1st Edition

Ethnic Conflict in Asymmetric Federations Comparative Experience of the Former Soviet and Yugoslav Regions

By Gorana Grgić Copyright 2017
286 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

286 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

286 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

In the last years of their existence, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY) found themselves facing a similar and very grim state of affairs. After their disintegration, the former Yugoslav republics spiralled into a set of ethnic conflicts that did not leave a single one of them unscathed, and in the ex-Soviet space, conflicts were... Read more
Part I

Introduction

Part II

1. Dynamics of Ethnonationalist Mobilization and Occurrence of Conflicts in Asymmetric Federations

2. USSR And SFRY – Sources of War and Peace in Asymmetric Ethnofederations

Part III

3. Russia and Serbia – The Core as the Key

4. The Periphery I – Early to Rise, Early to Fight?

5. The Periphery II – Mobilizational Laggards and Interethnic Conflicts

6. The Periphery III – The Conflict Near Misses

Part IV

Conclusion

Biography

Gorana Grgić is Lecturer in US Politics and Foreign Policy in the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney, Australia.