Koinova Maria. Ethnonationalist conflict in postcommunist states: varieties of governance in Bulgaria, Macedonia, and Kosovo

University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. — 329 р. — ISBN 978-0-8122-4522-6This book is situated at the nexus of comparative historical scholarship on path-dependence, timing and sequencing of policies, democratization and conflict, and international intervention. It theorizes about long-term causal processes of continuity and change in conflict dynamics. It shares recent broad recognition among social scientists that ‘‘legacies matter’’ and that social science should better account for both continuity and change, rather than focus on just one, and should certainly not leave the study of continuity primarily to historians. In the next section I elaborate on my perspective, while demonstrating how it presents an alternative way of thinking about continuities and change in the context of conflict and post-conflict processes.