Southeast European Studies: Southeast European Studies
About the Book Series
The Balkans are a region of Europe widely associated over the past decades with violence and war. Beyond this violence, the region has experienced rapid change in recent times though, including democratization, economic and social transformation. New scholarship is emerging which seeks to move away from the focus on violence alone to an understanding of the region in a broader context drawing on new empirical research.
The Southeast European Studies Series seeks to provide a forum for this new scholarship. Publishing cutting-edge, original research and contributing to a more profound understanding of Southeastern Europe while focusing on contemporary perspectives the series aims to explain the past and seeks to examine how it shapes the present. Focusing on original empirical research and innovative theoretical perspectives on the region the series includes original monographs and edited collections. It is interdisciplinary in scope, publishing high-level research in political science, history, anthropology, sociology, law and economics and accessible to readers interested in Southeast Europe and beyond.
Immigrant Integration in Southeast Europe: Policy and Outcomes in EU Member States and Candidate Countries
1st Edition
By Laura Elina Coşkun
November 12, 2025
This book presents a comparative analysis of the integration outcomes of immigrants in Southeast Europe, uncovering cross-country differences and ascertaining if they relate to the national integration policy frameworks within the context of the European Union (EU) accession. Applying a ...
Chinese Infrastructure Diplomacy in the Balkans: Beijing ‘Sponsored’ Consensus
1st Edition
By Mladen Grgić
October 28, 2025
This book analyses infrastructure projects in the Balkan region, examining Chinese penetration in the area, the political and economic dimensions of these projects, and the controversy associated with them. It utilizes the highway project in Montenegro as a case study alongside key Chinese regional...
Spaces of Europeanisation in the Balkans: Cities, Networks and Urban Epistemic Communities
1st Edition
By Ana Pajvančić-Cizelj
September 19, 2025
This book tackles the spatial dimension of Europeanization in the Balkans by focusing on cities, inter-urban networks, and urban epistemic communities. Exploring the participation of urban actors from the Balkans in 18 European inter-urban networks, it employs a new mixed-method framework to show ...
Yugoslavia and China: Histories, Legacies, Afterlives
1st Edition
Edited
By Anastas Vangeli, Dragan Pavlićević
September 18, 2025
This book explores the historical relationship between Yugoslavia and China, examining its features, significance, and reverberations today. Studying a wide array of state-to-state and society-to-society connections and interactions, it provides novel perspectives on Yugoslavia’s and China’s ...
Participatory Democratic Innovations in Southeast Europe: How to Engage in Flawed Democracies
1st Edition
Edited
By Irena Fiket, Čedomir Markov, Vujo Ilić, Gazela Pudar Draško
August 29, 2025
This volume strengthens the dialogue between conceptual perspectives, approaches and fields on deliberative and participatory forms of democratic innovation and offers novel insights, focusing on the Southeast European space. Traditional forms of participation seem insufficient in satisfying the ...
Bosnian Fluxes: Belonging, Caring, and Reckoning in a Post-Cold War Semiperiphery
1st Edition
Edited
By David Henig, Jaroslav Klepal, Ondřej Žíla
August 11, 2025
This volume offers unique conceptual and empirical insights into ordinary lives in the violent aftermath of the Cold War. Considering Bosnia and Herzegovina as a comprehensive coordinate of larger social, political, and economic fluxes, it demonstrates why the widely used tropes of stuckedness, ...
Kosovo and Albania: A Special Relationship
1st Edition
Edited
By Liridon Lika
June 20, 2025
This book offers an original analysis of relations between the Republic of Kosovo and the Republic of Albania, with a particular focus on the 2008–2025 period. It provides an inside perspective bringing together scholarly contributions from academics, researchers, and diplomats from both countries....
Decolonial Politics in European Peripheries: Redefining Progressiveness, Coloniality and Transition Efforts
1st Edition
Edited
By Sanja S. Petkovska
May 06, 2025
Decolonial Politics in European Peripheries: Redefining Progressiveness, Coloniality and Transition Efforts is a timely contribution to the project of theorizing “Europe” through decolonial perspectives on the Left, as the European and global crisis has prompted new reflections on what it means to ...
The Balkan Route: Hope, Migration and Europeanisation in Liminal Spaces
1st Edition
By Robert Rydzewski
April 14, 2025
This book is an ethnography of the people migrating through the Balkan route and the reaction of the local communities who witnessed their struggle to reach the European Union (EU). Based on extensive fieldwork conducted in North Macedonia and Serbia, it pays special attention to the “refugee ...
Migration, EU Integration and the Balkan Route
1st Edition
Edited
By Marko Kmezić, Alexandra Prodromidou, Pavlos Gkasis
January 30, 2025
Contributing to our understanding of the impact of the 2015 migrant “crisis” on the future of EU integration, this book views the “crisis” as an accelerant to existing problems, namely Brexit, the growing popularity of anti-immigrant far right parties and the rise of xenophobic and antiliberal ...
The Media as a Tool of International Intervention: House of Cards
1st Edition
By Nidžara Ahmetašević
December 18, 2024
This book explores the role of external powers and international organisations in media assistance in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Through analysis of key documents, media reports and interviews with key participants it examines the main actors, their roles and the way in which they influenced the media...
Influencers, Online Alliances and Reconciliation in Southeast Europe: #Balkans
1st Edition
By Ivana Stepanovic
December 09, 2024
This book explores the transformative role of social media in fostering reconciliation in the former Yugoslavia, a region still grappling with unresolved conflicts and ethnic divides. Focusing on platforms like YouTube and TikTok, it highlights how Balkan influencers blend personal storytelling ...