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Balkans History:     more books (100)

The Balkans: A Short History (Modern Library Chronicles) by Mark Mazower, 2002-08-06 Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History by Robert D. Kaplan, 2005-05-01 History of the Balkans, Vol. 2: Twentieth Century (The Joint Committee on Eastern Europe Publication Series, No. 12) by Barbara Jelavich, 1983-08-31 The Balkans: A History Of Bulgaria--Serbia--Greece--Rumania--Tu by Nevill Forbes, 2007-02-22 The Balkans in World History by Andrew Wachtel, 2008-10-01 History of the Balkans, Vol. 1: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (The Joint Committee on Eastern Europe Publication Series, No. 12) by Barbara Jelavich, 1983-07-29 The Establishment of the Balkan National States, 1804-1920 (History of East Central Europe) by Charles Jelavich, Barbara Jelavich, 1987-10 Remembering Yugoslavia: A Short history of Serbia, Yugoslavia, and the Balkan people by Anna Nevenic, 2002 A History of the Balkans 1804-1945 by Stevan K. Pavlowitch, 1999-04-13 History in Exile: Memory and Identity at the Borders of the Balkans by Pamela Ballinger, 2002-12-01 Balkan Wars 1912-1913: Prelude to the First World War (Warfare and History) by Richard C. Hall, 2000-10-19 Yugoslavia as History: Twice there was a Country by John R. Lampe, 1996-10-13 The History of the Balkan Peninsula: From the Earliest Times to the Present (Eastern Europe Collection) by Ferdinand Schevill, 1970-06 History of the Balkans: From the Earliest Times to the Present Day by Ferdinand Schevill, 1991-07

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161. BBC News | EUROPE | Alarm Over Nato Uranium Deaths
     Pressure is growing on Nato over its use of depleted uranium weapons in the balkans, with Italy adding its voice. BBC News.  
     http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/1098858.stm
     
     Extractions: By environment correspondent Alex Kirby Italy has called on Nato to give a full account of its use of weapons containing depleted uranium (DU) in the conflicts in former Yugoslavia. It follows the death from cancer of a sixth Italian soldier who served with the Nato peacekeeping force in the Balkans.

162. Hellenic Studies - Graduate Opportunities And Fellowships - Princeton University
     Milen Petrov, Near Eastern Studies Balkan history. Christine Philliou, historyOttoman, Turkish, and Modern Greek history  
     http://www.princeton.edu/~hellenic/grad_fellow.html
     
     Extractions: The Program in Hellenic Studies, under the general direction of the Council of the Humanities and with the support of the Stanley J. Seeger Hellenic Fund, promotes the interdisciplinary study of the Greek world, from antiquity to the present. It offers a comprehensive undergraduate curriculum in Hellenic Studies, as well as graduate seminars on the Classical tradition and in Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies. The Program provides a stimulating intellectual environment for faculty, undergraduate and graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, writers-in-residence, and visiting research fellows. Course of Study Our graduate students combine advanced training in their home department with additional coursework (graduate seminars, reading courses, or tutorials) in post-Classical Greek Studies and a dissertation on some aspect of the Classical tradition, or a Byzantine or Modern Greek topic. Graduate students enroll in one of Princeton’s departments and are expected to satisfy all the departmental requirements for the Ph.D. degree before undertaking their dissertation research. Students follow an individual course of study approved by their home department, in consultation with Hellenic Studies faculty.

