Stateness and Democratic Consolidation

Filip Milačić obtained his Ph.D. at Humboldt University, Berlin (Germany). He is currently a senior researcher in the Vienna based Office Democracy of the Future of Friedrich Ebert Foundation (FES) and a research affiliate at Democracy Institute of the Central European University (CEU). Previously, he worked for the Organization for the Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) as well as at the University of Rijeka, University of Montenegro and in German Bundestag. He was also a visiting fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) in Vienna. He is an author of the book Nationalstaatsbildung, Krieg und Konsolidierung der Demokratie: Kroatien, Serbien und Montenegro, Springer: Wiesbaden, 2017. His work was published in many prominent academic journals. He also regularly comments burning issues for various media outlets.

• Introduction.- 1. Democracy: Theoretical and conceptional challenges.- 2. Stateness and democracy.- 3. Tracing the process.- 4. Former Yugoslav republics: Diverging trajectories.- 5. The group of less successful cases.- 6. The group of more successful cases.- 7. Generalizability of the theoretical framework.- Conclusion.