Potentials of Disorder: Explaining Conflict and Stability in the Caucasus and in the Former YugoslaviaJan Koehler, Christoph Zurcher Manchester University Press, 6. ruj 2003. - Broj stranica: 277 The Caucasus and the Balkan region are almost automatically associated with conflict and war. At the core of these struggles lies the quest for a new institutional relationship between territory, the state and ethnic groups. Both regions share a similiar historical and institutional legacy which must be regarded as having paved the ground for a rise in ethno-nationalism. There is, as a result, wide potential for conflict in both regions. However, similar structural conditions do not always turn into violent conflicts. Rapid institutional change, as occurring in the former Yugoslavia and the former Soviet Union, can lead to new institutional arrangements on smaller scales - which may in turn provide stability in inter-group relations and border management. Therefore, it important that the study of conflict analysis to identify what conditions foster new orders and what factors, actors and institutions are necessary to create a stable equilibrium in intra- and inter-group conflicts. 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, and as such, should be of benefit to students of these topics. |
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Nonexistent states with strange institutions Kristóf Gosztonyi | 46 |
the Albanian mafia Xavier Raufer | 62 |
scenarios in south east Europe | 75 |
Albanian society and the quest for independence from | 91 |
Why is there stability in Dagestan but not in Chechnya? | 103 |
corruption breeds violence Pavel K Baev | 127 |
weak empire to weak nationstate | 145 |
Conflict management in the Caucasus via development of regional | 174 |
statesociety | 193 |
witnessing retribution | 208 |
Intervention in markets of violence Georg Elwert | 219 |
Institutions and the organisation of stability and violence | 243 |
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Abkhazia administrative Albanian mafia areas armed Armenian army authorities autonomous Avar Azerbaijan Azeri Balkans Belgrade Bosnia Caucasian cent central centre Chapter Chechen Chechnya clan communist cooperation CPSU criminal Croatian Croats cultural Dagestan Dargin discourse dzhamaat economic elections elite Elwert entrepreneurs escalation ethnic cleansing ethnic groups ethno-national factors Federation forces Georgia Herceg-Bosna identity important independence Ingush institutionalised institutions inter-ethnic intervention Karabakh Knin Koehler Kosovo Krajina Kumyk land reform leaders Lezgin markets of violence military Mkhedrioni mobilisation monopoly of violence Moscow movements Nagorno-Karabakh nationalist networks normative North Caucasus official organisation of violence organised violence paramilitary party peace police political population post-socialist potential problem region Republic Romania rules Russian Serbian Serbs Shevardnadze situation social socialist society South-Ossetia Soviet statehood strategy structures Tbilisi teip territory tion traditional Transcaucasia USSR violent conflict warlords weak weapons Yugoslav Yugoslavia Zagreb