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Koinova, Maria (2008) Kinstate intervention in ethnic conflicts : Albania and Turkey compared. Ethnopolitics, Volume 7 (Number 4). pp. 373-390. doi:10.1080/17449050802243384 ISSN 1744-9057.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17449050802243384
Abstract
Albania and Turkey did not act in overtly irredentist ways towards their ethnic brethren in neighboring states after the end of communism. Why, nonetheless, did Albania facilitate the increase of ethnic conflict in Kosovo and Macedonia, while Turkey did not, with respect to the Turks of Bulgaria? I argue that kin-states undergoing transition are more prone to intervene in external conflicts than states that are not, regardless of the salience of minority demands in the host-state. The transition weakens the institutions of the kin-state. Experiencing limited institutional constraints, self-seeking state officials create alliances with secessionist and autonomist movements across borders alongside their own ideological, clan-based and particularistic interests. Such alliances are often utilized to advance radical domestic agendas. Unlike in Albania's transition environment, in Turkey there were no emerging elites that could potentially form alliances and use external movements to legitimize their own domestic existence or claims.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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| Subjects: | D History General and Old World > DR Balkan Peninsula | ||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Ethnic conflict -- Bosnia and Hercegovina, Ethnic conflict -- Turkey, Turkey -- Ethnic relations -- Political aspects, Bosnia and Hercegovina -- Ethnic relations -- Political aspects | ||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Ethnopolitics | ||||
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis | ||||
| ISSN: | 1744-9057 | ||||
| Official Date: | 2008 | ||||
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| Volume: | Volume 7 | ||||
| Number: | Number 4 | ||||
| Number of Pages: | 17 | ||||
| Page Range: | pp. 373-390 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.1080/17449050802243384 | ||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 28 July 2016 | ||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 28 July 2016 |
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