New SEIP book "Towards Open Regionalism in South East Europe" is now available

Towards Open Regionalism in South East Europe presents a series of interlinked reflections on the possibilities and problems of emergent forms of regional cooperation in South East Europe (SEE). Taking diverse themes such as: the economy, crime, borders, culture, and civil society, authors explore some of the facets of “open regionalism”, consisting of multi-actor, multi-level and multi-scalar processes producing a complex geometry of interlocking networks. The book situates “new regionalism” in SEE in the historical context of the legacies of Yugoslavia and the wars of the Yugoslav succession. This collective volume features contributions from: Giorgio Andrian | Dimitar Bechev | Bojan Bilic | Fabrizio Coticchia | Ana Devic | Eric Gordy | Claudia Rose | Christophe Solioz | Francesco Strazzari | Paul Stubbs | Nada Svob-Djokic.  

You may order the book directly at Nomos using the books' flyer  

"Sarajevo Red Line" in Le Monde and Le Temps on 5 April 2012

The op-ed “Sarajevo Red Line” encompasses the city’s past, present and future, remembering the Sarajevo siege and paying tribute to the victims. It focuses on Sejla Kameric''s 1395 Days Without Red and the East West Center’s Sarajevo Red Line event planed on 6 April. These artwork and artevent invite everyone to think about what, why and how we remember. These art practises pave the way for a (re)constructive tension between the reality and the possible—the “not yet”. This kind of constructive and demanding tension between politics and art opens to a different understanding of reality and a new subjectivity. Artists invite us to face the necessity to reinvent a way to leave together and merge the fragmented part of a city and country... 
In an interview for the Paris-based Réforme, Solioz advocates the necessity to reform both the Bosnian Constitution and territorial set-up. The division in Entities and cantons should be abolished and the country should instead be subdivided into 5 to 7 regions based on geographical and economic criteria...