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Title: E-governance in Slovenia: Part II: survey research shows progress and gaps in the Slovenian public sector's citizen-centered e-communication transformation.
Author: Uros Pinteric
Publication: The Public Manager (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 22, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 34Issue: 4Page: 27

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This digital document is an article from Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports and Issue Briefs, published by Thomson Gale on April 1, 2006. The length of the article is 3339 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: European Union enlargement.(Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia join)
Author: Kristin Archick
Publication: Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports and Issue Briefs (Report)
Date: April 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
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Slovenia has made great progress during the 16 years since its declaration of independence. Politically, itis relatively stable, a position confirmed by the uneventful election of a new centre-left president, DaniloTurk, in November 2007. The centre-right administration of Prime Minister Janez Jansa facesparliamentary elections late in 2008. Economically, Slovenia has bettered the performance of any otherformer Yugoslav state and joined the eurozone at the beginning of 2007. It has stable relations with mostof its neighbours and is driving to improve relations with the US and Western Europe.

The Slovene military is currently in a period of transition as it adapts to its membership of the NATOalliance. Its small armed forces are embarked upon a process of professionalization, although restrictionson the defence budget are hindering the modernisation programme. Slovenia is taking measures toincrease the international deployments of its armed forces and will contribute to NATO rapid responseforces and European battle groups, although public opposition to the Iraq war has led to a cautiousapproach to the US-led ‘war on terrorism’.Although the defence industry has stabilised from what appeared to be a terminal free-fall, it needs toseek export markets rapidly. Multinational investment remains a distant hope but the reliance of themajority of companies on civilian products should see their survival, albeit perhaps without their defenceproduct services. A long-term trend of increased military expenditure is expected, in order to meet NATOforce modernisation requirements. The arms trade within Slovenia is minuscule, with imports rarely risingabove 0.5% of total imports and exports barely registering for most years. This situation is unlikely tochange for the most part, although accession to NATO may encourage purchases of minor equipment inorder to bring the military into line with the rest of the pact’s forces in communications and air defence.Exports are expected to rise marginally as Slovene companies aggressively market their goods.

Slovenia’s stability stems from its membership of NATO and the EU which create something of apolitical, economic and security buffer to any threats to state sovereignty. Slovenia is building uprelations with its partners from multinational organisations but these organisations are placing restrictionson its fiscal policies, especially with regard to its military expenditure. In the wake of these restrictions,Slovenia is struggling to modernise its small armed forces. ... Read more

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In recent years, it has been the Committee's practice to take evidence regularly from the Ambassador of each incoming Presidency country and from the Minister for Europe after each European Council. Accordingly, this report makes available the oral evidence given by Mr Jim Murphy, Minister for Europe, on 15 January 2008, and by His Excellency Mr Iztok Mirosic, Ambassador of Slovenia, on 29 January 2008. It also contains supplementary memoranda by both witnesses. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from The Public Manager, published by Bureaucrat, Inc. on June 22, 2008. The length of the article is 2486 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: E-governance journeys in Serbia and Slovenia: two democratic countries that have emerged from the former Yugoslavia have taken different paths in providing e-services to their respective citizenries.
Author: Zorica Bogdanovic
Publication: The Public Manager (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 22, 2008
Publisher: Bureaucrat, Inc.
Volume: 37Issue: 2Page: 53(5)

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Sacco's Images Are as Richly Detailed as His Text
Joe Sacco is an engaging and direct writer, and an incredibly detailed black-and-white cartoonist, but above all, he is a good journalist. Comics just happen to be the outlet for his reportage.

Sacco has published cartoons since the 1980s, but Safe Area Gorazde: The War in Eastern Bosnia 1992-1995 marked his first graphic novel when it was released in 2000, followed quickly by the collected graphic novel publication of Palestine in 2001. Though Sacco is probably better known for his work in the award-winning Palestine (originally published as nine smaller books in 1996), Safe Area is arguably the better of the two, earned Sacco the Eisner Award for Best Original Graphic Novel in 2001, and cemented his role as a master of the unique medium of comics journalism.

Safe Area documents Sacco's four trips in late 1995 and early 1996 to Gorazde (pronounced "go-RAJH-duh," as the author explains), a United Nations-designated safe area in eastern Bosnia. Its Muslim population suffered many losses during the Bosnian War--both in lives and an incredible amount of property destroyed--but the town was the only one in eastern Bosnia to hold out while the Bosnian Serb forces carried out an "ethnic cleansing" of the region.

Sacco documents the siege imposed upon Garozde's population by the Serb forces and its impact on the town's people in 227 pages of journalism at its finest. His recognizable black-and-white visuals include a portrayal of himself, but unlike the tendency of Art Spiegelman to become the center of attention in his tales, Sacco keeps the focus on his subjects. He seems only to portray himself for the purpose of transparency of the journalistic process, ultimately even exposing some personal flaws and unavoidable conflicts that go along with being an American embedded in another country for the purposes of a story.

