Belgrade, Year XX (2008)
Issue No. 442-443
1st - 31st December 2008
 
srpski
 
     

 

A Lee

 
Leon Bakst (1867-1924),
Ballett figurine zu: Feuervogel
, 1910.
Today's global financial crisis is accompanied by daring forecasts: that this strong wind will be followed by a storm, a revolution even, and that a counterbalance to the omnipotent market will be an equally powerful state.
A thorough consideration of real relations, causes and consequences, actors, values and visions is often left out...
People in Serbia are offered a consolation: this is not our concern, as we are different from the rest of the world, secluded from the fatal draught in a safe lee.
Are we really?!
  N. P.

Cutting Others to Their Size
When unresolved issues keep accumulating in a country, and this is precisely what we are notorious for, it is a certain sign that institutional, governmental decision-making is in a deep crisis...
Dragos Ivanovic

The Influence of Globalization on Serbia's Social Development
Globalization is a developmental process that creates, upgrades, selects and expands innovation and is conditioned by cultural and civilization criteria that define values, ideology, policy, structure and organization of power...
Ivan Ahel

The letter from NYC

On November 4, when the American dream of equality came true, most Americans, or at least those who voted for Obama, suddenly wondered whether it had really happened. As Thomas Friedman wrote in New York Times, on that day, after 147 years, a civil war ended. On the "new day", some sought a confirmation that it was not a dream and that Barack Hussein Obama did really become the first African American president of the United States...
Tatjana Jovanovic

The Demise of Yugoslavia - Mistake or Salvation
Yugoslavia may not have been the best solution, but was definitely the lesser evil. This, if nothing else, was proven by the senseless war in which everyone fared worse for trying to destroy it, instead of reorganizing it civilly...
Mirko Tepavac

Education as History and Myth or Why there is no concept of future in Serbia
I will say nothing new if I say that our future depends on education and culture, but it is definitely new if I say that future hangs on it and nothing else. That is why it is too easy to promise the first part of the statement and everyone does so. But genealogy of the second part of the statement is a huge problem for great many of those who try to reform the schools today looking from the positions of the past...
Dusan Sakic

 
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Informatika

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