The Volatile Powder Keg
The Volatile Powder Keg

Author: F. Stephen Larrabee

Publisher: University Press of America

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13:

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In this work, regional specialists and European security analysts unite in a comprehensive analysis of changes in the Balkans and the security dilemmas they present to Western policy. Special attention is given to the roles that NATO, the European Community, and the Western Economic Union will play in the future. It includes a revealing discussion of how and why the Yugoslav Federation collapsed and what the future holds for that embattled area. Part One focuses on the problems of domestic change in the Balkans, including the difficulties of transition from authoritarian rule to democracy. Part Two is devoted to regional security problems, and Part Three examines the role of external actors and institutions in enhancing Balkan security.

Dampening the Powder Keg
Dampening the Powder Keg

Author: Mihaela Mihailescu

Publisher: VDM Publishing

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 756

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Democratization in Eastern Europe prompted warnings about the risks of the process for the many multi-ethnic countries of the region. Yet, the Yugoslav tragedy remains the exception rather than the rule in understanding interethnic relations. This work analyzes post-communist Romania and Slovakia, two multi-ethnic countries that have steered clear of interethnic violence despite the absence of institutions specially designed to manage interethnic relations, despite the exclusion of ethnic minorities from government and despite quasi-majoritarian political environments. In the two studied cases, interethnic opposition coalitions resulted from the adoption of basic democratic political institutions, which constrained actors across the ethnic divide to cooperate. More broadly, this work questions the notion that multiethnic countries are unlikely candidates for peaceful democratization and suggests that as long as participation in democratic processes, either in government or in opposition, is possible for ethnic minorities, violent conflict can be averted. The argument is of interest to both scholars of conflict and peace studies and to policy makers involved in conflict prevention.

Yugoslavia: A History of Its Demise
Yugoslavia: A History of Its Demise

Author: Viktor Meier

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2005-06-20

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 1134665113

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Victor Meier presents a history of the disintegration and collapse of the former Yugoslavia, drawing on federal and republican archives, and sources which are not yet officially open for scholarly use.

Southeast European Security
Southeast European Security

Author: Albrecht Schnabel

Publisher: Nova Publishers

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 9781590330975

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Contents: Southeastern Europe: the unlikely security community? Environmental security in Southeastern Europe: a basis for regional co-operation; Russian in the Transcaucasus and Kosovo: from insecurity to security provider?; Churches and (in) security providers in Southeastern Europe; Bulgaria and the disintegration of Yugoslavia: between ethnic affinity and international commitment; regional implications of a failed transition to democracy: the case of Serbia; The internationalisation of conflict in the Transcaucasus and the former Yugoslavia; The OSCE security model for the Balkans: a viable model for the 21st century?; Lessons from UN Peacekeeping in Cyprus; Srebenica: The failure and future of safe areas; Conflict management in Southeastern Europe: the use of force as a last resort; The Georgian-Abkhazian conflict: failed realpolitik with moralistic justifications?; Rethinking the concept of peace-building: Bosnia and the lessons for Kosovo; Kosovo and the international community; Index.

The Greek-Turkish Relationship and NATO
The Greek-Turkish Relationship and NATO

Author: Dr Fotios Moustakis

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2004-11-23

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 1135760284

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This publication shows that the Eastern Mediterranean, having been transformed from a region of secondary importance during the Cold War to one of greater importance for the western interests in the post-Cold War era, is in a state of flux. Despite sporadic periods of rapprochement, tensions between Greece and Turkey still exist. Therefore, one must question the grounds behind the lack of normal relations that exist between these two NATO members and its effects on the NATO organisation as a whole. Hence, this volume has two purposes first, to examine Greek and Turkish foreign, security and defence policies during and after the post-Cold War period and second, to investigate why these policies have been formulated.

