Table of Contents:
  • I. Perceptions and identities. Chapter 1. Byzantinism: the imaginary and real heritage of Byzantium in Southeastern Europe / Dimiter G. Angelov
  • 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
  • II. Democracy, nationalism and conflict. Chapter 3. Understanding Greek-Ottoman conflict: statist irredentism, belligerent democratization or a synthesis / George Gavrilis
  • Chapter 4. In defense of the nation: Iuliu Maniu, the National Peasant Party, and the communist takeover of Romania / Daniel M. Pennell
  • Chapter 5. Ethnic tensions and the leadership vacuum within the Yugoslav goverment, 1939-1945 / Laurie West Van Hook
  • Chapter 6. Delayed transition and the multiple legitimacy crisis of post-1992 Yugoslavia / Florian Bieber
  • Chapter 7. Transition and disruption: the Yugoslav case in comparative perspective / Omer Fisher
  • Chapter 8. Three outcomes of ethnic conflict: the cases of Bulgaria, Macedonia and Yugoslavia, 1989-1999 / Maria Koinova
  • III. Politics & society: practices & outcomes. Chapter 9. Uslugi: the role of political favors and connections in post-communist Bulgaria / Nadege Ragaru
  • Chapter 10. The role of the international organizations on womenʹs civil organization in post-communist Bulgaria / Kristen Ghodsee
  • Chapter 11. The choices that minorities make: strategies of negotiation with the majority in post-war Bosnia-Herzegovina / Paula Pickering
  • Chapter 12. Understanding greek immigration policy / Katerina Linos
  • Chapter 13. Islam and politics in the post-communist Balkans, 1999-2000 / Xavier Bougarel