This dissertation examines the links between memory, history and agency in Belgrade's key lieux de mémoire (Nora 1996). Through an examination of archival, I investigate monuments as negotiated and contested sites, particularly during times of political crises and change. I exam…
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The Balkan states have all responded to the EU's conditional offer of membership with domestic institutional and policy changes in line with the EU requirements. Yet, there is a remarkable variation among the countries from the region in terms of their formal sovereignty, both w…
The dissertation is an analysis of the Russian relationship to Orthodox Christians in the Ottoman Empire during the second half of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century. As a methodological approach, it uses the concepts of irredentism, Orientalism, and multi…
The last decade of the 20th century brought major changes to Yugoslavia. Shortly after Tito's death latent tensions erupted to the surface. In the early eighties Albanian riots erupted in the autonomous province of Kosovo which helped revive Serbian nationalism for decades kept …
What are some of the major aspects that make up Muslim identity in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH)? This literature-based research project set out to explore Bosnian and foreign literature sources to identify, synthesize and interpret salient identity threads that contribute to who…
This study examines the motion verb system of Bulgarian, focusing both on the structure of the Bulgarian motion verb itself, and on the information typically encoded in the Bulgarian verb of motion. It then compares the Bulgarian motion verb system with the motion verb systems o…
This dissertation examines the case of 250-300,000 largely Orthodox Christian refugees who fled Ottoman Bosnia and Hercegovina for the Habsburg Empire during the uprisings of 1875–1878. The violence during this period started out as a peasant uprising, but over the course of thr…
This dissertation is focused on analyzing phonological contact between Slavic and non-Slavic languages in southeastern and northeastern Europe, with the particular goal of describing how the social context of language contact interacts with linguistic factors to shape the outcom…
Through analysis of contemporary Bulgarian, Macedonian and Serbian dramas, this thesis develops a model of transitional national and heterogeneous Balkan self-representation. The discussed works by the foremost Balkan playwrights Goran Stefanovski (Macedonia); Dusan Kovacevic an…
This study identifies and analyzes the key conditions for and causes of NATO's success rate in conducting multinational military peace-enforcement interventions in Bosnia and Kosovo. As its baseline it uses the UNPROFOR operation in Bosnia. Subsequently, it evaluates the IFOR/SF…