National identity as central political concern - Florian Bieber

For a better quality audio, please follow this link: Florian Bieber - “Tourism, Nation-branding and new self-definitions of state and nation in Souhteastern Europe“ Annual Conference of the Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities-Skopje Skopje 17-18 January 2014 / Cultural Informative Center (KIC) “NATIONAL IDENTITY AS CENTRAL POLITICAL CONCERN: THE CASE OF SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE AND ITS COMPETING MYTHS OF ORIGIN“ Day 1 (January 17th, Friday) / First Session Key Note Speaker: Florian Bieber, University of Graz, Austria “Tourism, Nation-branding and new self-definitions of state and nation in Souhteastern Europe“ Respondent : Artan Sadiku, ISSHS, Macedonia The main idea behind the conference: In the last two decades, the region of Southeast Europe -- not only the Western Balkans -- has been marked by a politics based on the pronounced primacy of the issue of national identity over othe