User talk:Francis Tyers/Research

Well, I fished on the net, and found these interesting links to help us along:

• http://www.stanford.edu/group/SHR/6-1/html/jusdanis.html
• http://www.inurop.com/PDF/Dynamique%20Evolutive%20Strategique%20de%20la%20Serbie%20dans%20son%20Environnement%20neo-Europeen%20-%20Julien%20Theron.pdf
• http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/REGIONAL/ECE/mastny.pdf
• http://www.iwm.at/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=235&Itemid=411

A not-so-scholarly source that may provide some insight into who advocates the idea today is this Greek communist link: http://www.okde.org/keimena/vag_kout_balkan_inter_0603_en.htm

Tell me what you think. Dahn 00:05, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

Look like some good links, the Columbia and IWM links particularly. Also I agree about having a 'Present day' section at some point in the article. Btw, how wide should we make this. There are fringe proposals even as of a few years ago of a Greek/Serbian federation -- would this fit in to the article, or just a passing mention? - Francis Tyers · 11:57, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

In my view, the biggest problem this article is likely to meet is separating between Balkan federalism and other "pan-" regionalism in the Balkans - for one, there is Yugoslavism, and especially "extended Yugoslavism" (Yugoslavia and Bulgaria); even the Blad project may be relevant to this article only in the measure where it did not limit itself to "extended" Yugoslavism (Groza's rant seems to help in this respect, but there are also other clues as to this, and we could expand on them). The Serbia-Greece project also seems to qualify as a mutation/avatar, especially since it is/was conjectural. I would therefore tend towards passing mention of such phenomenons, and make this article mainly about the most generous projects. Dahn 12:26, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

Agreed. - Francis Tyers · 12:34, 19 March 2007 (UTC)