1.3. Introduction: The Balkans - what is it?

"Introduction: Names", Mark Mazower, The Balkans: a Short History (New York: Modern Library, 2002).

TOPICS:

1. Berlin 1878

"The Crisis of 1875-1878", Jelavich Barbara, A History of the Balkans, vol. 1 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999).

PRESENTATION ONLY: Misha Glenny, The Balkans: Nationalism, War, and the Great Powers, 1804-1999 (New York: Penguin Books, 2001), 136 ff.

2. Dictatorships and Authoritarian Regimes

"Dictatorialship in the Balkan", in: Lee, Stephen J.: The European Dictatorships, 1918-1945 (London/New York: Routledge, 1987).

3. Nazi participation in the Balkans

Ernst Jackh, "The German Drive in the Balkans", International Affairs 18, No. 6 (Nov. - Dec., 1939): 763-783.

4. Holocaust

Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem.

5. Operation Barbarossa

Heinz A. Richter, "The Impact of Operations Marita and Merkur on Barbarossa. The Six Missing Weeks in Front of Moscow. Myth or Historical Truth?" in: Macedonia and Thrace, 1941-1944 (Thessaloniki: IMXA, 1998).

6. Migration

Eva Kolinsky, "Non-German Minorities in Contemporary German Society", in: Turkish Culture in German Society Today, eds. David Horrocks a Eva Kolinsky (Providence/Oxford: Berghahn Books, 1996).

7. Yugoslav Wars

Susan L. Woodward, "International Aspects of the War in Former Yugoslavia", in: Burn this House: The Making and Unmaking of Yugoslavia, eds. Jasminka Udovicki a James Ridgeway (London: Duke University Press, 1997).

8. Greek Crisis

Morisse-Schilbach, Melanie, ""Ach Deutschland!": Greece, the Euro crisis, and the costs and benefits of being a benign hegemon", Internationale Politik und Gesellschaft Online: International Politics and Society 1(2011), http://library.fes.de/pdf-files/ipg/ipg-2011-1/2011-1__04_a_morisse-schilbach.pdf