Experimenting With Democracy: Regime Change in the Balkans (Routledge Studies of Societies in Transition) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415187265 ISBN 13: 9780415187268

Publisher: Routledge, 1999

Synopsis

The chronic instability in the Balkan States of South East Europe has prevented the end of the Cold War becoming an era of genuine peace in Europe. Against a background of competing nationalisms, economic decline, the resilience of authoritarianism, it is easy to forget that there have been experiments with democracy have taken place since 1990 with relative success. Now, for the first time, the region is genuinely engaging with open politics; its outcome will determine whether the Balkans can cease being a byword for instability, and an area whose shock-waves have disturbed the peace of Europe on many occasions.
Democratisation in the Balkans explores the obstacles impeding the consolidation of democracy, and even preventing a state like Serbia from going very far down the democratic road. Social scientists with expert knowledge of each of the Balkan states, and their political and economic systems, examine why progress in building free institutions has been slow compared to that of Central Europe, the Iberian peninsula and Latin America.

About this title

About the Author:

Geoffrey Pridham, University of Bristol,UK Tom Gallagher, University of Bradford, UK

Review:

'...will certainly become an important reference for students of the Balkans' first post-Communist decade.' - Dejan Djokic , Seer 79, 1, 2001

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0415187265
• ISBN 13: 9780415187268
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 294
• Editor: Gallagher Tom, Pridham Geoffrey