WHAT ARE THE CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES OF THE ‘ETHNICISATION’ OF POLITICS IN POST-COMMUNIST EUROPE?
WHAT ARE THE CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES OF THE ‘ETHNICISATION’ OF POLITICS IN POST-COMMUNIST EUROPE?
Author(s): Oliver PatelSubject(s): Politics, Civil Society, Nationalism Studies
Published by: Fakultet za pravne i poslovne studije dr Latar Vrkatić
Keywords: ethnic politics; nationalism; Yugoslavia; Czechoslovakia; civil society;
Summary/Abstract: This essay will analyse ethnic politics and the breakup of Yugoslavia. It will consider what the key explanatory factors were for the rise in ethnic politics. There will also be an analysis as to why nationalist politics, virtually unseen during communism, ended in such brutal warfare. Whilst the focus will be on the former Yugoslavia, there will be a comparison with the dissolution of Czechoslovakia, a case which did not end in violence.
Journal: Civitas
- Issue Year: 3/2013
- Issue No: 05
- Page Range: 35-41
- Page Count: 7
- Language: English