UID:
edocfu_9958059205102883
Format:
1 online resource (ix, 277 pages) :
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digital file(s).
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-5261-3758-5
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1-280-73419-1
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9786610734191
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1-84779-046-1
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1-4175-8272-3
Series Statement:
New approaches to conflict analysis
Content:
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.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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First published: 2003.
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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.
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Also available in print form.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-7190-6241-1
Language:
English
