Stagnation and Drift in the Western Balkans: The Challenges of Political, Economic and Social Change (Interdisciplinary Studies on Central and Eastern Europe) By Claire Gordon (editor), Marko Kmezic (editor), Jasmina Opardija-Susnjar (editor)
2013 | 325 Pages | ISBN: 3034311524 | PDF | 3 MB
This volume allows a new generation of scholars, from the Balkans and beyond, to shed light on some of the struggles the region faces. The combination of post-communist and post-conflict transition, together with the current economic and financial crisis, pose difficult challenges for the Western Balkans. What is the state of democracy in the region? Are the countries of the Western Balkans stuck somewhere between authoritarianism and genuine democracy? What are the remaining obstacles to state building? What effect has the crisis had on young people in the Western Balkans? These are some of the questions the authors of this volume seek to answer. The studies look at different countries and combine methods from various disciplines ranging from political science, history, economics and law to sociology, anthropology and cultural studies.

BBC - Pictures from the Balkans (2022)
English | Documentary | Size: 1.03 GB

Giorgio Fruscione, "The Balkans: Old, New Instabilities "
English | ISBN: 8855262475 | 2020 | 142 pages | EPUB | 535 KB
2020 could be a crucial year for the Western Balkans.

Language and Identity in the Balkans: Serbo-Croatian and Its Disintegration By Robert D. Greenberg
2004 | 200 Pages | ISBN: 0199258155 | PDF | 12 MB
Against a backdrop of the ethnic strife in the Balkans and the collapse of Yugoslavia in 1991, Robert Greenberg describes how the languages of Croatia, Bosnia, Kosovo, Serbia, and Montenegro came into being and shows how their genesis reflects ethnic, religious, and political identity. His first-hand observations before and after Communism offer insights into the nature of language change and the relation between language and identity.

Entangled Histories of the Balkans, Volume I: National Ideologies and Language Policies By Roumen Daskalov, Tchavdar Marinov
2013 | 552 Pages | ISBN: 9004250751 | PDF | 4 MB
Modern Balkan history has traditionally been studied by national historians in terms of separate national histories taking place within bounded state territories. The authors in this volume take a different approach. They all seek to treat the modern history of the region from a transnational and relational perspective in terms of shared and connected, as well as entangled, histories, transfers and crossings. This goes along with an interest in the way ideas, institutions and techniques were selected, transferred and adapted to Balkan conditions and how they interacted with those conditions. The volume also invites reflection on the interacting entities in the very process of their creation and consecutive transformations rather than taking them as givens.Contributors include: Alexander Vezenkov, Constantin Iordachi, Raymond Detrez, Ronelle Alexander, Roumen Daskalov and Tchavdar Marinov.

Small Water Bodies of the Western Balkans by Vladimir Pešić
English | EPUB | 2022 | 449 Pages | ISBN : 3030864774 | 105.8 MB
The small water bodies such as headwater streams, springs, ditches, small lakes, and ponds are critical to maintaining freshwater biodiversity.

Ethnobotany and Biocultural Diversities in the Balkans: Perspectives on Sustainable Rural Development and Reconciliation by Andrea Pieroni
English | EPUB | 2014 | 255 Pages | ISBN : 149391491X | 4.3 MB
This volume addresses recent and ongoing ethnobotanical studies in the Balkans. The book focuses on elaborating the relevance of such studies for future initiatives in this region, both in terms of sustainable and peaceful (trans-regional, trans-cultural) rural development.

Quest - World's Greatest Motorcycle Rides: Balkans (2015)
English | Size: 2.74 GB
Category: Documentary