Potentials of Disorder: Explaining Conflict and Stability in the Caucasus and in the Former Yugoslavia (New Approaches to Conflict Analysis) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0719062411 ISBN 13: 9780719062414

Publisher: Manchester University Press, 2003

Synopsis

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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About the Author:

Christoph Zurcher is Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science, Institute of Eastern European Studies. Jan Koehler is researcher at the Institute for Ethnology and Social Anthropology, both at the Free University Berlin.

About this edition

• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0719062411
• ISBN 13: 9780719062414
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288
• Editor: Koehler Jan, Zuercher Christoph