Mieczysław P Boduszyński
Biographic Data
| ID | 840319 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mieczysław P Boduszyński |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mieczysław P |
| FAMILY NAME | Boduszyński |
| SIGNATURE | BODUSZYŃSKI M P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pomona College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Cultures of Victory and the Political Consequences of Foundational Legitimacy in Croatia and Kosovo
What are the consequences of a culture of victory in countries undergoing new state formation and democratic transition? In this article, we examine 'foundational legitimacy,' or a hegemonic narrative about the way in which a new state was created, and the role particular groups played in its creation. We argue that the way in which victory is institutionalized can pose a grave threat to the democratic project. If reconciliation and democratizati…
Unfinished Revolutions
Ibrahim Fraihat has written an important book that is at once a plea for transitional justice in the wake of the Arab Spring and an analysis of why it is so hard to achieve. He focuses on Tunisia, Libya, and Yemen, all countries that underwent regime changes as a result of the 2010–11 uprisings, but have since experienced high levels of social polarization. In Fraihat's view, Arab societies that have undergone “leaderless” revolutions can best de…
The Rise and Fall of the ICC in Libya and the Politics of International Surrogate Enforcership
Under what conditions does the international community support the mission of global justice? Our article engages this question by examining the role played by international actors in the International Criminal Court (ICC) judicial intervention in Libya. While the international community and western states initially perceived the ICC as an effective diplomatic tool to delegitimize the Muammar Qadhafi regime, ensuing political developments during …
Iraq’s Year of Rage
Iraqis of all ethnic and sectarian groups are fed up with the ineptitude and corruption of their political leaders and the institutions they control. Since 2015, they have turned out in record numbers to protest against their political elite. The protests that unfolded in 2015 and 2016 have highlighted two failings of Iraq’s post-2003 "democratic" order: 1) the entrenchment of a corrupt “partyocracy” that has captured the state and deepened secta…
The external dimension of Libya's troubled transition
What are the sources of democratic knowledge in a context devoid of relevant experience and institutions? More than other Arab Spring states, Libya lacked the ingredients for successful democratisation. Yet, Libya's Arab Spring uprising was also unique in that external actors, Western and Arab, supported it through military intervention. Why was the international community's successful intervention to protect civilians and help overthrow the Qadh…
The Libyan revolution and its aftermath / The 2011 Libyan uprisings and the struggle for the post-Qadhafi future
Libya remains an enigma, even for scholars of North Africa and the broader Middle East. While a number of journalistic-style accounts of the 2011 Libyan uprisings have appeared in the past four yea
Euroscepticism, the Croatian Way
What explains widespread Euroscepticism among the Croatian public? A scarce two years after accession, despite immense incentives to join the EU and more than a decade of EU promotion by politicians and officials in Zagreb and Brussels, large parts of Croatian society remain ambivalent, indifferent, or even hostile to the ostensible benefits of EU membership. This article analyses the sources of Croatian attitudes towards the EU and argues that w…
Balancing International Justice in the Balkans
The conditionality policies of the European Union (EU) have been of crucial importance to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). Bereft of police powers, the ICTY must turn to powerful international actors such as the EU to press targeted states to hand over their nationals for trial. The EU, a supporter of the tribunal and human rights, has used the promise of membership as leverage to bolster the tribunal in its q…
Regime Change in the Yugoslav Successor States
In the 1990s, amid political upheaval and civil war, the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia dissolved into five successor states. The subsequent independence of Montenegro and Kosovo brought the total number to seven. Balkan scholar and diplomat to the region Mieczysław P. Boduszyński examines four of those states—Croatia, Slovenia, Macedonia, and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia—and traces their divergent paths toward democracy and Euro-…
Bosnia-Herzegovina
"Bosnia-Herzegovina: The End of a Legacy, by Neven Andjelic." Canadian Journal of History, 39(2), pp. 387–388
Iraq’s Year of Rage
