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Making and Remaking Balkans : Nations and States Since 1878 / Robert Clegg Austin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Austin, Robert Clegg, author.
- Series:
- Munk Series on Global Affairs
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Balkans.
- Bosnia.
- Croatia.
- DISCOUNT-C.
- Democracy.
- European Integration.
- Expulsion.
- History.
- Kosovo.
- Politics.
- Serbia.
- State Capture.
- Transition.
- War.
- Yugoslavia.
- Balkan Peninsula--History--1989-.
- Balkan Peninsula.
- Local Subjects:
- Balkans.
- Bosnia.
- Croatia.
- DISCOUNT-C.
- Democracy.
- European Integration.
- Expulsion.
- History.
- Kosovo.
- Politics.
- Serbia.
- State Capture.
- Transition.
- War.
- Yugoslavia.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (231 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- With more than 25 years since the collapse of communism, the end of the wars and billions of dollars in aid, the Balkans are still characterized by corruption, state capture, and decidedly unmodern states that are often either weak or authoritarian. Taking the contemporary Balkans as a starting point, Making and Remaking the Balkans studies the region's history combined with observations based on more than twenty years of field experience. Primarily concerned with current issues in the Balkans since 1989, this book explains why the region has endured such a prolonged and fraught transition to democracy and eventual membership in the European Union. The young and educated have largely left. Governmental crisis and economic stagnation is the norm and much-needed regional cooperation has been suppressed by renewed nationalism. Wars on corruption have proved to be largely rhetorical. Making and Remaking the Balkans offers a systematic study of the issues the entire region faces as it struggles to complete the European integration process at a time when the European Union faces bigger problems elsewhere.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- MAKING AND REMAKING THE BALKANS. NATIONS AND STATES SINCE 1878
- 1. Making Nations and States
- 2. Good News, Bad News: Before and After 1989
- 3. Hero-Free Wars and Ethnic Purity
- 4. Albania Implodes, Kosovo Arms
- 5. Contested Heroes: Alexander the Great, Mother Teresa, and the Republic of Macedonia
- 6. To Europe, for Some: Slovenia, Bulgaria, Romania, and Croatia
- Epilogue: Greater This or Greater That, Alone or in Europe
- Guide to Further Readings
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 20. Jun 2019)
- ISBN:
- 1-4875-3072-2
- 1-4875-3071-4
- OCLC:
- 1105852594
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