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

• Pubblicazione: Manchester ; ; New York, : Manchester University Press; New York, : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2003
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (ix, 277 pages) : digital file(s)
• Disciplina: 904/.09717
• Soggetto topico: Ethnic conflict - Europe, Eastern
• Soggetto geografico: Europe, Eastern Politics and government 1989-; Europe, Eastern Ethnic relations
• Altri autori: KoehlerJan ZurcherChristoph
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Potentials of disorder
• ISBN: 9786610734191; 9781526137586; 1526137585; 9781280734199; 1280734191; 9781847790460; 1847790461; 9781417582723; 1417582723
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910146882203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: New approaches to conflict analysis.