Radmila VOJVODIĆ* Summary. The starting point of this article is an overview of controversies that have left a permanent mark on Montenegrin cultural identity, owing to over hundred years of suppression of Montenegrin state and culture and falsification of historical facts. In this vein, we may … [Read more...]
PROPAGANDA’S ROLE IN REFORMATTING THE POLITICAL MAP OF THE WORLD: UKRAINIAN CASE
Natalia NECHAYEVA YURIYCHUK, PhD* «Who owns the information - owns the world» N. Rothschild, financier Abstract. This article is dedicated to the propaganda as political practice. The author tries to analyze the role of propaganda in political activity of Russian Federation concerning Ukraine. T … [Read more...]
Architectural Heritage and Symbolic Historic Sites: Negative Effects of Conflicts and Infringements of International Provisions
Glauco D’AGOSTINO În afara unei evidente dezaprobări a războiului şi a efectelor sale adverse, este un tip de inacţiune în recunoaşterea patrimoniului artistic şi a siturilor istorice simbolice drept mijloace de armonie între oameni, exact în spiritul rafinării sentimentului civic şi social pe care … [Read more...]
Saudi Arabia vs. Iran: Religion, Identity, Legitimacy in a Geo-Political Confrontation
Saudi Arabia-Iran confrontation, while stressing a clear interest in maintaining and expanding territorial control over the huge oil resources, must at least consider the following other factors affecting their behavior: a) a different religious creed (Sunni and Shiite), although within the Muslim … [Read more...]
A Theoretical Approach to Turkey’s International Public Relations Efforts: A Case of Public Diplomacy
Senem B. CEVIK-ERSAYDI Public diplomacy is the phenomenon of the century which has been implemented as a strategy to win the hearts and minds of foreign audiences to get end results in policy programs. Public diplomacy is a long term process that draws from various disciplines such as public … [Read more...]
The Azerbaijanis of Kazakhstan: the Ethnicity between Deportation, Russification and Search for Identity
Zaur GASIMOV Does the Azerbaijani community of Kazakhstan nowadays have its specific features making it different from the other cases of Azerbaijani Diasporas living in other countries of the world? What impact had their living in Kazakhstan during the last seventy years on their social life as … [Read more...]
Basra: geopolitica unei regiuni petroliere
Marius LAZĂR Basra şi, în general, ceea ce se numeşte „sudul profund”, adică cele patru provincii: Basra, Maysan, Dhi Qar şi Muthanna, se caracterizează printr-o identitate aparte faţă de celelalte părţi ale regiunii şiite. Ideea unei alterităţi între cele trei provincii sudice, îndeosebi Basra, şi … [Read more...]