Balkanization and Global Politics: Remaking Cities and Architecture [Hardcover]

1. Setting the Framework: Balkan(ization) and Global Politics  2. Balkanism and Balkanization: Fragmentation, Grouping and Excess  3. Yugoslavia In Balkanization: Beyond Civil War, Beyond Ethnonationalism  4. Allied Operations: Present-Future Partnerships of Humanitarianism, Peace and Victory  5. Circulating Violence: Decomposition, Dispossession and Control  6. Territorializations: Transitions, Thresholds and Transgressions  7. Present Spaces, Present Times: Other Spaces, Other Times

Balkanization (territorial fragmentation) is becoming a significant urban and geopolitical pursuit in contemporary times. Countries, cities and regions are ever increasingly voicing the desire for independence and balkanization from the nation or union they are a part of. This monograph generally maps the historical and theoretical