The Balkans Since the Second World War
The Balkans Since the Second World War

Author: R. J. Crampton

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-07-15

Total Pages: 450

ISBN-13: 1317891163

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Since the collapse of Eastern European communism, the Balkans have been more prominent in world affairs than at any time since before the First World War. Crises in the area have led NATO to fire its first ever shots in anger, whilst international forces have been deployed on a scale and in a manner unprecedented in Europe since World War Two.An understanding of why this happened is impossible without some knowledge of the history of the area before the fall of communism, of how the communists came to power and how they used their authority thereafter. Covering the communist states of Albania, Bulgaria, Romania and Yugoslavia, and including Greece, Richard Crampton provides a highly readable introduction to that history, one that will be read by journalists, diplomats and anyone interested in the region and its impact on world politics today.

The a to Z of Bosnia and Herzegovina
The a to Z of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Author: Ante Cuvalo

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2010-04

Total Pages: 506

ISBN-13: 0810876477

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Diversity has always been at the heart of Bosnia and Herzegovina's character; even its dual name and physical geography display a particular heterogeneity. The medieval Bosnian state never enjoyed lasting political and ideological unity as its feudal, regional, and religious rifts pulled at the country's seams. Furthermore, because of its location and by a quirk of history, three major world religious and cultural traditions (Catholicism, Islam, and Orthodoxy) became cohabitants in this small Balkan country. Recently, the rebirth of its statehood has been exceptionally bloody and its diversity has been shaken. Even 11 years after the guns were silenced, the country is still under the "benevolent" protection of the international community, whose officials are keeping the state-building process in perpetual suspense, with no final result in sight. The A to Z of Bosnia and Herzegovina sheds light on the uncertain situation Bosnia and Herzegovina faces, while providing essential background information. This is accomplished through a chronology, an introduction, a bibliography, and more than 300 cross-referenced dictionary entries on individual topics spanning Bosnia and Herzegovina's political, economic, religious, and social system along with short biographies on important figures.

Understanding the War in Kosovo
Understanding the War in Kosovo

Author: Florian Bieber

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2004-08-02

Total Pages: 652

ISBN-13: 113576154X

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The war in Kosovo has been a defining moment in post-Cold War Europe. Kosovo has great importance beyond the Balkans as the most ambitious attempt of the international community to prevent internal conflicts and rebuild a society destroyed by war and ethnic cleansing. As the danger of ethnic conflict prevails in the region and elsewhere around the world, the experience of Kosovo offers important lessons. This is a comprehensive survey of developments in Kosovo leading up to, during and after the war in 1999, providing additionally the international and regional framework to the conflict. It examines the underlying causes of the war, the attempts by the international community to intervene, and the war itself in spring 1999. It critically examines the international administration in Kosovo since June 1999 and contextualizes it within the relations of Kosovo to its neighbours and as part of the larger European strategy in Southeastern Europe with the stability pact. It does not seek to promote one interpretation of the conflict and its aftermath, but brings together a range of intellectual arguments from some sixteen researchers from the Balkans, the rest of Europe and North America.

Kosovo, A Documentary History
Kosovo, A Documentary History

Author: Robert Elsie

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2018-01-30

Total Pages: 488

ISBN-13: 1786723549

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The question of Kosovan sovereignty and independence has a history which stretches far back beyond the outbreak of war in 1998. This volume is a compilation of key documents on Kosovo from the first half of the twentieth century. These texts, including numerous diplomatic despatches from the British Foreign Office, deal initially with the Albanian uprising against Ottoman rule in the spring of 1912 and, in particular, with the period of the Serbian invasion of Kosovo in late 1912 and the repercussions of the conquest for the Albanian population. The documents from 1918 to the early 1920s focus mainly on endeavours by Albanian leaders, including those of the so-called Kosovo Committee in exile, to bring the plight of their people to the attention of the outside world - endeavours which largely failed. Further documents reflect the situation in Kosovo up to the outbreak of World War II. This collection provides new perspectives on the Kosovo question and includes many documents which have been largely unavailable up to now. It sheds new light on many of the major and minor episodes that channelled and determined subsequent events, including the Kosovo War of 1998-1999 and the declaration of independence in February 2008.