VICTOR ROUDOMETOF is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Cyprus. He has also held positions with Princeton University, the American College of Thessaloniki (Greece), and Washington and Lee University & Miami University (USA). He is the author or editor of 17 books and edited volumes on culture, religion, nationalism, and globalization. For more information, see www.roudometof.com

Foreword by Roland Robertson
Introduction: Nationalism, Globalization, and Modernity in the Balkans: A World-Historical Perspective
A Multidimensional Analysis of the Balkan National Revolutions (Part I)
A Multidimensional Analysis of the Balkan National Revolutions (Part II)
The Pursuit of Citizenship
Invented Traditions, Symbolic Boundaries, and National Identity in Greece and Serbia 1830-1880
The Latecomers, Nationalism in Bulgaria, Macedonia, and Albania
The Articulation of Irredentism in Balkan Politics 1880-1920
The Consequences of Modernity: National Homogenization and the Minority Question
The Balkans in a Global Age
Conclusions
Bibliographical Note
References
Index

Roudometof provides an in-depth sociological analysis of the birth and historical evolution of nationalism in the Balkans. The rise of nationalism in the region is viewed as part of a world-historical process of globalization over the last five centuries. With the growing contacts between the Ottoman Empire and the Western European system, the Eastern Orthodox of the Balkans abandoned the enthoconfessional system of social organization in favor of secular national identities.
Prior to 1820, local nationalism was influenced by the Enlightenment, though later it came to be developed on an ethnonational basis. In the post-1830 Balkans, citizenship rights were subordinated to ethnic nationalism, according to which membership to a nation is accorded on the basis of church affiliation and ethnicity. In the 19th and 20th centuries, the discourse of nationhood was institutionalized by the native intelligentsia of the Balkan states. In the first half of the 20th century, the efforts of Balkan states to achieve national homogenization produced interstate rivalry, forced population exchanges, and discrimination against minority groups. While the Cold War helped contain some of these problems, the post-1989 period has seen a return of these issues to the forefront of the Balkan political agenda.