Tanja Petrović, ed., Mirroring Europe: Ideas of Europe and Europeanization in Balkan Societies [Balkan Studies Library volume 13] (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2014), xi+207 pp.
Tanja Petrović, ed., Mirroring Europe: Ideas of Europe and Europeanization in Balkan Societies [Balkan Studies Library volume 13] (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2014), xi+207 pp.

Summary/Abstract: This insightful volume edited by Tanja Petrović is dedicated to old and new problems of conceptualizing Europe and, as its opposite or Other, the Balkans in contemporary South Slavic societies. The title refers to the wide range of possible meanings of “Europeanization” for the countries considered to be on the European periphery and to how discourses on “Europeanness” and “Balkanism” are deployed in local Balkan cultural and political debates. The articles challenge the normative view imposed from the core EU members of what it means to belong to Europe by revealing failures of the EU integration process, by critically reexamining local attempts at inscribing the idea of “Balkan” into a wider, inclusive, global community, and by positively reevaluating moments from the Yugoslav past.

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