Product Description: Higher education and academia have been central pillars of the modern state in creating a new political and social elite. In Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe, these new elites were first educated in the big European centers of higher education, in particular, Germany and the Habsburg monarchy...read more

Product Description: This volume examines how European institutions, the European Union in particular through its policy of conditionality, have shaped the post-conflict reconstruction of the Western Balkans. From state-building to democratization and environmental policies, this book explores whether and in what ways the EU has been successful in consolidating states and democracy in the Balkans...read more

Conceptualises the dynamics underlying electoral politics in ethnically divided societies, providing evidence and analysis of elections in such societies on a comparative and single-case basis. This volume includes case studies of Macedonia, Slovakia, Belgium, Malaysia, Singapore, Rwanda, Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago.

Product Description: Ten years after the end of the war in Bosnia, ethnicity continues to matter and the country remains dependent on international intervention. The Dayton Peace Accord signed in 1995 successfully ended the war, but froze the ethnic conflict in one of the most complex systems of government in the world...read more

Product Description: Now that the third Yugoslavia has ended and the new union of Serbia and Montenegro emerged, Montenegro still remains largely unknown. The path of this smallest republic of former Yugoslavia has differed from the rest of the country during the past decade...read more

Product Description: A range of views on the challenges of the social, political, legal and psychological reconstruction of bosnian society are presented in this volume. It draws on the knowledge and experiences of scholars and practitioners from Bosnia-Herzegovina and internationally, and presents an analysis of the Bosnian case as an example for the study of other mulit-ethnic societies emerging from war...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)