Legitimacy: Yugoslav Lessons for Ukraine

Vladimir Gligorov

No 2, wiiw Essays and Occasional Papers from The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies, wiiw

Abstract: Summary Examples from the breakup of Yugoslavia and state-building in the successor states are used to highlight the political and constitutional choices facing Ukraine. The main lesson is that legitimacy is needed for constitution-building, which is needed for long-term state stability. Ethnic and other diversities are not crucially important except if they are used as a means for external interference.

Keywords: legitimacy; democracy; constitutionalism; international intervention; state-building (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F51 H10 H77 K10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 20 pages
Date: 2016-04
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