For more than a decade, the Balkans have been a centre of crisis - armed conflicts have brought death, expulsion, destruction and untold suffering to the people. The postwar efforts of the West have failed to bring lasting stability and real progress so far. The Symposium at Basel University was an interdisciplinary event where complex issues were elucidated by historians, geographers, sociologists and political scientists. The event enabled East and West European scholars and their American counterparts to exchange their somewhat divergent views. The speakers covered a broad range of subjects: historical causes, aspects of postwar economic and social development as well as sociocultural consequences of the democratization process. Special attention was devoted to the situation of minorities, the refugee problem and the security situation in the fragile states of the West Balkans and also to the responsibility of the EU and USA for the general stagnation in the area. The Symposium was intended to illustrate differing interpretations of the events of the past ten years and to encourage discussion between speakers and participants at the event.
See Philippe C. Schmitter and Terry Karl , ' What Democracy Is ... UN Peacekeeping , American Politics , and the Uncivil Wars of the 1990s ( New York : St. Martin's Press , 1996 ) , pp . 135-91 . 7. William J. Durch , ' Keeping the ...
Describes the history, geography, and people of Eastern and Central Europe; recommends hotels and restaurants; and surveys the attractions of each.
Burfisher, M.E., S. Robinson, and K. Thierfelder (2003), “Regionalism: Old and new, theory and practice”, paper prepared for presentation to the International Agricultural Trade Research Consortium Conference, June 2003, Capri, Italy, ...
From a historical and current perspective.
Balkan Literatures in the Era of Nationalism
Partisans and Guerrillas
Građa o balkanskim trgovcima u Ugarskoj XVIII veka: carinarnice i kontumaci
The book explores the tensions between Muslims and Christians in the Balkans before 1877, the ethnic cleansing and migration that resulted, the subsequent refugee crisis in Istanbul, and the resettlement of refugees in Anatolia.
Travels in the Balkans
Where Eagles Nest