Territory, identity, transformation : A Baltic-Balkan comparison

Abstract

First published in Eurozine (English version) / Kulturos barai 10/2010 (Lithuanian version)Lithuania and Bulgaria: two nations on the peripheries of central Europe, both bearing strong traces of former Empires. Subjected to neoliberal forces of disintegration, historical identities re-pattern along new lines of conflict, the politics of '89 now redundant in the regulated zone of market democracy that is new Europe. Ivaylo Ditchev and Tomas Kavaliauskas share Baltic-Balkan perspectives on the presentVytauto Didžiojo universiteta