Potentials of Disorder Explaining Conflict and Stability in the Caucasus and in the Former Yugoslavia

by Zurcher, Christoph; Koehler, Jan

• ISBN13: 9780719062414
• ISBN10: 0719062411
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-09-06
• Publisher: MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS

Summary

It is of vital importance to the study of conflict analysis in the Caucasus and the Balkan region 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 book 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

Author Biography

Christoph Znrcher 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.

Table of Contents

Notes on contributors	vii
Acknowledgements	ix
Introduction: potentials of disorder in the Caucasus and Yugoslavia
Jan Koehler and Christoph Zürcher	1	(22)
1 Discourses, actors, violence: the organisation of war-escalation in the Krajina region of Croatia 1990-91
Hannes Grandits and Carolin Leutloff	23	(23)
2 Non-existent states with strange institutions
Kristóf Gosztonyi	46	(16)
3 A neglected dimension of conflict: the Albanian mafia
Xavier Raufer	62	(13)
4 Land reforms and ethnic tensions: scenarios in south east Europe
Christian Giordano	75	(16)
5 'Freedom!': Albanian society and the quest for independence from statehood in Kosovo and Macedonia
Norbert Mappes-Niediek	91	(12)
6 Why is there stability in Dagestan but not in Chechnya?
Enver Kisriev	103	(24)
7 Civil wars in Georgia: corruption breeds violence
Pavel K. Baev	127	(18)
8 The art of losing the state: weak empire to weak nation-state around Nagorno-Karabakh
Jan Koehler and Christoph Zürcher	145	(29)
9 Conflict management in the Caucasus via development of regional identity
Olga Vassilieva	174	(19)
10 Bringing culture back into a concept of rationality: state-society relations and conflict in post-socialist Transcaucasia
Barbara Christophe	193	(15)
11 Reconciliation after ethnic cleansing: witnessing, retribution and domestic reform
John Borneman	208	(11)
12 Intervention in markets of violence
Georg Elwert	219	(24)
13 Institutions and the organisation of stability and violence
Jan Koehler and Christoph Zürcher	243	(24)
Index	267