THE PAST AND THE PRESENT OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL SYSTEMS OF THE REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA IN TERMS OF THE POSITION OF ALBANIANS
In this paper, the author analyzes the legal, political and historical aspects of constitutional systems of the Republic of Macedonia in terms of the position of Albanians, within the three time periods, respectively the first period which includes the socialist regime (1946-1990), the second period which includes the period after the country became independent in 1991 up to the armed conflict of 2001 and the third period which includes the period after the armed conflict of 2001 until today.
Macedonia between nationalism(s) and multiculturalism: The framework agreement and its multicultural conjectures
This paper deals with the nationalism(s) and multiculturalism in the Macedonian society, and the multicultural democracy contingency within Macedonian practice. Furthermore, it shed lights on the implementation of the Framework Agreement after the conflict of 2001 seen through the national and multicultural paradigm In addition the paper attempts to correlate the class and the ethnicity in Macedonian socialist pre- ethnic period, with the transition processes and current Macedonian state-of-affairs The paper argues that the management of ethnic differences must reconcile the two nationalisms and in opposite direction, the 'battle' for the resources and symbols between Macedonians and Albanians will reinforce the affections toward their own national (ethnic) identity.
ANALYSIS OF SAUDI ARABIAN MARITIME TRANSPORTATION INDUSTRY
This paper analyses the past, present and future of the maritime transportation industry in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabian seaborne trade and the shipping capacity are analysed for the past 15 years. Relationships between the declining Saudi shipping capacity and other economic measures are identified. Analysis of the Saudi Arabian maritime transportation is performed with respect to the world carrier fleets and models are developed to determine the theoretical shipping capacity required for transportation of the national seaborne cargo. Forecasts of the future shipping capacity requirement for the Kingdom are also presented. This paper illustrates the general approach for analysing a country's maritime industry and thus could help other researchers in that respect.