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THE MEDIA POLICY IN MONTENEGRO: FROM 1993 TO 2013
Full text linkThis paper attempts to emphasize the process of building the media environment in Montenegro with regards to media policy, legislation and institutional framework that followed the media boom in the last two decades. There has been a trend towards establishing new media entities, often focused predominantly focused on the sphere of politics. The emergence of several media entities on the media scene is often conflicting political and programmatic positions. The turbulent political events, learning media professionalism and ethics have caused the need for a serious approach to media policy legislation.
 
DEVELOPMENT OF PRINCIPLES FOR PROSECUTION OF CRIMES IN THE INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNALS: THE CASE OF REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA
Full text linkThis paper is about the development of investigative activity procedures and prosecutions in the international tribunals since the Nuremberg Charter, with special reference to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and cases involving the Republic of Macedonia. According to that, the paper firstly indicates the International Court of Justice and Statute of ICTY where the tribunal has jurisdiction over four crimes: grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions, violations of laws or customs of war, crimes against humanity and genocide committed on the territory of the former Yugoslavia from the start of the war in 1991 until to a date to be determined by the Security Council upon the restoration of peace.
 
THE HIGH LEVEL ACCESSION DIALOGUE FOR MACEDONIA: ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES
Full text linkOne of the strategic goals for the Republic of Macedonia is membership in the European Union. At the end of 2011, the Commission launched a so-called High-Level Accession Dialogue for Macedonia, with a possibility to start the negotiations after the fulfillment of the Dialogue goals and benchmarks. For these reasons, the main goal of this paper will be to give an answer of the dilemma of whether the Accession Dialogue for Macedonia is an accelerator of the entrance in the European Union, or is just a sophisticated tool for delay of the start of the negotiations for final accession. The expected results will correspond with the future EU plans for Macedonia, but also for the other Western Balkan countries, i.e. we will try to examine whether these countries have a realistic perspective for entrance in the European Union, or they are just a “declarative décor” for the vocabulary of the Brussels diplomats and member countries representatives. That will help to determine i.e. to try to predict the next steps of these countries, connected with the European integration, regardless of the actual constellation in the European Union concerning the Enlargement policy. The descriptive method, content analysis method, comparative method, but also the inductive and deductive methods will be used in this paper
DOCTRINAL AND IDEOLOGICAL PARADIGM OF THE CONSERVATISM IN THE WESTERN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES
Full text linkThis paper is an illustration of certain specifications in the conservative discourse in certain European western countries. Each one of the countries from the western hemisphere has its particular peculiarities that determine the usage of the political operation by the conservative parties. Certainly, the complexity of the conservative ideology study has been enriching with the perception of the most basic practices in the political activity of the right parties in some western countries. This paper consists of a short definition of conservatism followed by its primary and secondary principles. Then, continues to individual cases in a three highly developed European countries where as a sample are taken the most significant parties in the conservative and Christian Democrat ideology. The conservatism as a political ideology has been formed in the middle of the XVII century as a resistance towards the shifts and the challenges that were under the influence of the enlightenment, industrialization and urbanization. If conservatism as a political theory, ideology, and practice originates from the countries with foregoing activities, logically emerges a need to study their characteristics. The author's intention is to represent the traits creating the content of that ideology and activity, what are the distinction marks that would be the most appealing of a certain country, as well as to prove the link with the parties from the conservative family on a European level. The study of conservatism as a political ideology in the modern ideological- doctrinal spectrum would be certainly impossible if there is no closer look at those paradigms
THE CONCEPT OF POLITICAL INTEGRATION: THE PERSPECTIVES OF NEOFUNCTIONALIST THEORY
Full text linkThis paper is a qualitative research on the concept of political integration. It represents a case study of the concept of political integration appearing in the theory of neofunctionalism. The research focus could be identified with the concept of political integration, in the perspective of the theory of neofunctionalism. The purpose of this research paper is the cognition of various types of the concept of political integration and its activating, from the perspectives of neofunctionalism. In the scope of this paper, for the purpose of the research, the content analysis method and comparative method are used. Also, a special accent is laid on the terms of integration in a political sense, the term of political integration as a part of this broader one and the concept of spill-over effect. Within the concept of political integration, it could be understood various types of political integration. In parallel, the concept of the spill-over effect is examined as a concept with a huge role in the theory of neofunctionalism. The synthesis of the two mentioned concepts, the one of political integration and the one of spill-over effect, would answer the question of the activating the process of political integration, and its potential dependence of existing other types of integration in a political sense