{{short description|British academic, author and journalist (born 1949)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''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 [[The King's School, Worcester|King's School]], [[Worcester, England|Worcester]], and [[Hertford College, Oxford]].<ref name="Ramet & Simkus">{{cite book |editor1-last=Ramet |editor1-first=Sabrina P. |editor2-last=Simkus |editor2-first=Albert |editor3-last=Listhaug |editor3-first=Olga |title=Civic and Uncivic Values in Kosovo: History, Politics, and Value Transformation |date=2015 |publisher=Central European University Press |isbn=9789633860748 |page=413-414 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8f0OEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA413}}</ref>
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.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Pettifer |first1=James |title=Albanian Question: Reshaping the Balkans |date=2006 |publisher=I.B. Tauris |isbn=9780857710246 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yisBAwAAQBAJ |chapter=About the author}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Pettifer |first1=James |title=Kosova Express: A Journey in Wartime |date=2005 |publisher=University of Wisconsin Press |isbn=9780299204440 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GZYQfxGqUE4C |chapter=About the author}}</ref>
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]].<ref name="Ramet & Simkus" /> He is currently teaching Balkan history at the [[University of Oxford|Oxford University Faculty of History]].<ref>{{cite web |title=James Pettifer |url=https://www.simonandschuster.com/authors/James-Pettifer/188555146 |website=Simon & Schuster}}</ref>
==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.
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==External links== * [http://www.professorjamespettifer.com/ Professor James Pettifer's Official website] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20070207015718/http://www.defac.ac.uk/our-work United Kingdom Defence Academy website] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20070404182603/http://www.chathamhouse.org.uk/index.php?id=1 Chatham House website]
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