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Africa has been at the forefront of contemporary global efforts towards ensuring greater accountability for international crimes. But the continent's early embrace of international criminal justice seems to be taking a new turn with the recent resistance from some African states claiming that the emerging system of international criminal law represents a new form of imperialism masquerading as international rule of law. This work analyses the relationship and tensions between the International Criminal Court (ICC) and Africa

CONTENTS; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; Introduction: potentials of disorder in the Caucasus and Yugoslavia - Jan Koehler and Christoph Zürcher; 1 Discourses, actors, violence: the organisation of war-escalation in the Krajina region of Croatia 1990-911 - Hannes Grandits and Carolin Leutlo.; 2 Non-existent states with strange institutions - Kristóf Gosztonyi; 3 A neglected dimension of conflict: the Albanian mafia - Xavier Raufer; 4 Land reforms and ethnic tensions: scenarios in south east Europe - Christian Giordano

Combining detailed analysis with a close reading of historical narratives, documentary evidence and first-hand interviews, this is the first book on conflict to look seriously at the issue of ethnic identity and what it means for future peace.

Not only did Yugoslavia dissolve in an extremely violent way, its dissolution was accompanied by the emergence of a discourse that constructed the Yugoslav space as an artificial one. This discourse described Yugoslavia as a state that was created and led in a top-down fashion by undemocratic political elites. As a consequence, this discourse suggests, the people who lived in the Yugoslav state did not really want it. However, twenty years after the beginning of the break-up, and ten years after the end of the last military conflicts, we observe processes that indicate a new emergence of the space encompassing the territory of the former Yugoslavia. These processes are unique insofar as they have not been initiated by the political elites, but are being carried out -- possibly for the first time since the end of the 19th century -- from the bottom up. What is more, they are driven by the forces of profit and competitiveness. This article presents examples of these bottom-up processes to illustrate that, despite the traumatic experience of the fragmentation of Yugoslavia, people in the Yugoslav space have started to link once again. This rapprochment has neither been carried by a strong ideology nor pushed by an authoritarian state. Instead, it is based in a sense of a common culture, language, memory, and last but not least, shared expectations of potential economic profits. Adapted from the source document.