Legitimacy: Yugoslav Lessons for Ukraine

Gligorov, Vladimir

Legitimacy: Yugoslav Lessons for Ukraine - Wien : Wiener Institut für Internationale Wirtschaftsvergleiche (wiiw), 2016. - 20 S., 30cm. - wiiw Essays and Occasional Papers 2 . - wiiw Essays and Occasional Papers 2 .

Summary

Examples from the breakup of Yugoslavia and state-building in the successor states are used to highlight the political and constitutional choices facing Ukraine. The main lesson is that legitimacy is needed for constitution-building, which is needed for long-term state stability. Ethnic and other diversities are not crucially important except if they are used as a means for external interference.



legitimacy
democracy
constitutionalism
international intervention
state-building


Bosnia and Herzegovina
Croatia
Kosovo
North Macedonia
Montenegro
Russia
Serbia
Ukraine
Yugoslavia
The Vienna Instiute for International Economic Studies (wiiw)