history, balkans, Macedonia, Great Powers, Russia, France, Great Britain, USA, Macedonian Question, Diplomacy, 20th century, 19th century

MANASTIR’DA BİR TÜRK GAZETESİ: NEYYİR-İ HAKİKAT

by Fehim Kuruloglu

Uluslararası VII. Atatürk Kongresi, 2011, Üsküp, Manastır, Makedonya

Manastır şehri hem Türk tarihi hem de Balkan tarihi açısından oldukça önemli bir şehir olarak karşımıza çıkmaktadır.... more Manastır şehri hem Türk tarihi hem de Balkan tarihi açısından oldukça önemli bir şehir olarak karşımıza çıkmaktadır. Şehre XIV. yy’da hâkim olan Türkler şehrin sosyal, kültürel ve ekonomik gelişiminde etkin roller oynamışlardır. Bu çerçevede Manastır ve çevresinde birçok eserler bırakan Türkler, şehrin basın-yayın hayatında da etkili olmuşlardır. Manastır’da yayınlanan birçok gazete ve dergi arasında İttihat ve Terakki Cemiyeti’nin bir yayın organı olarak ön plana çıkan gazetelerden birisi olması sebebiyle, biz de bu araştırmamızda Neyyir-i Hakikat Gazetesini ele aldık. Yayınlanmış olduğu 1324, 1325 ve 1326 yıllarının önemli siyasi ve sosyal olaylarına tanıklık eden gazete, taşıdığı tarihsel materyal açısından oldukça zengindir. Müdir-i Mesul: Vatan, Sahib-i İmtiyaz: Evlad-ı Vatan başlıkları ile yayımlanan Neyyir-i Hakikat Gazetesi toplam 317 sayı yayımlanmıştır. Bayezid Kütüphanesi Hakkı Tarık Us koleksiyonu ve Ankara Milli Kütüphane koleksiyonlarında tespit ettiğimiz sayılar dairesinde; öncelikle gazetenin tanıtımı, yayın politikası, yazarları ve şahit olduğu önemli tarihi olaylar karşısındaki tutumunu yansıtmaya çalışacağız.

Temps Entrelacés de Deux Villes Pluricommunautaires

by Hervé Georgelin

Joint article with Bernard LORY (INALCO, EHESS), « Les temps entrelacés de deux villes pluricommunautaires : Smyrne et Monastir » in François GEORGEON, Frédéric HITZEL (ed.), Les Ottomans et le temps (E. J. Brill, Leiden & Boston: 2012), pp. 173-201.

Should environmental issues be securitised?

by Owais Rajput

Environmental issues
The variables that have defined national security for the most part of the World’s history... more Environmental issues
The variables that have defined national security for the most part of the World’s history have largely been military in nature. Security was primarily made up of the physical defence of the country, its people and whatever they possessed. Profound factors outside the traditional area of military operations have been realised that could affect the securities of many countries.
It is within this background that environmental issues have raised to importance, and the term ‘Environmental Security’ has entered the language of environmentalists, policy makers and security planners. With the ending of the cold war, the usual concepts of the nature of national security and the methods to achieve it have changed. The global powers at the time were engaged in military containment of each other, as in the case of America and the Soviet Union containment of each other.

THE CENTRE FOR MUSLIM-CHRISTIAN STUDIES NEWSLETTER

by Owais Rajput

Hard to Reach Communities: Living in the UK, and Issues Facing British Muslims of Kashmiri Heritage Born & Bred in the UK

by Owais Rajput

In my presentation I will focus on British Muslim Communities living in UK; my main focus will be on the British local... more In my presentation I will focus on British Muslim Communities living in UK; my main focus will be on the British local community with Kashmiri heritage, as most of the time they are labelled in the media as “Home Grown Radicalised” Muslims, even if they are the fourth & fifth generation born & bred in UK.

I will also focus on Processes to Radicalisation in UK, in local communities, again particularly in the Kashmiri community.

I will also focus on design and delivery processes so far used by authorities in de-radicalisation processes and the results so far, and why we need to change those design and delivery processes, especially when we focus on the British Diaspora with Kashmiri heritage, the fourth & fifth generation born & bred in the UK.

Kashmir Conflict, South Asian Security & Global Peace

by Owais Rajput

Why is US defence spending still at Cold War levels despite the dissolution of the Soviet Union?

by Owais Rajput

Can A Gang Culture Ever Be Justified In A Culture Of Peace?

by Owais Rajput

Presentation slides International Peace Day Bradford 24.09.2011

In this presentation I tried to highligh the issues of HARD TO REACH COMMUNITIES living in UK e.g. 4th and 5th... more In this presentation I tried to highligh the issues of HARD TO REACH COMMUNITIES living in UK e.g. 4th and 5th generation born and bred in UK of British Muslims from Kashmiri heritage.

