[PDF] Minorities In The Balkans eBook

Author : Vladimir Ortakovski
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 37,82 MB
Release : 2021-10-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 900447899X

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This unique book examines the international law of minority rights as it has been applied in the Balkans since the First World War, contending that this region, where minority rights issues are acute and abundant, holds the promise of an enforceable regime of international minority rights that would promote both human rights law and peace in the Balkans. Published under the Transnational Publishers imprint.

Author : HUGH POULTON
Publisher : Minority Rights Group
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 29,13 MB
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1873194404

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This highly acclaimed book describes the situations for the minorities of former-Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Greece and Albania from a historical and contemporary perspective. The book also covers other ‘stateless’ minorities in the region including the Jews, Gypsies (Roma) and Vlahs. In an additional section written for this new edition, Hugh Poulton analyses how the turbulent developments in the Balkans during 1991 and 1992 continue to affect the minorities of the region. The new section examines: The disintegration of Yugoslavia The Bosnian crisis Vojvodina and the refugee problem Developments in Sandzak, Kosovo and Macedonia Nationalism in Greece

Author : Hugh Poulton
Publisher : Minority Rights Group
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 30,56 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Law
ISBN :

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Ethnic conflict in southeastern Europe lies behind the tragic recent wars in the region. It is important, therefore, to understand and address relations between majorities and minorities in the area. This report provides a conceptual map to the key issues facing minorities in the region today, and a historical framework for understanding the role of ethnicity and religion in the formation of political systems. Particular attention is given to the region's various Muslim minorities, to the different non-territorial groups (Armenians, Jews, Roma and Vlachs), and to groups whose identity is denied by the state in which they live (such as Macedonians in Bulgaria and Greece), providing an insight into the major issues that provoke inter-group conflict.

Author : Christian Promitzer
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 22,9 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3643500963

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This book asks why several ethnic and linguistic groups in Central Europe and the Balkans have not yet been legally recognized as national minorities. Some of these hidden minorities have not developed an intellectual elite that can visibly present their identity and claims to the majority population. Other groups are deliberately concealing their existence and language for reasons of self-protection. The chapters in this volume address the everyday mechanisms of hiding and being hidden in the transition zone of these two European regions.

Author : Mario Apostolov
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 48,62 MB
Release : 2018-02-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1351784412

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This title was first published in 2001. Why, in this contemporary secular age, does violent conflict among confessional communities still occur? Covering several key conflicts of recent years in one of the most dynamic areas of the world, the Eastern Mediterranean and the Balkans, Mario Apostolov uses both interpretative and comparative analysis to answer this question. His versatile approach makes for an engaging account that makes an important contribution to the current debate surrounding such conflicts.The author focuses on five case studies taken from the traditional zone of contact between Christianity and Islam:- The Copts- The Palestinian Christians- The Lebanese communities- The Pomaks- The communities of Bosnia-HerzegovinaThe book examines the relationship between these issues and communal mobilisation, the collective use of violence and the problems of international security. An informative study for students, academics, policy makers and personnel in international organizations with an interest in communal conflict and security.

Author : Andrey Ivanov
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 43,65 MB
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN :

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The monograph analyses the roots of some of the most significant ethnically-based (or ethnically-worded) conflicts in Europe, defines their participants' rationales, and answers the question of how they relate to the issue of European security. It is based on two case studies, former Yugoslavia and Bulgaria. Since the question of secession and self-determination is not that clearcut, the author analyses this ambiguity and examines the options. He discusses the impact of the Balkan crisis on international relations and attempts to go beyond regional security issues and to put the problem of Balkan security into a broader European perspective. This includes addressing the question as to whether NATO membership is the only solution to Eastern Europe's security concerns. In the last chapter the idea of a regional defense structure is analysed.