Marko Prelec

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Marko Prelec

Marko Prelec

@mprelec

Consulting analyst of Bosnia-Herzegovina and All the Balkans with the International Crisis Group among others.

The Hague, The Netherlands Katılım Haziran 2011
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It is not appropriate for Croatia's prime minister @AndrejPlenkovic and foreign minister @grlicradman publicly to honour a former terrorist whose cell hijacked a civilian airliner and killed a US policeman. Julienne Busic's terrorist act only shamed Croatia.
The Voice of Croatia@VoiceofCroatia

Writer and translator Julienne Bušić, wife of the late Croatian political émigré Zvonko Bušić, has died in Zagreb at the age of 77. glashrvatske.hrt.hr/en/domestic/wr…

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@JamesWHankins1 True, but Bailyn argued most of the founders had a superficial understanding of the classics they cited, or were just wrong, eg thought Plato was a democrat.
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eburke@JamesWHankins1·
Just look at the indexes to the Federalist Papers to see who and what the big three were thinking and talking about. The index to the Library of America collection of *Debates on the Constitution* are the same.
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@DanielJHemel @PennLRev Central European University has the U.S. model. It's especially odd in settings like CEU that devote so much time to scholarship on the importance of democracy, accountable government, and the like.
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Daniel Hemel
Daniel Hemel@DanielJHemel·
~All US universities share the same governance structure: an external board & its chosen managers wield essentially absolute power. In a new draft, “In Search of University Democracy” (forthcoming in @PennLRev), David Pozen & I ask why US higher ed has adopted this model ... 1/
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@JamesWHankins1 That is such a beautiful book. I stumbled on it and read it just for the pleasure it provided.
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eburke@JamesWHankins1·
Heartily agree. A depressing aspect of contemporary historical writing in the U.S., among academics at least, is the indifference to great writing. The English do better, I believe. I used to give my grad students The Strange Death of Liberal England by George Dangerfield as model of beautiful historical prose. Most now find it annoying.
Sir Barken Hyena@TFletcherDesign

@JamesWHankins1 History is a form of literature in its own right, and has normally been regarded that way. It's not a database. Tacitus and Gibbon are broadly considered models of prose writing, aside from being historians. To just name two.

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Marko Prelec@mprelec·
Fascinantno u ovome da se ne spominju ljudi koji žive u Kosovu pa čak ni Srbi a kamoli Albanci.
Studenti_u_blokadi@studentblokade

Меморандум о Косову и Метохији. Ми, студенти Србије, окупљени у Крагујевцу, првој престоници модерне Србије и средишту српске државотворне мисли, свесни своје личне и колективне одговорности и историјског дуга према прецима и потомцима, донели смо овај Меморандум као израз јединствене воље. 1. Косово и Метохија су неотуђиви и саставни део Републике Србије Ова чињеница није само уставна категорија, већ историјски и морални императив који не подлеже преговорима о суштини. Очување уставног поретка Србије на простору Косова и Метохије темељ је опстанка српске државе и залог праведног мира у региону. 2. Косово и Метохија нису само простор они су компонента српског националног идентитета. Као град у којем је утемељена модерна српска државност, Крагујевац баштини дужност да буде чувар заветних вредности које су никле на Косову и Метохији, не само на крвљу натопљеном бојном пољу, већ и на духовном обзорју са којег нас и данас обасјавају призренске цркве, пећке припрате, бањско злато и стубови грачанских сводова. Без Косова и Метохије, наш културни и историјски код губи своје извориште и смисао. 3. Као зрео и историјски народ, свесни смо да се питање Косова и Метохије не може решавати у изолацији, већ искључиво унутар сложених токова међународне заједнице. Србија мора активно и конструктивно арађивати са свим релевантним међународним организацијама, препознајући их као незаобилазне партнере у проналажењу најадекватнијег и одрживог решења у оквиру свог Устава. Наш циљ је модел који ће, уз доследно поштовање међународног права осигурати мир, безбедност и пуну заштиту права за народ који живи на овој територији. 4. Питање Косова и Метохије тиче се сваког грађанина ове земље. Наша веза са јужном покрајином не произилази искључиво из својства држаоца пасоша Републике Србије, већ из суштинског својства чиниоца српске историје и културе. Сваки појединац, као носилац колективног сећања, има дужност да допринесе очувању ове духовне и културне баштине, која превазилази границе административних докумената. Овај Меморандим служи као подсетник да је наша борба за Косово и Метохију истовремено борба за наш образ, нашу културу и нашу будућност у породици равноправних народа света. Са овог места, из срца Шумадије, поручујемо да је очување Косова и Метохије заједнички именитељ свих наших настојања.

