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Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History
by Robert D Kaplan  Publisher Comments "In 1989, the Berlin Wall fell. That November, while the world danced in the rubble of the wall, a journalist named Robert Kaplan was in Kosovo watching a riot between ethnic Serbs and Albanians. The future, Kaplan wrote, was not in a reuniting Germany...
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Balkan Ghosts a Journey Through History
by Robert D Kaplan Publisher Comments From the assassination that set off World War I to the ethnic warfare sweeping Bosnia and Croatia, the Balkans have been the crucible of the 20th century--the place where terrorism and genocide were first practiced as tools of policy. This enthralling...
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Ottoman Balkans 1750 1830
by Frederick Anscombe Book News Annotation Five essays provide information for historians of the Ottoman Empire about a crisis in a crucial part of the realm, and for historians of the Balkans about the pre-nation-state period of the region. Their topics include homicide in Ottoman Bosnia...
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Unfinished Peace: Report of the International Commission on the Balkans (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace)
by Carnegie Endowment Publisher Comments The guns have fallen silent in the former Yugoslavia. But the Dayton truce has yet to become a lasting peace. Peace in the Balkans remain threatened not only by the possibility of a new war in Bosnia, but also by unresolved conflict in Kosova and...
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The Balkans: Nationalism, War, and the Great Powers, 1804-1999
by Misha Glenny Publisher Comments "The first comprehensive history of the relationship in the modern era between the great powers and the various Balkan peoples." (San Francisco Chronicle) This unique and lively history of Balkan geopolitics since the early nineteenth century gives...
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The Other Balkan Wars: A 1913 Carnegie Endowment Inquiry in Retrospect
by George F Kennan Publisher Comments " The importance of Ýthe 1913¨ report for the world lies primarily in the light it casts on the excruciating situation prevailing today...to reveal to people of this age how much of today's problem has deep roots and how much does not. It will...
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Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East an #102: The Settlement Issue in Turkey and the Kurds: An Analysis of Spatial Policies, Modernity and War
by Joost Jongerden Book News Annotation Here Jongerden (technology studies, Wageningen U.) examines Turkey's practice of social and cultural engineering, which he feels is based on an idiosyncratic understanding of modernity. Armed with tools from sociology, political science, history and...
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Balkan Propaganda Wars
by Martin Gordon. Trans. By Christina Bordianu Publisher Comments Balkan Propaganda Wars provides an historical, political, and propagandistic perspective of the volatile situation that exists in the Balkans....
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Balkans Nationalism War & the Great Powe
by Misha Glenny Synopsis In a timely, passionate survey of Balkan history since the early 19th century, an award-winning journalist chronicles the essential background of the recent terrible events in this war-torn region. 12 maps....
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Democratization in the Balkans: Prescription for a Badly Scarred Body Politic (Northeastern Series on Democratization and Political Development)
by Richard P Farkas Publisher Comments Richard P. Farkas provides the first comprehensive look at the post-Communist democratization process in the Balkans from short- and long-term domestic and external policy perspectives. Close examinations of the emergent democratic experience in Croatia,...
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Brief Romanian Military History (Brief History)
by Calin. Trans. By Cristina Bordianu Hentea Book News Annotation This volume traces Romania's military history from the campaign of the Persian king Darius I against the Scythians in 514 B.C. to Romania's admission into NATO in 2004. Presented as a series of brief descriptions and in the context of the country's...
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The Development of the Croatian Nation; an Historical and Sociological Analysis.
by Gordana Uzelac Book News Annotation Living in Croatia at the end of the 20th century, Uzelac (sociology, London Metropolitan U.) observed the national mobilization and ethnic war, and the experience has shaped the outlook and structure of her account. She first develops a theoretical...
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Sarajevo Roses: War Memoir of a Peacekeeper
by Anne Marie Bezdrob Publisher Comments A memoir about failed bureaucracies, the horrible inhumanity of war and the strength of spirit that thrives nonetheless....
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Balkan Strongmen: Dictators and Authoritarian Rulers of South-Eastern Europe
by Bernd J. Fischer Publisher Comments Authoritarian leaders such as Enver Hoxha, Todor Zhivkov, Josip Broz Tito and Slobodan Milosevic are part of a time-honored tradition of Balkan authoritarian rule that saw the domination of some of the most colorful but also brutal leaders of twentieth...
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Croatia Through History: The Making of a European State
by Branka Magas Publisher Comments This comprehensive volume recounts Croatia's development from the early Middle Ages to the present day. Branka Maga observes that the ties that bound Croatia to other states for centuries have contributed to the state's vitality, with a complex web of...
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Balkan Wars 1912-1913: Prelude to the First World War (Warfare and History)
by Richard Hall Publisher Comments Richard Hall examines the origins, the enactment and the resolution of the Balkan Wars, during which the Ottoman Empire fought a Balkan coalition of Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro and Serbia, that collapsed in 1913. Based on archival as well as published...
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Peacebuilding in the Balkans: The View from the Ground Floor
by Paula M Pickering Book News Annotation Pickering (government, The College of William and Mary) argues that ordinary people affect the success or failure of peacebuilding programs in divided societies through their everyday reactions and attitudes. He investigates the decision-making...
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The Balkans in Focus
by Sanimir And Barbara T<:o>rnquist-plewa Resic Book News Annotation The result of a project initiated to create a network of scholars from Scandinavia and the Yugoslav successor states devoted to the study of post-Yugoslav cultural and political developments, nine papers on problems of cultural boundaries are...
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Remaking Turkey: Globalization, Alternative Modernities, and Democracies
by E. Fuat Keyman Publisher Comments In recent years there has been an upsurge of interest in Turkey's ability to create a secular, constitutional democracy within a predominantly Muslim population.Remaking Turkey provides a comprehensive and detailed account of how Turkey has achieved the...
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Flag on the Mountain: A Political Anthropology of War in Croatia and Bosnia
by Ivo Anic Publisher Comments 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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