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Malcolm's book ''Kosovo: A Short History'' (1998) has seen robust debate among historians following its release. For example, the merits of the book were the subject of an extended debate in ''Foreign Affairs''. The debate began with the review of the book by the former Fellow of the Russian Research Center at ], Aleksa Djilas. Djilas considered that Malcolm's book was "marred by his sympathies for its ethnic Albanian separatists, anti-Serbian bias, and illusions about the Balkans",{{sfn|Djilas|1998}} and Malcolm responded by asserting that Djilas had not produced any evidence to counter that produced in the book, and had instead resorted to belittling both Malcolm and his work, including the use of personal slurs and patronising language.{{sfn|Malcolm|1999c}} The debate continued with Professor ] of the ] asserting that the book lacked precision, Melanie McDonagh of the Bosnian Institute observing that Djilas' review took a "nationalistic approach", and Norman Cigar of ] stating that Djilas was trying to create myths to legitimise Serbian actions in Kosovo.<ref>{{cite web|title=List of related articles in ''Foreign Affairs''|url=http://connection.ebscohost.com/tag/MALCOLM%252C%2BNoel}}</ref><ref>Noel Malcolm, Aleksa Djilas, et al. "," ''Foreign Affairs'' (January/February 1999).</ref> Malcolm's book ''Kosovo: A Short History'' (1998) has seen robust debate among historians following its release. For example, the merits of the book were the subject of an extended debate in ''Foreign Affairs''. The debate began with the review of the book by the former Fellow of the Russian Research Center at ], Aleksa Djilas. Djilas considered that Malcolm's book was "marred by his sympathies for its ethnic Albanian separatists, anti-Serbian bias, and illusions about the Balkans",{{sfn|Djilas|1998}} and Malcolm responded by asserting that Djilas had not produced any evidence to counter that produced in the book, and had instead resorted to belittling both Malcolm and his work, including the use of personal slurs and patronising language.{{sfn|Malcolm|1999c}} The debate continued with Professor ] of the ] asserting that the book lacked precision, Melanie McDonagh of the Bosnian Institute observing that Djilas' review took a "nationalistic approach", and Norman Cigar of ] stating that Djilas was trying to create myths to legitimise Serbian actions in Kosovo.<ref>{{cite web|title=List of related articles in ''Foreign Affairs''|url=http://connection.ebscohost.com/tag/MALCOLM%252C%2BNoel}}</ref><ref>Noel Malcolm, Aleksa Djilas, et al. "," ''Foreign Affairs'' (January/February 1999).</ref>


In 1999, ] criticized Malcolm for the indifference to vandalism and destruction of Serb cultural sites in ].<ref name=simic99>{{cite news|last1=Simic|first1=Charles|title=A State of One’s Own|url=http://www.lrb.co.uk/v21/n19/letters|accessdate=22 January 2015|publisher=London Review of Books|date=30 September 1999|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140815040539/http://www.lrb.co.uk/v21/n19/letters|archivedate=15 August 2014}}</ref> Later the same year, Thomas Emmert of the history faculty of ], ] reviewed the book in ''Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Online'' and while praising aspects of the book also asserted that it was "shaped by the author's overriding determination to challenge Serbian myths", that Malcolm was "partisan", and also complained that the book made a "transparent attempt to prove that the main Serbian myths are false".{{sfn|Emmert|1999}} Malcolm responded in the same journal in early 2000, asserting that the book challenged both Albanian and Serbian myths about Kosovo, but that there were more Serbian myths about Kosovo than Albanian ones and this explained the greater coverage of Serbian myths in the book. He also observed that Emmert's perspective and work was largely within the framework of Serbian historiography, and that Emmert's own perspective was the reason for Emmert's assertion that Malcolm was "partisan".{{sfn|Malcolm|2000}} In late 1999, Thomas Emmert of the history faculty of ], ] reviewed the book in ''Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Online'' and while praising aspects of the book also asserted that it was "shaped by the author's overriding determination to challenge Serbian myths", that Malcolm was "partisan", and also complained that the book made a "transparent attempt to prove that the main Serbian myths are false".{{sfn|Emmert|1999}} Malcolm responded in the same journal in early 2000, asserting that the book challenged both Albanian and Serbian myths about Kosovo, but that there were more Serbian myths about Kosovo than Albanian ones and this explained the greater coverage of Serbian myths in the book. He also observed that Emmert's perspective and work was largely within the framework of Serbian historiography, and that Emmert's own perspective was the reason for Emmert's assertion that Malcolm was "partisan".{{sfn|Malcolm|2000}}


