Using Christian communities in the former Yugoslavia as a case study, Branko Sekulic introduces the concept of ethnoreligiosity in order to resolve the confusion that occurs when scholars talk about the concepts of ethno-religion or ethnoreligion.
Elite Nationalism and the Collapse of a Federation
This book examines the relationship between nationalism and the rise and fall of Yugoslavia under the rule of Josip Broz Tito. Focusing on elite action and interaction, the authors provide a new angle understanding the socialist federation and its collapse.
Our definition of American patriotism needs to be expanded beyond national celebrations. Identifying four competing forms of patriotism--celebratory, mythic, active, and critical--allows us to rediscover forgotten histories and reframe familiar ones like the Revolution and the Civil War, and helps us analyze our 21st century debates over ......
Putin and Erdogan in Search of Lost Empires and Autocratic Power
This book discusses the rise of Putin in Russia and Erdogan in Turkey to authoritarian power in the context of the global debate over the fragility of democracy and the persistence of authoritarianism. It is both historical and theoretical in it treatment of the politics, economics and international relations of Russia and Turkey.
This book explores the total resistance to Nazism among the Catholic Christian voters of the Zentrum party in the elections in German states in the Interwar period. Kolden explains the unique Catholic resistance by comparing the diverging evolutions of Catholic and Protestant cultures and mentalities since the awakening of German nationalism in ......
Essays on the Past, Present, and Future of the European Union
Imagining Europe: Essays on the Past, Present, and Future of the European Union is a collection of essays by scholars residing in the U.S., Poland, France, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, and Turkey. The volume explores the European Union from a variety of perspectives: philo...
Employed by the European Community in Yugoslavia the author was tasked to report on the breaking of the arms embargo. Danger lurked as he conducted a beach and airport reconnaissance and interviewed war criminals. Closing in on the embargo busting he was ordered to falsify his daily reports in order to hide the evidence. He refused and resigned.
Nationalism, once the scourge of world politics, is back. Liah Greenfeld takes the reader on an intellectual journey through the origins of the word "nationalism" and how it has changed over the centuries.
