and Balkan Europe
by IECOB & AIS Università di Bologna
This area collects information about a wide range of books, monographies and edited volumes concerning the countries and themes relevant to PECOB
Books about Central Eastern Europe and the Balkans
PECOB offers a significant number of books, mainly published by universities and scientific institutions.
The books here presented focus primarily on the economic, political and social transition in Central Eastern European countries and the Balkans since the 90s, and on those areas' influence on the widening Europe. Issues concerning gender relations, migrations, regional economic cooperation, religions, nationalism and national identities are broadly discussed. Many books also focus on the history of Eastern Europe, economics and regional cooperation in Central Eastern Europe and the Balkans. Literary works recently trasnlated from Eastern European languages are also included in this section. Some of the books are available for dowload.
Recently added books address issues such as Hungary in 1956, the demise of the Soviet Union, proceedings from a conference on cooperation in the Balkans, Yugoslavia and the 1968 events in Czechoslovakia.
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Post-Communist Transition As A European Problem
(published in: Jan, 2002)
When international research on the post communist transition in CEI (the "Central European Initiative", promoted by the Italian government in 1989 and originally known as "Quadrangolare") countries started in 1999, the issues analysed in this book were not on the agenda. This book, the first in a series of four, deals innovatively and provocatively with a crucial question: to what extent has the post-communist transition in CEI countries gradually turned into a difficult transformation, which cannot be isolated from the process of European integration? In other words, is the post-communist transition an integral part of a transition which has involved Europe as a whole, since the end of the cold war, in the reconstruction of its political unity? -
Disrupting and Reshaping
(published in: Jan, 2002)
The papers collected in this book discuss and compare four cases of transition from the Ottoman imperial regime to the nation-state polity and legitimacy (Serbia, Greece, Bulgaria, and Turkey) in the Balkans between XIX and XX century... -
From Gender To Nation
(published in: Jan, 2002)
The essays in this volume consider the significance of nation and gender in the context of post 1989 transitions in the former Soviet Union and Yugoslavia and in the context of post partition India. The texts critique the ways in which narratives of nationhood and womanhood naturalize and essentialize difference and hierarchy...
PECOB: Portal on Central Eastern and Balkan Europe - University of Bologna - 117, c.so della Repubblica - Italy