163. CNN.com - Call To Test Balkans Soldiers - January 16, 2001
     http://cnn.com/2001/WORLD/europe/01/16/defence.uranium/index.html
     
     Extractions: Languages Spanish Portuguese German Italian Danish Japanese Korean Arabic Time, Inc. Time.com People Fortune EW BRUSSELS, Belgium NATO medics are recommending tests be carried out on the health of soldiers serving in the Balkans in the wake of concerns over the use of uranium-tipped weapons. Medical committee member General Roger Van Hoof said so far there was no indication that the depleted uranium was responsible for health problems suffered by some soldiers. But illnesses among peacekeepers who served in the Balkans have caused concern among a number of NATO countries and some have offered health tests to their peacekeepers.. The alliance's medical committee is to present its initial findings on so-called Balkans syndrome and the use of the uranium-tipped weapons on Tuesday. The uranium is used the armour piercing qualities of some weapons. General Roger Van Hoof said: "We cannot identify any increase in disease or mortality in soldiers who have deployed to the Balkans as compared to those soldiers who have not deployed.

164. CNN.com - Powell Urges Balkans Peace - April 13, 2001
     http://cnn.com/2001/WORLD/europe/04/13/powell.mace.02/index.html
     
     Extractions: Languages Spanish Portuguese German Italian Danish Japanese Korean Arabic Time, Inc. Time.com People Fortune EW Powell was forced to call off visits to Kosovo and Bosnia SKOPJE, Macedonia U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell has told Kosovo Albanian leaders they must do more to prevent new violence. Powell is wrapping up a European tour, in which he has voiced America's support for democracy in the Balkans but warned that to retain international backing, violence in Macedonia must be denounced. "We call on Kosovars to join us in denouncing and isolating extremists whose actions are eroding international support for Kosovo and sympathy for its people," he said. Bad weather forced Powell to call off a visit to Kosovo on Friday, and he instead met representatives of Kosovo's ethnic Albanian population and the international administration for the province in the Macedonian capital, Skopje. Before leaving for Bosnia, he said: "In the meeting I just completed, I did hear the leaders say that they will forswear violence and I encouraged them to speak out candidly to all the people that they represent and the people they are leading that violence is not the answer."

165. CAS.bg - NEXUS
     Associate Professor of Modern Balkan history, Sofia University, Bulgaria Researcher in Balkan history, Institute of Balkan Studies, Bulgarian Academy of  
     http://www.cas.bg/obj/view.php?o=3&i=3

166. CNN - NATO Demonstrates Firepower Over Balkans - June 15, 1998
     http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/europe/9806/15/nato.kosovo/video.html

167. CNN - World Leaders Pledge To Bring Peace, Stability To Balkans - July 30, 1999
     http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/europe/9907/30/balkan.summit.05/index.html
     
     Extractions: From staff and wire reports SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina Presidents and prime ministers from nearly 40 nations have pledged to help rebuild the war-ravaged Balkans and bring prosperity to the troubled region. At a summit in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, the world leaders also spoke Friday of building a Europe "at long last undivided, democratic and at peace."

168. Red Pepper Archive
     The west perceives Balkan history as a dark passage from one bloody war to Consequently, Balkan history is still perceived, at least by diplomats and  
     http://www.redpepper.org.uk/intarch/xmilo.html
     
     Extractions: I will never forget the day in February 1997 when Christianne Amanpour reported for CNN from a provincial town in Serbia. It was during the third month of massive opposition demonstrations in Belgrade, and President Milosevic's position was being shaken. The mayor was a staunch Milosevic supporter, known for making vulgar remarks in the Serbian parliament, especially about women and intellectuals. He told CNN that there had been enough protest in Belgrade and that everyone should go home and mind their own business. The same message was repeated by peasants in the fields and elderly people in the streets. As the image of the reporter faded away, my anger rose. Here again was the same relegitimising of Milosevic by Western diplomats and politicians that we had seen so many times before. Since the destabilisation of Yugoslavia began in the late 1980s, no one wanted to hear about the so-called opposition because it did not have power. It did not have power because no one from the outside world wanted to back it. Yet before the war began, this anti-nationalist opposition minority was warning of the dangers to come. It was right: about war in Slovenia; then in Croatia; then in Bosnia; and now, of course, in Kosovo.

