CONTENTS

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Introduction: potentials of disorder in the Caucasus and Yugoslavia - Jan Koehler and Christoph Zürcher

1 Discourses, actors, violence: the organisation of war-escalation in the Krajina region of Croatia 1990–911 - Hannes Grandits and Carolin Leutlo.

2 Non-existent states with strange institutions - Kristóf Gosztonyi

3 A neglected dimension of conflict: the Albanian mafia - Xavier Raufer

4 Land reforms and ethnic tensions: scenarios in south east Europe - Christian Giordano

5 ‘Freedom!’: Albanian society and the quest for independence from statehood in Kosovo and Macedonia - Norbert Mappes-Niediek

6 Why is there stability in Dagestan but not in Chechnya? - Enver Kisriev

7 Civil wars in Georgia: corruption breeds violence - Pavel K. Baev

8 The art of losing the state: weak empire to weak nation-state around Nagorno-Karabakh - Jan Koehler and Christoph Zürcher

9 Conflict management in the Caucasus via development of regional identity - Olga Vassilieva

10 Bringing culture back into a concept of rationality: state–society relations and conflict in post-socialist Transcaucasia - Barbara Christophe

11 Reconciliation after ethnic cleansing: witnessing, retribution and domestic reform - John Borneman

12 Intervention in markets of violence - Georg Elwert

13 Institutions and the organisation of stability and violence - Jan Koehler and Christoph Zürcher

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