Potentials of Disorder: Explaining Conflict and Stability in the Caucasus and in the Former Yugoslavia

It is of vital importance to the study of conflict analysis in the Caucasus and the Balkan region to identify what conditions foster new orders, and what factors, actors and institutions are necessary to create a stable equilibrium in intra- and inter-group conflicts. This book brings together a selection of case studies and theoretical approaches aimed at identifying the institutions which prevented or fostered escalation of conflict in the Caucasus and former Yugoslavia

Introduction - potentials of (dis)order in the Caucasus and Yugoslavia, Jan Koehler and Christoph Z rcher; discourses, actors, violence - the organization of war-escalation in the Krajina region of Croatia 1990/1991, Hannes Grandits and Carolin Leutloff; non-existent states with strange institutions, Kristof Gosztonyi; a neglected dimension of conflict - the Albanian mafia, Xavier Raufer; land reforms and ethnic tensions - scenarios in South East Europe, Christian Giordano; "Freedom!" - Albanian society and the quest for independence from statehood in Kosovo and Macedonia, Norbert Mappes-Niediek; why is there stability in Dagestan but not in Chechnya?, Enver Kisriev; civil wars in Georgia - corruption breeds violence, Pavel K. Baev; the art of losing the state - weak empire to weak nation-state around Nagorno-Karabakh, Jan Koehler; conflict management in the Caucasus via development of regional identity, Olga Vassilieva; bringing culture back into a concept of rationality - state-society relations and conflict in postsocialist trans-Caucasia, Barbara Christophe; reconciliation after ethnic cleansing - witnessing, retribution, and domestic reform, John Borneman; intervention in markets of violence, Georg Elwert; institutions and the organization of stability and violence, Jan Koehler and Christoph Z rcher.