Robert D.Kaplan
Balkan Ghosts
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Robert D.Kaplan

Balkan Ghosts

From the assassination that triggered World War I to the ethnic warfare in Serbia, Bosnia, and Croatia, the Balkans have been the crucible of the twentieth century, the place where terrorism and genocide first became tools of policy. Chosen as one of the Best Books of the Year by The New York Times, and greeted with critical acclaim as “the most insightful and timely work on the Balkans to date” (The Boston Globe), Kaplan's prescient, enthralling, and often chilling political travelogue is already a modern classic.
This new edition of Balkan Ghosts includes six opinion pieces written by Robert Kaplan about the Balkans between 1996 and 2000 beginning just after the implementation of the Dayton Peace Accords and ending after the conclusion of the Kosovo war, with the removal of Slobodan Milosevic from power.
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Oprindeligt udgivet
2014
Udgivelsesår
2014
Forlag
Picador
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  • Elza Holthar citeretfor 3 måneder siden
    And Greece’s political behavior in the region, despite a democratic tradition going back to antiquity, appeared no more reasonable than that of its neighbors to its north, whose democratic tradition was generally nonexistent.
  • Elza Holthar citeretfor 3 måneder siden
    Conflicting ethnic histories, inflamed by the living death of Communism, had made the Balkan sky so foul that now, sadly, a storm was required to clear it.

    But clear it it would.

    I sensed an overwhelming
  • Elza Holthar citeretfor 3 måneder siden
    Had the poison of eastern despotism and decline, seeping from Byzantium, to the Sultan’s Palace, to the Kremlin, finally expended itself
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