The Longue Durée of Paramilitarism

Dmitar Tasić, Belgrade, Serbia, Principal Research Fellow at the Institute for Recent History of Serbia. His primary interests are related to modern Serbian/Yugoslav military history, war studies, paramilitary organizing and paramilitary violence.

INTRODUCTION — Tasos Kostopoulos, “TO UNDERTAKE POLICE DUTIES IN A FOREIGN LAND”: GREEK MACEDONIAN COMITADJIS BETWEEN IRREDENTISM AND OTTOMAN PARAMILITARISM (1904-1908) — Christopher Kinley, “TO DEFEND THE INTEGRITY OF OUR TERRITORY”: PARAMILITARISM AND ANTI-DIPLOMACY IN THE GREEK-ALBANIAN BORDERLANDS, 1913-1914 — Tetsuya Sahara, RESILIENCE AND RUPTURE OF PARAMILITARISM IN THE BALKANS AND CAUCASUS — Jovo Miladinović, PROTECTING THE EMIPRE IN THE BORDERLANDS: THE CASE OF THE MITROVICA BATTALIONS (1917-1918) — Balázs Kántás, THE PERIOD OF BOMB ATTACKS, PARAMILITARY FORMATIONS AND THE WAVE OF POLITICAL TERRORISM IN HUNGARY IN THE FIRST YEARS OF THE HORTHY-ERA, 1922–1924 — Aleksandra Pomiecko, SOLDIERS REMOBILIZED IN THE EAST EUROPEAN BORDERLANDS: THE GREEN PARTISANS, 1918 – 1925 — Ivana Kolářová – Ondřej Kolář, PARAMILITARISM IN SILESIA 1918–1947 — Stevan Bozanich, PARAMILITARISM AS A WAY OF KNOWING — Shukuko Koyama, QUASI-STATE PARAMILITARISM IN GEORGIA IN THE EARLY 1990’S — Maria Vivod, BITTER HERBS ON BITTER WOUNDS. THE USE OF FELONS IN STATE SECURITY AND PARAMILITARISM — Aleksandar R. Miletić, Dmitar Tasić, BETWEEN MILITARY AND PARAMILITARY: SERBIAN AUXILIARY FORCES IN KOSOVO, 1998-1999 — INDEX