Between europe and the balkans: mapping slovenia and croatia's "return to europe" in the 1990s

Dialectical Anthropology

Volumn 27, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 313-329

  Lindstrom, Nicole ^a  

^a CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

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EID: 33845251068     PISSN: 03044092     EISSN: 15730786     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/b:dial.0000006189.45297.9e     Document Type: Article

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2. Maria Todorova, Imagining the Balkans (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997), 3.
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4. Edward Said, Orientalism (New York: Vintage Books, 1978), 2.
5. Maria Todorova, Imagining the Balkans, 455.
6. Maria Todorova, Imagining the Balkans, 17.
7. Milica Bakic-Hayden and Robert Hayden, "Orientalist Variations on the Theme 'Balkans': Symbolic Geography in Recent Yugoslav Cultural Politics", Slavic Review 51, 1992, 8.
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10. For instance, the Croatian weekly Feral Tribune calls the Hercegovinian Croats the "new Serbs" in Croatia. Toni Gabric, "Hercegovci su nasi novi srbi" [Hercegovinians Are Our New Serbs], Feral Tribune, 24 August, 1997, 13-14.
11. Maria Todorova, Imagining the Balkans, 139.
12. Dmitrij Rupel, "Slovenian Foreign Policy, 1991-2001", unpublished manuscript, 2000, 2.
13. Quoted in Boris Buden, "Europe is a Whore", in Media and War, eds. Nena Skopljanac Brunner et al. (Zagreb: Centre for Transition and Civil Society Research, 2000), 58.
14. Boris Buden, "Europe is a Whore", 59.
15. Boris Buden, "We Should Not Envy the Serbs", Vjesnik (Zagreb, Croatia), 17 October 2000.
16. Quoted in Lene Hansen, "Slovenian Identity: State-Building on the Balkan Border", Alternatives 21, 1996, 475.
17. William E. Connolly, Identity/Difference: Democratic Negotiations of a Political Paradox (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1996), 13.
18. See Michael Herzfeld, Anthropology Through the Looking-Glass: Critical Ethnography in the Margins of Europe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987);
19. Iver Neumann, Uses of the Other: 'The East' in European Identity Formation (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999).
20. Zvonko Markovic, "Editorial", Feral Tribune (Zagreb, Croatia), 6 June.
21. Quoted in Dunja Rihtman-Augustin, "Zasto i otkad se grozimo balkana?" [Why, and Since When, Are We So Afraid of the Balkans?] Erasmus (Zagreb, Croatia) 23, 1997, 20.
22. Tihomir Dujmovic, "Zasto Hrvatska zuri biti straznje dvoriste europe?" [Why is Croatia in Such a Hurry to Become Europe's Backyard], Slobodna Dalmacja (Split, Croatia), 24 November 2000, 3.
23. Quoted in Oruc Ivos, "Hoce li politicke stranke potpisati svojevrstan pakt za europu, sto predlaze ministar Jakovic?" [Will Political Parties Sign a Kind of Pact for Europe as Suggested by Minister Jakovic?], Vjesnik (Zagreb, Croatia), 3 August 2000.
24. See Patrick Hyder Pattersen, "On the Edge of Reason: The Boundaries of Balkanism on Slovanian, Austrian and Italian Discourse", Slavic Review 62. 2003, 110==141; Kristina Plavsak, "Coming Home to Europe: The Reconstruction of Slovene National Identity in Relation to Europe", in National and European Identities in EU Enlargement: Views from Central and Eastern Europe, ed. Petr Drulák (Prague Institute of International Relations, 2001).
25. Dimitrij Rupel et al., "Ten Years of Slovenia's Foreign Policy." www.gov.si/mzz/eng/ index.html
26. Rupel et al., "Ten Years Slovenia's Foreign Policy", 2.
27. See Marjan Svetlicic and Matija Rojec, Facilitating Transition by Internationalisation: Outward Direct Investment from Central European Economies (London: Ashgate, 2003).
