Nationalism

Nationalism is a key topic within Balkan Studies, and one of the driving forces behind the bloody and difficult history of the region.

An estimated one million Armenians were killed in the dying days of the Ottoman Empire in 1915.

The contest to maintain and reclaim space is firmly tied to the identity and culture of a displaced population.

India's endemic gender-based violence has received increased international scrutiny and provoked waves of domestic protest and activism.

In the last three decades, Turkey has attempted to build close relationships with Russia, Iran and the Turkic World.

Since 2010 Greece has been experiencing the longest period of austerity and economic downturn in its recent history.

The twentieth century saw dramatic changes in the once Kurd-dominated Kirkuk region of Iraq.

South Sudan, the world's youngest country, has experienced a rocky start to its life as an independent nation.

Armenian national identity has long been associated with what has come to be known as the Armenian Genocide of 1915.

The first decade of the twentieth century was the Ottoman Empire's 'imperial twilight'.

In an increasingly connected world, the engagement of diasporic communities in transnationalism has become a potent force.

Sharia has been a source of misunderstanding and misconception in both the Muslim and non-Muslim worlds.

Inequality is widening.

Turkey has witnessed remarkable sociocultural change under the regime of Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Justice and Development Party (AKP), particularly regarding its religious communities.

It has long been assumed that no Armenian presence remained in eastern Turkey after the 1915 massacres.

The question of Kosovan sovereignty and independence has a history which stretches far back beyond the outbreak of war in 1998.

In the last decade, the EU has been hit by a series of crises, most recently the UK's decision to leave the union following the Brexit referendum.

The Xi'an Stele, erected in Tang China's capital in 781, describes in both Syriac and Chinese the existence of Christian communities in northern China.

The early twenty-first century has been defined by a rise in Islamist radicalisation and a concurrent rise in far right extremism.

In 1927, Chiang Kai-shek - the head of China's military academy and leader of the Kuomintang (KMT) - began the `northern expeditions' to bring China's northern territories back under the control of the state.

Iran's presidents have defined the Islamic Republic's attitudes towards the rest of the world.

Since 2010 Greece has been experiencing the longest period of austerity and economic downturn in its recent history.

In Protectorate Cyprus, education was one of the most effective tools of imperial control and political manipulation used by the British.

The creation of Afghanistan in 1880, following the Second Anglo-Afghan War, gave an empowering voice to the Pashtun people, the largest ethnic group in a diverse country.

Nationalism is a key topic within Balkan Studies, and one of the driving forces behind the bloody and difficult history of the region.

The Hadhramis of Yemen have migrated for centuries in large numbers, establishing a diaspora that extends around the Indian Ocean, Saudi Arabia and the other Gulf States.

Railway expansion was the great industrial project of the late 19th century, and the Great Powers built railways at speed and reaped great commercial benefits.

When the British thought of themselves as a Protestant nation their natural enemy was the pope and they adapted their view of history accordingly.

The contest to maintain and reclaim space is firmly tied to the identity and culture of a displaced population.

India's endemic gender-based violence has received increased international scrutiny and provoked waves of domestic protest and activism.

In the last three decades, Turkey has attempted to build close relationships with Russia, Iran and the Turkic World.

Who are the Muslim Brotherhood and Hizbullah?

In fact, Kurds in Turkey have many diverse political and ideological orientations.

The attacks in Paris in January and November 2015 heralded the beginning of a new wave of terrorism - one rooted in the ongoing conflict in Syria and Iraq.

Bangladesh is a country of paradoxes.

Concerns about the place of Islam in Palestinian politics are familiar to those studying the history of the modern Middle East.

An estimated one million Armenians were killed in the dying days of the Ottoman Empire in 1915.

Regional struggles, wars and local confrontations have marked the south of Lebanon since the end of the 1960s.

Surrounded by steep escarpments to the north, south and east, Ethiopia has always been geographically and culturally set apart.

Whether defined as essentially 'Turkish', and therefore alien to the Lebanese experience, or remembered in its final years as a tyrannical and brutal dictatorship, the period has not been thought of fondly in most Lebanese historiography.

The Ottoman East what is also called Western Armenia, Northern Kurdistan or Eastern Anatolia compared to other peripheries of the Ottoman Empire, has received very little attention in Ottoman historiography.

Here, Vladimir Unkovski-Korica re-assesses the key episodes of Tito's rule - from the joint Stalin-Tito offensive of 1944, through to the Tito-Stalin split of 1948, the market reforms of the 1950s and the 'turn to the West' which led to Yugoslavia's non-alignment policy.

In 1992 Yugoslavia finally succumbed to civil war, collapsing under the pressure of its inherent ethnic tensions.

In response to recent media controversy and public debate about legal pluralism and multiculturalism, Manea argues against what she identifies as the growing tendency for people to be treated as 'homogenous groups' in Western academic discourse, rather than as individuals with authentic voices.

Mahmoud Darwish is the poet laureate of the Palestinian national struggle.

In July 2011, South Sudan was granted independence and became the world's newest country.

Sexual violence has been a regular feature of communal conflict in India since independence in 1947.

It was the conflict that shocked America and the world, but the struggle for peace is central to the history of the Vietnam War.

Even before the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, Turkic communities, living in states newly independent from Ottoman rule, were 'protected' by the Ottomans.

The question of belonging has formed the basis of the political, religious and cultural tensions in Lebanon, to the point that sectarian conflict on the country's future contributed significantly to the outbreak of civil war in 1975.