Hugh Poulton Bücher

This highly acclaimed book describes the situations for the minorities of former-Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Greece and Albania from a historical and contemporary perspective. The book also covers other ‘stateless’ minorities in the region including the Jews, Gypsies (Roma) and Vlahs. In an additional section written for this new edition, Hugh Poulton analyses how the turbulent developments in the Balkans during 1991 and 1992 continue to affect the minorities of the region. The new section examines: The disintegration of Yugoslavia The Bosnian crisis Vojvodina and the refugee problem Developments in Sandzak, Kosovo and Macedonia Nationalism in Greece

Bogen er opdelt i en række artikler og essays med følgende overskrifter: Islam, Ethnicity and State in the Contemporary Balkans. Strategies for Sustaining a Vulnerable Identity: the Case of the Bulgarian Pomaks. From Religious Identity to Ethnic Mobilisation: the Turks of Bulgaria before, under and since Communism. Changing Notions of National Identity among Muslims in Thrace and Macedonia: Turks, Pomaks and Roma. The Muslim Population in FYROM (Macedonia): Public Perceptions. Islam, State and Society in Post-Communist Albania. The Kosovo Albanians: Ethnic Confrontation with the Slav State. The Sandzak: A Perspective of Serb-Muslim Relations. Turkey as Kin-state: Turkish Foreign Policy towards Turkish and Muslim Communities in the Balkans. Sustaining Turkish-Islamic Loyalities: the Diyanet in Western Europe. After Dayton

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