Table of Contents:
  • Discourses, actors, violence: the organisation of war-escalation in the Krajina region of Croatia 1990-91 / Hannes Grandits and Carolin Leutloff
  • Non-existent states with strange institutions / Kristóf 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 and Christoph Zürcher
  • 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 post-socialist Transcaucasia / Barbara Christophe
  • Reconciliation after ethnic cleansing: witnessing, retribution, and domestic reform / John Borneman
  • Intervention in markets of violence / Georg Elwert
  • Institutions and the organisation of stability and violence / Jan Koehler and Christoph Zürcher.