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1 online resource |
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New perspectives on South-East Europe |
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New perspectives on South-East Europe.
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| Contents |
Civil Society and Multiple Transitions: Meanings, Roles and Effects; D. Kostovicova & V. Bojicic-Dzelilovic -- PART I: STATE-BUILDING -- The European Commission, Enlargement Policy and Civil Society in the Western Balkans; J.O'Brennan -- Civil Society and 'Good Governance' in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia: An Assessment of EU Assistance and Intervention; A. Fagan -- Contesting the Rule of Law: Civil Society and Legal Institutions; I. Rangelov -- A Practitioner's Viewpoint; G. Venneri -- PART II: DEMOCRATISATION -- Democratisation Through Defiance? The Albanian Civil Organisation 'Self-Determination' and International Supervision in Kosovo; S. Schwandner-Sievers -- Nationalism and Civil Society Organisations in Post-Independence Kosovo; F. Strazzari & E. Selenica -- The Diaspora Dilemma: Croatian-American Civil Society Institutions and their Political Role in the Democratisation of the Homeland; A. Brkanic -- From Post-Communist to Uncivil Society in Macedonia; N. Markovic -- A Practitioner's Perspective; J. Hanson -- PART III: POST-CONFLICT RECONSTRUCTION -- Civil Society and the Bosnian Police Certification Process: Challenging 'the Guardians'; G. Collantes-Celador -- The Paradox of Demobilising a Civil Protection Actor: Build-up and Stand-down of the KPC in Kosovo; J. Narten -- Serbian Civil Society as an Exclusionary Space: NGOs, the Public and 'Coming to Terms with the Past'; J. Obradovic-Wochnik -- Facing the Past While Disregarding the Present? Human Rights NGOS and Truth-Telling in Post-Milosevic Serbia; M. Ostojic -- A Practitioner's Perspective; F. Hartmann -- Conclusion; J. Ker-Lindsay |
| Summary |
This book examines the ambiguous role played by civil society in state-building, democratisation and post-conflict reconstruction in the Western Balkans. In doing so, it challenges the received wisdom that civil society is always a force for good. Civil society actors have helped create the conditions for new, more constructive relations inside and between former Yugoslav countries. But, their agency has also rekindled nationalism hindering efforts to rebuild the region after the conflicts of the 1990s. The book demonstrates that diverse civil society effects cannot be captured without querying both the nature of civil society and the complexity of the ongoing transformation. So how can the emancipatory role of civil society be harnessed? This rigorous case study-driven reappraisal of the ability of civil society to support progressive transformation from an illiberal regime to democracy and from conflict to peace will be a valuable resource to scholars and practitioners alike |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Civil society -- Balkan Peninsula
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Nation-building -- Balkan Peninsula
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Democratization -- Balkan Peninsula
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Politics & government -- Southeast Europe.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- General.
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Politics and Government.
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Civil society
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Democratization
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Nation-building
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Politics and government
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| SUBJECT |
Balkan Peninsula -- Politics and government -- 1989- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh91000164
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| Subject |
Balkan Peninsula
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Bojicic-Dzelilovic, Vesna
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Ker-Lindsay, James, 1972-
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Kostovicova, Denisa
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| ISBN |
9781137296252 |
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1137296259 |
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