- Hardcover: 192 pages
- Publisher: Texas A & M University Press; 1 edition (31 May 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 158544183X
- ISBN-13: 978-1585441839
- Product Dimensions: 24.1 x 16 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,161,802 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This is an account of the war in the Balkans during the 1990s. As the only member of NATO and the European Union to support Slobodan Milosevic's regime in the conflict following the breakup of Yugoslavia, Greece broke ranks with its western allies, frustrating their efforts to impose sanctions against Serbia. The work looks at Greek-Serbian relations and tackles the difficult question of how the Greek people could ignore Serbian aggression and war crimes. Journalistic accounts are combined with anecdotes and personal interviews to show a pattern of Greek support for Milosevic and Radovan Karadzic that implicates Greek politicians from all parties, as well as the Greek Orthodox Church, the Greek media, and ultimately the Greek people themselves. The evidence and conclusions presented aim to question the opinion that a new liberal order replaced the ideological standoff of the Cold War, but it will not surprise those who suspected that older allegiances have now claimed loyaties of many of the world's peoples.
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A loud voice on a denied issue,
By Mem (England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Unholy Alliance: Greece and Serbia in the Nineties (Eastern European Studies) (Hardcover)
Politicians nowadays promote and talk about an "Axis of evil". Problem is they only give them these labels for people that are against their interests in an area and ignore the actions of other groups whom they favour that still go against their Democratic non-terrorist criteria. Greece an EU country supplied support and aid to the Serbian Chetniks against the defenceless Muslim community of Bosnia and the Albanian Muslims of Kosovo, who make up 90% of the population of that province. It was condoned by the EU as Greece is judged by it's past heritage and shaping of Europe rather then it's current politics. Just as neo-imperialsim and Eurocentrism fuelled Nazism (a very hard lesson for Europe and one it has learnt from very well)the same offspring has fuelled the Pan Hellenic Orthodox ideology of Greece since the 19th Century and it's still thriving, which fuelled Greek support for Serbian atrocities by identifying these groups with the Ottomans. This ideology has also led to the distortion of History for geopolitical reasons such as Macedonia, which was originally Thracian (the Romanians ancestors) before becoming Slavic in the 7th Century so how can Macedonia be 3000 years of Greek history. If Europe has learnt it's lesson from the Second world war why does it ignore certain groups on it's door step as history will repeat itself with a great Balkan war.
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A fascinating book on a little talked about subject!!,
By A Customer
This review is from: Unholy Alliance: Greece and Serbia in the Nineties (Eastern European Studies) (Hardcover)
A fascinating book on a little talked about subject!! Takis Michas analyzes the pro-western facade of theGreek political class,only to discover the grim face of xenophobia, ethnic nationalism and Orthodox Christian fundamentalism. Michas claims that Greece did not side with Milosevic's 's and Karadzic's Serbia during the war in Bosnia because of geo-strategic reasons;its support reflected of the ethnonational ideology that dominates Greek society. I do not however wholy agree on this point with the author. The truth is
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Accurate but one-sided,
By RM (London Colney, HE UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Unholy Alliance: Greece and Serbia in the Nineties (Eastern European Studies) (Hardcover)
First of all, before I review this book I would just like to point out that I respect everyone's opinion of the interpretations of the Balkan conflict, even when they differ from my own. Now then, Michas appears to be a very humane man, interested in the human rights of Albanians and all other ethnic groups in the Balkans, except for the Serbs, it seems. He argues in his book that the Greek people who stood in solidarity with the Serbs during NATO's 78 day bombing campaign in 1999 were not supporting the Serb people but supporting Milosevic's government and therefore supporting ethnic cleansing and war crimes. Yet, there is no evidence of this. This seems to be simple conjecture, rather than solid fact. He also claims that the Greek media was very one-sided during the Balkan conflict, only showing the Serbs' side of the story, while he himself falls into the same trap; that is, showing only the Muslims' and Albanians' suffering. He also seems to have nothing but contempt for those Greek volunteers who helped the Serbs during the 1992-1995 Bosnian War, attributing collective guilt to all of them i.e. treating all of them as war criminals, when there is no evidence to suggest that they all committed war crimes.
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