The Balkans beyond Balkanization
Although for more than a century the Balkans have chiefly been synonymous with the kind of regional fragmentation that engendered the term “Balkanization,” the Second Annual Conference of the Balkan Sociological Forum (Sofia, November 9-10, 2012) has shown that kind of history to be clearly past for sociologists in the region. The Balkan Sociological Forum was created in November, 2011 in Tirana thanks to the efforts of Albanian sociologists...