The Balkans And The West

Author : Florian Bieber,Nikolaos Tzifakis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429516498

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The Western Balkans in the World by Florian Bieber,Nikolaos Tzifakis Pdf

This book provides a detailed understanding of how different types of engagements impact upon the reform and EU integration of the Western Balkan region. It examines the influence of Russia, China, Turkey and the UAE in the region and analyses the range of existing links. Contributors offer an academic and multifaceted perspective of the role of external and non-Western actors in the region that goes beyond, on the one hand, the tendency of some Western decision makers to perceive all engagement by third powers as a sinister threat and, on the other, the view of regional governments of all external involvement as a boon coming at a time of Western neglect and reduced foreign investments. By looking at the importance of Russia, Turkey, China and the UAE in the Western Balkans, the book sheds light on one key arena of global competition, offers new insights on the strengths and weaknesses of Euro–Atlantic integration and advances our knowledge of foreign policy and its economic, social and security dimensions for small and medium-sized countries. It will be of interest to academics, postgraduate and research students, and think-tankers with research interest in IR and Southeast European Studies. European decision makers will also gain an insight into the extent of non-Western influence in the region.

Author : Maria Todorova
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 47,6 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 : Andrew Hammond
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351894227

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The Balkans and the West by Andrew Hammond Pdf

This collection of essays locates, investigates and challenges the manner in which the Balkans and the West have constructed each other since 1945. Scholars from the two sections of the continent explore a wide range of fiction, film, journalism, travel writing and diplomatic records both to analyse Western European balkanism and to study Balkan representations of the West over the last fifty years. The first section looks back to the Cold War, examining the divergent, often favourable images of the Balkans that existed in Western culture, as well as the variety of responses that appeared in South-East European writings on the West. The second section analyses the transitions that took place in representation during the 1990s. Here, contributors explore both the harsh denigration of the Balkans which came to dominate western discourse after the initial euphoria of 1989, and the emerging tradition of contesting Western balkanism in South-East European cultural production. Through this dual emphasis, the volume exposes the representational practices that help to maintain a deeply divided Europe, and challenges the economic and political injustices that result. Despite the rise to prominence of postcolonial theory, with its awareness of global inequality, the current crises in many parts of South-East Europe have received scant attention in literary and cultural studies. The Balkans and the West addresses this deficiency. Ranging in focus from Serbian cinema to Romanian travel literature, from Western economic writings to Yugoslav fiction, and from public discourse in Albania to NATO's vast propaganda machine, the essays offer wide insight into representation and power in the contemporary European context.

Author : Roger D. Petersen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139503303

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Western Intervention in the Balkans by Roger D. Petersen Pdf

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.

Author : Russell King,Nermin Oruc
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-21
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781000740455

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Migration in the Western Balkans by Russell King,Nermin Oruc Pdf

Migration in the Western Balkans rectifies the under-investigation by migration scholars of the Western Balkans region, by bringing together recent research at a time when migration is a hot topic for the future of Europe. The book explores issues such as the complex geopolitics of the region, the relationship between migration and development, diasporas, and refugees and humanitarianism. Expert contributors present new research on economic migration, forced migration, diaspora formation and return migration at a time when migration is of crucial relevance for the future of Europe. The chapters shed new light on the multiple migration dynamics of a region which has had a troubled past yet stands on the threshold of EU membership. As a theatre of multiple migration processes Migration in the Western Balkans reveals new information on the region, and will be of great interest to scholars of migration, the Balkans and geopolitics. The chapters were originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies.

Author : Erblin Berisha,Giancarlo Cotella,Alys Solly
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030721244

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Governing Territorial Development in the Western Balkans by Erblin Berisha,Giancarlo Cotella,Alys Solly Pdf

This book offers a multifaceted overview of the evolution of spatial development, governance and planning in the Western Balkans from an institutionalist perspective. Written by experts in the field, it features various regional and national studies covering topics such as regional and spatial planning, territorial development and governance, and regional and cross-border cooperation in the Western Balkans. Offering a wealth of national, regional and local insights on territorial cooperation, development and planning, this book will appeal to scholars in regional and spatial sciences and related fields alike.

