The Balkans: A Post-Communist History

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Routledge, 24 հնվ, 2007 թ. - 640 էջ

An excellent companion volume to the successful A History of Eastern Europe, this is a country-by-country treatment of the contemporary history of each of the Balkan states: Albania, Bulgaria, Romania, Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Montenegro and Kosova.

With a distinctive conceptual framework for explaining divergent patterns of historical change, the book shifts the emphasis away from traditional cultural explanations and concentrates on the pervasive influence of strongly entrenched vertical power-structures and power-relations.

Focusing on political and economic continuities and changes since the 1980s, The Balkans includes brief overviews of the history of each state prior to the 1980s to provide the background to enable all students of Eastern European history to make sense of the more recent developments.

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The Balkans and the nature of postCommunist democratization and economic transformations
1
Between a rock and a hard place
22
The Devil has all the best tunes
73
The road to the EU is paved with good intentions
125
Paying a price
183
From Serbdom to pariahdom
233
The travails of coexistence
329
Towards a binational state?
405
To be or not to be?
471
The forging of a nation and a state
512
Major challenges and contradictions between rhetoric and reality
581
Bibliography
595
Index
609
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