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.
The Scale, Adjudication, and Documentation of Crimes Committed During the War in Kosovo
1st Edition
Edited
By Furtuna Sheremeti, Aidan Hehir
June 08, 2026
This book, compiled in cooperation with The Institute of Crimes Committed During the War in Kosovo, brings together renowned international scholars, legal practitioners, cultural analysts, and transitional justice experts to examine the Kosovo War (1998–1999) through multidisciplinary lenses. This ...
The Western Balkans and the Challenges of EU Accession: The Resilient Transformation
1st Edition
Edited
By Igor Vidačak
April 29, 2026
This book provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary analysis of the transformation process of Western Balkan candidate countries as they move toward European Union (EU) accession. It systematically assesses the multidimensional nature of this transformation by critically evaluating the ...
Structural Origins of Post-Yugoslav Regimes: Elites, Civil Society and the State
1st Edition
By Valentina Petrović
January 30, 2026
This analysis of the Yugoslav democratisation process explains the variation of regime outcomes within a structuralist framework. Focusing on the post‑socialist world, it goes beyond ethnicity and elite agency to bring the role of class and the state into discussions of third wave democracies. ...
The Path to Democratic Reform: Bulgaria in Comparative Perspective
1st Edition
By Muzaffer Kutlay
January 30, 2026
This book offers a comparative study of minority-majority relations in post-conflict societies. Drawing on three contentious cases – Bulgaria, Croatia, and Montenegro –it explores how pluralist governance structures are established in the area of minority rights in new EU member and candidate ...
Intangible Cultural Heritage and Reconciliation in the Western Balkans: An Anthropological Perspective
1st Edition
By Miloš Milenković
December 26, 2025
This book considers the sensitive heritage elements linked to the very issue of the origins of nations. Beliefs, rituals, and traditional knowledge are examples of intangible cultural heritage (ICH), which communities globally regard as the core of their cultural identity. When it is unclear which ...
‘Balkanization’ and the Euro-Atlantic Processes of the (Western) Balkans: Back to the Future
1st Edition
By Liridona Veliu Ashiku
December 26, 2025
This book explores how ‘balkanization’ as a discourse underpins the policies of the European Union (EU) and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) toward the Western Balkans. It shows how EU and NATO policies have emerged from, and led to, the constant reinvention of the unity of the West ...
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 utilises the highway project in Montenegro as a case study alongside key Chinese regional...
Yugoslavia and China: Histories, Legacies, Afterlives
1st Edition
Edited
By Anastas Vangeli, Dragan Pavlićević
October 23, 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 ...
Spaces of Europeanisation in the Balkans: Cities, Networks and Urban Epistemic Communities
1st Edition
By Ana Pajvančić-Cizelj
September 18, 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 ...
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, ...