1st Edition

The Balkans A Post-Communist History

By Robert Bideleux, Ian Jeffries Copyright 2007
640 Pages
by Routledge

640 Pages
by Routledge

640 Pages
by Routledge

An excellent companion volume to the successful A History of Eastern Europe , this is a country-by-country treatment of the contemporary history of each of the Balkan states: Albania, Bulgaria, Romania, Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Montenegro and Kosova. With a distinctive conceptual framework for explaining divergent patterns of historical change, the book shifts the... Read more

1. Conceptual Frameworks: ‘The Balkans’ and the Nature of Post-Communist Democratization and Economic Transformations  2. Albania: Between a Rock and a Hard Place  3. Bulgaria: The Devil has all the Best Tunes  4. Romania: The Road to the EU is Paved with Good Intentions  5. Croatia: Paying a Price  6. Serbia: From Serbdom to Pariahdom  7. Bosnia and Herzegovina: The Travails of Coexistence  8. Macedonia: Towards a Bi-National State?  9. Montenegro: To Be or Not to Be?  10. Kosova: The Forging of a Nation and a State  11. The Post-Communist Balkans, the West and the EU: Major Challenges and Contradictions between Rhetoric and Reality

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Robert Bideleux, Ian Jeffries

'A very balanced and informative guide for any reader, especially university students... a penetrating analysis... presents shrewd and thought-provoking analysis.' - Tribune