Università Roma Tre

The course examines in depth a topic and an area, South-Eastern Europe, that have attracted the attention of scholars and public opinion with regard to the political and military events of the late Twentieth century, whose evolution may be concluded with the hoped-for integration of the entire region into the European Union. As in the 19th century, in the 20th century, the Balkans remained a problem of international politics, ending up being identified with a political-philosophical category (hence the derogatory use of the term Balkanisation). The course aims to provide a less ideological knowledge of the Balkan contemporary history and reality, placing this area in the context of international politics, in the conflicts that characterised the Twentieth century, and in the so-called globalization.