Identity and Conflict in the Balkans

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Identity and Conflict in the Balkans

• ILC 140
• Sixth Week

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Writing Assignment

• One paper, 10 pp.
• Topic of choice (but must be approved)
• Due on or before last day of class
• Specs will be on website
• Sample topics on website right after exam on
  Thursday

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Additional Books

• Ivo Andric, Bridge on the Drina
• Slavenka Drakulic S. A Novel about the Balkans

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Film Last Week Tito and Me

• Director Goran Markovic
• Released in 1993

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Film Today Before the Rain

• 1994 directed by Milcho Manchevski
• Rade Serbedzia
• Macedonia-France

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In the News

• EU and US Policy
• EU and new candidates
• Albania
• Bulgaria
• Croatia
• Estonia
• Latvia
• Lithuania
• Macedonia
• Romania
• Slovakia
• Slovenia

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Psychology

• Lasswells formula
• Private interests get projected into the public
  realm and then represented as the common good
• Form of rationalization

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Maps
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Last Chapters of Kaplan Greece
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Salonika

• White Tower
• History of the city
• Greece as historical battleground E and W

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Greece

• Historical issues
• Ancient Greece
• Turks, Istanbul
• Civil War
• Religious issues
• Cultural issues
• Perception issues
• Zorba and Never on Sunday
• Tourism

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Political Figures

• Andreas Papandreous 1919-1996
• American educated
• American college professor
• PASOK Panhellenic Socialist Movement

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Kaplans Thesis? Theses?