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The Balkans

The Balkans: A Post-Communist History 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.

This survey focuses on political and economic continuities and changes since the

1980s. It includes brief overviews of the history of each state prior to the 1980s to

provide the background to enable readers to make sense of the more recent devel-

opments. The book has a distinctive conceptual framework for explaining divergent

patterns of historical change. This shifts the emphasis away from traditional cultural

explanations, especially cultural and national stereotyping, and instead concentrates

on the pervasive inﬂuence of strongly entrenched vertical power structures and power

relations.

The Balkans is an excellent companion volume to the successful A History of

Eastern Europe , by the same authors. This is an invaluable book for all students

of Eastern European history.

Robert Bideleux is a Reader in the School of Humanities and Ian Jeffries is a

Reader in the School of Business, Economics and Law at the University of Wales,

Swansea. Their publications include A History of Eastern Europe: Crisis and Change

(Routledge, 1998).

The Balkans

A post-Communist history

Robert Bideleux and Ian Jeffries

First published 2007

by Routledge

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Bideleux, Robert.

The Balkans : a post-communist history / Robert Bideleux and Ian Jeffries. – 1st ed.

p. cm.

ISBN 0–415–22962-6 (hardback) — ISBN 0–415–22963–4 (pbk.) 1. Balkan

Peninsula–History–1989– 2. Post-communism–Balkan Peninsula. I. Jeffries, Ian.

II. Title.

DR48.6.B53 2006

949.6–dc22

2006011073

ISBN 0-203-96911-1 Master e-book ISBN

ISBN10: 0-415-22962-6 (hbk)

ISBN10: 0-415-22963-4 (pbk)

ISBN10: 0-203-96911-1 (ebk)

ISBN13: 978-0-415-22962-3 (hbk)

ISBN13: 978-0-415-22963-0 (pbk)

ISBN13: 978-0-203-96911-3 (ebk)

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