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Milos Damnjanovic
Milos Damnjanovic@evidencebthink·
@Andric1961 Presumably Schmidt has a deputy who takes over if and when he leaves? So even if he goes before a new OHR is appointed, there is someone to exercise the powers?
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Michael Martens
Michael Martens@Andric1961·
Bosnia: After months of US pressure, Christian Schmidt said today he will resign as High Representative (HR). But he insists that Washington cannot decide alone who will replace him. Others say Schmidt does not need a successor – he should be the last HR Bosnia ever had. ⬇️
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Ryan Goodman
Ryan Goodman@rgoodlaw·
It's a positive development that @StateDept produced a public memo on its views of international law and the U.S. war with Iran. And now this critique of the memo - by former State Department lawyer Brian Finucane - is devastating. justsecurity.org/137097/state-d…
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Marko Prelec@mprelec·
Apropos of the dueling claims of what the OTP staff believe, there's a simple and elegant solution open to the ASP: hire an outside agency to run a secret ballot open to all staff, purely on an advisory basis. We'd see what's what.
Ezequiel Jimenez@ezejim7

Latest on the Bureau-led investigation into the ICC Prosecutor. Done by June 8? 📍 justiceinfo.net/en/158169-how-… When/if the process is concluded, the ASP must commission a review into this saga. This level of governance mishap must never happen again. 📍 toaep.org/pbs-pdf/202-ji…

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Emir Suljagić
Emir Suljagić@suljagicemir1·
As citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and as members of a society that unequivocally condemns the crimes of the Ustasha and the NDH regime, we thank Mr. Yehuda Kaploun (@StateSEAS) for his visit to Donja Gradina. His remarks powerfully connected the denial of atrocities in Jasenovac and Donja Gradina with the denial of crimes committed in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 1990s. More importantly, Mr. Kaploun did something no one before him had dared to do: he challenged the weaponization of the horrific legacy of World War II and the cynical use of past crimes-real or imagined-as justification for contemporary atrocities, a pattern we witnessed throughout the 1990s and continue to witness today.
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Another way to look at it is as a critique of an American legal reading of just war theory, which like all good American lawyering can end up pretty elastic and friendly to whatever the client wants, and can end up missing the point that the presumption against war is REALLY STRONG.
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Ross Douthat
Ross Douthat@DouthatNYT·
One last note: While I think papal rhetoric could be clearer in this issue I don't think Leo is in any danger of losing the PR battle with the president of the United States.
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"The men of Herzegovina are the genetic descendants of mammoth hunters who spent the Ice Age eating fat and meat in quantities no modern population approaches." Explains a few things.
Sama Hoole@SamaHoole

