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Civil Society in Southeast Europe.
GORDON, Dane R. and David C. DURST (Eds.)
Amsterdam/New York, NY, 2004, XXIII, 177 pp.
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Series:
Value Inquiry Book Series 151
Post-Communist European Thought
“Description of regimes is coupled to the identification of problems and the search for solutions. The value of such an interactive approach consists in privileging a dynamic analysis that allows readers to participate in the debate by reflecting on a large variety of possible solutions to the problem of constituting a strong and active civil society in South Eastern Europe.”
Studies in East European Thought, Vol. 57, Issue 2, 2005
Since the fall of communism in 1989 Southeast Europe has been a site of far-reaching societal transformation, much of it marked by political crisis, economic upheaval, ethnic tension, and bitter war. The book comprises articles investigating the history and development of civil society in post-communist Southeast Europe. How is "civil society" to be grasped, what are the historical factors shaping the civil societies of the region?, what is the function of civil society in the transition to democracy and a market-economy?, and what are the prospects for the future development of the civil societies of the region in an age of globalization?, –these are just a few of the major questions addressed in this collection of articles. Many of the authors are social scientists, philosophers, and activists from the region, offering first-hand critical analysis of the state of civil society in Southeast Europe and suggesting theoretical and practical strategies for the future course of its development. The aim is to provide the reader with insight into the complex challenges that face the civil societies of the region.
Contents:
Editorial Foreword by Dane R. Gordon
Editors’ Introduction
Acknowledgments
ONE Georgi FOTEV: Civil Society Against Balkanization
TWO Dane R. GORDON, Ann HOWARD: Ethics and the Environment in Eastern Europe
THREE Scott BROPHY, Charles TEMPLE, Kurtis MEREDITH: Can Civic Virtue be Taught?
FOUR Edward F. McCLENNEN: Organizations, Institutions, and Reform
FIVE Ugo VLAISAVLJEVIC: The War Constitution of Small Nations of the Balkans, or “Who Is to be Reconciled in Bosnia and Herzegovina?”
SIX Agon DEMJAHA, Lulzim PECI: The Development of Civil Society in Kosovo After the “Kosovo Conflict”
SEVEN Obrad SAVIC: Concepts of Civil Society in Former Yugoslavia
EIGHT Zagorka GOLUBOVIC: Traditionalism and Authoritarianism as Obstacles to the Development of Civil Society in Serbia
NINE Silvano BOLCIC: Interests and Civil Action in Serbia in the Nineties
TEN Vojislav STANOVCIC: Civil Society and Rule of the Law in Multi-Ethnic Communities
ELEVEN Aleksandar BOSKOVIC: Tolerance and Alterity in Southeastern Europe
TWELVE Maria DIMITROVA: The Intellectual and Society
THIRTEEN Alexander GUNGOV: Wonderland in Southeast Europe: Civil Society in Bulgaria Emerging from a Crisis
FOURTEEN Assen I. DIMITROV: Values and Stability During a Period of Social Polarization
FIFTEEN David C. DURST: Civil Society in Bulgaria: Prospects for Reconciliation
About the Editors and Contributors
Index
ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS
Silvano Bolcic (1942) is Full Professor of Sociology at the Department of
Sociology, University of Belgrade. He received his Ph. D. from the University
of Ljubljana (1974), attended graduate studies in Sociology at the University
of Michigan, Ann Arbor (1966–1967), and was Fulbright Visiting Professor at
the Cornell University, Ithaca (1979). He was Chairman of the Department of
Sociology, Director of the Institute of Sociology, and Vice-Dean of the Faculty
of Philosophy in Belgrade. In his bibliography are more than 160 entries and
among them 12 books published in Serbo-Croatian, including Socio-Structural
Determinants of the Instability of the Post-War Economic Development of
Yugoslavia, Development and Crisis of the Yugoslav Society in the
Sociological Perspective, Interest’s Dimension of Development, Hardships of
Transition to the Entrepreneurial Society.
Aleksandar Boskovic completed his doctoral degree at the University of St.
