Strategies of symbolic nation-building in South Eastern Europe / edited by Pål Kolstø.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kolstø, Pål, author, editor.

Series:

Southeast European Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nation-building--Balkan Peninsula.

Nation-building.

Balkan Peninsula--Politics and government--1989-.

Balkan Peninsula.

Politics and government.

Physical Description:

xiii, 272 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2014]

Contents:

Introduction / Pål Kolstø

Fulfilling the thousand-year-old dream : strategies of symbolic nation-building in Croatia / Vjeran Pavlakovič

Jaws of the nation and weak embraces of the state : the lines of division, indifference and loyalty in Bosnia-Herzegovina / Ana Devič

Serbia and the symbolic (re)construction of the nation / Vladan Jovanovič

When two hands rock the cradle : symbolic dimensions of the divide over statehood and identity in Montenegro / Jelena Dzankic

Kosovo : topography of the construction of the nation / Vjollca Krasniqi

Strategies for creating the Macedonian state and nation and rival projects between 1991 and 2012 / Ljupcho S. Risteski, Armanda Kodra Hysa

Status report Albania 100 years : symbolic nation-building completed? / Cecilie Endresen

Conclusions : success and failure of nation-building, structural vs. political factors / Pål Kolstø and Vatroslav Jelovica.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781472419163

1472419162

1472419170

9781472419170

1472419189

9781472419187

OCLC:

863127551