LEADER 03984oam 2200673I 450 001 9910155246903321 005 20240505174215.0 010 $a1-315-54516-0 010 $a1-134-82119-0 010 $a1-134-82112-3 024 7 $a10.4324/9781315545165 035 $a(CKB)3710000000973637 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4771787 035 $a(OCoLC)968767209 035 $a(BIP)56234868 035 $a(BIP)56111060 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000973637 100 $a20180706d2017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aEthnic conflict in asymmetric federations $ecomparative experience of the former Soviet and Yugoslav regions /$fGorana Grgic 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aLondon ;$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2017. 215 $a1 online resource (287 pages) $cillustrations 225 0 $aRoutledge studies in federalism and decentralization ;$v3 311 08$a1-138-68242-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction -- 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. 330 $aIn 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. 606 $aEthnic conflict$zFormer Soviet republics 606 $aEthnic conflict$zFormer Yugoslav republics 606 $aMinorities$xGovernment policy$zSoviet Union 606 $aMinorities$xGovernment policy$zYugoslavia 606 $aDemocratization$zFormer Soviet republics 606 $aDemocratization$zFormer Yugoslav republics 606 $aFederal government$zSoviet Union 606 $aFederal government$zYugoslavia 607 $aSoviet Union$xEthnic relations$xPolitical aspects 607 $aYugoslavia$xEthnic relations$xPolitical aspects 615 0$aEthnic conflict 615 0$aEthnic conflict 615 0$aMinorities$xGovernment policy 615 0$aMinorities$xGovernment policy 615 0$aDemocratization 615 0$aDemocratization 615 0$aFederal government 615 0$aFederal government 676 $a303.6/408900947 700 $aGrgic$b Goran$f1965-,$0993212 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910155246903321 996 $aEthnic conflict in asymmetric federations$92274267 997 $aUNINA