Taking the view that micro-historical approaches augment our understanding of how
sweeping societal change is experienced and enacted 'from below'by human actors, this …

SOME months after the bombing of Guernica in April 1937, the journalist George Steer, who
had witnessed the event, wrote that 'the condition into which the world is now drifting is one …

Oral testimonies from Greek Cypriots who lived through the Greek dictatorship's 1974 coup
d'état on Cyprus and the subsequent Turkish invasion frequently present the narrators as …

This dissertation challenges the widely held view that there is something morbidly distinctive
about violence in the Balkans. It subjects this notion to scrutiny by examining how …

Empirical research linking violence and ideology—and using discourse theory and analysis—
could provide more nuanced insights into political strategies and social contexts associated …

How did Macedonia attain its status as the only Yugoslav republic to achieve a nonviolent
transition to independence in the early 1990s? And why did the initial peace fail to endure …

This article discusses the public violence that occurred in the Bohemian lands after the
establishment of Czechoslovakia in 1918. It follows the tension between the self-empowered …

Anastasia Karakasidou claims, emanating from Belgrade, that thousands of Serbs living in
Macedonia were in danger, fearing the spread of open hostilities. Bosnia was in flames in …

Yugoslav communism was unique in many ways, most significantly in its departure from
Stalinist orthodoxy, political semi-liberalization, and profound ideological focus on …

During the early post-Cold War era, to much of the Western public, the former Yugoslavia
soon came to epitomise a representation of a world of ethnic rivalry and primitivism abruptly …