Comparative Southeast European Studies 71, no. 2, 2023, has been published in open access: https://www.degruyter.com/journal/key/soeu/71/2/html
Caterina Preda (Bucharest) engages with the postcommunist strategies of reckoning with the past in Romania and Bulgaria in the period 1990–2020. Hamza Karčić (Sarajevo) gives an inventory of Holocaust survivor Simon Wiesenthal’s advocacy for Bosnia during the 1992–1995 war, based on primary sources at the Simon Wiesenthal Archive in Vienna. Stef Jansen (Sarajevo) provides historical depth to recent analyses of the “Balkan Route” through Bosnia and Herzegovina with his reconstruction of the making of a border/mobility assemblage during the first two and a half decades of that state’s existence. Claudia Laštro (Graz), Florian Bieber (Graz) and Jovana Marović (Podgorica) analyse the sociopolitical mechanisms that contributed to the 30-year predominance of the Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS) in Montenegro that only recently came to a halt. In the open section, Petru Negură (Regensburg) contributes a lucid essay in which he explores a collection of street interviews broadcast from March 2022 to March 2023 in the Republic of Moldova via 34 radio programmes, in which respondents voiced their opinion on the war against Ukraine and its implications for Moldova.
Articles
Caterina Preda Postsocialist Statuary Politics in Romania and Bulgaria: An Ambivalent Socialist Heritage 147
Hamza Karčić A Supporter in Vienna: Simon Wiesenthal and the War in Bosnia 169
Stef Jansen How Bosnia and Herzegovina Was Bordered: The Supervised Making of a Border/Mobility Assemblage in the European Semiperiphery 190
Claudia Laštro, Florian Bieber and Jovana Marović Mechanisms of Dominance: Understanding 30 Years in Power of Montenegro’s Democratic Party of Socialists 210
Essay
Petru Negură What Do Moldovans Think of and How Do They Talk about the Russian Aggression against Ukraine? Prolegomena for Qualitative Inquiry 237
Book Reviews
Jure Ramšak Balázs Apor and John Paul Newman, eds., Balkan Legacies: The Long Shadow of Conflict and Ideological Experiment in Southeastern Europe 252
Sören Keil Christophe Solioz, Viva La Transición: The Balkans from the Post-Wall Era to Post-Crisis Future 255
Dina Vozab Tarik Jusić, Manuel Puppis, Laia Castro Herrero and Davor Marko, eds., Up in the Air? The Future of Public Service Media in the Western Balkans 257
Stefan Berger Peter Wegenschimmel, Zombiewerften oder Hungerkünstler? Staatlicher Schiffbau in Ostmitteleuropa nach 1970 261