Civil society and transitions in the Western Balkans
Civil society and transitions in the Western Balkans
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西巴尔干地区的公民社会和转型
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2013
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Denisa Kostovicova
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Vesna Bojičić;James Ker;Denisa Kostovicova
本书探讨了公民社会在西巴尔干国家建设、民主化和冲突后重建中所扮演的模糊角色。在这样做的时候，它挑战了民间社会始终是一股正义力量的公认智慧。民间社会行动者帮助创造条件，在前南斯拉夫各国内部和各国之间建立新的、更具建设性的关系。但是，他们的机构也重新点燃了民族主义，阻碍了20世纪90年代冲突后重建该地区的努力。这本书表明，如果不质疑公民社会的性质和正在进行的转型的复杂性，就无法捕捉到公民社会的各种影响。那么，如何利用公民社会的解放作用呢？这种严格的个案研究驱动的民间社会支持从不自由的政权逐步转变为民主和从冲突到和平的能力的重新评估，将是学者和从业人员的宝贵资源。
This book examines the ambiguous role played by civil society in state-building, democratisation and post-conflict reconstruction in the Western Balkans. In doing so, it challenges the received wisdom that civil society is always a force for good. Civil society actors have helped create the conditions for new, more constructive relations inside and between former Yugoslav countries. But, their agency has also rekindled nationalism hindering efforts to rebuild the region after the conflicts of the 1990s. The book demonstrates that diverse civil society effects cannot be captured without querying both the nature of civil society and the complexity of the ongoing transformation. So how can the emancipatory role of civil society be harnessed? This rigorous case study-driven reappraisal of the ability of civil society to support progressive transformation from an illiberal regime to democracy and from conflict to peace will be a valuable resource to scholars and practitioners alike.