Potentials of disorder / edited by Jan Koehler and Christoph Zürcher.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Koehler, Jan.

Zürcher, Christoph.

Series:

New approaches to conflict analysis.

New approaches to conflict analysis

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social conflict--Caucasus.

Social conflict.

Social conflict--Yugoslavia.

Ethnic conflict--Europe, Eastern.

Ethnic conflict.

Europe, Eastern--Politics and government--1989-.

Europe, Eastern.

Europe, Eastern--Ethnic relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 277 pages) : digital file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave

Other Title:

Explaining conflict and stability in the Caucasus and in the former Yugoslavia

Place of Publication:

Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2003.

Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

English

System Details:

data file

Summary:

The Caucasus and the Balkan region are automatically associated with conflict and war. This text brings together a selection of case studies and theoretical approaches aimed at identifying the institutions which prevented or fostered escalation of conflict in the Caucasus and former Yugoslavia.

Contents:

Introduction: potentials of disorder in the Caucasus and Yugoslavia

1. Discourses, actors, violence: the organisation of war-escalation in the Krajina region of Croatia 1990-911

2. Non-existent states with strange institutions

3. A neglected dimension of conflict: the Albanian mafia

4. Land reforms and ethnic tensions: scenarios in south east Europe

5. 'Freedom!': Albanian society and the quest for independence from statehood in Kosovo and Macedonia

6. Why is there stability in Dagestan but not in Chechnya?

7. Civil wars in Georgia: corruption breeds violence

8. The art of losing the state: weak empire to weak nation-state around Nagorno-Karabakh

9. Conflict management in the Caucasus via development of regional identity

10. Bringing culture back into a concept of rationality: state-society relations and conflict in post-socialist Transcaucasia

11. Reconciliation after ethnic cleansing: witnessing, retribution and domestic reform

12. Intervention in markets of violence

13. Institutions and the organisation of stability and violence

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

First published: 2003.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

CC BY-NC-ND

ISBN:

9786610734191

9781526137586

1526137585

9781280734199

1280734191

9781847790460

1847790461

9781417582723

1417582723

OCLC:

559803648

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access