In 2022 a team of Czech and Montenegrin anthropologists published the most comprehensive height survey ever conducted in the Western Balkans. They measured 47,158 people across Bosnia, Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, Albania, and Kosovo. The result overturned an assumption that had stood for fifty years. The tallest 18-year-olds in the world are not Dutch. They are from Montenegro. The average 18-year-old male in Montenegro is 182.9 cm. In Dalmatia, 183.7 cm. There is a continuous belt running from the Adriatic coast through Herzegovina into central Montenegro where average male height exceeds 184 cm. In some towns it is over 187 cm. This is the highest mean stature ever documented in any human population. The strange part is that the Balkans are not rich. GDP per capita in Montenegro is roughly a fifth of the Netherlands. Protein intake is well below Western European levels. By every conventional metric, the Western Balkans should be producing average heights similar to Bulgaria or Romania. Instead they are producing the tallest men on earth. The explanation is genetic. Y-chromosome haplogroup I-M170, present in over 70% of men in Herzegovina, correlates with male height across all 55 European and Near Eastern populations the researchers tested. Wherever the haplogroup is common, the men are tall. The haplogroup is descended from the Gravettian culture of the Upper Palaeolithic. The Gravettians were big-game hunters. They specialised, for roughly 15,000 years, in killing mammoth, bison, reindeer, and aurochs across Europe. They ate, in caloric terms, almost exclusively animal products. The most meat-heavy diet documented in the European archaeological record. Hundreds of generations of selection pressure for converting animal protein into skeletal stature. When the megafauna disappeared, most Gravettian populations dispersed and intermarried with incoming farmers from the Near East, who carried different haplogroups associated with shorter stature. The Western Balkans, isolated by the Dinaric Alps, retained an unusually high proportion of the original hunter genetics. The men of Herzegovina are the genetic descendants of mammoth hunters who spent the Ice Age eating fat and meat in quantities no modern population approaches. They are still tall, on a sub-optimal modern diet, because the genes were selected for height by 15,000 years of animal-based eating. If their nutrition reaches Northern European levels, the prediction is that average male height in central Herzegovina will reach 190 cm within two generations. Six foot three. As an average. The Dutch built their height in 150 years on dairy. The men of the Dinaric Alps built theirs over 15,000 years on mammoth. And the variable, in both cases, was the animal.

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Adi Ćerimagić
Adi Ćerimagić@adicerimagic·
For the sake of objectivity and precision: the Commission has rebranded its “reversed enlargement” proposal as “phased enlargement” (as reflected in recent public statements by officials). My and understanding of many other I spoke to is that it draws on one of several variants of “staged accession”, though as one of the authors, you are better placed to confirm or deny it.
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Adi Ćerimagić@adicerimagic·
Reversed enlargement (also known as phased or staged enlargement) appears to be dead. I have always been sceptical of attempts to fundamentally overhaul a process grounded in decades of experience, merit, and tangible success. In this case, the elements of the proposed approach that reached the public domain addressed neither the concerns of member states nor the needs of candidate countries, nor would they strengthen the EU’s leverage. From the outset, they raised more questions than answers and risked further undermining the EU’s remaining credibility. I leave Brussels with concern about the damage of recent months, yet with some hope for the space that could be filled by better ideas. Member states did the only sensible thing in rejecting both the concept and its presentation. The priority now should be to repair the damage: protect what has proven effective, and address existing gaps with solutions that have worked elsewhere.
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Robert Malley
Robert Malley@Rob_Malley·
Two takeaways from Trump's speech: 1. That so many still pay attention to what he says, which has no link to reality or to what he might or might not do; 2. that he so cavalierly threatens war crimes (to bring Iran back to the stone age) on behalf of an unlawful & unjustified war
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@samuelmoyn @nytopinion Yes, very good. What's missing is Vietnam & its syndrome, which dominated U.S. thinking well into the 1990s (remember the Powell Doctrine?)
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Lydia Polgreen
Lydia Polgreen@lpolgreen·
This was a fantastic conversation - an ideal primer for anyone who wants to understand a great deal of history in a short time. Klein steelmans the arguments for the Iran war and Vaez addresses them with persuasive nuance and care.
Ali Vaez@AliVaez

Told @ezraklein @nytimes that Trump’s preference for “surrender” over “marginal improvements” cost the U.S. a historic nuclear breakthrough. nytimes.com/video/opinion/…

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Can the Iran war become a reboot of the Phoney War (1939-40) with both sides doing a desultory bit of bombing now and then, too exhausted to do more but too far apart to agree to stop?
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