Civil society and transitions in the Western Balkans /

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Imprint:Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Description:xiv, 274 pages ; 23 cm
Language:English
Series:New perspectives on South-East Europe series
New perspectives on south-east Europe.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9041757
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Other authors / contributors:Bojicic-Dzelilovic, Vesna.
ISBN:9780230292895
0230292895
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • List of Tables
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of Acronyms
  • Introduction: Civil Society and Multiple Transitions - Meanings, Actors and Effects
  • Part I. State-Building
  • 1. The European Commission, Enlargement Policy and Civil Society in the Western Balkans
  • 2. Civil Society and 'Good Governance' in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia: An Assessment of EU Assistance and Intervention
  • 3. Contesting the Rule of Law: Civil Society and Legal Institutions
  • 4. A Practitioner's Perspective
  • Part II. Democratisation
  • 5. Democratisation through Defiance? The Albanian Civil Organisation 'Self-Determination' and International Supervision in Kosovo
  • 6. Nationalism and Civil Society Organisations in Post-Independence Kosovo
  • 7. The Diaspora Dilemma: Croatian-American Civil Society Institutions and their Political Role in the Democratisation of the Homeland
  • 8. From Post-Communist to Uncivil Society in Macedonia
  • 9. A Practitioner's Perspective: Post-Conflict Civil Society Development in the Balkans
  • Part III. Post-Conflict Reconstruction
  • 10. Civil Society and the Bosnian Police Certification Process: Challenging æthe Guardians'
  • 11. The Paradox of Demobilising a Civil Protection Actor: Build-Up and Stand-Down of the KPC in Kosovo
  • 12. Serbian Civil Society as an Exclusionary Space: NGOs, the Public and 'Coming to Terms with the Past'
  • 13. Facing the Past while Disregarding the Present? Human Rights NGOs and Truth-Telling in Post-Milo¿evic Serbia
  • 14. A Practitioner's Perspective
  • Conclusion
  • Index