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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828048803321

Autore

Gallagher Tom <1954->

Titolo

The Balkans in the new millennium : in the shadow of war and peace / / Tom Gallagher

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2005

ISBN

1-134-27303-7

1-134-27304-5

1-280-17116-2

0-203-02361-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (253 p.)

Collana

Outcast Europe ; ; v. 3

Disciplina

949.703

Soggetti

Yugoslav War, 1991-1995

Kosovo War, 1998-1999 - Peace

Balkan Peninsula Politics and government 1989-

Former Yugoslav republics History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [196]-222) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Greece: a peace-making role lost and re-found -- The road to war in Kosovo -- Milosevic and NATO collide over Kosovo -- Macedonia: internal dangers supplant external ones -- Serbia from 2000: Milosevic's poisonous legacy -- Bosnia: redesigning a flawed peace process -- Still a danger-point: Kosovo under international rule -- The European Union in search of Balkan answers.

Sommario/riassunto

Can the Balkans ever become a peaceful peninsula like that of Scandinavia? With enlightened backing, can it ever make common cause with the rest of Europe rather than being an arena of periodic conflicts, political misrule, and economic misery?In the last years of the twentieth century, Western states watched with alarm as a wave of conflicts swept over much of the Balkans. Ethno-nationalist disputes, often stoked by unprincipled leaders, plunged Yugoslavia into bloody warfare. Romania, Bulgaria and Albania struggled to find stability as they reeled from the collapse of the communist