The Balkan Prospect

Identity, Culture, and Politics in Greece after 1989

V. Calotychos

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2013
• ISBN:
  9781137336804
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: European History
• Index: History

Following the fall of the Soviet Union in 1989, the borders hitherto separating Greek culture and society from its contiguous Balkan polities came down, and Greeks had to reorient themselves toward their immediate neighbors and redefine their place within Europe and the new, more fluid global order. Projecting the political foresight and mustering the modernization policies to succeed in such an undertaking turned out to be no small feat, especially as the regional conflicts that had lain dormant during the Cold War were revived. Synthesizing the cultural, political, and historical into a sophisticated, interdisciplinary analysis, this innovative study untangles the prolonged 'historical moment' in which Greece and Europe were effectively held hostage to events in the Balkans - just at the time when both hoped to serve as the region's welcoming hosts.

INDEX

Adriatic Sea, 20, 212

Agdizis, Vlassis, 227

Agelopoulos, Georgios, 54–55

Ahmet, Sadiq, 39

Albania

Anastopoulos and, 188–94

Angelopoulos and, 108–9, 163–66

Balkans and, 16

in Before the Rain, 83–86

in From the Snow/May Your Name Be Blessed, 166–69

Giannaris and, 184–88

in God Tells Them All, 177–82

Greece and, 3, 6, 53, 174

identity and, 41–43, 53, 61, 70, 125–26

immigration and, 6, 12, 25, 41–43, 201, 203

Kadare and, 105–8, 111

Kosovo and, 93, 95–96

in Lamerica, 62–63

liberalization, 5

in Mirupafshim, 169–70

People’s Republic of China and, 102, 107

in Plato’s Academy, 195–99

refugees from, 170–71

revolution and, 39

sensationalism in media, 188–89

Soviet Union and, 102, 107

trade and, 55

in Ulysses’ Gaze, 1, 74–75

World Wars and, 21–22

Yugoslavia and, 102

Aleksić, Tatjana, 100–101

Alexandria, 23

Alexiou, Elli, 134–35

Alexiou, Margaret, 99–101

Alexiou, Petro, 195

Amelio, Gianni, 62

Anastopoulos, Thanos, 13, 185, 188–99, 231

Anderson, Perry, 44

Andrić, Ivo, 11, 13, 63, 96, 98, 101–7, 144

Andronovski, Venko, 221

Antonioni, Michelangelo, 159

Angelopoulos, Theodoros,

“balkanist” disco...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Introduction   The Balkan Prospect in the New Europe
• One   This Is the Balkans, This Is No Fun and Games
• Two   Names, Differences
• Three   Repetition, Agency
• Four   Bridges, Metaphors
• Five   Limits, Coexistence
• Six   Migrations, Prospects
• Seven   Epilogue: Back to the Balkans
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index