This project argues that the northwestern Balkan region known to Renaissance England as “Illyria” played a significant but under-appreciated role in the writings and political thought of the English. I examine the encounters of the English with the Illyrians and “Illyrian” Slavs…
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The 1954 Hague Convention on the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict was created after the looting and destruction of cultural heritage during WWII. Although it is one of the most important agreements in the international field, many problems have aris…
The Constitutional Revolution of 1908 promised a new start for the Ottoman Empire and placed the reins of government in the hands of the Committee of Union and Progress, frequently known as the Young Turks. This new government sought to aggressively initiate a program of reform …
A unique moment in Sephardic music is emerging in the Republic of Serbia. Since 2000, a small but vibrant Sephardic music scene has been formed through the efforts of a small group of individuals. The scene keeps alive a repertoire that has survived many upheavals: the Holocaust…
This dissertation applies public sphere theory to the inter-state system. I argue that the globalization of publicity—the worldwide rise of literacy, deliberative forums, free press and other media—has led to the emergence of public spheres in the states system. At any level pub…
This dissertation combines social theories concerning communicative action and the influence of culture on states' security policies to examine multinational crisis management in the Balkans through the 1990s. By examining how the United States, Russia, Great Britain, Germany, a…
This dissertation is a discussion of several approaches to obtain Bakan unity or collaboration, attempted by some Balkan statesmen during the interwar years of 1919–1939 to lessen Great Power influence and promote cooperation there. Austro-Hungarian, Ottoman, and Russian empires…
This dissertation takes up one of the most fraught areas of Europe, the Balkans. Variously part of the Austro-Hungarian, Ottoman, and Byzantine Empires, and now often considered part of Central Europe, this region has always been considered Europe's border between the Orient and…
The war in Bosnia and its post-war peace heralded the coming-into-being of the "international community" as the dominant protagonist of post-cold war order, structured around the values of peace, democracy, the rule of law, humanitarian solidarity, and the inviolability of human…
Intimate Antagonists: British Images of the Balkans, 1853-1914, explores the impact of the Eastern Question on the formation of British stereotypes about the Balkans, seeking to explain how the Balkans came to be seen as a disgrace to Europe. It advances the previous studies on …
Traditionally, the British Empire is studied through the lens of British imperial rule in Asia, Africa, or the Americas, while scholars brush aside what was the vortex of British foreign policy in the second half of the nineteenth century--the Eastern Question, or the question o…
The dissertation is a study of postmodern Serbian and Greek novels that reflect the most recent historical trauma in the Balkans. The texts I analyze in specific chapters are Eugenia Fakinou’s The Seventh Garment (1983), Milorad Pavić’s The Dictionary of the Khazars (1984), Rhea…
In the aftermath of the break-up of the former Yugoslavia, the new Western Balkans states have found themselves in transition from socialist regimes to capitalist economy and representative democracy. European Union membership has became virtually synonymous with this transition…
Cotton was the most important commodity in the economy of the industrialized Western world in the mid-nineteenth century, as vital then as petroleum is today. It was widely believed that a prolonged interruption of the cotton supply would lead not merely to a severe economic dep…
On July 1, 2013 Croatia became the first state significantly impacted by the Yugoslav wars to join the European Union. While Croatia was able to progress from a new country in a state of war to an EU member state in just two decades, the country's accession process was certainly…
This dissertation takes up the task to describe and analyze the main aspects of the broad demographic, ethno-religious, and socio-cultural transformation that took place in a geographically limited region of the Ottoman Balkans--the Deliorman (Wild Forest, mod. Ludogorie) in tod…
The study of Russo-Turkish relations has enough historic interest because it covers many aspects of the Eastern Question. The Russo-Turkish war of 1768-1774 was the point where the course of the Russo-Turkish relations changed. During the previous decades, Russia tried to establ…
The subject of this thesis are the Neolithic and Chalcolithic cultures in Turkish Thrace. Turkish Thrace acts as a land bridge between the Balkans and Anatolia. Along this land bridge it might be expected that there has been a transfer of ideas, exchange and movement of objects …
My dissertation project examines the gradual phases of recontextualizing, folklorizing, heritagizing, and choreographing dance in Macedonia, Serbia, and Croatia, and in the Former Yugoslavia in general. In order to demonstrate how dance becomes an intangible cultural heritage, I…