Balkan Perspectives of Europe - Between East and West

Through the lens of the Balkan nations, this volume makes a valuable and significant contribution to the fields of European and Southeast European studies by reconsidering the East/West dichotomy-both in terms of the Orient-Occident divide and the Eastern-Western Europe binary.

About the author

Eleonora Naxidou is Professor of Modern and Contemporary History of Southeastern Europe in the Department of History and Ethnology at Democritus University of Thrace, Greece. She is the author of the book Europeanness in the Context of Bulgarian 'Balkanness': Lyuben Karavelov, Federalism, and the Greeks (2021; in Greek), and co-editor of several scholarly volumes.
Yura Konstantinova is Professor at the Institute of Balkan Studies & Center of Thracology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. She has published extensively and been involved in numerous academic research projects on subjects including the history of modern Greece, Greek-Bulgarian relations, and international relations in Southeastern Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Product details

• Authors: Eleonora (Democritus University of Thrace Naxidou
• Assisted by: Yura Konstantinova (Editor), Eleonora Naxidou (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.12.2025
• EAN: 9781032895154
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3289515-4
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, HISTORY / Modern / 21st Century, HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century, HISTORY / Modern / 18th Century, HISTORY / Europe / Eastern, HISTORY / Historiography, HISTORY / Europe / Baltic States, Historiography, History and Archaeology, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General, HISTORY / Russia / General