Andrews, Scotland, in 1997. A member of the Belgrade Circle, he is currently
a Post-doctoral Research Fellow and Visiting Researcher in the Department of
Social Anthropology at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, and
Visiting Professor in the Post-Graduate program in Anthropology at the
University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. His publications include books on Maya
Religion and Culture (1990), and many articles in the fields of anthropology,
cultural studies, gender studies, and politics in ex-Yugoslavia.
Scott Brophy is Professor of Philosophy at Hobart and William Smith Colleges
in Geneva, New York. His recent writing has been in the area of Philosophy
and Public Policy, focusing on issues in Education, Law, and the Environment.
He has been active in projects sponsored by grants from the National
Endowment for the Humanities, the Andrew Mellon Foundation, the
Independent College Fund of New York, the John Ben Snow Foundation, and
the Soros Foundation’s Open Society Institute. As a member of the Reading
and Writing for Critical Thinking Project and a consultant for the Peace Corps,
he has worked since the mid–1990s with teachers and government officials on
improving education in Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
Agon Demjaha was born in 1960 in Prishtina, Kosovo. In 1983, he graduated
at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Prishtina with Bachelor of
Science in Electrical Engineering. In 1994, he completed a Master Degree in
Electrical Engineering and in 1996–1997 completed a one year Master’s
Program in International Relations and European Studies at the Central
European University in Budapest. Since January 1998, he has worked as a
project coordinator in the field of civil society and civic education at the Fund
for an Open Society in Prishtina. In October of the same year he was a founder
and first director of the Centre for Development of Civil Society in Prishtina.
Since November 2000, Mr. Demjaha has served as the executive director of the
newly established regional Balkan Children and Youth Foundation. The
Foundation has its offices in Skopje, Macedonia, and aims at promoting
positive youth development throughout the Balkan countries.
Assen Dimitrov is a Research Fellow at the Institute for Philosophical Studies,
BAS. He graduated from the Philosophical Faculty of Sofia University and
obtained his doctoral degree at the Department of Epistemology of the Institute
of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow. His research is
focused on several aspects of order and structural stability in complex
dynamical systems. He approaches topical issues of “soft” social and
information science in terms of nonlinear dynamics and chaos theory. Some
major publications: Visual Ontologies in Cultural Systems (1987); Problems of
Human Rationality in the Contemporary World: Instability and Rationality
(1990); “Virtual Information Systems,” Integrative Physiological and
Behavioral, Science, Transaction Periodicals Consortium, 33:1 (1998), pp. 41-
48; The Dynamics of Complex Information Systems: Theoretical Aspects and
Ontological Correlations (1999); and The Hidden Hierarchy, a monograph on
hierarchical structures and chaos control (forthcoming).
Maria Dimitrova is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at
Sofia University. She is the translator of Emmanuel Levinas’s Totalité et Infini
and Zygmunt Bauman’s Globalization, Postmodern Ethics and Life in
Fragments into Bulgarian, and has published several articles in the field of
phenomenology and social philosophy.
David C. Durst is Associate Professor of Philosophy in the Arts & Humanities
Division at the American University in Bulgaria. He is author of a study of
Hegel and Schiller under the title Die politische O konomie der Sittlichkeit bei
Hegel und der ästhetischen Kultur bei Schiller. Eine Studie zur politschen
Vernunft (1993). Recent publications include journal articles in The Germanic
Review, Heidegger Studies, Continental Philosophy Review, Contemporary
Political Theory, and Res Public, and review-essays in Political Theory and
Philosophische Rundschau. His forthcoming monograph is entitled Weimar
Modernism. Philosophy, Politics and Culture in Germany 1918–1933. His
research focuses primarily on nineteenth and twentieth-century continental
aesthetic and political thought.
