New book on Balkan affairs.

[Stefan Baumgarth]

DEIMEL, Johanna; MEURS van, Wim (eds.): The Balkan Prism. A 
Retrospective by Policy-Makers and Analysts. Editorial staff: Sarah 
Adeney, Julia McCall. München, Verlag Otto Sagner, 2007. ISBN 
978-3-86688-000-9. Paperback, 535 pp.

"The book is by far the most comprehensive what has appeared in the last 
years on Balkan affairs." (24. Juli 2007, Vesna Fish at amazon.de). It 
revisits a crucial and eventful decade of policy making and analysis in 
and for the Balkans. This decade has produced a unique community of 
international policy makers, strategists, advisors, analysts and 
academics permanently involved in an intense and fast-moving debate. As 
new trends and momentous events have redefined the parameters of the 
debate time and again, reflections on the fundamentals of the policy 
choices made and the adequacy of the analyses offered are rare. 
Therefore, this book written by forty policy makers and analysts from
the region as well as important Western states and international 
organisations, takes a step back for a retrospective on a European 
region in a decade of wavering between conflict and reform. The book is 
dedicated to Franz-Lothar Altmann, the doyen of policy-related Balkan 
studies in Germany, but not as a classical liber amicorum. The essays 
have been written with a next generation in mind, students of the 
Balkans striving to make sense of this decade of intense debate and 
cumulating policy papers.

The book can be ordered directly at the publisher:
verlag at kubon-sagner.de
Kubon & Sagner Buchexport-Import GmbH, 80328 München (Germany)
Telefax +49 (0)89 54 218-226

Stefan Baumgarth

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