Evaluation of UK Government Led Prevent Programme, Processes to Radicalisation in Local Communities in UK & Europe and Trans-National Network Connections of Faith-Based Radicalisation.

by Owais Rajput

RESEARCH AIMS
The main aim of this research is to evaluate the Prevent program in the localities of Bradford,... more RESEARCH AIMS
The main aim of this research is to evaluate the Prevent program in the localities of Bradford, Leeds, Manchester, Oldham, Warrington, Birmingham, Leicester (UK & Europe) with the view of determining whether it is a good approach to address the issue of terrorism in these localities. This work is intended to also look at the works of key stake holders who are involved in the monitoring and trying to understand this whole concept of Prevent. Another important aspect of this study is also try to see how the prevent programme can serve as a deterrent to radicalisation and violent extremism.
OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY
To evaluate the prevent program within the context of UK’s effort at Global Counter Terrorism
• To address the gaps in the literature on Prevent especially that which has to do with locality in the whole discourse on prevent.
• To address the issue of how even the government responds to the issue of radicalisation using the UK but in above said localities.
• To understand also the social as well as the political processes that lead people to be radicalised - what makes people to behave in a particular way which makes the government look at them as terrorist or home-grown terrorists?

Immigrants from Macedonia in the USA: From translocal to transnational subjects

by Yannis G.S. Papadopoulos

Published in Archeiotaxio, Athens July 2009, pp. 37-54.

This article examines emigration from Ottoman Macedonia to the USA and its socioeconomic impact, as well as the... more This article examines emigration from Ottoman Macedonia to the USA and its socioeconomic impact, as well as the political mobilization of the Greek-Macedonian and Slav-Macedonian diasporas up to the beginning of the Cold War. It scrutinizes the process that led to the conceptualization of Macedonia as a political project and examines the shaping of a separate Slav-Macedonian identity as well as the development of Greek-Macedonian ethnic pride. In addition, it analyzes the relationship between Macedonian immigrants and the Greek State after the Balkan Wars and the attempts made by ethnic organizations to influence American foreign policy on the Macedonian issue.

Propaganda and Music Greek and Yugoslav Public Radio in the 1940s and 1950s

by Vlasis Vlasidis

Paper presented at the conference, The soundtrack of conflict,
Goettingen 15-17 Sept.2011 (in print)

This study focuses on a very important side of Cold War, the non-declared war of radio stations. From 1948 and up to... more This study focuses on a very important side of Cold War, the non-declared war of radio stations. From 1948 and up to the decade of 1990 the two camps had been attributed in a fight of propaganda via the radio. From the one the Voice of America (VOA), the British Broadcasting Company (BBC) and Radio Luxembourg - Radio Free Europe (RL/RFE) and from the other Radio Moscow and the radio stations of other communistic states had begun a war in radio waves.
The situation was similar in Balkan peninsula. In 1948-1953 and because of the special circumstances arising from the outbreak of civil war in Greece, between the left and right wings of the political spectrum, and the creation of a new national state within the borders of Yugoslavia, the mass media in Greece and in the Yugoslav Socialist Republic of Macedonia (SDM) were used for purposes of propaganda and counter-propaganda both within the country and abroad, anticipating by several years the battle of ideas between the opposing ideological camps which was conducted over the radio waves throughout the Cold War period.

Spirito pubblico e propaganda in Sicilia nel decennio preunitario

by Angelo Capuano

Vlasis Vlasidis, “Macedonia and the Great Powers”,

by Vlasis Vlasidis

published in Ioannis Koliopoulos (ed.), History of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Museum of the Macedonian Struggle, 2007, pp.327-355

The policy of the Great Powers in Macedonia during 19th and 20th century. Macedonian Question and Diplomacy The policy of the Great Powers in Macedonia during 19th and 20th century. Macedonian Question and Diplomacy

Vlasis Vlasidis, “Makedonien und die Grossmächte”,

by Vlasis Vlasidis

published in Ioannis Koliopoulos (ed), Geschichte des Macedonien, Museum des Macedonisches kampfes, Thessaloniki, 2007, pp.359-389

The policy of the Great Powers in Macedonia during 19th and 20th century. Macedonian Question and Diplomacy The policy of the Great Powers in Macedonia during 19th and 20th century. Macedonian Question and Diplomacy