Turkisms in South Slavonic Literature

Turkisms in South Slavonic Literature
Author: Florence Lydia Graham
Publisher:
Total Pages: 428
Release: 2020
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 019885773X

This volume explores the extent to which Turkish linguistic features became incorporated into, and influenced, South Slavonic literature, with attention to both religious and secular works of the seventeenth and eighteenth century.

No Easy Fix

No Easy Fix
Author: Patricia Marchak
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2008-03-26
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0773578021

The UN has adopted a "responsibility to protect" mandate for humanitarian intervention in civil wars - but there is no institutional basis for carrying out that mandate. Patricia Marchak argues that unless would-be interveners have an understanding of local issues, agents who speak local languages, and a military force fully prepared to undertake both peaceful and military missions on short notice, UN and other attempts to intervene are unlikely to succeed. While UN-sponsored international criminal courts have been successful in obliging leaders to accept responsibility for their actions during bitter internal wars, Marchak argues that they may not be the best means of bringing truth and reconciliation to survivors. Based on the principle of individual responsibility, they are not designed to deal with collective crimes against humanity and genocide, nor are they good instruments for dealing with the breakdown of societies. Bringing together her own field interviews, documentary material, and secondary sources, Marchak critically assesses the recent history of international interventions and criminal prosecutions. She examines three cases in detail: Cambodia, Rwanda, and the former Yugoslavia in its current forms of Bosnia and Serbia, considers their international context prior to and during internal wars, and argues that each case has to be understood in its own context and history - there is no common pattern and no easy fix that could mend broken societies after the wars. No Easy Fix is of interest to anyone concerned with how the international community deals with civil wars that involve serious crimes against humanity.

European Institutions, Democratization, and Human Rights Protection in the European Periphery

European Institutions, Democratization, and Human Rights Protection in the European Periphery
Author: Henry F. Carey
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 439
Release: 2014-10-10
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1498502059

This book examines the efforts of European regional organizations in promoting democracy, human rights, and the rule of law among states seeking membership. In country-specific chapters, experts test prevailing theories about how effective the regional organizations' efforts at improvement have been.

Lives in Solidarity

Lives in Solidarity
Author: Jana Jevtić
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 187
Release: 2023-09-20
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9004683097

Lives in Solidarity is an intimate and compelling description of BDS activism among Muslims living in two different cultural contexts, England and Bosnia. Unlike public discussions of BDS activism that tend to lack nuance, it explores both why Muslims engage in BDS activism and how they weave it into their daily lives. Not only is this a thoughtful ethnography of a critical but often ignored dimension of BDS activism, it is also an important corrective to scholarship that treats affective, ethical, and passionate attachments as inconsequential to politics.

Muslims and the Making of Modern Europe

Muslims and the Making of Modern Europe
Author: Emily Greble
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 377
Release: 2021
Genre: History
ISBN: 0197538800

Drawing upon Muslim Europe's own voices, institutions, and experiences, this compelling work reframes the debates on European secularism, the historic role of Shari'a law in diverse European states, Muslims and Nazis, Muslims and Communists, and the contributions of Muslims to Europe today.

All Music Guide to Classical Music

All Music Guide to Classical Music
Author: Chris Woodstra
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Total Pages: 1620
Release: 2005
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780879308650

Offering comprehensive coverage of classical music, this guide surveys more than eleven thousand albums and presents biographies of five hundred composers and eight hundred performers, as well as twenty-three essays on forms, eras, and genres of classical music. Original.

Povratak Bogu

Povratak Bogu
Author: Vladimir Zivkovic
Publisher: Vladimir Živković
Total Pages: 137
Release:
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

