1st Edition

The Balkans in the New Millennium In the Shadow of War and Peace

By Tom Gallagher Copyright 2005
252 Pages
by Routledge

252 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

Can the Balkans ever become a peaceful peninsula like that of Scandinavia? With enlightened backing, can it ever make common cause with the rest of Europe rather than being an arena of periodic conflicts, political misrule, and economic misery? In the last years of the twentieth century, Western states watched with alarm as a wave of conflicts swept over much of the Balkans. Ethno-nationalist... Read more
1. Greece: A Peace-Making Role Lost and Refound  2. The Road to War in Kosovo  3. Milosevic and NATO Collide Over Kosovo  4. Macedonia: Internal Dangers Supplant External Ones 1990-2004  5. Serbia from 2000: Milosevic's Poisonous Legacy  6. Bosnia: Redesigning a Flawed Peace Process  7. Still A Danger Point: Kosovo Under International Rule  8. The EU in Search of Balkan Answers  Conclusion: An Uncertain Political Future for the Balkans

Biography

Tom Gallagher is Professor of Ethnic Conflict and Peace at the University of Bradford

'Tom Gallagher has scripted another erudite and compassionate work on the Balkans.' - Journal of International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict