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This comparative study at hand has been the result of a two-year research project on floods in 2014 in the Western Balkans engaging eight research teams from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Croatia. Representing quite different disciplines, the authors of this volume have analysed diverse aspects of the crisis governance and its ramifications. This publication’s goals are twofold. Firstly, it pins down the characteristics of the crisis responses during the floods of 2014 in three affected countries, preconditioned by the existing institutions, crisis leadership, the role of media and the social capital as well as the foreign financial aid. On the other hand, through the lenses of the crisis governance we conclude on the state capacities and the nature of political regime of the cases under study. The flood megacrisis did not constitute a ""window of opportunity"" for individual or institutional learning. On the contrary, it did unveil some authoritarian tendencies in Serbia and Bosnia, and thus stalled the hitherto ongoing democratization process.

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Author:   Vedran Džihić ,  Magdalena Solska
Publisher:   Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Imprint:   Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Edition:   New edition
Volume:   17
Weight:   0.342kg
ISBN:  

9783034327473

ISBN 10:   3034327471
Pages:   230
Publication Date:   18 April 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Vedran Džihić/Magdalena Solska: The Floods of 2014: Crisis Governance, State Capacities and Political Regimes in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Croatia – Damir Kapidžić/Dušan Pavlović/Gordan Bosanac: Crisis Response in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Croatia – Marko Vujačić: Leadership in Megacrisis: The Case of the 2014 Floods in Serbia – Snježana Milivojević/Bojana Barlovac: Media and Floods under Crisis in Serbia – Danijela Majstorović/Zoran Vučkovac: Managing Floods, Challenging Ethnopolitics in Bosnia and Herzegovina: The Example of the Town of Doboj – Adnan Efendić: The Role of Economic and Social Capital during the Floods in Bosnia and Herzegovina – Iva Kornfein Groš: International Financial Aid in the Postcrisis Phase in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia – Sanneke Kuipers: Crisis Leadership in Governing Floods: Lessons from the Western Balkans – Appendix 1: Damir Kapidžić/Dušan Pavlović/Gordan Bosanac: Mapping an Unfolding Crisis: Key Developments during the Floods in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia – Appendix 2: Dušan Pavlović/Damir Kapidžić/Gordan Bosanac: Flood Protection Systems in the Precrisis Phase: The Cases of Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina

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Vedran Džihić, PhD, is a senior researcher at the Austrian Institute for International Affairs, co-director of the Center for Advanced Studies, South East Europe and senior lecturer at the Institute for Political Sciences, University of Vienna. Magdalena Solska, PhD, is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer in political science at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland.

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