Georgi Fotev is Deputy Chair of the AUBG Board of Trustees, and has been
Director of the Institute of Sociology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
since 1990. From 1990 to 1991 Prof. Dr. Fotev was the Minister of Culture and
Higher Education. He is a graduate of Sofia University and holds an M. A. in
Philosophy, Ph. D. in Sociology, and Doctor of Sciences. Fotev is an active
member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. He was Chairman of
the Expert Committee on the Development of the Bulgarian Universities of the
Open Society Fund, Sofia. His other civic duties include serving as a member
of the General Assembly of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and a member
of the Specialized Council of Sociology at the Supreme Testimonial
Commission. He has authored 150 scholarly publications in Bulgarian,
English, Greek, French, Serbian, and Russian. He was a Fulbright scholar
during 1997–1998 at Duke University, USA.
Zagorka Golubovic, born in 1930 in Serbia, lives in Belgrade, where she
completed her doctoral degree in Philosophy at the University of Belgrade. She
has occupied many positions at Belgrade University including Departmental
head of interdisciplinary postgraduate study of Anthropology, and director of
Sociological Research. She is currently Professor Emeritus and Senior Fellow
at the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory in Belgrade. She has been
visiting professor at Swedish universities, at the University of Bradford in
England, and at Haverford College in USA. She has published 12 books,
including: Man and his World, (1973), Contemporary Theories of Personality,
(1965), Stalinism and Socialism, (1982), Anthropology in the Personalist Key,
(1990), The Shortcuts of Democratization of Postsocialist Societies (1992).
Dane R. Gordon, born in London, England, served in the Royal Navy during
World War II, graduated from the universities of Cambridge, London, and the
University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, and is currently Emeritus
Professor of Philosophy in the College of Liberal Arts, Rochester Institute of
Technology, Rochester, New York. He is editor of the VIBS Special Series,
Post Communist European Thought, including this volume and Philosophy in
Post Communist Europe (Editor, 1998) and Criticism and Defense of
Rationality in Contemporary Philosophy (co-editor with Josef Niznik, 1998).
Other publications include, Thinking and Reading in Philosophy of Religion
(1994), The Old Testament in its Historical, Cultural, and Religious Context
(1985 and 1994), Philosophy and Vision (1998), Epicurus: His Continuing
Influence and Contemporary Relevance, edited with David Suits (2003). He is
a Presbyterian minister with the Presbytery of Genesee Valley, New York.
Alexander Gungov teaches philosophy at Sofia University and is the Director
of Graduate Studies in Philosophy Taught in English. His area of
specialization is History of Modern Philosophy (Descartes and Vico) and
social philosophy. He has translated a selection of Vico’s early works, the
main writings of St. Ignatius Loyola, and Nicola Abbagniano’s Introduzione
all’esistenzialismo into Bulgarian and has published many articles in the field
of modern philosophy and social philosophy.
Ann Howard is chair of the Public Policy Program, Rochester Institute of
Technology, associate professor in Science, Technology and Society and a
member of the teaching faculty in Rochester Institute of Technology’s
Environmental Science program. Her professional interests include
environmental law and policy, sustainable communities and community
development, and community-right-to-know programs. She has been Director
of Planning for Monroe County, New York, and Director of Policy and
Planning for the city of Camden, New Jersey, a member of the New York
Governor’s Great Lakes Basin Advisory Council and a technical consultant to
the Governor’s Coastal Resources Task Force. Currently she serves on the
Community Advisory Council for Eastman Kodak Company as consultant to
the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation and as a community involvement
consultant for several corporate clients. Professor Howard received a B. S.
from Cornell University and a J. D. from Rutgers University School of Law.
Kurtis Meredith serves as co-director of the Office of Education for
Democracy at the University of Northern Iowa and is a co-author and co-director
of the Orava Project in Slovakia, a systemic democratic school reform
program. He is also a co-author and co-director of the Reading and Writing for
Critical Thinking Project, a multi-national school reform program presently
being implemented in 28 nations. He is presently a faculty member in
Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Northern Iowa. He received his
degree in Philosophy from the University of Southern Maine and his doctorate
in School Psychology from The University of Iowa.
