Southern Europe

Introduction: Peace Movements in Southern Europe during the 1970s and 1980s

“…18 Notwithstanding repeated scholarly efforts, however, it had never led to the institutionalisation of a well-defined field of area studies: 'At the end of the day, "Southern Europe" remains a highly elusive concept,' as one scholar put it. 19 That this was the case was also due to its lack of clear-cut boundaries and of geographical coherence, in contrast to the spatial concept of the Mediterranean 20 -which, moreover, is often used as a synonym for the European South, referring to the Euro-Mediterranean region. 21 Even though, after a short boom lasting until the 1990s, academic interest in the European South was flattening out after the end of the Cold War, Southern Europe did not disappear entirely from scholarly discourse.…”