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"Extreme Politics: Nationalism, Violence, and the End of Eastern Europe" by Charles King

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"Extreme Politics: Nationalism, Violence, and the End of Eastern Europe" by Charles King

"Extreme Politics: Nationalism, Violence, and the End of Eastern Europe" by Charles King
Oxford University Press | 2010 | ISBN: 0195370376 | 256 pages | PDF | 5 Mb

This wide-ranging work examines the conceptual intersection of nationalist ideology, social violence, and the political transformation of Europe and Eurasia over the last two decades.

Why do some violent conflicts endure across the centuries, while others become dimly remembered ancient struggles among forgotten peoples? Is nationalism really the powerful force that it appeared to be in the 1990s?


The end of communism seemed to usher in a period of radical change-an era of "extreme politics" that pitted nations, ethnic groups, and violent entrepreneurs against one another, from the wars in the Balkans and Caucasus to the apparent upsurge in nationalist mobilization throughout the region. But the last twenty years have also illustrated the incredible diversity of political life after the end of one-party rule. Extreme Politics engages with themes from the micropolitics of social violence, to the history of nationalism studies, to the nature of demographic change in Eurasia. Published twenty years since the collapse of communism, Extreme Politics charts the end of "Eastern Europe" as a place and chronicles the ongoing revolution in the scholarly study of the post-communist world.

Contents
Abbreviations
1. Introduction
Part I: Theory and Comparison
2. The National Origins of Nationalism Studies
3. Loser Nationalisms: How Certain Ideas of the Nation Succeed or Fail
4. The Micropolitics of Social Violence
Part II: Eastern Europe and Eurasia
5. Post-Postcommunism: Is There Still an “Eastern Europe”?
6. The Benefi ts of Ethnic War
7. Diasporas and International Politics
8. Migration, Institutions, and Ethnicity
9. Conclusion: History and the Science of Politics
Notes
Bibliography
Index