“…"Government at a Glance: Western Balkans presents information on public governance in the Western Balkan region--covering Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Serbia, and compares it to OECD and OECD-EU countries. …”

“…The chapters are based on empirical research from countries around the globe including Canada, USA, China, Nigeria, Germany, Serbia, Venezuela, and Brazil. The book discusses such issues as predicting changes in land use pattern, ecological footprint analysis, socioeconomic and behavioral modeling, and flood control approaches. …”

“…Presentación del editor: "The Balkan Economies c. 1800-1914 is a strongly revisionist 1997 book which compares the economic progress of Serbia, Bulgaria, Bosnia, Montenegro and Macedonia in the century before World War I. …”

“…The history of Kosovo is a complicated one which typifies the darker side of modern Balkan history. Milosevic s Serbia withdrew from Kosovo in 1999 and the province was handed over to a special UN body who governed until 2008, when the West allowed Kosovo to become independent. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The art of ageing : textualising the phases of life ; Legal page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction; The Topic of Ageing in Philip Larkin's Poetry; Old Age in Serbia: Transition for all Ages; The Hourglass of Time: Life Cycle in the Digital Era; "'Aware too late,' said Beauty as she passed." (...); Ripeness is Gall: Images of Ageing in the Theatre of Edward Bond; Problem Columns and the Discourse of Masculine Ageing Anxieties in Britain; Willie's "Monkey Gland" or the Bio-Aesthetics of Ageing in the Poetry of W.B. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Conté : Searching for a common Ground: philosophy and the identity problem in Serbia / Misa Durkovic -- Bosnian domestic foreigners: the alien compatriots living in the neighborhood / Ugo Vlaisavljevic -- Liberal neutrality and multicultural justice: liberalism and the principle of liberal neutrality / Zhidas Daskalovsk -- From broken history to narrative identity: Bulgarian identity and the question of belonging / Bianca Boteva-Richter -- Phantom of Freedom: the problem of modern Russian identity / Aleksandr Rybas -- La identidad nacional desde la perspectiva polaca / Iwona Krupecka -- La Europa de las identidades traducidas / Carla Canullo -- La question identitaire en France / Fred Poché -- Philosophy in The Netherlands and Belgium / Inigo Bocken -- Unheimliche Heimat: Rechtspopulismus nach Schweizer Art / Beat Dietschy -- "Nationale Identität"?…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Piotr Mikuli, Grzegorz Kuca : Introduction -- Kyriaki Topidi : Accountability in the globalized digital age: the example of online content regulation in the EU -- Grzegorz Kuca : Economic crises and transformation to the theoretical model of budget process: a comparative constitutional analysis via an example of EU member states -- Jelena Kostić, Marina Matić Bošković : Financial accountability and transparency of public sector institution in the Republic of Serbia -- Piotr Mikuli, Maciej Pach : Discipilnary liability of judges: the Polish case -- Arianna Vedaschi : Transparency and accountability v. secrecy in intelligence operations: an Italian case study -- Guillermo Jiménez : Non-judicial legal accountability: the case of the Chilean comptroller general -- Thomas Sedelius : presidents' (mis)use of public accountability 'Going public' tactics in European semi-presidential regimes -- Eugenie Kopsidi & John Vlachos : Ministerial criminal liability in the Greek legal order: a concise critical review -- Francesca Sgrò : Transparency and accountability of the Italian public administration in the context of public procurement: the case of below-threshold contracts -- Natalie Fox : Transparency and government accountability in Brexit negotiations…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction / Stuart Blume and Baptiste Baylac-Paouly -- The privatization of societal vaccinology in the Netherlands / Jan Hendriks -- The rise and fall of state vaccine institutions in Spain (1871-1986) / María-José Báguena and María-Isabel Porras -- Politics of vaccination in Sweden : the National Bacteriological Laboratory SBL (1909-1993) and current debates / Motzi Eklöf -- The failed promises of a brighter future : the Institute of Immunology in Zagreb from a public asset to a privatized burden / Vedran Duančić, Snježana Ivčić and Ana Vračar -- Wilful neoliberal incapacitation of India's public sector vaccine institutions / Madhavi Yennapu -- Start with the world and continue in isolation : the Pasteur and Razi Institutes' vaccine legacy in Iran / Payam Roshanfekr and Parisa Roshanfekr -- Translating Pasteur's vision in Eastern Europe : the role of the Cantacuzino Institute in Romanian vaccination policies and vaccine production / Valentin-Veron Toma -- Vaccine production in Serbia : political and socio-cultural determinants in historical perspective / Vesna Trifunović -- Epilogue: States and vaccines in the age of Covid-19 / Stuart Blume and Maurizia Mezza…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Demolish or love: representations of socialist leftover in postcommunist Polish cinema / Ewa Mazierska -- Treading new paths: Czech and German postcommunist road movies / Sune Beckman Pedersen -- The crime that changed Serbia: the Belgrade ghetto film / Nevena Dakovic -- Projected nation and projected self: Atom Egoyan's Calendar / Yun-Hua Chen -- Truancy, or thought from the provinces: on Jia Zhangke's Platform / Yün Peng -- Representations of former USSR identities in Turkish Cinema / Serazer Pekerman…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…PART FOUR SOCIAL, POLITICAL AND INSTITUTIONAL CONSTRAINTS ON WOMEN -- CHAPTER XIII The Influence of Academic Self-concept on the Study Program Choice of Computer Scientists (Silvia FÖRTSCH and Ute SCHMID) -- CHAPTER XIV Women in Academic Medicine: The 'Leaking' Process in Italy (Rita BIANCHERI and Silvia CERVIA) -- CHAPTER XV Female Labor Market Participation in Serbia (Natalija PERIŠIĆ and Jelena TANASIJEVIĆ) -- CHAPTER XVI Socio-cultural Factors Structuring Women's Access to Land and Natural Resources in Northwest Cameroon (Ngambouk Vitalis PEMUNTA) -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- Index…”

