TY - BOOK AU - Gligorov,Vladimir TI - Legitimacy: Yugoslav Lessons for Ukraine T2 - wiiw Essays and Occasional Papers PY - 2016/// CY - Wien PB - Wiener Institut für Internationale Wirtschaftsvergleiche (wiiw) KW - legitimacy KW - democracy KW - constitutionalism KW - international intervention KW - state-building KW - Bosnia and Herzegovina KW - Croatia KW - Kosovo KW - North Macedonia KW - Montenegro KW - Russia KW - Serbia KW - Ukraine KW - Yugoslavia N2 - 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 UR - https://wiiw.ac.at/p-3871.html ER -