Subject: K Law (General)
Year: 2025
Type: Article
Type: NonPeerReviewed
Title: HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL (NON)- DIFFERENCES BETWEEN EUROPE AND THE BALKANS
Author: CONEV, Blagoj
Abstract: When we talk about Europe in its cultural borders, it must be noted that the very same borders largely exceed the political ones of the European Union. Namely, if until now we imagined Europe only as the part that is geographically located west of the rivers Oder, Danube and Sava, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, Europe is starting to open to its East and to absorb the territories that historically have always belonged to the continent. Namely, that is the Central part of the continent, but also the Southeast, which is known under its geographical determinant as the Balkans. But, although politically that old Europe is more and more successful in taking over Central Europe, both politically and economically and also culturally, it seems to has a problem with the Balkans. The focus of research in this text will be focused on the fact that the problem that does not arise because the Balkans themselves is not part of Europe, but because the Balkans themselves, in addition to embodying Europe in a nutshell, ie its history throughout European history, is a blind spot on the continent that has always been a pejorative for the Europeans themselves. Hence the hypothesis that will be proven in this text: “Although it is culturally and politically pejorative, the Balkans is still an inseparable part of Europe”. This hypothesis will be operationalized by comparative analysis through the working thesis that: Balkans' culture represents the core of European cultural diversity and provides the foundation of the European motto - In varietate concordia.
Publisher: Center for Peace and Transcultural CommunicationUniversity of Tetova & Northern Illinois University
Relation: https://eprints.unite.edu.mk/1997/
Identifier: oai:eprints.unite.edu.mk:1997
Identifier: https://eprints.unite.edu.mk/1997/1/Freedom%202024-9-16.pdfIdentifier: CONEV, Blagoj (2025) HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL (NON)- DIFFERENCES BETWEEN EUROPE AND THE BALKANS. Journal for Peacebuilding and Transcultural Communication, 5 (9-10). pp. 9-16.
