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Record Nr.

UNINA9910300499003321

Autore

Stjepanović Dejan

Titolo

Multiethnic Regionalisms in Southeastern Europe : Statehood Alternatives / / by Dejan Stjepanović

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018

ISBN

1-137-58585-4

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XI, 215 p. 7 illus.)

Collana

Comparative Territorial Politics

Disciplina

320.54

Soggetti

Regionalism

Comparative politics

Europe—Politics and government

World politics

Comparative Politics

European Politics

Political History

Balkan Peninsula Ethnic relations

Balkan Peninsula

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Sommario/riassunto

This book is based on a comparative study of regionalisms in Croatia’s regions of Dalmatia and Istria as well as Serbia’s Vojvodina. The monograph’s main focus is on regionalist political party strategies since 1990, and within that, each case study considers history and historiography, inter-group relations, economics, and region-building. The analysis demonstrates that many of the common assumptions about the causal determinants of territorial autonomy projects and outcomes, as well as about a teleological and unidirectional path from regionalism to nationalism, do not stand up to scrutiny. The author introduces original concepts such as plurinational, multinational and sectional regionalism to theories of nationalism and territorial politics. This book will appeal to scholars and upper-level students interested in



territorial politics, federalism, nationalism and comparative politics. .