{"id":17113,"date":"2019-10-31T14:29:19","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T14:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=17113"},"modified":"2019-10-31T14:29:19","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T14:29:19","slug":"book-presentation-making-and-remaking-the-balkans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=17113","title":{"rendered":"Book Presentation \u2013 Making and Remaking the Balkans"},"content":{"rendered":"

U Centru za jugoisto\u010dnoeuropske studije (CSEES) Sveu\u010dili\u0161ta u Grazu u ponedjeljak, 4. studenog 2019. odr\u017eat \u0107e se predstavljanje knjige Roberta C. Austina \u201cMaking and Remaking the Balkans: Nations and States since 1878\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Book Presentation – Making and Remaking the Balkans<\/strong><\/p>\n

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With more than 25 years since the collapse of communism, the end of the wars and billions of dollars in aid, the Balkans are still characterized by corruption, state capture, and decidedly unmodern states that are often either weak or authoritarian. Taking the contemporary Balkans as a starting point, Making and Remaking the Balkans<\/em> studies the region\u2019s history combined with observations based on more than twenty years of field experience.<\/p>\n

Robert C Austin<\/em><\/strong> is an Associate Professor at the Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies. Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto. In the past, Austin was a Tirana-based correspondent for Radio Free Europe\/Radio Liberty; a Slovak-based correspondent with The Economist Group of Publications; and a news writer with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in Toronto. Austin has written articles for\u00a0The Globe and Mail<\/em>,\u00a0The Toronto Star<\/em>,\u00a0Southeast European Times, Orbis, East European Politics and Societies and East European Quarterly<\/em>\u00a0along with numerous book chapters and two books published separately in Tirana and Prishtina. In addition to his most recent book, Making and Remaking the Balkans<\/em>, he is the also the author of \u00a0Founding a Balkan State<\/em> (2012).<\/p>\n

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04.11.2019 16:00 – 17:30<\/p>\n

Zentrum f\u00fcr S\u00fcdosteuropastudien<\/p>\n

Universit\u00e4t Graz<\/p>\n

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Making and Remaking the Balkans: Nations and States since 1878<\/strong><\/p>\n

By Robert C. Austin<\/p>\n

2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

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With more than 25 years since the collapse of communism, the end of the wars and billions of dollars in aid, the Balkans are still characterized by corruption, state capture, and decidedly unmodern states that are often either weak or authoritarian. Taking the contemporary Balkans as a starting point, Making and Remaking the Balkans<\/em> studies the region\u2019s history combined with observations based on more than twenty years of field experience.<\/p>\n

Primarily concerned with current issues in the Balkans since 1989, this book explains why the region has endured such a prolonged and fraught transition to democracy and eventual membership in the European Union. The young and educated have largely left. Governmental crisis and economic stagnation is the norm and much-needed regional cooperation has been suppressed by renewed nationalism. Wars on corruption have proved to be largely rhetorical. Making and Remaking the Balkans<\/em> offers a systematic study of the issues the entire region faces as it struggles to complete the European integration process at a time when the European Union faces bigger problems elsewhere.<\/p>\n

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Reviews<\/strong><\/p>\n

“To call modern Balkan history complicated is a euphemism. Austin navigates the reader through the volatile politics of Balkan state-building. He makes a crucial point: while the people of the region crave normality, political elites again and again fail them. European integration of the region is the only remedy. Garnished with unique insights from Austin\u2019s many travels to the region, the book provides essential reading for anyone interested in this part of Europe.”<\/p>\n

Ulf Brunnbauer, Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies, Regensburg, Germany<\/strong><\/p>\n

“If you want to make sense of today\u2019s Europe, the best thing you can do is read history, and in particular good books on the history of the Balkans. Robert Austin has written exactly such a book. It is well informed, sympathetic but not sentimental, a book that allows us to see the past in the present. It is a book by someone who has made understanding the Balkans his intellectual vocation.”<\/p>\n

Ivan Krastev, Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna, Austria<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Author Information<\/strong><\/p>\n

Robert C. Austin<\/strong> is an associate professor at the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto.<\/p>\n

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Table of contents<\/strong><\/p>\n

Acknowledgments<\/p>\n

Introduction<\/p>\n

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1\u00a0 Making Nations and States<\/p>\n

2\u00a0 Good News, Bad News: Before and After 1989<\/p>\n

3\u00a0 Hero-Free Wars and Ethnic Purity<\/p>\n

4\u00a0 Albania Implodes, Kosovo Arms<\/p>\n

5\u00a0 Contested Heroes: Alexander the Great, Mother Teresa, and the Republic of Macedonia<\/p>\n

6\u00a0 To Europe, for Some: Slovenia, Bulgaria, Romania, and Croatia<\/p>\n

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Epilogue: Greater This or Greater That, Alone or in Europe<\/p>\n

Guide to Further Readings<\/p>\n

Index<\/p>\n

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