Habits of the Balkan heart social character and the fall of Communism

Almost as soon as Communism fell in Eastern Europe in 1989, Western politicians and intellectuals concluded that the West had "won" the Cold War and that liberal democracy had triumphed over authoritarianism in the world. Euphoria spread with the expectation of a New World Order. Within mo...

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adam_text Contents Preface page vii 1. The Collapse of Communism and Its Cultural Nemesis 3 2. The Fifth Yugoslavia and the New World Order 28 3. The Aristocratic Temperament in the Balkans 50 4. Veblen and Spengler on Barbarism within Modernity 82 5. Explaining War in the Land of Medjugorje 108 6. Conclusions 131 Notes 150 References 158 Index 177
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