Endgame In The Balkans
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Endgame In The Balkans
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Author : Elizabeth Pond
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2007-08-29
Endgame In The Balkans written by Elizabeth Pond and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-08-29 with Political Science categories.
Can Europe tame the Balkans? That's the question veteran journalist Elizabeth Pond addresses in this timely and absorbing book. Starting with the wars of the Yugoslav succession, Endgame in the Balkans guides readers through the region's tumultuous recent history and explores both how the lure of European Union (EU) membership has affected the Balkans and how Balkan developments have shaped the EU. Drawing on hundreds of interviews, as well as decades of experience as a foreign correspondent, Pond moves deftly across the region, from Bulgaria to Romania, Kosovo, Croatia, Bosnia, Macedonia, Albania, and Serbia and Montenegro. She examines the many hurdles standing between these countries and EU membership—including poverty, corruption, and rabid chauvinism—as well as the hopes and problems that have led Balkan leaders to look to the West. In the process, she paints a vivid picture of the challenges facing the region as it seeks to vault from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century. Already in its brief history, the European Union has forged a historic reconciliation between France and Germany and helped consolidate democracy in Portugal, Spain, and Greece. But in southeastern Europe, it faces one of its most difficult tasks yet. En dgame in the Balkans reveals the full extent of this challenge, as well as the grounds for hope. Rich in detail and penetrating analysis, this book will be essential reading for anyone interested in the future both of the region and of Europe as a whole.
Kosovo S Endgame
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Author : Aristotle Tziampiris
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
Kosovo S Endgame written by Aristotle Tziampiris and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Balkan Peninsula categories.
The Balkans In World History
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Author : Andrew Baruch Wachtel
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2008-11-05
The Balkans In World History written by Andrew Baruch Wachtel and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-11-05 with History categories.
In the historical and literary imagination, the Balkans loom large as a somewhat frightening and ill-defined space, often seen negatively as a region of small and spiteful peoples, racked by racial and ethnic hatred, always ready to burst into violent conflict. The Balkans in World History re-defines this space in positive terms, taking as a starting point the cultural, historical, and social threads that allow us to see this region as a coherent if complex whole. Eminent historian Andrew Wachtel here depicts the Balkans as that borderland geographical space in which four of the world's greatest civilizations have overlapped in a sustained and meaningful way to produce a complex, dynamic, sometimes combustible, multi-layered local civilization. It is the space in which the cultures of ancient Greece and Rome, of Byzantium, of Ottoman Turkey, and of Roman Catholic Europe met, clashed and sometimes combined. The history of the Balkans is thus a history of creative borrowing by local people of the various civilizations that have nominally conquered the region. Encompassing Bulgaria, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, Albania, Macedonia, Greece, and European Turkey, the Balkans have absorbed many voices and traditions, resulting in one of the most complex and interesting regions on earth.
Conflict Areas In The Balkans
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Author : Gizem Bilgin Aytac
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020
Conflict Areas In The Balkans written by Gizem Bilgin Aytac and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with Balkan Peninsula categories.
In Conflict Areas in the Balkans a general framework is defined and adopted for the appearance emergence and origin of the conflicts and its resolution from theory and adopted to the Balkans. The contributors, through this framework, analyze and define the main causes for the conflicts: ethno-federalism, energy, and women and migration issues.
Kosovo March 2004
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Author : James Pettifer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
Kosovo March 2004 written by James Pettifer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Ethnic conflict categories.
European Integration And Transformation In The Western Balkans
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Author : Arolda Elbasani
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-09-02
European Integration And Transformation In The Western Balkans written by Arolda Elbasani and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-02 with Political Science categories.
The book investigates the scope and limitations of the transformative power of EU enlargement in the Western Balkans. The extension of EU enlargement policy to the region has generated high expectations that enlargement will regulate democratic institution-building and foster reform, much as it did in Central and Eastern Europe. However, there is very little research on whether and how unfavourable domestic conditions might mitigate the transformative power of the EU. This volume investigates the role of domestic factors, identifying ‘stateness’ as the missing link between the assumed transformative power of the EU and the actual capacity to adopt EU rules across the region. Including chapters on Croatia, Serbia, Macedonia, Albania, Kosovo, and Bosnia-Herzegovina, leading scholars in the field offer up-to-date comparative analysis of key areas of institutional and policy reform; including state bureaucracy, rule of law, electoral management, environmental governance, cooperation with the International Court of Justice, economic liberalization and foreign policy. Looking to the future and the implications for policy change, European Integration and Transformation in the Western Balkans provides a new theoretical and empirical focus on this little understood area. The book will be of interest to scholars and students of EU politics, comparative democratisation, post-communist transitions and Balkan area studies.
