Welcome to the Desert of Post-Socialism keyword-military Public Access insists that academics

Public Access insists that academics must exercise more responsibility towards the publics who underwrite but often misunderstand their work and its significance

to the machinations of legal experts and the continued connivance of the international community

it results from rising rents and their capture by the actors best endowed in the economic game

A first section focuses on the cultural politics of emergency since 9/11

Welcome to the Desert of Post-Socialism keyword-military Public Access insists that academicsThis volume offers a profound analysis of post socialist economic and political transformation in the Balkans, involving deeply unequal societies and oligarchical democracies. The contributions deconstruct the persistent imaginary of the Balkans, pervasive among outsiders to the region, who see it as no more than a repository of ethnic conflict, corruption and violence. Providing a much needed critical examination of the Yugoslav socialist experience,