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Popular protest in authoritarian regimes: evidence from communist and post-communist states
(Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2014)
The paper shows that sustained popular protest is a recurrent feature in many authoritarian regimes and that a regime type strongly shapes its characteristics. Popular protest often leads to important changes in the personal ...
Residential care for children with intellectual disabilities in the social protection system in Serbia
(Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2014)
This paper presents and discusses the characteristics of the social protection of children with intellectual disabilities who are placed in children's homes in Serbia. It draws on a survey that covered the entire population586 ...
Liberalism between Politics and Epistemology: A Discussion of Alessandro Ferrara's The Democratic Horizon: Hyperpluralism and the Renewal of Political Liberalism
(Sage Publications Ltd, London, 2017)
In this symposium, Alessandro Ferrara's recent book The Democratic Horizon: Hyperpluralism and the Renewal of Political Liberalism - an attempt to expand the framework of Rawls' political liberalism in order to enable it ...
Grammar, context and power: securitization of the 2010 Belgrade Pride Parade
(Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2017)
In the wake of the 2010 Belgrade Pride Parade, right-wing extremists portrayed the event as a threat to public morals, while liberals framed homophobia as a threat to democracy. While these moves managed to polarize and ...
Why local voices matter. Participation of local researchers in the liberal peace debate
(Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2018)
Most of the critical peace literature has put 'a local turn' as an important aspect of a paradigm shift in liberal peacebuilding, both in academic and practice-oriented terms. Although most of the made criticism is valid, ...
Montenegro, NATO and the divided society
(Elsevier Sci Ltd, Oxford, 2018)
In this paper we are investigating the political and social effects of Montenegro joining NATO. This issue is highly controversial and follows the political divisions in Montenegro, which motivated us to apply social ...
"Not a heap of stones': material environments and ontological security in international relations
(Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2017)
Extant scholarship on ontological security in international relations has focused on the significance of social environments for state identity. In this article, I argue that material environments also provide an important ...
Critical situations, fundamental questions and ontological insecurity in world politics
(Palgrave Macmillan Ltd, Basingstoke, 2018)
The central premise of ontological security theory is that states are ready to compromise their physical security and other important material gains in order to protect their ontological security. While the existing studies ...
Recent trends in assessment of proposed consolidations in EU airline industry - From discretion to arbitrariness
(Elsevier Sci Ltd, Oxford, 2018)
EU airline deregulation in 2004 resulted in numerous merger proposals. The European Commission has a crucial role in deciding on mergers with a Community dimension. An overview of 21 merger proposals is followed by the ...
When do neoliberal economic reforms cause democratic decline? Evidence from the post-communist Southeast Europe
(Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2019)
Do neoliberal reforms (notably, austerity policy) facilitate democratic decline and the gradual deconstruction of democratic institutions? I examine the democratic development of the Western Balkan countries since 2008 by ...