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Hunger and Fury - The Crisis of Democracy in the Balkans (Paperback)
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Hunger and Fury - The Crisis of Democracy in the Balkans (Paperback)
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Less than two decades after the Yugoslav Wars ended, the edifice of
parliamentary government in the Western Balkans is crumbling. This
collapse sets into sharp relief the unreformed authoritarian
tendencies of the region's entrenched elites, many of whom have
held power since the early 1990s, and the hollowness of the West's
'democratisation' agenda. There is a widely held assumption that
institutional collapse will precipitate a new bout of ethnic
conflict, but Mujanovic argues instead that the Balkans are on the
cusp of a historic socio-political transformation. Drawing on a
wide variety of sources, with a unique focus on local activist
accounts, he argues that a period of genuine democratic transition
is finally dawning, led by grassroots social movements, from Zagreb
to Skopje. Rather than pursuing ethnic strife, these new Balkan
revolutionaries are confronting the 'ethnic entrepreneurs' cemented
in power by the West in its efforts to stabilise the region since
the mid-1990s. This compellingly argued book harnesses the
explanatory power of the striking graffiti scrawled on the walls of
the ransacked Bosnian presidency during violent anti-government
protests in 2014: 'if you sow hunger, you will reap fury'.
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