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.
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 ...
Former Combatants, Democracy, and Institution-Building in Transitory Societies: Kosovo and North Macedonia
1st Edition
By Armend Bekaj
December 03, 2024
This book explores the long-term impact on democracy and institution-building in post-conflict and transitory societies, stemming from the political integration of former combatants of intra-state armed groups. By providing a comparative analysis on two countries with certain commonalities but also...
Resisting Inter-Ethnic Violence: Community Approaches to Conflict Transformation in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina
1st Edition
By Valentina Otmačić
December 02, 2024
This book analyses the 1991 to 1995 war experiences of ethnically mixed communities who successfully resisted identity-based violence and segregation in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina. Challenging the prevailing view of the wars in these countries as ethnic struggles rooted in historical ...
The Revival of the Left in the Balkans: Counter-Hegemonic Activism and Ideas that Fueled It
1st Edition
By Filip Balunović
December 02, 2024
This book explores how the critical discursive breakthrough of social movements in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Croatia disrupted the post-socialist transitional status quo. While critical ideas have long fueled social and political actions, the specifics of their relationship with activism ...
Europeanization and Informal Networks in Southeastern Europe
1st Edition
By Alexander Mesarovich
November 08, 2024
Europeanization and Informal Networks in Southeastern Europe considers the impact of political culture, including informal rules which regulate political behaviour, on formal political processes. Exploring the EU accession processes of Slovenia, Croatia, and Serbia, the author identifies how the ...
Peace and Security in the Western Balkans: A Local Perspective
1st Edition
Edited
By Nemanja Džuverović, Věra Stojarová
May 27, 2024
This book outlines the main security threats, actors, and processes in the Western Balkans following the dissolution of Yugoslavia. Exploring the state of peace and security in the region it asks if a stable peace is achievable. The comparative framework explores state perspectives – from ...
Balkan Fighters in the Syrian War
1st Edition
By Tanja Dramac Jiries
May 31, 2023
This book analyses the process of the recruitment of foreign fighters from the Western Balkans, specifically Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo, to Syria and Iraq from 2012 to 2015. Utilizing in-depth, semi-structured interviews with foreign fighters and their families, as well as a number of ...