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Book SynopsisAfter Civil War compares the postconflict reconstruction projects of Bosnia, Cyprus, Finland, Greece, Kosovo, Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, Spain, and Turkey to explore how former combatants and their supporters learn to coexist as one nation in the aftermath of ethnopolitical or ideological violence.
Trade Review"This important book may well be the first serious comparative study of how European societies reconstruct national identities after civil conflict. The cases, from Ireland and Finland early in the twentieth century to the 1998 peace agreement in Northern Ireland, are varied in their approaches but all interesting and enlightening. The contributors find that in most cases the political system was rebuilt first, while societal reconciliation took many decades-an important lesson for peace processors everywhere." * Stuart Kaufman, University of Delaware *
Table of ContentsIntroduction
—Bill Kissane
PART I. RECONSTRUCTING THE NATION IN INTERWAR EUROPE
Chapter 1. The Legacy of Civil War of 1918 in Finland
—Risto Alapuro
Chapter 2. "A Nation Once Again"? Electoral Competition and the Reconstruction of National Identity After the Irish Civil War, 1922-1923
—Bill Kissane
Chapter 3. State, Nation, and Violence in Spanish Civil War Reconstruction
—Michael Richards
PART II. RECONSTRCTION WITHOUT CONFLICT RESOLUTION
Chapter 4. Enemies of the Nation—A Nation of Enemies: The Long Greek Civil War
—Riki van Boeschoten
Chapter 5. Political Contention and the Reconstruction of Greek Identity in Cyprus, 1960-23
—Chares Demetriou
Chapter 6. Under (Re)Construction: The State, the Production of Identity, and the Countryside in the Kurdistan Region in Turkey
—Joost Jongerden
PART III. RECONSTRUCTION UNDER EXTERNAL SUPERVISION
Chapter 7. Ethnicity Pays: The Political Economy of Postconflict Nationalism in Bosnia-Herzegovina
—Denisa Kostovicova and Vesna Bojicic-Dzelilovic
Chapter 8. Nationalism and Beyond: Memory and Identity in Postwar Kosovo/Kosova
—Ruth Seifert
Chapter 9. Reconstruction Without Reconciliation: Is Northern Ireland a "Model"?
—James Hughes
Conclusion
—Bill Kissane
Index
Acknowledgments
