This volume is one of the results of a six-months project “Cultural boundaries in Europe: The
Balkans in focus”, financed by the Centre for European Studies at Lund University. The
primary goal of the project was to create a network of scholars from Scandinavia and the
countries of the Yugoslav successor states interested in studying the cultural and political
developments in the post-Yugoslav space. The crucial step in the construction of this
network was the conference (with the same title as the project) during which the members of …

The premise of The Balkans in Focus is the assertion that Europe cannot be defined simply
in diametric terms such as East and West or Balkan and non-Balkan, etc. This recent
contribu-tion to Balkan studies" focus [es] on problems of culture and cultural boundaries in
the