Embracing democracy in the western Balkans : from postconflict struggles toward European integration /
| Author / Creator: | Cohen, Lenard J. |
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| Imprint: | Washington, D.C. : Woodrow Wilson Center Press ; Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2011. |
| Description: | xiv, 539 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8541390 |
| Summary: | 2012 Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Magazine Embracing Democracy in the Western Balkans offers a comparative, cross-regional study of the politics and economics of Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Kosovo, and Albania from 1999 to the present. It was during this period that the first wave of post-communist regime transition ended and the region became more deeply involved in the challenges of democratic consolidation. Lenard J. Cohen and John R. Lampe explore the legacies of communist rule, the impact of incentives and impediments on reform, and the magnetic pull of European Union accession. The authors ask whether the Western Balkans are embracing democracy by creating functional, resilient institutions--governmental, administrative, journalistic, and economic--and fostering popular trust in the legitimacy of those institutions. |
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| Physical Description: | xiv, 539 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781421403823 142140382X 9781421404332 1421404338 |
