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"Described as "the Sick Man of Europe" by the Great Powers, the Ottoman Empire in the early twentieth century was in terminal decline. The newly independent Balkan states - Greece, Serbia, Montenegro and Bulgaria - each had significant ethnic populations who had remained under Ottoman rule. Under the guidance of Russia, which had its own interests in south-east Europe, they joined forces against the Ottomans, under the name of the Balkan League, in 1912. In the first phase of the Balkan Wars, Bulgarian, Greek, Montenegrin and Serbian armies fought together against the Ottoman Empire, dealing the Ottomans a heavy defeat in a result that made headlines around the world. In the second phase, the Balkan states fought each other, and Romania also entered the war. In the conflict's aftermath, new borders failed to satisfy any of the belligerent parties. Interventions by the Great Powers further increased tensions in the region. As the ultimate result, the first bullet that triggered the First World War was fired in Sarajevo in June 1914. The causes and effects of the Balkan Wars have remained controversial despite the passage of time. In this volume, writers from various Balkan nations and from across various disciplines have come together under the aegis of the Balkan History Association to address little known and little studied aspects of the wars. Collectively they analyze a huge range of political, historical, medical, sociological and religious aspects of the conflict. The book, with its groundbreaking content and unique bibliographies, will be an important guide for undergraduate and graduate students studying the political, military, social and artistic history of the Balkan Wars and the Balkan nations"--

Introduction / Birgul Demirtas -- Muslims Turks of Western Thrace and Turkish-Greek relations : The triadic elational nexus / Gizem Cakmak & Ali Huseyinoglu -- What is in a name : a social constructivist analysis of Macedonian conflict / Bezen Balamir Coskun -- Intra-state conflict in the post-Cold War Balkans : the Macedonian case and consociationalism / Didem Ekinci -- Political status of Kosovo and its impact on the regional affairs of Southeastern Europe / Can Kakisim -- The frozen conflict in the consociational system of Bosnia / Rasim Ozgur Donmez & Burcu Albayrak Donmez -- Problem of the political status of Transnistria in Moldova / Gokturk Tuysuzoglu -- A problem between Albania and Greece : Cham Albanians / Sibel Turan & Demet Şenbaş -- National minorities in the Balkans and the problem of representation : Albanian minority in Presevo Valley / Pinar Erkem -- Border conflict in Croatia-Slovenia relations : Piran Bay issue / Pinar Yurur -- A possible drawback in Romanian-Hungarian relations : historical region of Transylvania / Selim Kurt -- Divided Sandzak : one region, two states / Elif Hatun Kilicbeyli -- Maritime disputes in the Aegean Sea / Arda Ozkan -- Turkey's foreign policy in the Balkans : soft power in a conflict region / Begum Kurtulus -- Minority problems in the Balkans and etno-federalism debate / Tolga Cikrikci -- Women in war : militarization of women in Balkans / Gizem Bilgin Aytaç -- Energy equation in the Balkan Peninsula / Cenk Ozgen -- Migration issues in the Balkan states / Sanem Ozer.

Due to their strategic location and their occupation of some of China's most valuable lands, the ethnic minorities of the Chinese People's Republic have occupied the attention of the central government to a far greater degree than would be expected from their relatively insignificant 6 percent of the CPR's total population. The Chinese Communist party inherited an ethnic cleavage pat tern of some salience from prior governments and has been trying to deal with it through alternating policies of tolerance for ethnic particularism with policies repressive of these particularities. The tension between these two policies forms an ongoing theme in China's leadership struggles and can be traced to two different statements by Mao Tse-tung on the proper handling of ethnic problems. The debate be tween proponents of the two different policies can be ex pected to go on, though domestic and international con straints seem to portend a continuation of the moderate measures presently in force. The leadership's dissatisfaction with the status of nationalities relations should not be allowed to obscure the CCP's successes in dealing with its ethnic minorities.

This book examines the identities of young adults in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, Kosovo, and Macedonia. With research drawn from a large multidisciplinary project exploring a potential for reconciliation in post-conflict societies, the authors discuss the interplay between ethnic, religious and national identities that have been the source of recent violent conflicts. They focus on people aged 18-30, representing generations that are socialized after the wars, but live in ethnically divided societies burdened with a difficult history. Another aim of the project was to compare majority and minority perspectives within each country, and to provide a unique view on how to reinterpret and build more inclusive social identities. Scholars and organizations interested in areas of social psychology, political science and sociology will find this research of great value.

This volume is a collection of empirical and theoretical research papers in the social sciences regarding the Balkans and the Near East. The book addresses economic, financial, political, sociological, international relations, health, cultural, and feminist issues in the region of the Balkan and Near East.

Canada ; Race relations ; Social aspects ; History ; Relations raciales ; Aspect politique ; Histoire ; This thesis examines the academic researchers who studied race, ethnicity, and race and ethnic relations in Canada between 1880 and 1940. The thesis considers how questions of race/ethnicity and race/ethnic relations were debated in the Canadian milieu of large-scale immigration. The thesis is based on the discussion of these questions in the universities and the evolving social science communities. The discussion of race/ethnicity in Canada incorporated the evolving political discussion of Dominion autonomy within the British empire and was also shaped by the conditions of science and social science in Canada. Influenced by these factors, Canadian liberal scholarly opinion moved away from the extremes of nativism, as well as rejecting imperialist views of race, and reflected more moderate perspectives on ethnic diversity during the period of nation-building. By the early twentieth century, Canadian liberal academic thought had come around to at least a partial acceptance of cultural diversity, which was nonetheless subordinated to the idea of a culturally-based nationality and the beneficent state protection and assisted assimilation of ethnic minorities. Academic thought on race/ethnic relations subsequently mirrored a North American dialogue on cultural diversity, as well as reflecting the conditions of Canadian social science in the 1920s and 1930s.