Reconstructing The Balkans

Author : Derek R. Hall,Darrick Danta
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1996-10-21
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015036033671

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Reconstructing the Balkans by Derek R. Hall,Darrick Danta Pdf

The past few years have seen the re-emergence of the Balkans as the "cockpit" of Europe. The break up of Yugoslavia, the regional conflict between ethnic groups, the creation of new states like Slovenia and the transformation of existing ones like Albania, have made the area of prime importance in geopolitical terms once again. Reconstructing the Balkans looks at the complex and rapidly changing human geography of the Balkans and considers the cultural, social and political geographies of the region and its neighbours. It provides both an examination of the history of the Balkans emphasising ethnicity and nationality issues and an evaluation of the historical and geographical roots of contemporary Balkan disputes from a range of national viewpoints. Written by acknowledged experts in the field, the book assesses some of the geographical consequences of the region s conflicts and analyses the post-socialist restructuring, reconstruction and reconfiguration regionwide and country by country. It also gives projections of likely regional development trends. This is a unique book as it represents diverse viewpoints from a wide range of ethnic, national and disciplinary approaches. It draws upon expertise from the USA, the UK and everyone concerned with the Balkan regions making it essential reading for analysts and consultants, in banks, funding agencies and government departments. It will also be of interest to advanced students of European Studies, Geography, International Relations, Politics, Development and History.

Author : Daniel Daianu,Thanos Veremis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135277130

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Balkan Reconstruction by Daniel Daianu,Thanos Veremis Pdf

Focusing scholarly attention on a little known area of Europe, the book brings together analysts with an insider's view to examine the short and long-term challenges facing the region, the intricate relationship between politics and economics and the irrelevance of quick fixes in the postwar reform of Southeast Europe.

Author : Robert William Farrand
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781442212374

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Reconstruction and Peace Building in the Balkans by Robert William Farrand Pdf

In the tense aftermath of the 1992–1995 Bosnian War, U.S. diplomat Bill Farrand was assigned the daunting task of implementing the Dayton Peace Accords in the ethnically divided Balkan territory of Brcko in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Serb, Muslim, and Croat political leaders alike had blocked agreement over Brcko’s political status, thus threatening first to derail U.S.-brokered peace talks and then to prevent peace from taking hold in the postconflict period. This compelling narrative pulls the reader intimately into the author’s world where, over three tumultuous years, he was given wide authority to restore travel across former ceasefire lines, return thousands to their destroyed and confiscated homes, conduct free and fair elections, and reestablish multiethnic government bodies—all in a climate of fear and obstruction. “If we can get it right in Brcko,” the U.S. State Department told him, “we have a chance of making the Dayton peace process work throughout Bosnia.” Indeed, the new Brcko District is a Balkan success story. Farrand highlights the complex challenges peace builders confront, especially the role of civilian leadership in a postconflict zone torn apart by ethnic cleansing. Analytic and prescriptive, the book explains in vivid detail the groundbreaking roles of arbitration and of civilian peace workers living among the people. His story is rich in lessons for all those studying or engaged in peace building abroad.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781442212367

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Reconstruction and Peace Building in the Balkans by Anonim Pdf

Author : Vladislav R. Savić
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1917
Category : Balkan Peninsula
ISBN : UOM:39015049923082

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The Reconstruction of South-eastern Europe by Vladislav R. Savić Pdf

Author : Matthew T. Parish
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1848852282

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A Free City in the Balkans by Matthew T. Parish Pdf

Author : Matthew Parish
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780857712738

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A Free City in the Balkans by Matthew Parish Pdf

Following the brutal wars which raged in the former Yugoslavia in the early 1990s, Bosnia and Herzegovina was awkwardly partitioned into two governing entities: the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Republika Srpska. But there was one part of the country which could not be fitted into either category: the Brcko District, a strategically critical land-bridge between the two parts of the Bosnian Serb territory. This region was the subject of a highly unusual experiment: placed under a regime of internationally supervised government, Brcko became a 'free city', evoking the memory of Trieste or Danzig over fifty years ago. What has this experiment in state-building revealed about the history of this troubled corner of the Balkans - and its future? What lessons can be applied to conflict resolution in other parts of the world? And was the experiment successful or have the citizens of Brcko suffered further at the hands of the international community? "A Free City in the Balkans" investigates the rise and fall of Brcko and post-war Bosnia and investigates what lessons can be learned for international peacekeeping missions elsewhere.

Author : Diana Mishkova
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351236362

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Beyond Balkanism by Diana Mishkova Pdf

In recent years, western discourse about the Balkans, or “balkanism,” has risen in prominence. Characteristically, this strand of research sidelines the academic input in the production of western representations and Balkan self-understanding. Looking at the Balkans from the vantage point of “balkanism” has therefore contributed to its further marginalization as an object of research and the evisceration of its agency. This book reverses the perspective and looks at the Balkans primarily inside-out, from within the Balkans towards its “self” and the outside world, where the west is important but not the sole referent. The book unravels attempts at regional identity-building and construction of regional discourses across various generations and academic subcultures, with the aim of reconstructing the conceptualizations of the Balkans that have emerged from academically embedded discursive practices and political usages. It thus seeks to reinstate the subjectivity of “the Balkans” and the responsibility of the Balkan intellectual elites for the concept and the images it conveys. The book then looks beyond the Balkans, inviting us to rethink the relationship between national and transnational (self-)representation and the communication between local and exogenous – Western, Central and Eastern European – concepts and definitions more generally. It thus contributes to the ongoing debates related to the creation of space and historical regions, which feed into rethinking the premises of the “new area studies.” Beyond Balkanism: The Scholarly Politics of Region Making will interest researchers and students of transnationalism, politics, historical geography, border and area studies.

