The Balkans over Years

About the Book

The book The Balkans over Years: History and Politics is a collection of book reviews written over a period of almost two decades and published in various issues in the South Slav Journal. The books reviewed are multidisciplinary, covering economic, social, political, military, historical, linguistic, legal, literary, and even psychological and psychoanalitical facets of analysis of complex life in the Balkans. The aim of this book is to present a wide range of topics relevant to the Balkans with a view of bridging the gaps in opinions and arriving at conclusions, which will approach objective truth.

About the Author

Tahir Mahmutefendic was born in Tuzla, Yugoslavia, now Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 1959 his family moved to Sarajevo, where he finished his education in 1978, gaining a first class honours from the Faculty of Economics at the University of Sarajevo, where he subsequently worked as a lecturer in Political Economics and Finance. In 1987 he earned a Master of Philosophy degree in International Economics from Belgrade University and in 1996 a PhD degree from the same university. Tahir Mahmutefendic published six books and tens of articles and book reviews. Currently he is a professor of Economics at Sarajevo School of Science and Technology and a private university in Vitez/Travnik. Tahir Mahmutefendic was a youth chess champion of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1975 and is a Bosnian chess master. He speaks eight languages.