Author: Tanter, Raymond; Joint Author: Psarouthakis, John
Hardcover
Published: July 1999
St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 031221457X

Balancing in the Balkans treats the Balkans as a laboratory for exploring ideas about globalism, the creation of transnational economic communities from capital flows across political boundaries, tribalism, and the disintegration of nations into ethnic factions based upon ancient hatreds. In their book, Raymond Tanter and John Psarouthakis debate the best way to achieve balance and how parties in conflict can learn moderation and peaceful coexistence. Because Tanter thinks the world is Americanized, he argues that moderation from the Midwestern United States might become an exportcommodity. But Psarouthakis believes that America is unique in time and place and there is little market for its moderation in a world of parochial hatreds such as the Balkans, where there is a race f