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Religious Minorities, Nation States and Security Five Cases from the Balkans and the Eastern Mediterranean
By Mario Apostolov
Copyright 2001
206 Pages
by
Routledge
206 Pages
by
Routledge
206 Pages
by
Routledge
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This title was first published in 2001. Why, in this contemporary secular age, does violent conflict among confessional communities still occur? Covering several key conflicts of recent years in one of the most dynamic areas of the world, the Eastern Mediterranean and the Balkans, Mario Apostolov uses both interpretative and comparative analysis to answer this question. His versatile approach... Read more
Introduction; I: Terms of Analysis; 1: Terms of Analysis and Problems of Definition; 2: The Eastern Mediterranean: Religious Minorities in the Post-Ottoman Space; II: Five Cases of Confessional Minorities in the Balkans and the Eastern Mediterranean; 3: The Copts; 4: The Palestinian Christians; 5: Lebanon: Constitutive Communities or Minorities?; 6: The Pomaks: A Transborder Religious Minority; 7: Bosnia and Herzegovina: Improbable Nation; III: The Potential for Conflict and Possible Solutions; 8: The Potential for Communal Conflict in the Eastern Mediterranean; 9: Possibilities for Accommodation; Conclusion
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Mario Apostolov
