Religious Minorities, Nation States, and Security: Five Cases from the Balkans and the Eastern MediterraneanAshgate, 2001 - 196 strani Why, in this contemporary secular age, does violent conflict among confessional communities still occur? Covering several key conflicts of recent years in one of the most dynamic areas of the world, the Eastern Mediterranean and the Balkans, Mario Apostolov uses both interpretative and comparative analysis to answer this question. His versatile approach makes for an engaging account that makes an important contribution to the current debate surrounding such conflicts.The author focuses on five case studies taken from the traditional zone of contact between Christianity and Islam:- The Copts- The Palestinian Christians- The Lebanese communities- The Pomaks- The communities of Bosnia-HerzegovinaThe book examines the relationship between these issues and communal mobilisation, the collective use of violence and the problems of international security. An informative study for students, academics, policy makers and personnel in international organizations with an interest in communal conflict and security. |
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Constitutive Communities or Minorities? | 5 |
Terms of Analysis and Problems of Definition | 9 |
Religious Minorities in the PostOttoman | 27 |
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Albanians Arab Christians Arab nationalism Arguably assimilation autonomy Balkans Bogomil Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnian Muslims Bosnian Serbs Bulgarian Catholic century churches claim co-operation communal conflicts communal mobilisation confessional communities consociational constitute Coptic community Copts created Croatian Croats cultural defined dhimmi distinct dominant Druze Eastern Mediterranean economic Egypt Egyptian national element elite established ethnic factors frontier Greece Greek historical independence institutions intervention Islam islamisation Israel Israeli Kosovo leaders Lebanese National Lebanon and Bosnia loyalty Macedonia major marginalisation Maronites Middle East military millet Monophysite movement Muslim Slavs nationalists neighbours organisation Orthodox Ottoman Empire Palestine Palestinian Christians Palestinian national participatory nationalism party patriarch plural societies political confessionalism political identity political system politicians Pomaks population principle problem recognised regime region relations religion religious minorities representation role Sandjak secular Serbian Shia social Sunni Syria territorial traditional Turkey Turkish Turks violence Western Yugoslav Yugoslavia
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