Denes", "Izvestia", "Argumenti i Fakti", "The Middle East Times", "The
New Presence", "Central Europe Review", other periodicals and in the
economic programs on various channels of Macedonian Television.
Chief Lecturer in courses organised by the Agency of Transformation, by
the Macedonian Stock Exchange and Ministry of Trade.
1999 to Present
Economic Advisor to the Government of the Republic of Macedonia.
Web Activities
Author of extensive web sites in:
Psychology ("Malignant Self Love") - An Open Directory Cool Site,
Philosophy ("Philosophical Musings"), Economics and Geopolitics ("After
the Rain").
Owner of the Narcissism Revisited Announcement and Study List (more
than 830 members) and the After the Rain CEE and Balkans Announcement
and Study List.
Editor of mental health disorders and Central and Eastern Europe
categories in web directories (Open Directory, Suite 101, Go.com,
Search Europe).
Weekly columnist in "The New Presence" and "Central Europe Review".
Publications and Awards
"Managing Investment Portfolios in States of Uncertainty", Limon
Publishers, 1988;
"The Gambling Industry", Limon Publishers, 1990;
"Requesting my Loved One - Short Stories", Yedioth Aharonot, 1997;
"The Macedonian Economy at a Crossroads - On the Way to a Healthier
Economy", (Dialogues with Mr. Nikola Gruevski), 1998;
"Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited", Narcissus Publications,
1999;
"The Exporters' Pocketbook", Ministry of Trade, Republic of Macedonia,
1999;
"The Suffering of Being Kafka" (electronic book of Hebrew Short
Fiction);
"After the Rain - How the West Lost the East", Narcissus Publications
in association with Central Europe Review / CEENMI, 2000.
Winner of numerous awards, among them the Israeli Education Ministry
Prize (Literature) - 1997, The Rotary Club Award for Social Studies -
1976, and the Bilateral Relations Studies Award of the American Embassy
in Israel - 1978.
Hundreds of professional articles in all fields of finances and the
economy.
Numerous articles dealing with geopolitical and political economic
issues.
Many appearances in the electronic media on subjects in philosophy and
the sciences and concerning economic matters.
Write to Me:
palma@unet.com.mk
samvak@briefcase.com
My Web Sites:
Economy / Politics:
http://samvak.tripod.com/guide.html
Psychology:
http://samvak.tripod.com/index.html
Philosophy:
http://samvak.tripod.com/culture.html
Poetry:
http://samvak.tripod.com/contents.html
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After the Rain
How the West
Lost the East
The Book
This is a series of articles written and published in 1996-2000 in
Macedonia, in Russia, in Egypt and in the Czech Republic.
How the West lost the East. The economics, the politics, the
geopolitics, the conspiracies, the corruption, the old and the new, the
plough and the internet - it is all here, in colourful and provocative
prose.
From "The Mind of Darkness":
"'The Balkans' - I say - 'is the unconscious of the world'. People stop
to digest this metaphor and then they nod enthusiastically. It is here
that the repressed memories of history, its traumas and fears and
images reside. It is here that the psychodynamics of humanity - the
tectonic clash between Rome and Byzantium, West and East,
Judeo-Christianity and Islam - is still easily discernible. We are
seated at a New Year's dining table, loaded with a roasted pig and
exotic salads. I, the Jew, only half foreign to this cradle of
Slavonics. Four Serbs, five Macedonians. It is in the Balkans that all
ethnic distinctions fail and it is here that they prevail
anachronistically and atavistically. Contradiction and change the only
two fixtures of this tormented region. The women of the Balkan - buried
under provocative mask-like make up, retro hairstyles and too narrow
dresses. The men, clad in sepia colours, old fashioned suits and turn
of the century moustaches. In the background there is the crying game
that is Balkanian music: liturgy and folk and elegy combined. The
smells are heavy with muskular perfumes. It is like time travel. It is
like revisiting one's childhood."
The Author
Sam Vaknin was born in Israel in 1961. A financial consultant and
columnist, he lived and published in 11 countries. An author of short
stories, the winner of many literary awards, an amateur philosopher -
he is a controversial figure. This is his tenth book.