Self-government in Serbia and Bulgaria 1878–1914

The book Local Self-government in Serbia and Bulgaria 1878–1914 by Miroslav Svirčević, jointly published by the Službeni Glasnik publishing house and the Institute for Balkan Studies, has been released in mid October. It is a comparative study that involves several disciplines in the areas of legal, political and historical sciences with the purpose of showing the different extents to which the two Balkan states followed the west-European models of local self-government in a turbulent period in European history, marked by the abrupt deterioration of the Ottoman Empire, the national awakening of the Balkan peoples under Ottoman rule and rivalries of the major European powers pursuing their particular interests. The book offers a lot of very useful data that shed light on an aspect of the modern legal and political history of Serbia and Bulgaria.