Extreme Politics: Nationalism, Violence, and the End of Eastern Europe

by Charles King

Book Overview

Why do some violent conflicts endure across the centuries, while others become dimly remembered ancient struggles among forgotten peoples? Is nationalism really the powerful force that it appeared to be in the 1990s? This wide-ranging work examines the conceptual intersection of nationalist ideology, social violence, and the political transformation of Europe and Eurasia over the last two decades. The end of communism seemed to usher in a period of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195370384
• ISBN13: 9780195370386
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"