Ova knjiga je nastala kao proizvod četvorogodišnjeg pisanja tekstova na osnovu spoznaja, vizija i viđenja autora, putem sopstvenih iskustava i duhovnih aktivnosti. Ipak, moramo napomenuti da se ova knjiga ne bavi samo Bogom i duhovnošću već i ljubavnim i seksualnim odnosima čoveka. Svaki čovek, a zatim i svaki čitaoc, koji pročita ovu knjigu, moći će da je praktično primeni i proveri kroz život. Ko sam ja, i šta je svet? Odakle dolazim? Kuda idem? Postoji li Bog? Ako postoji, gde se nalazi? Kakav je? Kako izgleda? Da li je Bog savršen, i da li me savršeno voli? Da li je istina da ne smem imati partnera, dobar seks, novce i lepo jesti i spavati, ako želim dostići sreću i Boga? Ako volim da živim, da li to znači da sam grešan, i da me Bog ne voli? Ima li smisla osuđivati ljude, sebe, Boga? Ima li smisla voleti sebe, ljude, Boga? Kakav je moj put, i koji je moj cilj? Ako sam nesrećan, kako da se izlečim? Ako sam nezadovoljan, koliko je to dobro? Koje je pravo znanje, i kako se ono spoznaje? Postoji još mnogo ovakvih i sličnih pitanja. Ova knjiga se bavi njima. Ova knjiga ne daje samo odgovore na postavljena pitanja. Ona daje smernice čitaocu, da sam, izučavajući ovu knjigu, svesno doživi istinu iznesenu na ovim stranicama. Biljana Obradović iz Valjeva, pesnikinja i pisac više romana govori o knjizi: Vladimir Živković je čovek posvećen izučavanju života duše. Njegovo pisanje odaje mirnoću, doslednost putu ka Bogu, kao jedina svetlost koja hrani unutrašnjost bića. Veoma mi se sviđa što se sa posebnim poštovanjem obraća svima, a posebno devojkama i ženama. Čitajući njegova dela koja se odnose na veru u Boga, a samim tim i u sebe, shvatila sam da je put saznanja težak, ali plodonosan. Shvatila sam i da loše usmeren ego može da uništi i najveće umove, kao i najveće vernike. Vladimir govori o skromnosti života i ravnoteži želja. Tako prenosi znanje i na druge, da se duboko zamisle nad životom koji vode u današnje moderno vreme. Nadam se da će objaviti još knjiga koje rasvetljavaju put umu pravednika i duboko verujućeg čoveka. Uz poštovanje ovog dela, želim ti uspeh i veliku čitanost!

Topics in South Slavic Syntax and Semantics

Topics in South Slavic Syntax and Semantics
Author: Mila Dimitrova-Vulchanova
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 292
Release: 1999
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 902723678X

This collection of articles presents a variety of approaches to central phenomena in South Slavic syntax and semantics, with an informal introduction by the editors on South Slavic clause structure. Phenomena addressed (treated partly on a language specific basis, partly comparative) include: the structure of the functional field, verb fronting, clitic placement, conjunctions, noun phrase structure, possessives, agreement, and aspectual phenomena.

Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law, Volume 24 (2021)

Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law, Volume 24 (2021)
Author: Heike Krieger
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 301
Release: 2023-01-01
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9462655596

Volume 24 of the Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law (IHL) is dedicated to investigating IHL’s universalist claims from different perspectives and regarding different areas of IHL. While academic debates about “universalism versus particularism” have dominated much of the critical scholarship in international law over the past two decades, they remain relatively underexplored in the field of IHL. The current volume fills this gap in IHL literature by focusing on the ways in which different interpretive communities approach questions of IHL from differing perspectives. Authors were invited to use the concept of culture to deconstruct and take critical distance from the production, interpretation, and application of IHL, and those keen on challenging the idea that IHL needs critical deconstruction were also invited to argue their case. The Volume contains four articles dedicated to the subject of cultures of IHL. It also features a book symposium on Samuel Moyn’s Humane: How The United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War (2021) and ends, as usual, with a Year in Review section. The Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law is a leading annual publication devoted to the study of international humanitarian law. The Yearbook has always strived to be at the forefront of the debate of pressing doctrinal questions of IHL and will continue to do so in the future. As this volume shows, it is also a forum for taking a step back and reflecting on the broader, theoretical issues that inform the practice and thinking about the field. The Yearbook provides an international forum for high-quality, peer-reviewed academic articles focusing on this crucial branch of international law. Distinguished by contemporary relevance, it bridges the gap between theory and practice and serves as a useful reference tool for scholars, practitioners, military personnel, civil servants, diplomats, human rights workers and students.