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The break-up of the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia has unleashed two grand forces: a drive for democratization on Western lines and the resurgence of ethnonational conflicts. It is anticipated that these post-Communist states may develop a new regime that combines institutionalized dominance of an ethnic majority with democratic rights for all. This mixed, non-Western type of system is amenable for analysis by Sammy Smooha's model of ethnic democracy, based on Israel/i>.
In this volume, the model is applied by country specialists to Estonia, Latvia, Georgia, Macedonia, Serbia, Kosovo and Bosnia-Herzegovina. From these seven case studies, Smooha draws comparisons and conclusions about the model and regimes in post-Communist Europe.

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

• Foreword, by Sammy Smooha and Priit Järve
• Introduction, by Priit Järve
• The Model of Ethnic Democracy, by Sammy Smooha
• Re-Independent Estonia, by Priit Järve
• Ethnic Democracy in Latvia, by Svetlana Diatchkova
• Georgia's Ethnic Democracy: Source of Instability, by Natalie Sabanadze
• From Ethnic Privileging to Power-Sharing: Ethnic Dominance and Democracy in Macedonia, by Graham Holliday
• Serbia in the 1990s: The Case of an Ethnic Semi-Democracy, by Florian Bieber
• A Model in the Making: The Case of Kosovo, by Robert Curis
• Ethnic Democracy in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Containing the Spectre?, by Valery Perry
• Conclusion: The Non-Emergence of a Viable Ethnic Democracy in Post-Communist Europe, by Sammy Smooha

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