New Approaches to Balkan Studies
Volume 2 of the IFPA-Kokkalis Series on Southeast European Policy
Edited by Dimitris Keridis, Ellen Elias-Bursac, and Nicholas Yatromanolakis
Since 1999, the Kokkalis Program on Southeastern and East-Central Europe at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government has held the annual Socrates Kokkalis Graduate Student Workshop, bringing together far-flung young scholars in various disciplines—history and literature, economics and political science, anthropology and sociology, international relations, and public policy—to present their work on Southeastern Europe. The thirteen papers included in this volume were presented at the 1999-2001 workshops. They cover a broad range of topics and cross many academic disciplines and historical periods, each taking an innovative approach to its subject and following a less-traveled path to the study of the Balkans region.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Larry Wolff
Preface
Ellen Elias-Bursac
Introduction
Nicholas Yatromanolakis
I. PERCEPTIONS AND IDENTITIES
Chapter 1: Byzantinism The Imaginary and Real Heritage of
Byzantium in Southeastern Europe
Dimiter G. Angelov, Harvard University
Chapter 2: The Past as a Symbolic Capital
in the Present: Practicing Politics of ‘Dance Tradition’ in the
Florina Region, Northwest Greek Macedonia
Ioannis Manos, Hamburg University
II. DEMOCRACY, NATIONALISM, AND CONFLICT
Chapter 3: Understanding Greek-Ottoman Conflict: Statist Irredentism, Belligerent
Democratization or a Synthesis?
George Gavrilis, Columbia University
Chapter 4: In Defense of the Nation: Iuliu
Maniu, the National Peasant Party, and the Communist Takeover of Romania
Daniel M. Pennell, Indiana University
Chapter 5: Ethnic Tensions and the Leadership
Vacuum within the Yugoslav Government, 1939-1945
Laurie West Van Hook, U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian
Chapter 6: Delayed Transition and the Multiple Legitimacy Crisis of
Post-1992 Yugoslavia
Florian Bieber, University of Vienna
Chapter 7: Transition and Disruption: The
Yugoslav Case in Comparative Perspective
Omer Fisher, University of Strathclyde
Chapter 8: Three Outcomes of Ethnic Conflict:
The Cases of Bulgaria, Macedonia, and Yugoslavia, 1989-1999
Maria Koinova, European University Institute, Florence
III. POLITICS & SOCIETY: PRACTICES & OUTCOMES
Chapter 9: Uslugi: The Role of Political
Favors and Connections in Post-Communist Bulgaria
Nadege Ragaru, Institut d'Etudes Politiques, Paris
Chapter 10: The Role of the International
Organizations on Women's Civil Organization in Post-Communist Bulgaria
Kristen Ghodsee, University of California, Berkeley
Chapter 11: The Choices that Minorities
Make: Strategies of Negotiation with the Majority in Post-War Bosnia-Herzegovina
Paula Pickering, College of William and Mary
Chapter 12: Understanding Greek Immigration
Policy
Katerina Linos, Harvard University
Chapter 13: Islam and Politics in the Post-Communist
Balkans, 1990-2000
Xavier Bougarel, Institut d'Etudes Politiques, Paris
Conclusion
Dimitris Keridis
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