Although Irish nationalists (and unionists) shied away from the use of violence before 1914, the Balkan wars reinforced the relationship between violence and nation-building in the early twentieth ...

A few old fogies may recall that the last such crisis, in the summer of 1914, led to a certain amount of unpleasantness, not entirely contained within Balkan boundaries. To grasp what is at risk ...

Amid the latest security realignments and efforts to strengthen its strategic interdependence, the EU must not overlook the potential volatility of the Western Balkans. Surrounded by EU member ...

Illus., maps, notes, biblio., index. $26.00 paper. ISBN: 9780802123893 Gavrilo Princip, Sarajevo, and the Shaping of the Modern Balkans Trigger is a combination of causes and events leading up to WW1, ...