This is a series of articles written and published in 1996-2000 in Macedonia, in Russia, in Egypt and in the Czech Republic. Continue reading...
The first part of the book is a social critique. The author's main thesis is that the West missed a unique historical opportunity to unite Europe and that the peoples of Central, Eastern and Southern Europe are beyond salvation, deformed and pathologized by communism irreconstructibly.
The second part comprises articles about the economies of the region. Quite a few articles deal with the history of the region with emphasis on Yugoslavia, Albania and in between (Kosovo). This is the third part.
He is an economic and political columnist in many periodicals in a few
countries and a published and awarded author of short fiction and reference
books in Hebrew, English and Macedonian in Israel, Macedonia and the Czech
Republic.
He has collaborated with Israeli psychologists and criminologists in the
study of personality disorders and is the author of "Malignant Self Love -
Narcissism Revisited" (published 1999 by Narcissus Publications).
He has recently been appointed Economic Advisor to the Government of
Macedonia.
His new book "After the Rain - How the West Lost the East" - an anthology of his political essays and articles was published by Central Europe Review and Narcissus Publications this year (2000).
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Email address: palma@unet.com.mk or samvak@briefcase.com