Author : Paula M. Pickering
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780801463464

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Peacebuilding in the Balkans by Paula M. Pickering Pdf

After suffering years of war, Bosnia is now the target of international efforts to reconstruct and democratize a culturally divided society. The global community's strategy has focused on reforming political institutions, influencing the behavior of elite populations, and cultivating nongovernmental organizations. But expensive efforts to promote a stable peace and a multiethnic democracy can be successful only if they resonate among ordinary people. Otherwise, such projects will produce fragile institutions and alienated citizens who will be susceptible to extremists eager to send them back into war. Paula M. Pickering challenges the conventional wisdom that common people are merely passive recipients of peacebuilding projects. Instead, in Peacebuilding in the Balkans, she shows how ordinary people, particularly minorities in Bosnia, understand elite rhetoric and actively shape reconstruction. Pickering's years of fieldwork—direct observation, interviews, and analysis of many surveys—has yielded a precise understanding of how ordinary citizens react to and influence peacebuilding programs in their neighborhoods, workplaces, municipal agencies, and other real-life social settings. The evidence suggests that international efforts to rebuild an inclusive Bosnia will be futile unless they pay sufficient attention to citizens' varying ties to ethnic groups, indigenous forms of civic activity, and the development of nondiscriminatory employment and responsive political institutions. Pickering's insights from reconstruction in the Balkans have important implications for peacebuilding elsewhere in Eurasia.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 600001869X

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A Free City in the Balkans by Anonim Pdf

Following the brutal wars which raged in the former Yugoslavia in the early 1990s, Bosnia and Herzegovina was awkwardly partitioned into two governing entities: the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Republika Srpska. But there was one part of the country which could not be fitted into either category: the Brcko District, a strategically critical land-bridge between the two parts of the Bosnian Serb territory. This region was the subject of a highly unusual experiment: placed under a regime of internationally supervised government, Brcko became a 'free city', evoking the memory of Trieste or Danzig over fifty years ago. What has this experiment in state-building revealed about the history of this troubled corner of the Balkans - and its future? What lessons can be applied to conflict resolution in other parts of the world? And was the experiment successful or have the citizens of Brcko suffered further at the hands of the international community? "A Free City in the Balkans" investigates the rise and fall of Brcko and post-war Bosnia and investigates what lessons can be learned for international peacekeeping missions elsewhere.

Author : Maria Todorova
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2009-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199728381

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Imagining the Balkans by Maria Todorova Pdf

"If the Balkans hadn't existed, they would have been invented" was the verdict of Count Hermann Keyserling in his famous 1928 publication, Europe. Over ten years ago, Maria Todorova traced the relationship between the reality and the invention. Based on a rich selection of travelogues, diplomatic accounts, academic surveys, journalism, and belles-lettres in many languages, Imagining the Balkans explored the ontology of the Balkans from the sixteenth century to the present day, uncovering the ways in which an insidious intellectual tradition was constructed, became mythologized, and is still being transmitted as discourse. Maria Todorova, who was raised in the Balkans, is in a unique position to bring both scholarship and sympathy to her subject, and in a new afterword she reflects on recent developments in the study of the Balkans and political developments on the ground since the publication of Imagining the Balkans. The afterword explores the controversy over Todorova's coining of the term Balkanism. With this work, Todorova offers a timely, updated, accessible study of how an innocent geographic appellation was transformed into one of the most powerful and widespread pejorative designations in modern history.

Author : Herbert Adams Gibbons
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1917
Category : Eastern question
ISBN : UOM:39015063642717

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The Reconstruction of Poland and the Near East by Herbert Adams Gibbons Pdf

Author : Brad K. Blitz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2006-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0521677734

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War and Change in the Balkans by Brad K. Blitz Pdf

A contemporary history of the Balkans from the break-up of Yugoslavia to the present day, first published in 2006.

Author : Christopher Cviic,Peter Sanfey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Balkan Peninsula
ISBN : IND:30000127451999

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In Search of the Balkan Recovery by Christopher Cviic,Peter Sanfey Pdf

In the early 1990s, the Balkans was rocked by the collapse of communism and the violent breakup of Yugoslavia. Yet the last decade has seen Southeastern Europe transform into one of the most dynamic emerging markets in the world. In Search of the Balkan Recovery tracks Yugoslavia's political evolution from conflict to cooperation and the role of growing investment and trade opportunities in facilitating this recovery. Cviic and Sanfey read the history of Yugoslavia's violent disintegration against similar events in Bulgaria, Romania, and Albania. They critically examine the involvement of the international community and contrast it against the procrastination of European leaders and the more constructive "soft power" approach of the European Union, among other institutions. They also trace the recovery of Balkan economic prospects in recent years and argue that, despite our current economic crisis, the downturn in the region's economic well-being is likely to be temporary.

Author : Vladimir Gligorov
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Balkan
ISBN : 3852090210

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Balkan Reconstruction by Vladimir Gligorov Pdf