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Discourse and violent conflict--Representation of self and other in Yugoslav succesor states -- Media discourse and the politics of ethnic conflict -- The case of Yugoslavia -- Reorganizing the identification matrix: televisual construction of -- Collective identities in the early phase of Yugoslav disintegration ---- Foreclosing the other, building the war: -- A comparative analysis of Croatian and Serbian press discourses -- During the conflict in Croatia -- Events and sites of difference: mark-ing self and other in Kosovo --The Yugoslav succession wars and the war for symbolic hegemony -- Relations between Montenegro and Serbia from 1991 to 2006: -- An analysis of media discourse -- Spinning out of control: Bosnia and Herzegovina project -- Media coverage in the Bosnian conflict --Spinning out of control: mutual reinforcement discourse in Macedonia? --The semantics of silence, violence -- And social memory: the storm of the Croatian and Serbian press --Self and other in Balkan (post-)war cinema

Tarnished Heroes tar opp et viktig emne: hvordan forholder dagens ukrainere seg til arven fra ukrainsk høyrenasjonalisme og fascisme i mellomkrigstiden og under Andre verdenskrig? Boken er velskrevet og særdeles veldokumentert. Den bør kunne bli stående som et standardverk om emnet.
Tarnished Heroes explores an important issue: How do Ukrainians today relate to the legacy of Ukrainian right-wing nationalism and fascism in the interwar period and during World War II? The book is well-written and extremely well-documented, and should come to be viewed as a standard work on the subject.

John Færseths Spesialoperasjon: Ukraina og Russland 2004–2023 er en svært lesverdig og ryddig fremstilling av det kompliserte forholdet mellom Russland og Ukraina de siste 20 årene og gir en meget god bakgrunn for å forstå Russlands fullskala-angrep på Ukraina 24. februar 2022.
John Færseth's Spesialoperasjon: Ukraina og Russland 2004–2023 (Special Operation: Ukraine and Russia 2004–2023) is a highly readable, balanced and trustworthy presentation of the complicated relationship between Russia and Ukraine over the past 20 years, and provides a good background for understanding the full-scale Russian attack on Ukraine on 24 February 2022.

Boken Nationalism as an Argument in Contemporary Russia: Four Perspectives on Language in Action er Veera Laines ph.d.-avhandling som hun forsvarte ved Universitetet i Helsingfors i 2021. Den består av tre artikler, et bokkapittel og en lang og grundig innledningstekst. Alt i alt har Laine skrevet en solid, veldokumentert og teoretisk velfundert avhandling.
The book Nationalism as an Argument in Contemporary Russia: Four Perspectives on Language in Action is Vera Laine's PhD dissertation which she defended at the University of Helsinki in 2021. It contains three research articles, one book chapter and a long and thorough introductory part. All things considered, Laine has written a solid, well-documented and theoretically well-founded dissertation.

Drawing on a long career of research into the history of nationalism and ethnic politics in Europe, Stefano Bianchini has written an erudite book on how the nationality factor affects European politics – state formation and state partition in particular. He presents a wide-ranging survey over la longue durée, and also argues a case: that state partitioning should be avoided whenever possible, as it creates many more problems than it solves.

Abstract: Russia as Civilization: Ideological Discourses in Politics, Media, and AcademiaPål Kolstø (University of Oslo, Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages) reviews Russia as Civilization: Ideological Discourses in Politics, Media, and Academia, edited by Kåre Johan Mjør and Sanna Turoma (Routledge, 2020).