The Balkan Lands

The Balkan Stroke Epidemic

Eastern Europeans are suffering from high rates of stroke compared to Western Europeans. Their excess morbidity from cerebrovascular disease is the result of their health systems' inability to meet the challenges of modernization, including changes in lifestyle that predispose to that condition. The failure manifested itself in the nineteensixties and has continued to worsen until the present. ...

The Balkan Nephropathy

This book attempts the awesome task of compiling a fairly complete bibliography of the clinical and experimental publications through 1964 on phenothiazines, butyrophenones, meprobamate "like" agents, and MAO inhibitors. Approximately two thirds of this book is bibliography with the remaining one third a narrative which is little more than an anotated bibliography. Both sections forsake critica...

Dimensions of the Balkan Security

“Balkan Peninsula”. “Balkans”. “Balkan people”. “Balkan style”. “Balkanism”. “Balkan federation”. “Balkan folklore”. “Balkan economic zone”. “Balkan orientalism”. “Balkan ethnic minorities”. “Balkan identity”. “Balkan identities”. “Balkan nationalism”. “Balkan policies of the Great Powers”. “Balkan self-(no)confidence”. “Balkan interests”. “Responsibility of the Balkan Governments”. “Balkan pol...

The Unfulfilled Promise: Completing the Balkan Enlargement

Disputed lands

In this paper we consider the classical problem of dividing a land among many agents so that everybody is satisfied with the parcel she receives. In the literature, it is usually assumed that all the agents are endowed with cardinally comparable, additive, and monotone utility functions. In many economic and political situations violations of these assumptions may arise. We show how a family of...