashë se ai kishte përdorur fjalën “kalimtar” që do të ishte edhe shprehja relevante për prezantimin e sotëm. Duke ditur se do të vija në Ballkan, nisa të lexoja edhe një tjetër vepër letrare, atë të Stieg Larssonit, “Vajza me tatu të dragoit”. Sikurse te vepra e Kadaresë, edhe në librin e Larssonit gjeta diçka që do të më hynte shumë në punë, që do të ishte relevante për diskutimin tonë të ditës së sotme. Prandaj…Read more
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