Conflict and Memory: Bridging Past and Future in (South East) Europe

Edited by Wolfgang Petritsch | Vedran Dzihic

(Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft - Southeast European Integration Perspectives, volume 3), 2010), 326 pp.

Conflict and Memory: Bridging Past and Future in [ South East ] Europepresents a series of essays with a focus on reconstructing Europe's past. The book treats the Balkans as integral part of the common European history. In fact, many countries that are already European Union members also have conflicting memories and are to this very day involved in a complex process of, first, coming to terms with their own past; second, acknowledging each other’s conflicting memories; and, third, trying to (re)construct a common European memory as part of transnational memory spaces.