Endgame in the Balkans - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Endgame in the Balkans write by Elizabeth Pond. This book was released on 2007-08-29. Endgame in the Balkans available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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
Kosovo's endgame - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Kosovo's endgame write by Aristotle Tziampiris. This book was released on 2006. Kosovo's endgame available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
A Safe Area
A Safe Area - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Safe Area write by David Rohde. This book was released on 1997. A Safe Area available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The massacre at Srebrenica of between 3000 and 5000 Muslim prisoners by Bosnian Serbs is one of the most horrifying tales to emerge from the bitter conflict in Bosnia. It changed the course of the war and led to the deployment of US ground troops in the area. It also became the first atrocity in modern times where the well-intentioned but ineffectual Western involvment contributed directly to the mass executions.
Western Intervention in the Balkans
Western Intervention in the Balkans - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Western Intervention in the Balkans write by Roger D. Petersen. This book was released on 2011-09-30. Western Intervention in the Balkans available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Music in the Balkans
Music in the Balkans - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Music in the Balkans write by Jim Samson. This book was released on 2013-06-15. Music in the Balkans available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book asks how a study of many different musics in South East Europe can help us understand the construction of cultural traditions, East and West. It crosses boundaries of many kinds, political, cultural, repertorial and disciplinary. Above all, it seeks to elucidate the relationship between politics and musical practice in a region whose art music has been all but written out of the European story and whose traditional music has been subject to appropriation by one ideology after another. South East Europe, with its mix of ethnicities and religions, presents an exceptionally rich field of study in this respect. The book will be of value to anyone interested in intersections between pre-modern and modern cultures, between empires and nations and between culture and politics.
