Author Description

Making of States: Constitutional Monarchies in the Balkans Edda Binder-Iijima and Ekkehard Kraft, University of Heidelberg. Autocrats into Bureaucrats? The Development of an Administrative Class in South-Eastern Europe Andrei Pippidi, University of Bucharest. The Formation of the Rule of Law in the Balkans Ioannis A. Tassopoulos, University of Athens. The Making of Citizenship in South-Eastern Europe Constantin Iordachi, Central European University, Budapest. The Orthodox Church in Modern State Formation in South-Eastern Europe Paschalis Kitromilides, University of Athens. State and Fiscal Policies in the Balkans Vladimir Gligorov, Vienna Institute for International Economics. Organized Violence in the Service of National Building Mogens Pelt, University of Copenhagen. The State and Local Authorities in the Balkans, 1804-1939 Dimitar Bechev, St Antony's College, Oxford. The Media and State Power in Southeastern Europe up to 1945 Holly Case, Cornell University, Ithaca. Institutions, Violence, and Captive States in Balkan History John Gledhill, London School of Economics, and Charles King, Georgetown University, Washington DC. Subversive Movements in the Political Arena Wim van Meurs, Radboud University Nijmegen. Wrong Institutions or Wrong Conjectures? Constraints on the Political Modernization of the Balkans Alina Mungiu-Pippidi, Hertie School of Governance, Berlin