Strategies of Symbolic Nation-building in South Eastern Europe

Relying on new quantitative research results the contributors offer interdisciplinary analyses of symbolic nation-building in Albania Bosnia-Herzegovina Croatia Kosovo Macedonia Montenegro and Serbia to show that whereas the citizens of some states have reached a consensus about the nation-building project other states remain fragmented and uncertain of when the process will end. A must-read not only for scholars of the region but policy makers and others interested in understanding the complex interplay of history symbolic politics and post-conflict transition.