The Hemingway Book Club of Kosovo
by Paula Huntley

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A moving testimony to the power of literature to bring people together in even the most difficult of circumstances. In the spring of 1999, the world watched as more than 800,000 Kosovo Albanians poured over Kosovo's borders, bringing with them stories of...
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The Kosovo Crisis: The Evolution of Post Cold War European Security
by Paul Latawski

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This book looks at the legacy of the 1998-99 Kosovo crisis for European security affairs. It examines the debates about the nature and justification of intervention in the affairs of sovereign states. It also considers the impact of the crisis on NATO...
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Balkan Inferno: Betrayal, War and Intervention 1990-2005
by Wes Johnson

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From the final chapter: at an Athens cocktail party in the fall of 2003 a young officer from the US embassy said that his first assignment, in 1993-4, had been Tirana, "We could do anything we wanted. In fact, they would like to be our fifty-first state....
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Kosova Express: A Journey in Wartime
by James Pettifer

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In this unique eyewitness record, James Pettifer gives a startling and evocative portrayal of the terror and fear in Kosova under the Milosevic regime. As a writer for the London Times, he witnessed major events spanning from the emergence of the Kosova...
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Flag on the Mountain: A Political Anthropology of War in Croatia and Bosnia
by Ivo Anic

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In this substantial work, Ivo anic explores the ways in which cultural-historical motifs and myths have been deployed to reinforce the war policies of nationalist regimes in the former Yugoslavia. Published in association with the Bosnian Institute. Ivo...
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Judgement Day: The Trial of Slobodan Milosevic
by Chris Stephen

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For the first time in recorded history, a world leader has been brought before a court that has a valid claim to represent all the other nations of the world. Judgement Day tells the remarkable story of the International Criminal Court, the world's first...
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Slovenia: From Yugoslavia to the European Union
by Bank World

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In the only book of its kind, the contributors--many of them the architects of Slovenia's current transformations--analyze the country's three-fold transition from a command to a market economy, from a regionally based on a national economy, and from a...
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Not My Turn to Die: Memoirs of a Broken Childhood in Bosnia
by Savo Heleta

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A beautifully wrought and unflinching memoir of one man's harrowing struggle to survive in war-torn Bosnia. From his childhood before the war to his internment and eventual freedom, we follow Savo's emotional journey from a young teenager seeking...
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Social Service Reform in the Postcommunist State: Decentralization in Poland (Eugenia and Hugh M. Stewart '26 Series on Eastern Europe)
by Janelle A Kerlin

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The fall of communist regimes in Eastern Europe raised the complex question of how social services were to be distributed and administered in countries with legacies of highly centralized states. When Poland underwent a series of reforms to modify and...
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Endgame in the Balkans: Regime Change, European Style
by Elizabeth Pond

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Can Europe tame the Balkans? Thats 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 regions tumultuous recent...
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Prague Pictures: A Portrait of the City (Writer and the City #04)
by John Banville

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The fourth book in Bloomsbury's Writer and the City series.From one of the foremost chroniclers of the modern European experience, a panoramic view of a city that has seduced and bewitched visitors for centuries.Prague is the magic capital of Europe...
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Balkan Idols: Religion and Nationalism in Yugoslav States (Religion and Global Politics)
by Vjekoslav Perica

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Reporting from the heartland of Yugoslavia in the 1970s, Washington Post correspondent Dusko Doder described "a landscape of Gothic spires, Islamic mosques, and Byzantine domes." A quarter century later, this landscape lay in ruins. In addition to...
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Russia and the Formation of the Romanian National State, 1821-1878
by Barbara Jelavich

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An examination of the difficult Russian-Rumanian relationship as it developed during the nineteenth century....
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Albania (Oxfam Country Profile)
by Neil Olsen

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The Albania Country Profile skillfully unravels the historical and political background to the present situation in Albania. Despite the advent of democracy in 1992, Albanians have found it hard to participate fully in the building of a new society. The...
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Ideology Politics and Diplomacy in East Central Europe
by M B B Biskupski

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No region of the world has been more affected by the various movements of the twentieth century than East Central Europe. Broadly defined as comprising the historic territories of the Czechs, Hungarians, Poles, and Slovaks, East Central Europe has been...
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Bulgaria in Europe: Charting a Path Toward Reform and Integration (If Pa-Kokkalis Series on Southeast European Policy)
by Charles M Perry

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Highlights reforms that are key to all transitioning democracies....
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Dirk-Jan Visser: Brave New Kosovo
by Dirk Jan Visser

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Photographer Dirk-Jan Visser and journalist Agnes Verweij traveled back and forth from the Netherlands to Kosovo multiple times from 2004 to 2005. This book presents interviews and portraits with important political figures as well as average citizens...
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Journey to a Revolution: A Personal Memoir and History of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956
by Michael Korda

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The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 was not just an extraordinary and dramatic event-; perhaps the most dramatic single event of the Cold War-; but, as we can now see fifty years later, a major turning point in history. Here is an eyewitness account, in the...
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Macedonia: Warlords and Rebels in the Balkans
by John Phillips

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The disintegration of Yugoslavia in the 1990s shattered the Balkans, unleashing the horror of extreme nationalism. Macedonia seemed to have been spared the bloodletting. In reality, it was only postponed. The newly independent Former Yugoslav Republic of...
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From Ethnic Conflict to Stillborn Reform: The Former Soviet Union and Yugoslavia
by Shale Hortowitz

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From Ethnic Conflict to Stillborn Reform is the first systematic treatment of the major post-communist conflicts in both the former Yugoslavia--Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, and Serbia--and the former Soviet Union--Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova...
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