Contemporary Issues
International Journal for Social Sciences & Humanities

The Contemporary Issues / Suvremene teme journal has, despite the impact of the global economic crisis on financing opportunities for academic publishing, entered its second year and has thus succeeded in maintaining the intended tempo and continuity of publishing. Building upon the experience of the previous issue, the editorial board has chosen papers for the second issue that reflect the multidisciplinary and international nature of Contemporary Issues / Suvremene teme.

The first part of this issue contains a study of television advertising in Pakistan with an accent on the female perspective, a discourse analysis of the health care reform in Quebec and a treatise on the crisis of social trust in post-communist societies in case countries Russia and Bulgaria.

The second part of this issue is dedicated to our theme in focus - Bosnia and Herzegovina. Bosnia and Herzegovina is currently in a critical phase of reform and consolidation of statehood, struggle with its war legacy, as well as efforts at bringing the country closer to the European Union. Those are the reasons we decided to provide more space for papers dealing with the issues of this state. There are two papers by authors from Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as one article by a Croatian author. Additionally, we bring you a conference paper presented at an international conference dedicated to the future of Bosnia and Herzegovina, held in Budapest in November 2009.

Finally, we would like to stress out that Contemporary Issues / Suvremene teme, although a new journal, strives to become a Croatian journal for social sciences and humanities which will be recognized in the international scientific community. Therefore, we are currently in process of applying for enlistment of our journal in relevant global indexing and citation databases.

Editorial Board

Current issue

suvremene TEME / CONTEMPORARY issues  issue 1, volume 2, Zagreb 2009