Contents Editors and Contributors 9 Foreword 13 Introduction 17 Kemali Saybaşılı SECTION I: HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL SETTING 1 An Example of Balkan Diplomacy: Ottoman Foreign Policy During the Bulgarian Independence Crisis, 1908-1909 37 Hasan Önal 2 Ottoman Legacy in the Balkans 55 Maria Todorova 3 National and Regional Identity in Southeast Europe 75 Alexandru Dutu 4 Political Culture in the Balkan States during the Interwar Period 85 Wolfgang Hopken 5 Turkish National Identity, Turkish Nationalism, and the Balkan Question 101 Tanıl Bora 6 Nationality in the Balkans: The Case of the Macedonians 121 F.A.K. Yasamee 7Nationalism in Serbia 133 Ivo Banac 8 Bosnian Muslims: Historical Background and Present Conflicts 153 Smail Balic 9 The Kosovo Problem and Disintegation of Yugoslavia 161 Muhamedin Kullashi 10 Problems and Prospects for Croatia 171 Mladen Stanicic 11 Bosnia-Herzegovina: the Laboratory of the New International Order 177 Robert Anciaux SECTION II: BALKAN, TURKISH, AND EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES 12 Changing Bulgaria in the Changing Balkans 189 Ekaterina Nikova 13 Greek Security Challenges in the 1990s 197 Theodore Couloumbis and Prodromos Yannas 14 Romania and the Security Problems in the Balkans 215 Valeria Tudor 15 Did Genscher Disunite Yugoslavia? Myths and Facts about the Foreign Policy of United Germany 221 Heinz Jurgen-Axt 16 Russia and the Balkans 243 Albert Sergeyevich Chernishev 17 British Foreign Policy after the Cold War: The Case of Former Yugoslavia 245 Brian White 18 Regional Security in the Balkans and the Role of Turkey: an Italian Perspective 257 Luciano Bozzo and Rodolfo Ragionieri 19 Continuity and Change in Turkish Foreign Policy in the Balkans 281 Gencer Özcan 20 Turkish Diplomatic Initiatives for Bosnia-Hercegovina 295 Şule Kut 21 Military Imbalances and their Adverse Effects in the Balkans 317 Süha llmar 22 The Balkans and Turkey: a European Sideshow 321 Dirk Jan van Baar 23 The EC and the Balkans Today 327 Michael Lake 24 Europe and the Balkans: the New Challenge 333 Simon Petermann 25 Conflicts in Former Yugoslavia: Some General Lessons and Conclusions 339 Hanspeter Neuhold 26 Is It Possible in a 'Balkanizing' World to Have Less Balkanization in the Balkans? 347 Osman Olcay