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Record Nr.

UNINA9910146882203321

Titolo

Potentials of disorder / / edited by Jan Koehler and Christoph Zurcher

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester ; ; New York, : Manchester University Press

New York, : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2003

ISBN

1-5261-3758-5

1-280-73419-1

9786610734191

1-84779-046-1

1-4175-8272-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

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

Collana

New approaches to conflict analysis

Altri autori (Persone)

KoehlerJan

ZurcherChristoph

Disciplina

904/.09717

Soggetti

Ethnic conflict - Europe, Eastern

Europe, Eastern Politics and government 1989-

Europe, Eastern Ethnic relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

First published: 2003.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.