The Balkans and the Geopolitics of Populations
Résumé
Like any region of the world, the Balkans are defined by a geographic space and popu-lation. Albert Londres, a master of investigative journalism, demonstrated the great dif-ficulty in understanding it. Is it possible to refute it? With this context, let us study the geopolitics of the settlement of the Balkans adhering to an innovative approach, which frees itself from the logic of a state-by-state study, analyzing the settlement not from the legal nationalities as conferred by States or by residence in States (the inhabitants of Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia...), but from the ethnic groups per-spective (i.e. Albanians, Bulgarians, Croats, Greeks, Serbs...) whatever their state terri-tory of residence or legal affiliation. The angle adopted here is that of nationality, in the common sense of use in different countries, based on an ethnic conception: a set of common characteristics shared by a human group, very often the language or, particu-larly in the Balkans, religion. It is thus a question of examining the "human groups" present in the Balkans, independently of the intra-Balkan political borders. It is there-fore important to assess the distribution of groups according to nationalities, the greater or lesser compactness of their population and their distribution according to States.
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