Irreconcilable Differences?

Michael Kraus; Allison Stanger

doi:10.5771/9781461600343

Summary

This unique volume brings together a multi-disciplinary group of scholars as well as Czech and Slovak decisionmakers who were personally involved in the events leading up to the separation of Czechoslovakia. Asking whether the dissolution was inevitable, the contributors bring a range of different approaches and perspectives to bear on the twin problems of democratic transitions in multinational societies and ethnic separatism and its origins. The blend of analysis and insider experiences will make this book invaluable for all concerned with nationalism and ethnicity, democratization, and transitions in Eastern Europe.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 2000
ISBN-Print: 978-0-8476-9021-3
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4616-0034-3
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 347
Product type: Edited Book

1. Table of Contents No access
2. Foreword No access
3. Acknowledgments No access
4. List of Major Parties and Coalitions No access
5. Maps No access
The Past as Prologue No access Pages 1 - 6
1: Contending Views of Czechoslovakia's Demise No access Pages 7 - 26
1. 2: Inevitability, Probability, Possibility: The Legacies of the Czech-Slovak Relationship, 1918–1989, and the Disintegration of the State No access
2. 3: The Possibilities for Czech–Slovak Compromise, 1989–1992 No access
1. 4: From "Velvet Revolution" to "Velvet Split": Consociational Institutions and the Disintegration of Czechoslovakia No access
2. 5: The Impact of Institutional Factors on the Breakup of the Czechoslovak Federation No access
3. 6: Electoral Rules and the Fate of Nations: Czechoslovakia's Last Parliamentary Election No access
4. 7: The Price of Velvet: Constitutional Politics and the Demise of the Czechoslovak Federation No access
1. 8: Failing Democracy: Journalists, the Mass Media, and the Dissolution of Czechoslovakia No access
2. 9: Explaining Czechoslovakia's Dissolution: Assessing Economic Performance before and after the Breakup No access
3. 10: The End of Czechoslovakia: International Forces and Factors No access
1. 11: A Retrospective Look at the Dissolution of Czecho–Slovakia No access
2. 12: The Division/Dissolution of Czechoslovakia: Old Sins and New Forms of Selfishness No access
3. 13: A Comment on Čarnogurský and Pithart No access
4. 14: Fragments from the Dividing of Czechoslovakia No access
5. 15: Domestic and International Aspects of the Czechoslovak State's Crisis and End No access
6. 16: Czechoslovakia after 1989: The Reasons for the Division No access
7. 17: Notes on the Role of Television in Czechoslovakia's Dissolution No access
1. 18: On Ethnic Conflicts and Their Resolution No access
2. 19: Lessons from the Breakup of Czechoslovakia No access
Appendix: Narrative Chronology of the Czech–Slovak Conflict, 1990–1992 No access Pages 307 - 332
Index No access Pages 333 - 344
About the Contributors No access Pages 345 - 347