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Nationalisms and Wars in the Balkans 'Balkan mentality', 'violent nature', rampant ethnocentrism and 'barbarism' (Dvornikovic ́1939; Cvijic ́1922). Although contemporary commentators now avoid using such crude descriptions, the region is still associated with what many regard to be ubiquitous violence and entrenched nationalisms. For some analysts, it is this prevalence of aggressive nationalism that is one of the principal causes for the economic and political 'backwardness' of the Balkans (Berend 2003; Gerolymatos 2002; Kennan 1993). For example, in his 1993 introduction to the reprinted Carnegie Endowment report on the Balkan Wars of 1912-13, George Kennan directly links the violent conflicts in the region at the beginning and at the end of the twentieth century arguing that the lack of development in the Balkans was not rooted in religious differences but in 'aggressive nationalism . . . [which] manifested itself on the field of battle, drew on deeper traits of character inherited, presumably, from the distant tribal past . . . and so it remains today' (Kennan 1993: 4-6). Much of contemporary scholarship on the Balkans has rightly critiqued and dismantled this nebulous 'ancient

Published

2019

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EN