The triumph of nation-states: Lessons from the collapse of the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, and Czechoslovakia

After the Collapse of Communism: Comparative Lessons of Transition

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 21-57

  Roeder, Philip G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511751769.002     Document Type: Chapter

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