SOUTH - EASTERN EUROPE TODAY: PROBLEMS AND PERSPECTIVES

Παρουσίαση

In the framework of the bilateral scientific cooperation between the two scientific establishments, the Institute for Balkan Studies of Thessaloniki and the Sudosteuropa Gesellschaft of Munich, the Eighth Greek-German Symposium took place at Thessaloniki in May 8 and 9, 2008, under the general topic "South-Eastern Europe Today: Problems and Perspectives. The Greek and the German Aspect". An extremely opportune and timely topic in the present period when South-Eastern Europe faces new challenges along with the perspective of a euroatlantic integration.
The present volume brings to the public the important papers presented by ten Greek and German scholars who approach and discuss some of the most crucial political and economic issues of the present but also refer to more general issues regarding the perspective of a European Union-Balkan rapprochement. Special concern and analysis were dedicated to the issues of Greek interest, to particularities which characterize the relations between Turkey and the European Union and the enhanced prospect of its future integration. Moreover, problems encountered in the process of establishing an extended energy transfer network in the region are also pointed out.
In some of the papers that follow, the term "Macedonia" is used in connection with the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM). It is the position of the Institute for Balkan Studies that, since the issue of the name continues to be the object of official talks under the aegis of the United Nations Organisation, the interim name ought to be used. Academic freedom, however, debars editors from making interventions of this sort. The texts are, therefore, printed exactly as they were submitted for publication, without this meaning that the opinions of the authors necessarily reflect those of the publishers.
As it becomes obvious, the Eighth Greek-German Symposium of Thessaloniki comes as a most valuable scientific contribution to the ongoing discussion of a serious subject which is gravely concerning -and will for a long time still concern- international politics and interbalkan relations.
It would have been impossible to hold the symposium and publish the proceedings without the substantial support of the Goethe Institut of Thessaloniki, to the Director of which, mr. Karl-Heinz Thalmann we owe our warmest thanks. (Ioannis Mourelos Vice-president of the Institute, from the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

FORWARDS
Spyros SFETAS,
The Balkans Today: Between the European Integration and the American-Russian Antagonism
Kyriakos KENTROTIS,
The Balkans and the EU: Severed Threads-New Skeins
Franz-Lothar ALTMANN,
Securing Energy Supply for (Southeast-) Europe
Dimitrios KYRKILIS,
The Black Sea Region: Fragile Development or a Regionally
Integrated Emerging Market?
Vim van MEURS,
After the Independence of Kosovo: Problems and Perspectives
Oliver SCHWARZ,
The Struggle between Greece and Macedonia about the Settlement of the Name Dispute Bargaining in the Shadow of the Bucharest NATO-Summit
George VOSKOPOULOS,
Turkey, Greece and EU Enlargement: Dilemmas, Challenges, Costs and Gains
Heinz-Jurgen AXT,
Greece-Turkey-Cyprus: Europeanization as a Lever towards Conflict Resolution?
Christiane SCHLOTZER-SCOTLAND,
Die neue turkische Identitatskrise und das Erbe des Nationalismus
Alexandras PETSAS,
Turkey, an EU Partner in Energy Transfer