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Czecho/Slovakia : ethnic conflict, constitutional fissure, negotiated breakup / Eric Stein ; with a foreword by Lloyd Cutler.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stein, Eric.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Constitutional history--Czechoslovakia.
- Constitutional history.
- Nationalism.
- History.
- Federal government.
- Czechoslovakia.
- Federal government--Czechoslovakia--History.
- Nationalism--Czechoslovakia--History.
- Constitutional history--Czech Republic.
- Constitutional history--Slovakia.
- Czechoslovakia--Ethnic relations.
- Ethnic relations.
- Slovakia.
- Czech Republic.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxiii, 386 pages)
- Other Title:
- Czechoslovakia
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c1997.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- As the clock struck midnight on December 31, 1992, Czechoslovakia, the only genuine democracy in post-World War II Central-Eastern Europe, broke up into two independent successor states. This book explores the failed search for a post-communist constitution and it records to a lively style a singular instant e of the peaceful settlement of an ethnic dispute.
- In the background of the narrative loom general issues such as: What are the sources of ethnic conflict, and what is the impact of nationalism? Why do ethnic groups choose secession, and what makes for peaceful rather than violent separation? What factors influence the course of postcommunist constitutional negotiations that are inevitably conducted in the context of institutional and societal transformation?
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 365-377) and index.
- Description based on information from the publisher.
- ISBN:
- 0472108042
- 9780472021871
- Publisher Number:
- 10.3998/mpub.14996
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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