169. CNN.com - Yugoslav Leader Promises New Era - October 25, 2000
     http://www.cnn.com/2000/WORLD/europe/10/25/balkans.summit.03/index.html

170. CNN - Clinton Leaves Balkans Hailed A Hero By Kosovar Albanians - June 22, 1999
     http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/europe/9906/22/clinton.05/index.html

171. Association Française D'études Sur Les Balkans
     Liens, actualité, travaux de recherche de l'association qui édite la revue Balkanologie.  
     http://www.afebalk.org/

172. WashingtonPost.com: Balkans Report -- Overview
     Provides historical overviews of Bosnia, Croatia, Kosovo, and a timeline.  
     http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/balkans/overview/overview.ht
     
     Extractions: A: The United States has long been concerned that violence in Yugoslavia would spill across borders, possibly leading to war between two NATO allies, Greece and Turkey. World War I had roots in Balkan violence; World War II was inflamed by ethnic slaughter there. In recent months, the United States and its European allies have said forcefully that they want Serbian atrocities against Kosovo's civilian population to stop. Q: How is the Kosovo conflict related to Bosnia? A: Bosnia was part of Yugoslavia until 1992 when it declared independence. But ethnic Serbs in Bosnia wanted to remain part of Yugoslavia. The Milosevic government in Belgrade encouraged the ethnic Serbs in Bosnia to fight Muslims and Croats. The war claimed hundreds of thousands of lives, many the result of "ethnic cleansing" carried out by ethnic Serbian paramilitary forces loyal to Milosevic. U.S. officials say they do not want what happened in Bosnia to occur again in Kosovo. Meanwhile, about 20,000 NATO troops are keeping the peace in Bosnia under the 1995 Dayton accords. Some fear those NATO troops could be dragged into the Kosovo conflict.

173. Balkans Regional Country Analysis Brief
     Analysis of the region's energy supply situation, including information about planned oil and gas pipelines. By US Energy Information Administration.  
     http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/balkans.html
     
     Extractions: The Balkans regionhere including Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Serbia and Montenegro (ex-Yugoslavia)is recovering from over a decade of conflict and instability as a result of the dissolution of the former Yugoslavia. As the region stabilizes, the Balkans may play an important role as a transit center for Russian and Caspian Sea region oil exports. The countries of the Balkans region are neither major energy producers or consumers. Although the region does hold some important fossil fuel deposits, these resources are not significant on a world scale, and the political and economic instability in the Balkans in recent years has discouraged any substantial foreign investment in the respective countries' energy sectors. Rather, the region is becoming more important as a transit center for Russian and Caspian Sea region oil exports to Western consumers. The region's leading transit projects are listed below.

174. NewsHour Online: Human Rights Issues In The Balkans
     NewsHour Online and the US State Department  
     http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/bosnia/human_rights.html
     
     Extractions: The war in the former Yugoslavia has involved widespread violations of human rights and humanitarian law, including mass killings and murder, systematic rape, torture, and other crimes against humanity. The term "ethnic cleansing" has entered the world's vocabulary to describe the horrifying range of human rights abusesfrom forcible expulsion to murdercommitted in parts of the former Yugoslavia in order to achieve "ethnic purity." All parties to the conflict in the Balkans have committed human rights violations, but the great majority have been perpetrated by Serb forces. Some of the worst incidents include the following: In the fall of 1991, Serb forces shelled the Croatian coastal city of Dubrovnik, an action without military justification. Throughout the course of the conflict, Sarajevo and other cities have been subjected to indiscriminate shelling. Scores of civilians have been killed or wounded by snipers and cluster and napalm bombs used by Bosnian Serb forces. Six of these cities were designated safe areas by the United Nations in May 1993. This did not stop the shelling. Beginning in the spring of 1995, entire enclaves, ranging in size from towns such as Prijedor, Bijeljina, Zvornik, and Jajce, to hamlets such as Foca and Cerska, were "cleansed" of their Muslim and Croat residents in a Bosnian Serb attempt to "purify" lands they controlled.