In one scene, Sacco recounts reviewing gruesome home footage of a Serb shelling before having the Gorazde resident who taped it name an "outrageous" price for the video. Sacco also points out that as an American journalist he receives passage in and out of Gorazde via U.N. escort, but his subjects--such as Edin, a graduate student who takes Sacco into his home and provides much of the graphic novel's stories--did not have that luxury. Sacco also takes requests for American-made jeans and films when he leaves town, and occasionally gets overburdened by his task or certain individuals. And though he does find the need to editorialize at times, it is kept to a minimum.

The honesty lends credibility to his effort and makes the stories incredibly personable, which is Sacco's entire goal with Safe Area. The book is not a documentation of the general events from a broad prospective; the news at large already had that covered. It is instead an account of how those major events affected real people--what they felt like on the other side of the world. Though Sacco provides a well-researched outline of the events to keep everything in perspective, Safe Area primarily relies on snapshot stories to convey its messages, and offers things like Bill Clinton's statements during the war through the eyes of Muslims.

Sacco's images are as richly detailed as his text. Every person in every panel looks like a unique individual, and Sacco accurately documents everything from the clothes they wear to their posture to the way they speak. The art is slightly less caricatured than that of Palestine and better for it. Sacco's images are still just a bit larger than life and carry with them a liveliness and convincing realism few journalists have captured.

-- William Jones

Amazing book
This book is amazing. Sacco's a talented artist/journalist/storyteller/traveler with a clear voice. The book has a compelling combination of humor and horror, historical facts and personal experience. Sacco doesn't pretend to be unbiased or to remove himself from the story. His narration is honest and compelling. It's not emotionally an easy read, but I had no problem moving through this text quickly.

Just as good as his 'Palestine'
Politically sharp, an eye for the human side of modern day war zones, heart warming and breathtaking: Safe Area Gorazde is a must read. Sacco's other work 'Palestine' is also an absolute must read. Both very good journalistic accounts of real existing people in real existing desperate circumstances, and in the form of graphic novels. Giving you images of the conflicts you could only better experience if you would have been there with Sacco.
Fantastic.
If you are not a frequent comic book reader yet: start with 'Safe Area Gorazde' or 'Palestine'!

Fascinating & Horrific
An excellent account from the war in Bosnia.Well-written, well-drawn, informative & heart-breaking.Hearing 30 second blurbs on the news about things like this can be easy to ignore (or miss entirely).Reading a book like this & through it getting to know people like yourself & your friends who survived (or didn't) hellish years is harder to forget.

Most insightful book on everyday life during the Bosnian War yet
I teach Central European political geography at the University of Minnesota. I just read this book, and I have to say that it better evokes the true state of chaos and genocide that was occurring in Bosnia than almost any other book on the subject. It is basically a reporter's diary... filled with eyewitness accounts of unbelievable atrocities and hatred. The key thing that this adds, and that other accounts lack, are the images. The fact that it is a cartoon does not dumb down the atrocities but adds an element of suspense and terror that written narratives like Peter Maass's "Love Thy Neighbor" largely lack, i.e., you can see the family dodging bullets and jumping in the river. Also, unlike a lot of war journalism, Joe Sacco doesn't dwell on himself and other reporters much at all -- it is focused on the people that survived genocide. With Karadzic's arrest this past week, there is no better time to read this book and remember exactly why he will be found guilty of the most heinous crimes in Europe since Stalin was in power. ... Read more

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The main object of this Ph.D. dissertation is the Slovenian transition to a market economy with a focus on the genesis of the Slovenian privatization model and the political and legislative process behind its formulation. Starting from a presentation of the international context and historical legacies, the study investigates the almost three-year-long Slovenian theoretical, parliamentary, economic, political and public debates (1990-1992) concerning the choice of model and institutional framework for large-scale privatization. In particular the legislative and discursive shaping of the text of the Law on Ownership Transformation of Enterprises is analyzed.

This thesis addresses the design of a property rights regime as a genuinely political meta-process of structuring that involves a redistribution of social assets, with important economic and social consequences for different groups in society, through which the conception of a just society is redefined. The study applies the heterodox institutional approach to analyze institutional choices in the "transition market." Such a perspective questions the simple causal explanations of the mechanisms of diffusion and the role of dominant ideas and ideologies in shaping institutions. Furthermore, the conventional understanding of institutions and history as structural constraints is challenged in order to open for the exploration of the conditions, mechanisms and processes of institutional change in terms of actor' contingencies for development of new institutions and path shifts through learning and problem solving processes, interaction and interpretation. The influence of the Slovenian experience with Yugoslav self-management on institutional change is explored. ... Read more