War and Change 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 War and Change in the Balkans write by Brad K. Blitz. This book was released on 2006-10-12. War and Change in the Balkans available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A contemporary history of the Balkans from the break-up of Yugoslavia to the present day, first published in 2006.
Endgame in the Balkans
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.
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.
The Balkans Since the Second World War
The Balkans Since the Second World War - 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 The Balkans Since the Second World War write by R. J. Crampton. This book was released on 2014-07-15. The Balkans Since the Second World War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Since the collapse of Eastern European communism, the Balkans have been more prominent in world affairs than at any time since before the First World War. Crises in the area have led NATO to fire its first ever shots in anger, whilst international forces have been deployed on a scale and in a manner unprecedented in Europe since World War Two.An understanding of why this happened is impossible without some knowledge of the history of the area before the fall of communism, of how the communists came to power and how they used their authority thereafter. Covering the communist states of Albania, Bulgaria, Romania and Yugoslavia, and including Greece, Richard Crampton provides a highly readable introduction to that history, one that will be read by journalists, diplomats and anyone interested in the region and its impact on world politics today.
Experimenting With Democracy
Experimenting With Democracy - 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 Experimenting With Democracy write by Tom Gallagher. This book was released on 2012-10-12. Experimenting With Democracy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The chronic instability in the Balkan States of South East Europe has prevented the end of the Cold War becoming an era of genuine peace in Europe. Against a background of competing nationalisms, economic decline, the resilience of authoritarianism, it is easy to forget that there have been experiments with democracy have taken place since 1990 with relative success. Now, for the first time, the region is genuinely engaging with open politics; its outcome will determine whether the Balkans can cease being a byword for instability, and an area whose shock-waves have disturbed the peace of Europe on many occasions. Democratisation in the Balkans explores the obstacles impeding the consolidation of democracy, and even preventing a state like Serbia from going very far down the democratic road. Social scientists with expert knowledge of each of the Balkan states, and their political and economic systems, examine why progress in building free institutions has been slow compared to that of Central Europe, the Iberian peninsula and Latin America.