Other reviews of ''Kosovo: A Short History'' were varied. For example, in '']'', Zbyněk Zeman observed that Malcolm "tries not to take sides",{{sfn|Zeman|1999}} but in '']'', Nicholas J. Miller concluded that the book was "conceptually flawed" due to Malcolm's insistence on treating Kosovo as "a place on its own; a scrap of ''irredenta'' that Serbs and Albanians fight over".{{sfn|Miller|1998}} Other reviews of ''Kosovo: A Short History'' were varied. For example, in '']'', Zbyněk Zeman observed that Malcolm "tries not to take sides",{{sfn|Zeman|1999}} but in '']'', Nicholas J. Miller concluded that the book was "conceptually flawed" due to Malcolm's insistence on treating Kosovo as "a place on its own; a scrap of ''irredenta'' that Serbs and Albanians fight over".{{sfn|Miller|1998}}

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Sir Noel Malcolm
BornNoel Robert Malcolm
(1956-12-26) 26 December 1956 (age 68)
Surrey, England, United Kingdom
OccupationHistorian, journalist
NationalityBritish
Alma materEton College
Peterhouse, Cambridge
Trinity College, Cambridge
SubjectHistory, politics, biography, literature

Sir Noel Robert Malcolm FBA FRSL (born 26 December 1956) is an English historian and journalist.

Education

Malcolm was educated at Eton College as a King's Scholar and read history at Peterhouse, Cambridge between 1974 and 1978. He received his PhD degree in History from Trinity College, Cambridge, and was a Fellow and College Lecturer of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge from 1981 to 1988.

Career

He was a political columnist (1987–1991) then the foreign editor (1991–1992) of The Spectator, and a political columnist for the Daily Telegraph (1992–1995). He was jointly awarded the T. E. Utley Prize for Political Journalism in 1991. In 1995 he gave up journalism to become a full–time writer. Malcolm was a visiting Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford in 1995–1996, and has been a Senior Research Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford since 2002. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (FRSL) in 1997, and a Fellow of the British Academy in 2001. He is a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Fishmongers. He is a Member of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Kosovo, and an Honorary Fellow of both Peterhouse, Cambridge (since 2010) and Trinity College, Cambridge (since 2011). He serves on the advisory board of the conservative magazine Standpoint.

He is currently the chairman of the Bosnian Institute, London, and is the president of the Anglo-Albanian Association.

Malcolm was knighted in the 2014 New Year Honours for services to scholarship, journalism, and European history.

Works

Books

Malcolm is the author of De Dominis, 1560–1624: Venetian, Anglican, ecumenist, and relapsed heretic (1984), George Enescu: His Life and Music (1990), Bosnia: A Short History (1994), Origins of English Nonsense (1997), Kosovo: A Short History (1998), Books on Bosnia: A Critical Bibliography (1999), Aspects of Hobbes (2002), and (with Jacqueline Stedall) John Pell (1611–1685) and His Correspondence with Sir Charles Cavendish: The Mental World of an Early Modern Mathematician (2005). He has edited The Correspondence of Thomas Hobbes (1994) and Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan (Oxford University Press, 2012), for which he was awarded a British Academy Medal.

Journalism

Malcolm has written many articles for newspapers, magazines and journals. Other than his work for The Spectator, the Daily Telegraph and Standpoint he has had articles published in The Guardian, The Sunday Telegraph, the New York Times, Washington Times, Time and the Daily Mail among other publications. He has also contributed book reviews mainly to The Sunday Telegraph. He has contributed to a number of scholarly journals including Foreign Affairs and the New York Review of Books.

Critical reviews and debates

Malcolm's book Kosovo: A Short History (1998) has seen robust debate among historians following its release. For example, the merits of the book were the subject of an extended debate in Foreign Affairs. The debate began with the review of the book by the former Fellow of the Russian Research Center at Harvard University, Aleksa Djilas. Djilas considered that Malcolm's book was "marred by his sympathies for its ethnic Albanian separatists, anti-Serbian bias, and illusions about the Balkans", and Malcolm responded by asserting that Djilas had not produced any evidence to counter that produced in the book, and had instead resorted to belittling both Malcolm and his work, including the use of personal slurs and patronising language. The debate continued with Professor Stevan K. Pavlowitch of the University of Southampton asserting that the book lacked precision, Melanie McDonagh of the Bosnian Institute observing that Djilas' review took a "nationalistic approach", and Norman Cigar of Marine Corps University stating that Djilas was trying to create myths to legitimise Serbian actions in Kosovo.