175. CNN.com - Europe To Debate 'Balkans Syndrome' - January 17, 2001
     http://cnn.com/2001/WORLD/europe/01/17/defence.uranium/index.html
     
     Extractions: Languages Spanish Portuguese German Italian Danish Japanese Korean Arabic Time, Inc. Time.com People Fortune EW STRASBOURG, France Members of the European Parliament are to debate calls for the suspension of the use of depleted uranium-tipped missiles amid fears over a link to cancer-related illnesses. The meeting in Strasbourg will be addressed by European security chief Javier Solana, who was the figurehead of NATO during the 1999 bombing of Yugoslavia as its secretary general. NATO said on Tuesday that data from its 19 member states showed no link between depleted uranium (DU) munitions and so-called "Balkans Syndrome" cancers, but did recommend further scientific studies to try to explain illnesses among soldiers who served in Bosnia and Kosovo. The European Parliament will vote on Wednesday on a motion backed by major political parties for a suspension on the use of DU ammunition until investigations have proved that it is safe for troops to use.

176. The Critical Review Online - CR Navigator
     The course also touches on other important events in Balkan history involving If you are at all interested in Balkan history, take this course — as one  
     http://www.brown.edu/Students/Critical_Review/modules/CR_Nav/index.php?action=fe

177. CNN.com - U.S. Pledges Support For Balkans - April 13, 2001
     http://cnn.com/2001/WORLD/europe/04/13/powell.mace/index.html
     
     Extractions: Languages Spanish Portuguese German Italian Danish Japanese Korean Arabic Time, Inc. Time.com People Fortune EW Powell was forced to call off visits to Kosovo and Bosnia SKOPJE, Macedonia U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell is wrapping up a European tour, voicing America's support for democracy in the Balkans. Bad weather forced Powell was to call off visits to Kosovo and Bosnia on Friday. He is instead meeting with representatives of Kosovo's ethnic Albanian population and the international administration for the province in the Macedonian capital, Skopje. The secretary of state still planned to meet Bosnian officials later in Sarajevo, Bosnia's capital. During Powell's three-day tour he has repeated a U.S. commitment to support Macedonia and to continue to help maintain stability in the Balkans. Powell's visit to the Balkans follows the recent armed conflict between Macedonian government troops and rebels demanding more rights for the country's ethnic Albanian minority. "You can be sure of the American support of your efforts, political support, economic support and military support," Powell told Macedonian President

178. CNN - NATO Starts Show Of Force In Balkans - June 15, 1998
     http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/europe/9806/15/yugo.kosovo.on/2328147.html
     
     Extractions: Web posted at: 11:37 a.m. EDT (1537 GMT) NATO war planes begin training exercises over Albania and Macedonia VICENZA , Italy (CNN) NATO on Monday began a show of air power that Western military allies hope will persuade Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic to end the crackdown in the province of Kosovo Dozens of NATO aircraft including fighters, reconnaissance planes and helicopters are taking to the skies Monday as part of the exercise codenamed "Determined Falcon." "The objective of this exercise is to demonstrate NATO's capability to project power rapidly in the region," said NATO Secretary-General Javier Solana of Spain.

179. CNN - Serbia Sidelined As Plans Unfold To Rebuild Rest Of Balkans - July 30, 199
     http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/europe/9907/30/yugo.economy/index.html
     
     Extractions: Web posted at: 9:24 p.m. EDT (0124 GMT) From Correspondent Matthew Chance BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (CNN) After 11 weeks of NATO bombing and years of international trade sanctions, Serbia like the rest of the Balkans has a ravaged economy. But unlike the rest of the Balkans, Serbia was excluded from talks to help rebuild the region. Leaders from nearly 40 countries endorsed a blueprint Friday for bringing peace and prosperity to the Balkans at the summit in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina

180. CNN.com - Yugoslavia Joins Balkan Stability Pact - October 26, 2000
     http://www.cnn.com/2000/WORLD/europe/10/26/yugoslavia.balkans/index.html

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