Università Roma Tre

Introduction: The Balkans and the European Turkey; Geography, people, economy and society; The Great Powers, the Balkans e the national awakening; The end of the Ottoman power and the nation building and state building; The new century, its development and the consequences on the South-east Europe: The Balkan Wars: the end of the Risorgimento phase and the start of a new political vision: nationalism and imperialism; The World War One and its consequences; Peace, war and the Balkans in the New Europe; New Borders, new states and new people also? The interwar years the first massive modernization in the Balkans; A new ruler: the Third Reich; crisis and war; The establishment of a communist rule in the Balkan countries: the birth of a new world? Between Stalin ad Tito; The Seventieth and the eighties: stabilization and stagnation; the fall of the communist regimes and the hard transition.

6 CFU Program:
Egidio Ivetic, I Balcani dopo i Balcani. Eredità e identità, Roma, Salerno editrice, 2015
Oliver Jens Schmitt, I Balcani nel Novecento. Una storia postimperiale, Bologna, il Mulino, 2021

Students enrolled in the previous system (8 CFU exam) are invited to contact the professor to arrange supplementary readings.