This volume provides us with new knowledge and better understanding of various instances of paramilitary organizing in the Balkans, East Central Europe and the Caucasus. during the 20th century. Through various methodological approaches its authors tried to theoretically conceptualize and reassess this increasingly present and important phenomenon.
As turbulent events including war, civil war, armed intervention, humanitarian crises and civil unrest unfold around the globe, the actions of various types of paramilitary organization have attracted considerable attention in academic circles, as well as among the public. This volume brings together a wide range of respected authors from a variety of academic backgrounds, building on a rapidly developing literature on paramilitarism, with a focus on the Balkans, East-Central Europe, and the Caucasus. It represents the outcome of a major research project undertaken by the Balkan History Association. Chapters cover historical examples and various aspects of paramilitarism, including relationships with the state, legal contexts, conduct towards civilian populations, governance, recruitment, links to organized crime or terrorism, violence, and memory and legacy. Overall, this book aims to reassess the existing body of knowledge, and to offer a new theoretical conceptualization of paramilitarism spanning the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Synopsis Dmitar Tasi/Aleksandar R. Mileti: Enduring Legacy and
Complex Realities of Paramilitarism. An Introduction Tasos Kostopoulos: "To
Undertake Police Duties in a Foreign Land": Greek Macedonian Komitadjis
Between Irredentism and Ottoman Paramilitarism (19041908) Christopher
Kinley: "To Defend the Integrity of our Territory": Paramilitarism and
Anti-Diplomacy in the Greek-Albanian Borderlands, 19131914 Tetsuya Sahara:
Resilience and Rupture of Paramilitarism in the Balkans and Caucasus Jovo
Miladinovi: Protecting the Empire in the Borderlands: The Case of the
Mitrovica Battalions (19171918) Balįzs Kįntįs: Exploding Patriotism?
Quasi-State Paramilitary Formations and the Wave of Terrorism in Hungary in
the First Years of the Horthy-Era, 19221924 Aleksandra Pomiecko: Soldiers
Remobilized in the East European Borderlands: The Green Partisans, 19181925
Ivana Kolįovį/OndejKolį: Paramilitarism in Silesia 19181947 Stevan
Bozanich: Paramilitarism as a Way of Knowing: Second World War Yugoslav
Chetniks as Case Study Shukuko Koyama: Quasi-State Paramilitarism in
Georgia in the Early 1990s Maria Vivod: Bitter Herbs on Bitter Wounds: The
Use of Felons in State Security and Paramilitarism Aleksandar R.
Mileti/Dmitar Tasi: Between Military and Paramilitary: Serbian Auxiliary
Forces in Kosovo, 19981999 Contributors Index.
Dmitar Tasi, Belgrade, Serbia, Principal Research Fellow at the Institute for Recent History of Serbia. His primary interests are related to modern Serbian/Yugoslav military history, war studies, paramilitary organizing and paramilitary violence.
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