A Modern History of the Balkans: Nationalism and Identity in Southeast Europe

✍ Scribed by Thanos Veremis

• Publisher: I.B. Tauris
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 241
• Series: Library of Balkan Studies
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The history of the Balkans has been a distillation of the great and terrible themes of 20th century history-the rise of nationalism, communism, fascism, genocide, identity and war. Written by one of the leading historians of the region, this is a new interpretation of that history, focusing on the uses and legacies of nationalism in the Balkan region. In particular, Professor Veremis analyses the influence of the West-from the fall of the Ottoman Empire and the rise and collapse of Yugoslavia. Throughout the state-building process of Greece, Serbia, Rumania, Bulgaria and later, Albania, the West provided legal, administrative and political prototypes to areas bedevilled by competing irredentist claims. At a time when Slovenia, Rumania, Bulgaria and Croatia have become full members of the EU, yet some orphans of the Communist past are facing domestic difficulties, A Modern History of the Balkans seeks to provide an important historical context to the current problems of nationalism and identity in the Balkans.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Preface
List of abbreviations
PART I The Balkans from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-first Century: the Building and Dismantling o
ONE Perceptions and Misreadings
TWO Common Elements in the State Formation of the Nineteenth Century
THREE From the Nation State to the Stateless Nation
FOUR Albanians, South-Slavs and Bulgarians
FIVE Era of Ferment and Wars
SIX The Interwar Conundrum
International developments
SEVEN From War to Communism
The war years
The postwar Communist regimes
EIGHT The Balance of Forces in the Balkans
The Macedonian issue: a conflict transformed
Relations between Greece and the Balkan communist states after 1967
NINE In Search of Multilateralism
TEN Redefining Security: Yugoslavia 1989-95
PART II The Balkans in Comparative Perspective
ELEVEN Nationalism and Identity in the Balkans
The incarnations of the ‘nation’ in current affairs
TWELVE The Economies
THIRTEEN The Army in Politics
Yugoslavia
Bulgaria
Romania
Albania
FOURTEEN Western Amateurs and the End of History
PART III Unfinished Business
FIFTEEN The Macedonian Question 1991-2010
SIXTEEN Independence for Kosovo
SEVENTEEN Bosnia-Herzegovina: An Intractable Problem?
EPILOGUE The Chances of Post-Modernity in the Balkans
Chronology
Notes
1 Perceptions and misreadings
2 Common elements in the state formation
3 From the nation state to the stateless nation
4 Albanians, South-Slavs and Bulgarians
5 Era of ferment and wars
6 The interwar conundrum
7 From war to communism
8 The balance of forces in the Balkans
9 In search of multilateralism
10 Redefining security: Yugoslavia 1989-95
11 Nationalism and identity in the Balkans
12 The economies
13 The army in politics
14 Western amateurs and the end of history
15 The Macedonian question 1991-2010
16 Independence for Kosovo
17 Bosnia-Herzegovina: an intractable problem?
Epilogue
Index