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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

The essays in this collection make up the first study of “dropping out” of late state socialism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. From Leningrad intellectuals and Berlin squatters to Bosnian Muslim madrassa students and Romanian yogis, groups and individuals across the Eastern Bloc rejected mainstream socialist culture. In the process, multiple drop-out cultures were created, with their own spaces, music, values, style, slang, ideology and networks. Under socialism, this phenomenon was little-known outside the socialist sphere. Only very recently has it been possible to reconstruct it through archival work, oral histories and memoirs. Such a diverse set of subcultures demands a multi-disciplinary approach: the essays in this volume are written by historians, anthropologists and scholars of literature, cultural and gender studies. The history of these movements not only shows us a side of state socialist life that was barely known in the west. It also sheds new light on the demise and eventual collapse of late socialism, and raises important questions about the similarities and differences between Eastern and Western subcultures.