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This work advances a novel approach to evaluating the effects of transitional justice in postconflict societies. Through her examination of the Balkan conflicts, Denisa Kostovicova asks what happens when former adversaries discuss legacies of violence and atrocity, and whether it is possible to do so without further deepening animosities.

Reconciliation by Stealth advances a novel approach to evaluating the effects of transitional justice in postconflict societies. Through her examination of the Balkan conflicts, Denisa Kostovicova asks what happens when former adversaries discuss legacies of violence and atrocity, and whether it is possible to do so without further deepening animosities.Reconciliation by Stealth shifts our attention from what people say about war crimes, to how they deliberate past wrongs. Bringing together theories of democratic deliberation and peacebuilding, Kostovicova demonstrates how people from opposing ethnic groups reconcile through reasoned, respectful, and empathetic deliberation about a difficult legacy. She finds that expression of ethnic difference plays a role in good-quality deliberation across ethnic lines, while revealed intraethnic divisions help deliberators expand moral horizons previously narrowed by conflict. In the process, people forge bonds of solidarity and offset divisive identity politics that bears upon their deliberations. Reconciliation by Stealth shows us the importance of theoretical and methodological innovation in capturing how transitional justice can promote reconciliation, and points to the untapped potential of deliberative problem-solving to repair relationships fractured by conflict.

"This book tells the story of the Serbian-Albanian conflict over Kosova through the lens of its education system after Slobodan Milosevic's rise to power. It analyses space as a central component in the construction of national identity and traces the rise of exclusive notions of nation and homeland among Albanians and Serbs in post-autonomy Kosovo. The focus is on segregated education, discussed critically within the wider context of the Albanian resistance in Kosovo. The view from inside the Albanian national movement includes an account of the creation of the Albanian shadow state, with its strengths and weaknesses, and the Albanians' embrace of non-violence and their subsequent disenchantment with it

During the process of visa liberalisation Serbia made significant and unexpected adjustments in its Kosovo policy, which demonstrate the European Union's leverage. Serbia's compliance on Kosovo cannot be explained either by rational institutionalism, which accounts for domestic change based on cost-benefit calculations, or sociological institutionalism, which predicts domestic adaptation based on convergence of norms and identities. Applying discursive institutionalism, this empirical study of Serbia's Europeanisation identifies discursive denial as a strategy of the Serbian elite in pursuing costly policy implementation. It contributes a novel perspective on 'shallow' Europeanisation by highlighting a lack of discursive reinforcement of adopted rules. Adapted from the source document.

Discusses theoretical approaches used to identify the causes of war. Identifies how scholarship on war has changed the concepts, conceptual models, theoretical foundation, and research methodology used since similar studies on the Cold War. Examines civil war in Yugoslavia and the issue of state formation. Adapted from the source document.