Ottomans into Europeans: state and institution building in South-East Europe

  • While many histories of the Balkans have been published, some very good and others poor, there is as yet no history of institutions in the Balkans. This is what the contributors to Ottomans into European offer the reader: a history of the most salient political institutions of the region: bureaucracies, judiciaries, democratic elections, free media, local and central government - and their frequently strained relations with traditional institutions. They also examine the selection, evolution, and performance of institutions in the post-Ottoman Balkans, and try to account for variations throughout the region. In writing this institutional history of the Balkans the contributors set themselves two key questions: did the post-Ottoman wave of Europeanization and Western-type institution building fail in the Balkans, and does this explain the region's continuing political fragility? And if this is the case, are there underlying structural determinants explaining that failure which might manifest themselves again in present attempts to re-integrate the region, from Turkey to Albania?

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Document Type:Editorship book
Language:English
Author(s):Alina Mungiu-Pippidi, Wim van Meurs
Publisher:Columbia University Press,
Place of Publisher:New York
Publication year:2010
Number pages:352
ISBN:9780231701686
Release Date:2014/06/04
Notes:
Available as print in your Hertie Library. 

Als Druckversion in der Hertie Bibliothek verfügbar.
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