The comparative report on international assistance and media democratization in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia and Serbia.
It summarizes and compares the country and subject-matter-specific contributions with the aim of exploring the nexus between the democratic transformation of the media and international media assistance as contrained by the local political conditions. It is published in 2014 as a concluding report of the regional reserach conducted by Analitika, Sarajevo.
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