Western Intervention In The Balkans
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Author : Roger D. Petersen
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2011-09-30
Western Intervention In The Balkans written by Roger D. Petersen and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-30 with Political Science categories.
Conflicts involve powerful experiences. The residue of these experiences is captured by the concept and language of emotion. Indiscriminate killing creates fear; targeted violence produces anger and a desire for vengeance; political status reversals spawn resentment; cultural prejudices sustain ethnic contempt. These emotions can become resources for political entrepreneurs. A broad range of Western interventions are based on a view of human nature as narrowly rational. Correspondingly, intervention policy generally aims to alter material incentives ('sticks and carrots') to influence behavior. In response, poorer and weaker actors who wish to block or change this Western implemented 'game' use emotions as resources. This book examines the strategic use of emotion in the conflicts and interventions occurring in the Western Balkans over a twenty-year period. The book concentrates on the conflicts among Albanian and Slavic populations (Kosovo, Montenegro, Macedonia, South Serbia), along with some comparisons to Bosnia.
Brotherhood And Unity Europe S Lost Children
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Author : Andrew Anzur Clement
language : en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date : 2020-10-30
Brotherhood And Unity Europe S Lost Children written by Andrew Anzur Clement and has been published by Independently Published this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-30 with categories.
Elena and her Covert Action Service team may be Europe's only hope of stopping the Brutalists. Their leader, Marana, has recruited a rogue army and is closing in on Sarajevo, determined to promote the rise of Greater Serbia and bring down the European Union. The endgame has begun. Ayoub is training in Brussels to join the CAS special ops team. The scrappy teenager is learning fast, but time is running out. As he fights his own demons, he unwittingly allows an enterprising American journalist to infiltrate CAS headquarters. She is about to reveal the existence of Europe's secret intelligence service, run by a bunch of misfits from the Balkans. But the big story may never reach the headlines. Sinister forces are manipulating the Internet to preserve a cover-up of the secret war in the Balkans, enabling the United States to save face at any cost. The fate of Europe may depend on a daring plan by Ayoub's forbidden girlfriend to break the silence - and the willingness of some of CAS's members to pay the ultimate price. Personal vendettas are still simmering beneath the surface. Drago, a former child soldier returning to Kosovo, must confront a blood feud that demands death for him and his brother. Neglected as a child, Marana is still resentful of Elena's privileged upbringing. She adopts an abused refugee girl as her own daughter as she plots her revenge. Marana and Elena are headed for a final confrontation between the forces of Greater Serbia and Europe. The outcome will determine if Europe's Lost Children will ever find a place where they truly belong.
Conflict Areas In The Balkans
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Author : Pinar Yürür
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2020-10-27
Conflict Areas In The Balkans written by Pinar Yürür and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-27 with Political Science categories.
The situation in the Balkans, such as the solution to the status of Kosovo, is currently the largest international political problem in Europe, with the potential to burst into a world crisis regarding the Eastern - Western relations. On the other hand, a successful solution to the problem in the Balkans could serve as a model for solving the Muslim - Christian tensions elsewhere in the world. It is the intention of this book to contribute proposals for solutions to the problems of Balkans. The starting principle for the solutions to be effective is that they should come in a natural way from the people below and should not be enforced by the political elites from above. Based on self-determination of nations as a starting principle, they should encourage intra-regional cooperation among the regional entities (economic, cultural, sport, as a basis for political, social understanding and cooperation); secondly, accelerate their economic, political and social development and thirdly, as a final step enable the inclusion of the Balkan countries into the European Union.
Remaking The Balkans
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Author : Christopher Cviic
language : en
Publisher: Burns & Oates
Release Date : 1991
Remaking The Balkans written by Christopher Cviic and has been published by Burns & Oates this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Balkan categories.
This analyzes the political and security implications for South-Eastern Europe resulting from the collapse of communism. For more than four decades the Cold War had ensured not only a flow of aid into the region but also a certain kind of stability, with Greece and Turkey belogning to NATO, Bulgaria annd Romania to the Warsaw Pact, and Yugoslavia and Albania retaining their independence. Now that it is no longer of strategic importance whether any of these countries change allegiance, the old disputes between states, and between nations and minorities within them, have assumed a more important role. There is a threat of some of these conflicts growing into civil wars within states (Yugoslavia, for example) or armed conflicts between states (Hungary versus Romania over Transylvania; Greece and Turkey over Thrace). This could pose problems not only for the neighbouring states but also for the international community as a whole. This study offers ideas on how the map of the Balkans might be recast to deal with some of these problems and how various international mechanisms could be used to contain crises in the short term.