The Foreign Policies of Post-Yugoslav States

The Foreign Policies of Post-Yugoslav States
Author: S. Keil
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2014-12-17
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1137384131

The post-Yugoslav states have developed very differently since Yugoslavia dissolved in the early 1990s. This book analyzes the foreign policies of the post-Yugoslav states, thereby focusing on the main goals, actors, decision-making processes and influences on the foreign policies of these countries.

Keeping Tito Afloat

Keeping Tito Afloat
Author: Lorraine M. Lees
Publisher: Penn State Press
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2010-11-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0271040637

Europe from the Balkans to the Urals

Europe from the Balkans to the Urals
Author: Renéo Lukic
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 472
Release: 1996
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780198292005

The disintegration of Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union in 1991 shed entirely new light on the character of their political systems. There is now a need to re-examine many of the standard interpretations of Soviet and Yugoslav politics. This book is a comparative study of the disintegration of Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union - as multinational, federal communist states - and the reaction of European and US foreign policy to the parallel collapses of these nations. The authors describe the structural similarities in the destabilization of the two countries, providing great insight into the demise of both.

Kosovo’s Foreign Policy and Bilateral Relations

Kosovo’s Foreign Policy and Bilateral Relations
Author: Liridon Lika
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2023-04-14
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1000867749

This edited book analyzes Kosovo’s foreign policy and bilateral relations with the United States and several European countries. After the 1999 liberation from Serbia, Kosovo built close relations with various countries that supported it in the process of reconstruction, economic stabilization, institution-building, and state-building. From 1999 to 2008, many of these states were politically and operationally engaged in Kosovo under the leadership of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK). Since its independence in 2008, the Republic of Kosovo has adopted a foreign policy in accordance with its values and strategic interests, a foreign policy that aims to strengthen Kosovo’s security and foster its socio-economic prosperity in collaboration with primarily Western countries. In this volume, each chapter is dedicated to Kosovo’s bilateral relations with a selected state with which it has established diplomatic relations. The book shows that Kosovo has been able to develop and achieve strong bilateral relations with major allies and partners. It argues that Kosovo’s foreign policy aims to develop, maintain, and enhance the position of the young state on the international stage. The volume bridges various methodological and disciplinary approaches in order to present Kosovo’s foreign policy objectives and the trajectory of its relations with some of its most important international partners. This book will be of interest to students of Balkan politics, state-building, foreign policy, and International Relations.

Breaking Down Bipolarity

Breaking Down Bipolarity
Author: Martin Previšić
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 470
Release: 2021-10-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 3110655128

This book is aimed at presenting fresh views, interpretations, and reinterpretations of some already researched issues relating to the Yugoslav foreign policy and international relations up to year 1991. Yugoslavia positioned itself as a communist state that was not under the heel of the Soviet diplomacy and policy and as such was perceived by the West as an acceptable partner and useful tool in counteracting the Soviet influence.

Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Foreign Policy Since Independence

Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Foreign Policy Since Independence
Author: Jasmin Hasić
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2019-03-06
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 3030056546

This book is the first to provide a comprehensive and systematic analysis of the foreign policy of Bosnia and Herzegovina, a post-conflict country with an active agency in international affairs. Bridging academic and policy debates, the book summarizes and further examines the first twenty-five years of BiH’s foreign policy following the country’s independence from Yugoslavia in 1992. Topics covered include conflict and post-conflict periods, Euro-Atlantic integration, political affairs on both local and regional levels, integration with a variety of international organizations and actors, neighboring states, bilateral relations with relevant other states including the United States, Russia, selected EU countries, and Turkey, as well as BiH’s diaspora. The book highlights that despite their apparent weakness, post-conflict states have agency to carry out foreign policy goals and engage with the international sphere, including in geopolitics, and thus provides a novel insight into weak states and their role in international politics.

The Search for a Cold War Legitimacy: Foreign Policy and Tito's Yugoslavia

The Search for a Cold War Legitimacy: Foreign Policy and Tito's Yugoslavia
Author: Robert Edward Niebuhr
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2018-01-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004358994

Titoist Yugoslavia is a particularly interesting setting to examine the integrity of the modern nation-state, especially the viability of distinctly multi-ethnic nation-building projects. Scholarly literature on the brutal civil wars that destroyed Yugoslavia during the 1990s emphasizes divisive nationalism and dysfunctional politics to explain why the state disintegrated. But the larger question remains unanswered—just how did Tito’s state function so successfully for the preceding forty-six years. In an attempt to understand better what united the stable, multi-ethnic, and globally important Yugoslavia that existed before 1991 Robert Niebuhr argues that we should pay special attention to the dynamic and robust foreign policy that helped shape the Cold War.

State Collapse and Reconstruction in the Periphery

State Collapse and Reconstruction in the Periphery
Author: Jens Stilhoff Sörensen
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2009
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781845455606

"In the 1990s, Yugoslavia, which had once been a role model for development, became a symbol for state collapse, external intervention and post-war reconstruction. Today the region has two international protectorates, contested states and borders, severe ethnic polarisation and minority concerns. In this first in-depth critical analysis of international administration, aid and reconstruction policies in Kosovo, Jens Stilhoff Sorensen argues that the region must be analysed as a whole, and that the process of state collapse and recent changes in aid policy must be interpreted in connection to the wider transformation of the global political economy and world order. He examines the shifting inter- and intracommunity relations, the emergence of a 'political economy' of conflict, and of informal clientelist arrangements in Serbia and Kosovo and provides a framework for interpreting the collapse of the Yugoslav state, the emergence of ethnic conflict and shadow economies, and the character of western aid and intervention. Western governments and agencies have built policies on conceptions and assumptions for which there is no genuine historical or contemporary economic, social or political basis in the region. As the author persuasively argues, this discrepancy has exacerbated and cemented problems in the region and provided further complications that are likely to remain for years to come." -- Back cover.

Power Politics and State Formation in the Twentieth Century

Power Politics and State Formation in the Twentieth Century
Author: Bridget Coggins
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2014-04-24
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107047358

From Kurdistan to Somaliland, Xinjiang to South Yemen, all secessionist movements hope to secure newly independent states of their own. Most will not prevail. The existing scholarly wisdom provides one explanation for success, based on authority and control within the nascent states. With the aid of an expansive new dataset and detailed case studies, this book provides an alternative account. It argues that the strongest members of the international community have a decisive influence over whether today's secessionists become countries tomorrow and that, most often, their support is conditioned on parochial political considerations.

State Collapse in South-Eastern Europe

State Collapse in South-Eastern Europe
Author: Lenard J. Cohen
Publisher:
Total Pages: 440
Release: 2008
Genre: History
ISBN:

A multidisciplinary approach exploring the historical antecedents and the dynamic process of Yugoslavia's violent dissolution. This volume examines issues broadening our understanding of the Yugoslav case, and also sheds light on how to deal with state fragility and failure.