Playing the Ethnic Card: Party Networks and Violence in the Balkans

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This seminar will examine the rise of ethnic cleansing during periods of regime change. It will investigate why, during the 1990s multiparty transitions, ruling elites in Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina in the former Yugoslavia sponsored large-scale, ethnic cleansing, whereas in Romania, leaders did not employ this tactic. The session will posit that during transitions, ruling parties which reject reform and are internally stable—with steady cooperation among elites and a developed party organization—are more likely to employ ethnic cleansing.

Please join us! Coffee and tea provided. Everyone is welcome, but admittance will be on a first come-first served basis.