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The Balkan prospect : identity, culture, and politics in Greece after 1989

Record Type:	Electronic resources : monographic
Title Information:	identity, culture, and politics in Greece after 1989
Author:	CalotychosVangelis,
Place of Publication:	New York, N.Y.
Published:	Palgrave Macmillan;
Year of Publication:	2012
Description:	1 online resource (xi, 271 p.)
Series:	Studies in European culture and history.
Subject:	World politics - 1989- -
Subject:	HISTORY / Europe / General -
Online resource:	http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137336804
Notes:	Description based on print version record.
Summary:	This book views the fall of the Iron Curtain and its significance from the perspective of Greece, which, in 1989, was alone among nations to be both in 'the European family' and tied to western structures but also a Balkan nation. In 1989, the borders hitherto separating Greek culture and society from its contiguous Balkan polities clme down, and Greeks had to reorient themselves toward their immediate neighbors and redefine their place in Europe and in a new, more fluid world order. Projecting the political foresight and mustering the modernizing policies to succeed in such an undertaking would be no small feat. For Greece's relation with Balkans had been marked by conflict in the first half of the twentieth century and had lain dormant behind the Iron Curtain during the second half. Nor was this an end in itself, for it could not be pursued in isolation from the larger historical conjuncture. Since, for a prolonged 'historical moment,' Greece and Europe were effectively held hostage to events in the Balkans; at a moment, ironically enough, when both intended to serve as the region's welcoming hosts.
ISBN:	9781137336804electronic bk.
ISBN:	1137336803electronic bk.
Content Note:	1. The Balkan Prospect in the New Europe 2. This Is the Balkans, This Is No Fun and Games 3. Names, Differences 4. Repetition, Agency 5. Bridges, Metaphors 6. Limits, Co-Existence 7. Migrations, Prospects 8. Back to the Balkans.

The Balkan prospect : identity, culture, and politics in Greece after 1989
Calotychos, Vangelis

The Balkan prospect : identity, culture, and politics in Greece after 1989 / Vangelis Calotychos. - New York, N.Y. : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. - 1 online resource (xi, 271 p.). - (Studies in European culture and history.).
1. The Balkan Prospect in the New Europe.
Description based on print version record..
ISBN 9781137336804ISBN 1137336803
World politicsHISTORY / Europe / General -- 1989-

The Balkan prospect : identity, culture, and politics in Greece after 1989
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