In order to mobilize members of national groups to fight in the many wars in the region since the pre-WWI period, national liberation ideologies were constructed on a rich local tradition of historica
The dramatic, tumultuous, often tragic human events that erupted in the Balkan Peninsula following the collapse of communism between 1989 and 1991 have captured the Western world's attention throughou
As a Serbian living in Belgrade when she first heard of the genocide committed under Slobodan Milosevic, Subotic (political science, Georgia State U.), found--when she went back to research this book-
Less than two decades after the Yugoslav Wars ended, the edifice of parliamentary government in the Western Balkans is crumbling. This collapse sets into sharp relief the unreformed authoritarian tend
The first group of eastern European countries to join the European Countries were welcomed as long-lost relations, but when Bulgaria and Romania joined shortly thereafter, many looked askance at the E
When she was twenty-three years old, Courtney Angela Brkic joined a UN-contracted forensic team in eastern Bosnia. Unlike many aid workers, Brkic was drawn there by her family history, and although f
The dramatic, tumultuous and often tragic human events that erupted in the Balkan Peninsula following the collapse of communism between 1989 and 1991 have captured the Western world's attention throug
This volume aims to clarify the context for the expansion of Western Europe by focusing on what had been the greatest power in early medieval Europe, the Byzantine empire, and on the continuing streng
Elsie presents his translation of the memoirs of Austro-Hungarian aristocrat Baron Franz Nopsca, a well-traveled Transylvanian palaeontologist and geologist. Nopsca writes of his travels in the Balkan
A True Portrait of One of the World's Most Chaotic and Beautiful Regions That Explains Why Violence Has Always Occurred There--And Why It May Continue For Years To ComeThe vast and mountainous area t
In February 2008, Kosovo declared its independence from Serbia. Was this the final chapter in the break up of Yugoslavia and the successful conclusion to the Balkan Wars of the 1990s? Or was it
The region of the Balkans has become one of the emblematic features of the post-Cold War geography of international relations. Understanding the extension of the European zone of peace to the Balkans
M. Edith Durham is best known for her classic travel books about the Balkans. However, she was also a passionate, articulate, and well-informed commentator on the twists and turns of Balkan politics a