28. Transcript, Slovenian National Assembly, 1999.
29. Rupel remarks on this policy shift: "Only after this radical cut [from Yugoslavia] was made, our actual situation could be reconsidered, and the role defined which Slovenia could have in the stabilization of the conflict Balkan area, the role which the international community expected and still expects from Slovenia. The reservations, which were felt many times at the beginning, could be overcome only at the moment when we finally broke out of the Balkan vicious circle - only then could the possibilities for opening up this way be clearly shown". Quoted in Boris Frlec, "Slovenian Diplomacy has Outgrown the Country's Size", Review of International Affairs 14, 1997, 4.
30. Igor Mekina, "Slovenia and the EU", Aim Press (Ljubljana), 2000.
31. Aleš Debeljak, Twighlight of the Idols (New York: White Pine Press), 23.
32. Boris Buden, "Ne, ne volim hrvatsku!" [No, I Don't Love Croatia!], Arkzin (Zagreb, Croatia), 6 June 1997, 12.
33. Referring to the recent display of Serbian civil disobedience, Buden writes that "until such demonstrations and things like it happen in our city, Zagreb will not be symbol of freedom, democracy, Western culture and Luropean civil identity, but will remain a small, shitty, beat-up, Balkan 'Palanka'. Boris Buden, "A tko to Zagreb cini palankom?" Arkzin (Zagreb, Croatia), 14 January 1997, 22.
34. Boris Buden, "A tko to Zagreb cini palankom?" 23.
35. Similarly, when an interviewer asked Ivan Siber, Professor of Political Science at Zagreb University, "How do you comment on the slogan of the HDZ 'Tudman, and not the Balkan?' " Siber responded: "'Tudman, and not the Balkans is a distinctly Balkan slogan ... The kontrapunkt to the Balkans is Lurope not Tudman". Martina Staznik, "Kontrapunkt balkanu je europa, a ne Tudman" [The Alternative to the Balkans is Lurope, Not Tudjman]. Studentski List (Zagreb, Croatia), 1997, 21.
36. Slovenian National Assembly, "Declaration of Slovenian Foreign Policy", September 2000.
37. Dus̄ko Topalović and Miroslav Krleža, "Croatia and Central Lurope: The Geopolitical Relationship", GeoJournal 38, 1996, 399-405.
38. Tudman reiterated his opposition to the agreement again in his 1999 address: "[I]t should be noted that certain, influential Luropean and American circles insist on a program of regional Balkan integration. That would actually mean the revival of the former Yugoslavia without Slovenia and with Albania, and that goal should be [opposed] at all costs and by using all available means". Croatian Office of the Presidency, "Address of the President of the Republic of Croatia Dr. Lranjo Tudman on the State of the Nation at the Joint Session of Both Chambers of the Croatian National Parliament", 21 January 1999, www.urpr.hr/ad012099.htm.
39. Vlado Gotovac, "Lditorial", Novi List (Zagreb, Croatia), 6 June 1997.
40. See Topalovic and Krleza, "Croatia and Central Lurope".
41. Lor similar analyses of other Central and Last Luropean cases, see, for example, Merje Kuus, "Luropean Integration in Identity Narratives in Lstonia: A Quest Lor Security", Journal of Peace Research 39,2002;
42. Mikko Lagerspetz, "Postsocialism as a Return: Notes on a Discursive Strategy", East European Politics and Societies 15, 1999, 377-390.
43. Maria Todorova, Imagining the Balkans, 139.
44. Slavoj Žižek, The Spectre is Still Roaming Around (Zagreb: Arkzin, 1999). [See Dusan
45. Bjelić and Obrad Savic, As Balkan as Metaphor: Between Globalization and Fragmentation (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2002) .
46. See [...], Sanimir Resic and Barbara Tornquist-Plewa, eds. Balkans in Focus: Cultural Boundaries in Europe (Lond: Nordic Academic Press, 2003).