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The Western Balkans Policy Review
A Scholarly Journal
CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS
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WBP REVIEW, VOLUME 1, ISSUES
1 and 2
(2010-11)
WBP REVIEW, VOLUME 2, ISSUES 1
and 2 (2012)
The Western Balkans Policy
Review (WBP Review) is a semi-annual,
peer-reviewed, journal providing an excellent publishing opportunity
for young scholars (especially graduate students in MA or PhD
programs and recent post graduates) and other professionals, including
well-established academics with an interest in the Western Balkans.
The WBP Review is an undertaking of
the Kosovo Public Policy Center. It is the Center's belief that such
a publication would enrich the debate over the Western Balkans
policy issues. A journal of this kind can also take the debate among
Western Balkans and between them and other scholars further.
Academic inquiry and research are important components of
well-designed and well-implemented policies.
Thus, the key objective of the WBP
Review is to provide a credible and comprehensive source of articles
in the field of Western Balkans public policies. Contributions may
include analytical, theoretical, and methodological articles.
The journal does not favor one over
another approach, but rather encourages the use of appropriate
social science approaches for the given topic or paper. Qualitative
and quantitative approaches are equally considered. The WBP
Review does not define public policy in one particular way --
instead, it urges potential authors to consider a wide range of
important policy discussions, arguments, practices, methodologies,
and theories, in areas including, but not necessarily limited to the
following:
- National public policy
developments, processes, and practices in Western Balkans and
elsewhere
- Comparative studies in public
policy within Western Balkans and Europe
- Public policy development in
Western Balkans states vis-ŕ-vis the EU integration process
- Public policy interface between
economic development and overall development of nation-states
- Influence, activities, and
participation of non-state actors in the public policy processes
- Ethnicity, social inclusion,
national identity and public policy development and
implementation
- Good governance, human rights,
and human development and their considerations in public policy
debates and processes
Each submitted article undergoes a
rigorous peer review process. Each successful paper will be published by
the WBP Review. Copyrights, however, remain under the sole ownership
of each author or group of authors.
The Western Balkans Policy Review
will be published twice a year, starting in 2010.
The full table of
contents of the first volume of the journal (issues 1 and 2,
2010) is now available.
For subscription to the journal or
other questions, please email us at
journal@kppcenter.org
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Call for
Contributions
The first, special volume of the WBP
Review has been dedicated to the international conference on
Western Balkans: An Opportunity or a Challenge for the Future of the
EU, organized and hosted jointly by the Kosovo Public Policy
Center, the American University in Kosovo Research Center, and the
Victory University College in Prishtina, Kosovo.
Papers presented at this conference
and a few other successful submissions have been included in the
first two issues of the WBP Review Volume 1 (2010). The full
list of articles of the WBP Review Volume 1, Issues
1 and 2, is now available.
We accept papers for publication
consideration on an ongoing basis and publish successful ones in our
upcoming WBP Review.
Each
submitted article undergoes a rigorous peer review process.
Copyrights, however, remain under the sole ownership of each author
or group of authors. To submit a paper for consideration, please
email it to
journal@kppcenter.org
in MS Word file, double-spaced. The paper length must be between
6,000 and 8,000 words and fall under one of the broad themes
outlined above. Please use the MLA style as the standard for your
references/citations.
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The WBP Review Editorial
Board
In an effort to make the WBP Review a
scholarly journal of the highest international academic standards, the
Center works closely with universities and other academic
institutions in the region and abroad during the peer-review process
of each submitted article being considered for publication.
Moreover, the Center has established
an Editorial Board that oversees the publication process of the WBP
Review. The current Editorial Board includes professors from several
universities based in the Western Balkans:
Dr. Besnik Bislimi, American University in Kosovo, Kosovo
Dr. Martin Berishaj, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Dr. Servete Gruda, University of Tirana, Albania
Dr. Mytaher Haskuka, University of Prishtina, Kosovo
Dr. Veton Latifi, Southeast European University, Macedonia
Dr. Bedri Selmani, Victory University College, Kosovo
Guest Editor - WBP Review Volume 1 (2010), Issues 1 and 2:
Faton Bislimi, Dalhousie University, Canada
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WBP Review
Volume 1, Issues 1 and 2 (2010-11)
The Western Balkans Policy
Review
Volume 1, Issue 1, January/June 2010
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The Western Balkans Policy
Review
Volume 1, Issue 2, Spring 2011
Table of Contents |
Introduction
Faton Bislimi
Kosova: Thinking Beyond the Ahtisaari
Institutions
Prof. James Pettifer
The EU’s Treaty of Lisbon: What’s in it for
Kosovo?
Dr. Finn Laursen
The
EU’s Foreign Policy towards the Balkans: An Opportunity or a
Challenge?
Faton Bislimi
Notes on the Macroeconomic and
Institutional Convergence of the Economies of Western
Balkans
Countries
Dr.
Giovanni Ancona, Dr. Raffaella Patimo
Macroeconomic Performance, Trade and Competitiveness of
South-East European
Countries
Dr. Goran Buturac, Dr. Željko Lovrinčević, and Dr. Davor
Mikulić
The Unresolved Issues that Cross the Way to Euro-Atlantic
Integrations: The Case of the Western Balkans
Albulena Halili and Fatmir Arifi
The EU in the Service of Albania – The Other Side of the
Coin
Dr. Roberta Pace, Federica Borzillo, and Lucrezia Andia
Implementing Multiculturalism as a part of the European
Integration Process: Social Inclusion of Minorities through
the Decentralization Reforms in Macedonia
Bojana Jovanovska and Stiv Stojmenov
Does Kosovo Integration Process Pose a Challenge or an
Opportunity for the EU to Build on Its Image as a ‘Normative
Power’?
Dr. Enkelejda Olldashi and Ilir Kalemaj
Kosovo: Independence or Empty Sovereignty?
Elisa Randazzo
Political Attitude and Personality in a Democratic Society
Marijana Markovik
Challenges of Competition Authorities of Small Countries
toward European Integration - The Case of Albania
Dr. Servete Gruda and Pajtim Melani |
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Introduction
Faton Bislimi
The Future of
European Union: A European Union Proposal for the Second
Half of the 21st Century and Turkey’s
Contribution
Dr. Mehmet Hakan Keskin and Dr. Murat Necip Arman
Factors and Challenges of the Political Participation and
Representation in Countries in Transition in the Western
Balkans
Dr. Veton Latifi
The European
Union Politics in the
Western Balkans
Dr. Ylber Sela and Lirim Shabani
European Union and the Paradox of
Accession: The Conflicting Logics of Integration and
Democracy in the Case of Albania
Malvina Tema
Kosovo’s Struggle for its Own Future
in the European Union
Salihe Abazi
Economic Reform for Bosnia and
Herzegovina’s Accession into the EU: Factors Impeding Change
and Recommendations for Bosnia and Herzegovina, the EU, and
the International Community
Kelly Lostroscio
EU Enlargement and Institutional
Quality: How far away is Albania from the EU Member States?
Rajmonda Biraci, Teuta Llukani, Dorjana Nano
Knowledge-Based Economy - Human
Development in Kosovo
Arbnora Krasniqi, Leonora Selmani, Lumturie Selmani
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WBP Review
Volume 2, Issues 1 and 2 (2012)
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