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Nationalism after Communism: Lessons Learned
Edited by Ivan Krastev and Alina Mungiu-Pippidi
January, 2004

What if a policymaker charged with crafting a peace arrangement in an
ethnic conflict situation would ask an academic what practical wisdom
can theory of ethnic conflict and nationalism offer in support? Can a
bridge be thrown between the world of academia, suffocated with
political correctness and driven by the empty intellectual ambition of
system-paradigms, and the world of those who have to craft policies of
interethnic peace and cooperation with little knowledge of theory,
scarce time to order proper research, and limited resources of money to
invest? This book tries to analyze in this context what the
postcommunist experience of ethnic revival and conflict has in common
with other nationalisms and nation-related conflicts of our world, and
what, if anything, is special about it; what the best practices are of
managing different ethnic conflicts within a state or in neighboring
states; and what institutions work and under what circumstances?

The introductory chapter includes the only theoretical discussion,
sketching briefly the basics recent research on nationalism and ethnic
conflict with relevance for policymaking. The next three chapters look
at the political economy of ethnic conflicts: Vladimir Gligorov's
chapter analyzes the system on incentives which pulled Yugoslavian
Republics apart, and the one now in place trying to bring them together
again; Charles King 
looks at the small separatist Republics of the post-Soviet world to
understand why some of them were more successful than legitimate Soviet
successors in building states and running economies; and Gerald Knause
and his collaborators use a case study from Macedonia to highlight the
difficulty of two ethnic groups sharing equitably the state and public
sector. The primordial-type hypotheses of ethnic social capital and
ancient hatreds are tested in the chapter by Alina Mungiu-Pippidi, which
analyzes public opinion surveys on nationalism and ethnic cohabitation
in Kosovo, Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria, Slovakia and Hungary. A critical
analysis of political institutions which try to prevent and then contain
ethnic conflict is provided by Valerie Bunce and Philip Roeder on
ethnofederalism, from former Yugoslavia to the former Soviet Empire; by
Florian Bieber on power-sharing arrangements, and by Mathjis Bogaaards
on voting systems, both on the Balkans. The book concludes with a review
of policy options by the editors.

Contents

Acknowledgements

About the Authors

Introduction

Alina Mungiu-Pippidi: Sense and Prejudice in the Study of Ethnic
Conflict: Beyond Systems Paradigms in Research and Theory

The Subjective Grounds of Ethnic Conflict

Alina Mungiu-Pippidi: Milosevic Voters. Explaining Grassroots
Nationalism in Post-Communist Europe


The Political Economy of Interethnic Relations

Vladimir Gligorov: Deconstruction and Reconstruction of former
Yugoslavia

Gerald Knause, Kristof Bender, Marcus Cox: The Political Economy of
Interethnic Relations: Ahmeti's Village or the Macedonian Case

Charles King: The Benefits of Ethnic War. Understanding Eurasia's
Unrecognized States


Assessing the Institutional Tools

Valerie Bunce: Is Ethnofederalism the Solution or the Problem?

Philip G. Roeder: National Self-Determination and Postcommunist Popular
Sovereignty

Florian Bieber: Power Sharing as Ethnic Representation in post-Conflict
Societies. The Cases of Bosnia, Macedonia and Kosovo

Matthijs Bogaards: Electoral Systems and the Management of Ethnic
Conflict in the Balkans

Conclusions. Lessons learned

Alina Mungiu-Pippidi, Ivan Krastev: Lessons Learned: Nation- and State
Building after Communism

Index


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