1st Edition

Nationalism and Democratisation: Politics of Slovakia and Slovenia

By Erika Harris Copyright 2002
246 Pages
by Routledge

This book is concerned with the relationship between nationalism and democracy in a particular setting - the larger framework is post communist Eastern and Central Europe, the focus is on newly dependent democracies, explored through the case studies of Slovakia and Slovenia. The year 1989 marks a turning point in world history. The rigid division of Europe into East and West and the bipolarity... Read more
The End of Communism and the Crisis of Identity; How Compatible are Nationalism and Democracy?; Political and National Identity in Czechoslovakia; Reclaiming the Nation: Politics of Independent Slovakia; National Communism in Yugoslavia: The Case of Slovenia; Independence and Democracy in Slovenia; National Identities in Post-Cold War Europe; Reconciling Post Communism, Nationalism and Democracy.

Biography

Erika Harris