02293cam a2200277 4500 95403 95403 BJBSDDR 20230410143101.0 ta 060907s2018 enk eng 9781849048927 1849048924 spa BJBSDDR eng JN 97 M953h 2018 320.4497 Mujanović, Jasmin Hunger and fury : the crisis of democracy in the Balkans / Jasmin Mujanović. London : Hurst & Company, 2018 xi, 229 pages ; 22 cm. Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-213) and index. Clients and brigands : the origins of the state in the Balkans -- The warlords' peace : Yugoslavia's end and aftermath -- Geopolitics and the crisis of democracy in the western Balkans -- The coming upheavals in the western Balkans 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'. 411 Democracia Península balcánica 14221 Península balcánica Política y gobierno 1989- lcc BK 0 0 0 0 CS BJB BJB CS 2020-12-15 0 JN 97 M953h 2018 00000124642 2020-12-15 00:00:00 1 2020-12-15 BK