Author : Jelena Džankić,Soeren Keil,Marko Kmezić
Publisher : Springer
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319914121

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The Europeanisation of the Western Balkans by Jelena Džankić,Soeren Keil,Marko Kmezić Pdf

This volume casts a fresh look on how the political spaces of the Western Balkan states (Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo, Macedonia and Albania) are shaped, governed and transformed during the EU accession process. The contributors argue that EU conditionality in the Western Balkans does not work ‘effectively’ in terms of social change because rule transfer remains a ‘contested’ business, due to veto-players on the ground and strong legacies of the past. The volume examines specific policy areas, salient in the enlargement process and to a different degree incorporated in the accession criteria, as well as EU foreign policy in the spheres of post-conflict stabilisation, democratization and the rule of law promotion.

Author : Kostas P. Kostis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429836145

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Modern Banking in the Balkans and West-European Capital in the 19th and 20th Centuries by Kostas P. Kostis Pdf

First published in 1999, Kostis in this book traces the influences Western modern banking systems in Balkan states and the economic development of these countries. The contributors of this book consider a wide arrange of approaches in relation to issues of western-European influence in Balkan countries with the aim to create a further discourse in this subject.

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 : Tony White
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Travel
ISBN : STANFORD:36105122702355

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Another Fool in the Balkans by Tony White Pdf

Following in the famous footsteps of Rebecca West's 1945 masterpiece "Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia," White's lively contemporaneous travelogue depicts the present-day Balkans in all its cultural glory.

Author : Sabrina Ramet
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000009545

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Yugoslavia In The 1980s by Sabrina Ramet Pdf

The opening years of 1980 were difficult for Yugoslavia: Open revolt has occurred in Kosovo province and economic hardship has added to a general crisis of confidence. The system of self-management, once the pride of Yugoslav ideologists, has come increasingly under fire in post-Tito Yugoslavia as proponents of the system search for a new basis of

Author : Adnan Ajšić
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783030721770

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Language and Ethnonationalism in Contemporary West Central Balkans by Adnan Ajšić Pdf

This book uses a specialized corpus of public language-related discourse to investigate links between language ideologies and ethnonationalism in contemporary West Central Balkans. Despite a century and a half of shared linguistic history, the nations making up the central part of former Yugoslavia continue to debate the ownership over the common language, creating much animosity, some legal issues, and often absurd circumstances. At the heart of the ongoing language debate over Central South Slavic is the belief in language as the cornerstone of ethnonational identity and the legitimacy of ethnic groups’ claims to sovereignty. Given a history of conflict and the recent resurgence in extreme ethnonationalism, an understanding of ethnolinguistic contestation in the region is as important as ever. This book will be of interest to social scientists working in fields as diverse as (applied) linguistics, anthropology, media studies, political science, sociology and history, as well as other scholars with an interest in language and society.

Author : Traian Stoianovich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015060805085

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Between East and West by Traian Stoianovich Pdf

Author : Graham Fuller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000010282

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Turkey's New Geopolitics by Graham Fuller Pdf

With the astonishing transformations in the geopolitics of the world since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Turkey has been profoundly affected by the changes on its periphery. For the first time since the beginning of the century, a Turkic world has blossomed, giving Turkey potential new foreign policy clout from the Balkans across the Caucasus a

Author : Reiner Osbild,Will Bartlett
Publisher : Springer
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319936659

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Western Balkan Economies in Transition by Reiner Osbild,Will Bartlett Pdf

This book explores the economic and social development of the Western Balkan region, a group of six countries that are potential candidates for EU membership. It focuses on the key economic issues facing these countries, including the challenge of promoting economic growth, limiting public deficits and debt, and fostering international trade relations. Given the severe impact of the recent economic crisis on social welfare in the region, it also investigates the nature and extent of social exclusion, a factor likely to produce future political instabilities if not effectively addressed by a return to sustainable economic growth. The contributions explore these issues in light of the major influence of EU policy instruments and advice, which are currently guiding the economies along an accession trajectory to future EU membership.