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Ethnic Cleansing in the Balkansby Cathie Carmichael
Routledge 2002; US$ 160.00This book looks at the phenomenon of ethnic cleansing in the Balkans over the last two hundred years. Carmichael brings together a vast array of primary and secondary sources to produce a concise and accessible argument. more...
Romaniaby Stephen D. Roper
Routledge 2000; US$ 52.95Tracing the country's political history and examining Romania's postcommunist politics, economic transition and foreign policy, this book contemplates the prospects for this country as it enters the twenty first century more...
Ana Paukerby Robert Levy
University of California Press 2001; US$ 15.95In her own day, Ana Pauker was named "The Most Powerful Woman in the World" by Time magazine. Today, when she is remembered at all, she is thought of as the puppet of Soviet communism in Romania, blindly enforcing the most brutal and repressive Stalinist regime. more...
Balkan Holocausts?by David Bruce Macdonald
Manchester University Press 2003; US$ 74.95Comparing and contrasting Serbian and Croatian propaganda from 1986 to 1999, this text analyses each group's contemporary interpretations of history and current events, offering a discussion of holocaust imagery and the history of victim-centred writing in nationalist theory. more...
Romaniaby Lucian Boia
Reaktion Books 2004; US$ 31.00Romania occupies a unique position on the map of Eastern Europe. It is a country that presents many paradoxes. In this book the preeminent Romanian historian Lucian Boia examines his native land's development from the Middle Ages to modern times, delineating its culture, history, language, politics and ethnic identity. Boia introduces us to the heroes and myths of Romanian history, and provides an enlightening account of the history of Romanian Communism. He shows how modernization and the influence of the West have divided the nation - town versus country, nationalists versus pro-European factions, the elite versus the masses - and argues that Romania today is in chronic difficulty as it tries to fix its identity and envision a future for... more...
Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Macedoniaby Dimitar Bechev
Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc. 2009; US$ 94.99The Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Macedonia traces the key political, socio-economic, and cultural developments in the multiethnic mosaic that is Republic of Macedonia following its secession from the Yugoslav federation in the autumn of 1991. It also surveys often overlooked topics, such as the social transformations underwent in the course of the 20th century and during the decades of socialism, as well as the recent debates about historical memory and roots of the Slav Macedonian nation. Complete with a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and over 400 hundred cross-referenced dictionary entries, this reference provides a rich account of the history, present-day politics, and society of the Republic of Macedonia. more...
Kosovo, Intervention and Statebuildingby Aidan Hehir
Taylor & Francis 2010; US$ 138.00Examines international engagement with Kosovo since NATO's intervention in 1999. This book looks at the three distinct phases of Kosovo's development - intervention, statebuilding and independence. more...
Mapping Macedoniaby CINDY JEBB
ABC-CLIO 2004; US$ 123.00Ever sinces its independence in 1991, Macedonia has made remarkable progress towards building a pluralistic, multi-ethnic civil society. Yet if the international community supports the legitimacy of Macedonia as a state it has direct responsibility to anchor its future. No matter what view one subscribes to, one stubborn truth remains: Macedonia cannot achieve success on its own. This book provides observations that offer valuable lessons on this little known but remarkable part of Europe.||This work provides a review of the historical basis for Macedonia's identity and its emergence as a separate nation during Socialist Yugoslavia (1944-1991). It takes a detailed look at the events and personalities that lead to the outbreak of civil war in... more...
Heroes and Victimsby Maria Bucur
Indiana University Press 2009; US$ 23.75Heroes and Victims explores the cultural power of war memorials in 20th-century Romania through two world wars and a succession of radical political changes -- from attempts to create pluralist democratic political institutions after World War I to shifts toward authoritarian rule in the 1930s, to military dictatorships and Nazi occupation, to communist dictatorships, and finally to pluralist democracies with populist tendencies. Examining the interplay of centrally articulated and locally developed commemorations, Maria Bucur's study engages monumental sites of memory, local funerary markers, rituals, and street names as ... more...
Collision Courseby John Norris
ABC-CLIO 2005; US$ 73.00If Europe, Russia, and international bodies such as the U.N. and NATO end up playing a more prominent role in Iraq's immediate future, all parties, including the United States, would do well to revisit the lessons learned during the U.S.-led war in Kosovo in 1999. As a confrontation over Kosovo's final push for independence looms, this book offers seminal insight into the negotiations that took place between the United States and Russia in an effort to set the terms for ending the conflict. This study in brinksmanship and deception is an essential background for anyone trying to understand Russia's uneasy relations with the West.||America's relationship with Russia has become increasingly important as Washington has engaged... more...