In late 1999, Thomas Emmert of the history faculty of Gustavus Adolphus College, Minnesota reviewed the book in Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans Online and while praising aspects of the book also asserted that it was "shaped by the author's overriding determination to challenge Serbian myths", that Malcolm was "partisan", and also complained that the book made a "transparent attempt to prove that the main Serbian myths are false". Malcolm responded in the same journal in early 2000, asserting that the book challenged both Albanian and Serbian myths about Kosovo, but that there were more Serbian myths about Kosovo than Albanian ones and this explained the greater coverage of Serbian myths in the book. He also observed that Emmert's perspective and work was largely within the framework of Serbian historiography, and that Emmert's own perspective was the reason for Emmert's assertion that Malcolm was "partisan".

Other reviews of Kosovo: A Short History were varied. For example, in English Historical Review, Zbyněk Zeman observed that Malcolm "tries not to take sides", but in American Historical Review, Nicholas J. Miller concluded that the book was "conceptually flawed" due to Malcolm's insistence on treating Kosovo as "a place on its own; a scrap of irredenta that Serbs and Albanians fight over".

Notes

  1. Malcolm 2000, p. 124.
  2. ^ Debretts2012. sfn error: no target: CITEREFDebretts2012 (help)
  3. panmacmillan.com 2012. sfn error: no target: CITEREFpanmacmillan.com2012 (help)
  4. ^ all-souls.ox.ac.uk 2012. sfn error: no target: CITEREFall-souls.ox.ac.uk2012 (help)
  5. Standpoint 2012. sfn error: no target: CITEREFStandpoint2012 (help)
  6. bosnia.org.uk 2012. sfn error: no target: CITEREFbosnia.org.uk2012 (help)
  7. Elsie 2010, p. 14.
  8. "No. 60728". The London Gazette (invalid |supp= (help)). 31 December 2013.
  9. Malcolm 2008.
  10. Malcolm 2001.
  11. Malcolm 1999a.
  12. Malcolm 1999b.
  13. Malcolm 1998a.
  14. Malcolm 1996.
  15. Malcolm 1995.
  16. ^ Malcolm 1999c.
  17. Malcolm 1998b.
  18. Djilas 1998.
  19. "List of related articles in Foreign Affairs".
  20. Noel Malcolm, Aleksa Djilas, et al. "Is Kosovo Real? The Battle Over History Continues," Foreign Affairs (January/February 1999).
  21. Emmert 1999.
  22. Malcolm 2000.
  23. Zeman 1999.
  24. Miller 1998.

References

Books

Journals

Newspapers and magazines

  • Malcolm, Noel (12 November 1995), "David Owen and His Balkan Bungling", The Sunday Telegraph {{citation}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help); Invalid |ref=harv (help)
  • Malcolm, Noel (6 November 1996), "The Grandee and a Question of Genocide", Daily Mail {{citation}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help); Invalid |ref=harv (help)
  • Malcolm, Noel (30 March 1998a), "The Past Must Not be Prologue", Time {{citation}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help); Invalid |ref=harv (help)
  • Malcolm, Noel (16 July 1998b), "Kosovo's History", New York Review of Books, retrieved 14 December 2012 {{citation}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
  • Malcolm, Noel (9 June 1999a), "Independence for Kosovo", The New York Times, retrieved 14 December 2012 {{citation}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
  • Malcolm, Noel (4 May 1999b), "Response to Amos Perlmutter's Op-ed 'Who Will Run Kosovo'", Washington Times {{citation}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help); Invalid |ref=harv (help)
  • Malcolm, Noel (1 July 2001), "Milosevic Was Doomed by Press Freedom", The Sunday Telegraph {{citation}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help); Invalid |ref=harv (help)
  • Malcolm, Noel (26 February 2008), "Is Kosovo Serbia? We ask a historian", The Guardian, retrieved 14 December 2012 {{citation}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)

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