James Pettifer

James Pettifer is a British academic, author and journalist who has specialised in Balkan affairs.

Biography

He was born in 1949 in Hereford and was educated at King's School, Worcester, and Hertford College, Oxford. ^[1]

Pettifer has travelled extensively in Greece, Turkey and the Balkans and he has written several tourist guides to the region, including the Blue Guide to Albania and Kosovo, one of the few such guides to the area. In the media, he has reported mainly for The Times and The Wall Street Journal and he is a regular broadcaster and commentator on the Balkan countries on both radio and television. ^{[2] [3]}

His expertise has been employed academically. He was a Senior Associate Member of St Antony's College, Oxford, and a visiting professor in the Institute of Balkan Studies, in Thessaloniki. ^[1] He is currently teaching Balkan history at the Oxford University Faculty of History. ^[4]

Works

Pettifer's published work includes:

• Turkish Labyrinth (Viking, 1997) ISBN   978-0-6708-5866-8
• Blue Guide Bulgaria (A & C Black, 1998) ISBN   978-0-3933-1796-1
• The New Macedonian Question (Springer, 1999) ISBN   978-0-2305-3579-4
• The Greeks: The Land and People Since the War (Penguin, 2000). ISBN   978-0-1402-8899-5
• Albania: From Anarchy to a Balkan Identity (with Miranda Vickers; NYU Press, 2000). ISBN   978-0-8147-8805-9
• Blue Guide Albania and Kosovo (A & C Black, 2000). ISBN   978-1-9051-3127-3
• Kosova Express: A Journey in Wartime (University of Wisconsin Press, 2005) ISBN   978-0-2992-0444-0
• The Albanian Question: Reshaping the Balkans (with Miranda Vickers; I.B. Tauris, 2009). ISBN   978-1-8488-5095-8
• The Making of the Greek Crisis (Penguin, 2012). ISBN   978-0-2419-6322-7
• The Kosova Liberation Army Underground War to Balkan Insurgency, 1948–2001 (Hurst & Company, 2012). ISBN   978-1-8490-4187-4
• Lakes and Empires in Macedonian History: Contesting the Waters (with Miranda Vickers; Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021) ISBN   978-1-3502-2614-2

He has published many papers in academic and other journals, a selection of which is available on his website.

References

1. Ramet, Sabrina P.; Simkus, Albert; Listhaug, Olga, eds. (2015). Civic and Uncivic Values in Kosovo: History, Politics, and Value Transformation. Central European University Press. p. 413-414. ISBN   9789633860748.
2. Pettifer, James (2006). "About the author". Albanian Question: Reshaping the Balkans. I.B. Tauris. ISBN   9780857710246.
3. Pettifer, James (2005). "About the author". Kosova Express: A Journey in Wartime. University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN   9780299204440.
4. "James Pettifer". Simon & Schuster.

External links

• Professor James Pettifer's Official website
• United Kingdom Defence Academy website
• Chatham House website