Category: Demographic Sociology

Kosovo’s declaration of independence in 2008 — and the overt manipulation of this precedent by Russia in its war with Georgia and South Ossetia shortly afterwards — has focused the world’s attention once again on the Balkans. But Albania’s role within the region remains little known and less understood. In this revised edition of a […]

This volume explores the cultural relationships between Greece and other Balkan countries in the domains of language, literature, thought, translation and music, and looks at issues of identity and perception among the Balkan peoples themselves. The essays bring together scholars from across a range of disciplines: historians, anthropologists, linguists and musicologists with specialists on literature, […]

Turkey is a country in a state of flux. In the last few years, far-reaching political and economic reforms have swept away much of the old order that ruled the country for so long. Pressure for change has come from ordinary people; it has also been motivated by the dominant issue of Turkish political life—the […]

While the Bosnian Muslims have for understandable reasons attracted a great deal of recent attention, other Muslim groups in the Balkans have escaped similar scrutiny. Bringing together leading specialists in the region to address this gap, this volume focuses on the question of Muslim identity in the contemporary Balkans. With the exception of the Bosnians, […]

Discussing the complex weave of cultural links and the different religious and linguistic groups that have been living side by side in the Balkans for centuries, this anthropological study is the result of a project initiated to create a network of scholars from Scandinavia and the Yugoslav successor states devoted to the study of post-Yugoslav […]

 Published in 2004, this book is about the tragedies of Bosnia and Kosovo are often explained away as the unchangeable legacy of “centuries-old hatreds.” In this richly detailed, expertly balanced chronicle of the Balkans across fifteen centuries, Dennis Hupchick sets a complicated record straight. Organized around the three great civilizations of the region–Western European, Orthodox […]

Published in 2004, this book is about the tragedies of Bosnia and Kosovo are often explained away as the unchangeable legacy of “centuries-old hatreds.” In this richly detailed, expertly balanced chronicle of the Balkans across fifteen centuries, Dennis Hupchick sets a complicated record straight. Organized around the three great civilizations of the region–Western European, Orthodox […]