"'Whoever invokes humanity is trying to cheat.' In this book, Danilo Zolo considers Carl Schmitt's maxim in the context of the 'humanitarian war' waged against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in the spring of 1999 by nineteen NATO countries. Published in English for the first…
This volume allows a new generation of scholars, from the Balkans and beyond, to shed light on some of the struggles the region faces. The combination of post-communist and post-conflict transition, together with the current economic and financial crisis, pose difficult challeng…
The author traces the history of the tensions in Kosovo as Serbs and Albanians struggle to dominate a small country that is at the heart of the Yugoslavian crisis. It is said that the Yugoslavian wars began there and will end there.
"Andrew Radin challenges the accepted wisdom about the difficulties that foreign missions face when reforming state institutions in post-conflict societies. Rather than purging former elites and forcing democratic reform, Radin shows how working with elites, accounting for natio…
This book compares the results of twenty years of international media assistance in the five countries of the western Balkans. It asks what happens to imported models when they are applied to newly evolving media systems in societies in transition. Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, K…
"Given the recent revival of nationalism in many parts of the world in tandem with new conflicts and forms of interventionism, this book uses the case of Kosovo to discuss some of key problems around contemporary practices of state-building. Based on exhaustive research and fiel…
