Southeast European Studies: Southeast European Studies
About the Book Series
The Balkans are a region of Europe widely associated over the past decades with violence and war. Beyond this violence, the region has experienced rapid change in recent times though, including democratization, economic and social transformation. New scholarship is emerging which seeks to move away from the focus on violence alone to an understanding of the region in a broader context drawing on new empirical research.
The Southeast European Studies Series seeks to provide a forum for this new scholarship. Publishing cutting-edge, original research and contributing to a more profound understanding of Southeastern Europe while focusing on contemporary perspectives the series aims to explain the past and seeks to examine how it shapes the present. Focusing on original empirical research and innovative theoretical perspectives on the region the series includes original monographs and edited collections. It is interdisciplinary in scope, publishing high-level research in political science, history, anthropology, sociology, law and economics and accessible to readers interested in Southeast Europe and beyond.
Transnational Memory Activism in Bosnia and Herzegovina: The White Armband Day
1st Edition
By Johanna Paul
September 04, 2026
This book provides an in-depth case study of White Armband Day, a civic and transnational protest against the denial of genocidal violence in Prijedor during the early days of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina (1992-1995). It explores how this commemorative event emerged amid local memory struggles...
Post-Conflict Judicial Reform in Bosnia and Herzegovina: The False Promise of Judicial Independence
1st Edition
By David Pimentel
July 31, 2026
Judicial reform became a priority for international development in the 1990s and remains central to EU enlargement conditionality today. Yet despite significant investment, there is limited empirical evidence about the effectiveness of these initiatives. This book addresses this gap through a ...
The Scale, Adjudication, and Documentation of Crimes Committed During the War in Kosovo
1st Edition
Edited
By Furtuna Sheremeti, Aidan Hehir
June 08, 2026
This book, compiled in cooperation with the Institute of Crimes Committed During the War in Kosovo, brings together renowned international scholars, legal practitioners, cultural analysts, and transitional justice experts to examine the Kosovo War (1998–1999) through multidisciplinary lenses. This ...
Former Combatants, Democracy, and Institution-Building in Transitory Societies: Kosovo and North Macedonia
1st Edition
By Armend Bekaj
May 22, 2026
This book explores the long-term impact on democracy and institution-building in post-conflict and transitory societies, stemming from the political integration of former combatants of intra-state armed groups. By providing a comparative analysis on two countries with certain commonalities but also...
Influencers, Online Alliances and Reconciliation in Southeast Europe: #Balkans
1st Edition
By Ivana Stepanovic
May 22, 2026
This book explores the transformative role of social media in fostering reconciliation in the former Yugoslavia, a region still grappling with unresolved conflicts and ethnic divides. Focusing on platforms like YouTube and TikTok, it highlights how Balkan influencers blend personal storytelling ...
The Revival of the Left in the Balkans: Counter-Hegemonic Activism and Ideas that Fueled It
1st Edition
By Filip Balunović
May 22, 2026
This book explores how the critical discursive breakthrough of social movements in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Croatia disrupted the post-socialist transitional status quo. While critical ideas have long fueled social and political actions, the specifics of their relationship with activism ...
Europeanization and Informal Networks in Southeastern Europe
1st Edition
By Alexander Mesarovich
May 21, 2026
Europeanization and Informal Networks in Southeastern Europe considers the impact of political culture, including informal rules which regulate political behaviour, on formal political processes. Exploring the EU accession processes of Slovenia, Croatia, and Serbia, the author identifies how the ...
Resisting Inter-Ethnic Violence: Community Approaches to Conflict Transformation in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina
1st Edition
By Valentina Otmačić
May 21, 2026
This book analyses the 1991 to 1995 war experiences of ethnically mixed communities who successfully resisted identity-based violence and segregation in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina. Challenging the prevailing view of the wars in these countries as ethnic struggles rooted in historical ...
The Western Balkans and the Challenges of EU Accession: The Resilient Transformation
1st Edition
Edited
By Igor Vidačak
May 21, 2026
This book provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary analysis of the transformation of Western Balkan candidate countries as they move toward European Union (EU) accession. It assesses this multidimensional process as shaped both by reforms in the region and by developments within the EU itself. ...
Structural Origins of Post-Yugoslav Regimes: Elites, Civil Society and the State
1st Edition
By Valentina Petrović
January 30, 2026
This analysis of the Yugoslav democratisation process explains the variation of regime outcomes within a structuralist framework. Focusing on the post‑socialist world, it goes beyond ethnicity and elite agency to bring the role of class and the state into discussions of third wave democracies. ...
The Path to Democratic Reform: Bulgaria in Comparative Perspective
1st Edition
By Muzaffer Kutlay
January 30, 2026
This book offers a comparative study of minority-majority relations in post-conflict societies. Drawing on three contentious cases – Bulgaria, Croatia, and Montenegro –it explores how pluralist governance structures are established in the area of minority rights in new EU member and candidate ...
Intangible Cultural Heritage and Reconciliation in the Western Balkans: An Anthropological Perspective
1st Edition
By Miloš Milenković
December 26, 2025
This book considers the sensitive heritage elements linked to the very issue of the origins of nations. Beliefs, rituals, and traditional knowledge are examples of intangible cultural heritage (ICH), which communities globally regard as the core of their cultural identity. When it is unclear which ...