Tag Archives: nationalism
A missed opportunity: the EU’s response to the Arab Spring
In 2011, the EU missed a historic opportunity to demonstrate its commitment to the foundations it is built on. It is as if we’d said to them “It is wonderful that you make a revolution and want to embrace democracy … Continue reading
Filed under migration and mobility, politics
France, Italy and the renationalisation of EU borders
The political support behind the EU project is slowly but steadily fading away. The recent bilateral summit between the president of France and Italy’s prime minister while the latest of a series of signs of this trend, is also particularly … Continue reading
Filed under migration and mobility, politics
Nation building and the others
I’m on my way to Cyprus where I’m giving a paper at the International Association for the Study of Forced Migration conference (IASFM: www.iasfm.org) . My paper is about RAE in Kosovo, but I’m not going to look into the appaling … Continue reading
Filed under Kosovo, nation-making, politics
Flag / Bandiera
Questo video sembra un manuale di storia per le scuole kosovare, tre minuti di musica racchiudono tutte le parole e le immagini chiave del nazionalismo kosovaro, con i soldati dell’UCK, le citta’ storiche, le bandiere, la religiione, il machismo. Ancora una volta il … Continue reading
Filed under arts & politics, Kosovo, nation-making
