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Record Nr.

UNINA9910155246903321

Autore

Grgic Goran <1965-, >

Titolo

Ethnic conflict in asymmetric federations : comparative experience of the former Soviet and Yugoslav regions / / Gorana Grgic

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2017

ISBN

1-315-54516-0

1-134-82119-0

1-134-82112-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (287 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Routledge studies in federalism and decentralization ; ; 3

Disciplina

303.6/408900947

Soggetti

Ethnic conflict - Former Soviet republics

Ethnic conflict - Former Yugoslav republics

Minorities - Government policy - Soviet Union

Minorities - Government policy - Yugoslavia

Democratization - Former Soviet republics

Democratization - Former Yugoslav republics

Federal government - Soviet Union

Federal government - Yugoslavia

Soviet Union Ethnic relations Political aspects

Yugoslavia Ethnic relations Political aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- 1. Dynamics of ethnonationalist mobilization and occurrence of conflicts in asymmetric federations -- 2. USSR and SFRY : sources of war and peace in asymmetric ethnofederations -- 3. Russia and Sebia : the core as the key -- 4. The Periphery I : early to rise, early to fight? -- 5. The Periphery II : mobilizational laggards and interethnic confects -- 6. The Periphery III : the conflict near misses -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

In the last years of their existence, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY) found themselves facing a similar and very grim state of affairs. After their disintegration, the former Yugoslav republics spiralled into a set of ethnic conflicts that did not leave a single one of them unscathed,



and in the ex-Soviet space, conflicts were far more limited. This book offers an in-depth analysis of the difference in state collapses and ensuing conflicts in the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia by focusing on their asymmetric ethnofederal structure and the different dynamics of ethnic mobilization that the federal units experienced. Moreover, it explores the links between identity politics and international relations, as the latter has been a latecomer in research on ethnonationalism and ethnic conflict. Finally, it contributes to the literature on the democratization-conflict nexus by proposing that the sequencing of ethnic mobilization and political liberalization has significant effects on the likelihood of conflict. This text will be of key interest to scholars and students of Post-Soviet politics, Balkan politics, ethnic conflict, peace and conflict studies, federalism, and more broadly to comparative politics and international relations.