Researches

09.05.2014

FOREIGN POLICY CHALLENGES OF THE NEW EU MEMBER STATES

The states which became full members of EU this year and those of them which are already the members of NATO have achieved their two most important foreign policy goals. Nevertheless, this does not mean that no new questions or needs for new goals are emerging. For them time has not stopped.

09.05.2014

OIL CRISIS: STILL AHEAD OR BEHIND US ALREADY?

The growth of oil prices on world markets in August 2004 arouse concerns about the future price movements of this strategic raw material. All the analysts agree on the estimation that oil is a strategic and rare raw material which is going to run out one day and that its price increases with the increase in consumption.

09.05.2014

THE REPUBLIC OF SRPSKA DIVIDED BY DODIK AND CAVIC?

The IFIMES International Institute has recently been expressing concerns regarding the increasingly complicated political situation in BiH (Bosnia and Herzegovina) in view of the coming local elections on 2 October 2004, which has been continually aggravated through the actions of the national (nationalistic) parties in BiH: SDA (Party of Democratic Action), SDS (Serbian Democratic Party), HDZ (Croatian Democratic Union) and their satellite parties: PDP (Party of Democratic Progress) and SzBiH (...

09.05.2014

IT IS MILORAD DODIK'S MOVE!

The pre-election campaign of political parties is reaching its final phase.

09.05.2014

BETWEEN POLITICAL REALITY AND IRRATIONALITY

The political institutions in Kosovo established after the first multiparty elections in 2001 have had a decorative rather than a functional role.

09.05.2014

THE MEMBERSHIP OF TURKEY IN EUROPEAN UNION

There has been a very animated discussion in some EU member countries whether to accept Turkey as an EU member state or not.

09.05.2014

IRAQ HAS A FUTURE!

There might be a trust crisis between the politicians and the public in many countries of the world yet in Iraq it is a chronic crisis limitative and sceptical to the extreme. It is wrong if we throw this ill status only on Saddam's dictatorship regime and on the Baath and it's rejection of the sacred values, legality and humanity.

09.05.2014

POLITICAL ISLAM AND TERRORISM

Terrorism is a modern epidemic of the 21st century which is destroying lives and property in certain regions of the world.

09.05.2014

BILL OF IRAQI RIGHTS

Since the First World War seized fire, the International family was interesting largely with the basic human rights. The case of respect for human rights was increasing rapidly with the appearance of wars & struggle among human beings.

09.05.2014

THE DAY AFTER ARAFAT...

In the eyes of the Israelis, Arafat was the main terrorist during the 1970s. In the 1990s he turned into the main peacemaker and finally in 2000 he became the main initiator of the second Palestinian Intifade and before that the founder of the military movement Fatah, the so-called Al-Aqsa Martyr's Brigade.

09.05.2014

TURKEY-EU RELATIONS IN THE RUN-UP TO THE EUROPEAN COUNCIL OF DECEMBER 17TH, 2004

Honorable Rector of the University of Ljubljana, distinguished participants, ladies and gentlemen, I wish to thank the University of Ljubljana for their warm welcome. It is a great pleasure for me to join you today. I am grateful to Prof. Yezernik for giving me the opportunity to address such a distinguished audience.

09.05.2014

TURKEY: INTO EUROPE AND... IN EUROPE

At the European Film Awards Ceremony on December 11, 2004 in Barcelona, the European Film Academy announced the German film Head-On as the best European film of the year. Its director Fatih Akin conceived a brilliant story about two Turkish immigrants who married for interest and then fell in love.