“…In Australia, Brazil, Italy, Japan, Korea, Macao China, Serbia, England (United Kingdom) and the United States, students perform significantly better in problem solving, on average, than students in other countries who show similar performance in reading, mathematics and science. …”

“…This report examines the professionalisation of the civil service in seven Western Balkan states: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia1, Kosovo, Montenegro and Serbia. In the case of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the civil service is analysed separately for the state level (henceforth BiH), the Federation level (FBiH) and the Republika Srpska (henceforth RS).The report builds on SIGMA Paper No. 44 (2009), which assessed the sustainability of civil service reforms in the new EU member states of Central and Eastern Europe after their accession to the European Union (henceforth EU) in 2004. …”

“…Contributing authors came from several countries, from Serbia to Turkey. The book was edited by Professor Milica Prostran MD, Ph.D., specialist in Clinical Pharmacology. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The West Side Story of the Collapse of Yugoslavia and the Wars in Slovenia, Croatia, and Bosnia-Herzegovina -- Eight. Serbia's War Lobby: Diaspora Groups and Western Elites -- Nine. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…PREFACE; FIGURES AND TABLE; SUMMARY; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; Chapter One INTRODUCTION; Chapter Two GREECE'S NEW STRATEGIC ENVIRONMENT; A TRANSREGIONAL ENVIRONMENT; GREEK-TURKISH DÉTENTE AND REGIONAL GEOPOLITICS; THE MEDITERRANEAN, THE BLACK SEA, AND THE MIDDLE EAST; GREECE AND THE EURO-ATLANTIC SYSTEM; CONCLUSIONS AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS; Chapter Three BALKAN SECURITY AFTER THE FALL OF MILOSEVIC: CHALLENGES AND IMPLICATIONS FOR GREECE; SERBIA AFTER MILOSEVIC; THE KOSOVO PROBLEM; KOSOVO AND THE ALBANIAN NATIONAL QUESTION; MACEDONIA: THE CRITICAL LINCHPIN; THE WIDER BALKAN STAGE…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Peoples of Eastern Europe -- Ethnicity on the edge of extinction -- Linguistic nationalism -- Nationality struggles : from idea to movement -- Insurgent nationalism : Serbia and Poland -- Cursed are the peacemakers : 1848 in East Central Europe -- The reform that made the monarchy unreformable : the 1867 compromise -- 1878 Berlin Congress : Europe's new ethno-nation states -- The origins of National Socialism : fin de siecle Hungary and Bohemia -- Liberalism's heirs and enemies : socialism vs. nationalism -- Peasant utopias : villages of yesterday and societies of tomorrow -- 1919 : a new Europe and its old problems -- The failure of national self-determination -- Fascism takes root : Iron Guard and Arrow Cross -- East Europe's anti-fascism -- Hitler's war and its East European enemies -- What Dante did not see : the Holocaust in Eastern Europe -- People's democracy : early postwar Eastern Europe -- Cold War and Stalinism -- Destalinization : Hungary's revolution -- National paths to communism : the 1960s -- 1968 and the Soviet bloc : reform communism -- Real existing socialism : life in the Soviet bloc -- The unraveling of communism -- 1989 -- East Europe explodes : the wars of Yugoslav succession -- East Europe joins Europe…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Handbook of Direct Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe after 1989 -- Contents -- Introduction -- Direct Democracy in Albania (Marcin Pomarański) -- Direct Democracy in Belarus (Wojciech Ziętara) -- Direct Democracy in Bosnia and Herzegovina (Andrzej Piasecki) -- Direct Democracy in Bulgaria (Dobrinka Peicheva) -- Direct Democracy in Croatia (Maria Marczewska-Rytko) -- Direct Democracy in Czechia (Elżbieta Kużelewska) -- Direct democracy in Estonia (Dorota Maj) -- Direct Democracy in Hungary (Marcin Pomarański) -- Direct Democracy in Kosovo (Magdalena Musiał-Karg) -- Direct Democracy in Latvia (Dorota Maj) -- Direct Democracy in Lithuania (Dorota Maj) -- Direct Democracy in Macedonia (Magdalena Musiał-Karg) -- Direct Democracy in Moldova (Marta Drabczuk) -- Direct Democracy in Montenegro (Maria Marczewska-Rytko) -- Direct Democracy in Poland (Maria Marczewska-Rytko) -- Direct democracy in Romania (Valentina Marinescu) -- Direct Democracy in Russia (Wojciech Ziętara) -- Direct Democracy in Serbia (Magdalena Musiał-Karg) -- Direct Democracy in Slovakia (Elżbieta Kużelewska) -- Direct Democracy in Slovenia (Elżbieta Kużelewska) -- Direct Democracy in Ukraine (Marta Drabczuk) -- Direct Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe after 1989: Conclusion (Maria Marczewska-Rytko) -- Notes on Contributors -- Index…”