... of the graduate program in international relations at Salve Regina University, Newport, Rhode Island. The Face of Kosovar Albanian Nationalism: A Violent and Volatile Transformation of the Balkan Political Landscape Donald A. Graczyk and Symeon A. Giannakos...

...David Binder Talk of a “greater” this or that Balkan nation-state has subsided in recent years as the region experienced the creation of ever more minirepublics—a total of eight on the territory of former Yugoslavia. This trend toward fragmentation was initiated by petty nationalists and fostered...

... the nuclear proliferation problem that dominates the first part of the book, and she concludes the narrative as an agent for change. Hope in an age of extremism. DOI 10.1215/10474552-2008-040 Reviews  151 Christopher Deliso: The Coming Balkan...

...George C. Papavizas In the post–Cold War reality, stability in the Balkans must be of great importance. It is therefore imperative to examine the nature of the region’s instabilities as well as their sources and their implications. The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) has been praised...

...Vasil Tuporkoski Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2003 Vasil Tuporkoski is professor of international law at the University of Skopje. Is the War in Kosovo the Last Balkan War? Vasil Tuporkoski The dissolution of former Yugoslavia, having taken a radical...

...Sol Schindler Paul Hockenos: Homeland Calling: Exile Patriotism and the Balkan Wars . Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2003. 303 pages. ISBN 0-8014-4158-7. $27.95. Mediterranean Affairs,Inc. 2004 Sol Schindler is a retired US Foreign Service officer...

...David Binder Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2004 David Binder is a retired correspondent for the New York Times . Vlachs: a Peaceful Balkan People David Binder In our time millions on all continents have abandoned their homes and homelands...

...David Binder Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2000 David Binder is a retired Washington, D.C.-based correspondent for the New York Times . MQ 11.1-04 Binder 1/19/00 1:13 PM Page 49 A Balkan Balance Sheet David Binder...

...Walter John Silva P. H. Liotta: The Wreckage Reconsidered: Five Oxymorons from Balkan Deconstruction . Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 1999. 251 pages. ISBN 0-7391-0012-2. $50.00. Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2000 Sulayman Nyang is professor of African studies, Howard University...

... Page 144 The Social Origins of Balkan Politics: Nationalism, Underdevelopment, and the Nation-State in Greece, Serbia, and Bulgaria, 1880–1920 Victor...

...Sol Schindler Ted Galen Carpenter, Editor: NATO's Empty Victory: A Postmortem on the Balkan War, Washington, D.C., Cato Institute, 1999. 194 pages. ISBN 1-882577-85-X (cloth), 1-882577-86-8 (paper). $18.95 (cloth), $9.95(paper). Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2000 Sol Schindler...

.../01 1:33 PM Page 39 NATO’s Balkan Blunder James Bissett The military intervention in Yugoslavia by North Atlantic Treaty Organiza- tion forces in spring 1999 raises disturbing and unresolved...

...Gordon N. Bardos Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2002 Gordon N. Bardos is assistant director of the Harriman Institute at Columbia University. Balkan Blowback? Osama bin Laden and Southeastern Europe Gordon N. Bardos Our enemy...

...Petros Sioussiouras; Ioannis Vavouras This essay provides an account of the phenomenon of corruption in the Balkan and Arab countries of the Mediterranean. The analysis focuses on the effects that the political system—approached through the lens of political rights—and the level of economic...

... Balkans. He is the author of the forthcoming Extending the European Zone of Peace: Constructing Peace in the Balkans (London: I. B. Tauris). From the Western Balkans to the Greater Balkans Area: The External Conditioning of “Awkward” and “Integrated” States...

...Sol Schindler Mark Mazower: The Balkans . New York: Modern Library, 2000. 176 pages. ISBN 0-679-64087-8. $19.95. Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2001 Sol Schindler is a retired U.S. Foreign Service officer who writes and lectures on international affairs. MQ 12.3-09 Reviews 7/20/01...

...Stephen Blank; Younkyoo Kim Many see the western Balkans as the back yard of Europe. As the promise and reality of regional economic integration has weakened, however, Russia has returned to the area to play its historically important regional role. In the Balkans, a Russian or Russifying project...

...Alexandros P. Mallias The author, the Greek ambassador to the United States, argues that the Balkan countries have made significant strides in economic and security stabilization over the past decade but points to particular challenges, notably in Kosovo and the Former Yugoslav Republic...

... in the Balkans? Ted Galen Carpenter In contrast to the 1990s, when turmoil from the breakup of Yugoslavia domi- nated the security agenda of the United States and its North Atlantic Treaty Organization allies, the early years of the twenty-first century have been rela- tively...

...Doug Bandow For the past decade, the United States has been promoting national transformation in the Balkans. In pushing the independence of Kosovo, Washington policy makers apparently believed that Serbia would acquiesce, most nations would recognize the newest independent state, and Russia would...