Edward F. McClennen is Centennial Professor of Philosophy at the London
School of Economics and Political Science. He specializes in Decision and
Game Theory, Philosophy of Political Economy, Social and Political
Philosophy, and Philosophy and Public Policy. His publications include
Rationality and Dynamic Choice: Foundational Explorations (1990); “The
Theory of Rationality for Ideal Games,” Philosophical Studies, 65 (1992); (co-author
with Peter Found) “Weighing Risk,” Journal of Social Philosophy, 24
(1993); “Pragmatic Rationality and Rules,” Philosophy and Public Affairs, 26
(1997); (co-author with Scott Shapiro) “Rule-Guided Behavior,” The New
Palgrave Dictionary of Economics and the Law, ed. P. Newman (1998); and
“Morality as a Public Good,” Business Ethics Quarterly, 9:1 (1999).
Lulzim Peci was born in 1966. He is currently Executive Director of Kosovar
Civil Society Foundation, Prishtina, Kosovo. His publications include
“Albanian Insurgency Movements in the Balkans,” (co-author with Agon
Demjaha) “Empowering the Balkans Youth and Euro-Atlantic Integrations,”
and “Collective Security in Europe after the Cold War” in the Kosovo Law
Review, (2001).
Obrad Savic was born in 1948 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. He is acting president
of the Belgrade Circle NGO, and editor of the Belgrade Circle Journal. After
22 years of teaching at the University of Belgrade, for political reasons, he was
first suspended and, then, fired in May, 2000 from the Faculty of Philosophy.
As a Visiting Lecturer he taught at many universities in former Yugoslavia,
including the University of Ljubljana, University of Zagreb, and University in
Pristina. He has also edited several collections and published several books,
including Philosophical Reading of Freud (1988), Charles Taylor: Invoking
Civil Society (2000), Richard Bernstein: Responsibility of a Philosopher
(2000), Balkan as a Metaphor (2002). Presently working on a book Culture of
Evil, to be published by the Law Center, Sarajevo, BiH.
Vojislav Stanovcic is Professor of the History of Political Theory and Thought
and corresponding member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. He
completed his doctorial degree in the Faculty of Law at the University of
Belgrade. He is a founder of the Forum for Human Rights, and of the Forum
for Ethnic Relations in ex-Yugoslavia, a member of the Carnegie
Corporation’s International Council for Ethnic Accord. Since 1992 he has been
a member of the Advisory Editorial Board of Publius, journal for federalism
(Philadelphia). His major recent publications in English include: “History and
Status of Ethnic Conflicts” in Yugoslavia: Fractured Federalism (1988); “How
Political and Constitutional Institutions Deal with a People of Ethnic
Diversities,” in Forging Unity Out of Diversity (1989); and many other
publications. In Serbo-Croatian he is the author of Federalism/Confederalism
(1986); The Evolution of Political Thought (1993); Problems of Legitimacy of
Political Power (1992); editor of Encyclopedia of Political Culture (1993);
and co-editor of Minorities in FR Yugoslavia (1996) and Postcommunism and
Power (1996).
Charles Temple is Professor of Education at Hobart and William Smith
Colleges in Geneva New York. Since 1996, he has co-directed the Reading
and Writing for Critical Thinking Project for the Open Society Institute. He
has conducted workshops for teachers in eight of the twenty-eight Central
European and Central European countries the which project serves. Before his
work overseas as a Fulbright Scholar and as a Director of Foreign Studies
showed him the political dimensions of classroom teaching, he researched
literary acquisitions and wrote children’s books.
Ugo Vlaisavljevic is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of
Sarajevo and Director of the Studio for Philosophy, Social Sciences, and
Psychoanalysis. He has written widely on phenomenology, hermeneutics, post-structuralism,
and semiotics, and is currently a member of the editorial boards
of the journals Dijalog (Sarajevo) and Transeuropéennes (Paris). His recent
works include Ontology and Its Legacy (1995), Phenomenological
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Constitution of the European Community. A Re-Reading of the Vienna Lecture
(1996) and Ethno-political Constitutions (forthcoming 2002).
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