Nations and Citizens in Yugoslavia and the Post-Yugoslav States

Igor Štiks is a Leverhulme Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, UK. He is co-editor of Citizenship After Yugoslavia (2012); Citizenship Rights (2013); and Welcome to the Desert of Post Socialism (2014). He is the author of two prize-winning novels, A Castle in Romagna (2000) and Elijah's Chair (2006).

• Introduction: A Balkan Laboratory of CitizenshipFrom National Integration to the First Disintegration1. Brothers United: The Making of Yugoslavia2. Revolutionary Brothers: The Communist Formula for YugoslaviaFrom Socialist Re-Integration to the Second Disintegration3. Brothers R-United! Federal Citizenship in Socialist Yugoslavia4. Brothers as Partners: Centrifugal Federalism, Confederal Citizenship and Complication Partnership5. The Bridges over the Miljacka: The Long Farewell to Yugoslav CitizenshipFrom Nationalist Disintegration to War6. Partners into Competitors: Divisive Democracy and Conflicting Conceptions of Citizenship7. Where is my State? Citizenship as a Factor oinYugoslavia's Disintegration8. Enemies: Citizenship as a Trigger of ViolenceFrom Ethnic Engineering to European Re-Integration?9. From Equal Citizens to Unequal Groups: The Post-Yugoslav Citizenship Regimes10. Partners Again? The European Union and the Post-Yugoslav CitizensEpilogue:The Citizenship Argument - Why are We in This Together

This is a very interesting and valuable book. By looking at the historical transformations of this region through the lens of shifting citizenship regimes, Štiks offers us an original and insightful analysis … [A] novel and important contribution which allows us to rethink the political transformations of southeast Europe through the prism of citizenship regimes while also adding to the existing knowledge on the comparative historical dynamics of citizenship.