Iraqis of all ethnic and sectarian groups are fed up with the ineptitude and corruption of their political leaders and the institutions they control. Since 2015, they have turned out in record numbers to protest against their political elite. The protests that unfolded in 2015 and 2016 have highlighted two failings of Iraq’s post-2003 "democratic" order: 1) the entrenchment of a corrupt “partyocracy” that has captured the state and deepened secta…
Cultures of Victory and the Political Consequences of Foundational Legitimacy in Croatia and Kosovo
What are the consequences of a culture of victory in countries undergoing new state formation and democratic transition? In this article, we examine 'foundational legitimacy,' or a hegemonic narrative about the way in which a new state was created, and the role particular groups played in its creation. We argue that the way in which victory is institutionalized can pose a grave threat to the democratic project. If reconciliation and democratizati…
The Rise and Fall of the ICC in Libya and the Politics of International Surrogate Enforcership
Under what conditions does the international community support the mission of global justice? Our article engages this question by examining the role played by international actors in the International Criminal Court (ICC) judicial intervention in Libya. While the international community and western states initially perceived the ICC as an effective diplomatic tool to delegitimize the Muammar Qadhafi regime, ensuing political developments during …
Balancing International Justice in the Balkans
The conditionality policies of the European Union (EU) have been of crucial importance to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). Bereft of police powers, the ICTY must turn to powerful international actors such as the EU to press targeted states to hand over their nationals for trial. The EU, a supporter of the tribunal and human rights, has used the promise of membership as leverage to bolster the tribunal in its q…
The external dimension of Libya's troubled transition
What are the sources of democratic knowledge in a context devoid of relevant experience and institutions? More than other Arab Spring states, Libya lacked the ingredients for successful democratisation. Yet, Libya's Arab Spring uprising was also unique in that external actors, Western and Arab, supported it through military intervention. Why was the international community's successful intervention to protect civilians and help overthrow the Qadh…
Bosnia-Herzegovina
"Bosnia-Herzegovina: The End of a Legacy, by Neven Andjelic." Canadian Journal of History, 39(2), pp. 387–388
Regime Change in the Yugoslav Successor States
In the 1990s, amid political upheaval and civil war, the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia dissolved into five successor states. The subsequent independence of Montenegro and Kosovo brought the total number to seven. Balkan scholar and diplomat to the region Mieczysław P. Boduszyński examines four of those states—Croatia, Slovenia, Macedonia, and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia—and traces their divergent paths toward democracy and Euro-…
Balancing International Justice in the Balkans
The conditionality policies of the European Union (EU) have been of crucial importance to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). Bereft of police powers, the ICTY must turn to powerful international actors such as the EU to press targeted states to hand over their nationals for trial. The EU, a supporter of the tribunal and human rights, has used the promise of membership as leverage to bolster the tribunal in its q…
Euroscepticism, the Croatian Way
What explains widespread Euroscepticism among the Croatian public? A scarce two years after accession, despite immense incentives to join the EU and more than a decade of EU promotion by politicians and officials in Zagreb and Brussels, large parts of Croatian society remain ambivalent, indifferent, or even hostile to the ostensible benefits of EU membership. This article analyses the sources of Croatian attitudes towards the EU and argues that w…
The external dimension of Libya's troubled transition
What are the sources of democratic knowledge in a context devoid of relevant experience and institutions? More than other Arab Spring states, Libya lacked the ingredients for successful democratisation. Yet, Libya's Arab Spring uprising was also unique in that external actors, Western and Arab, supported it through military intervention. Why was the international community's successful intervention to protect civilians and help overthrow the Qadh…
The Libyan revolution and its aftermath / The 2011 Libyan uprisings and the struggle for the post-Qadhafi future
Libya remains an enigma, even for scholars of North Africa and the broader Middle East. While a number of journalistic-style accounts of the 2011 Libyan uprisings have appeared in the past four yea
The Rise and Fall of the ICC in Libya and the Politics of International Surrogate Enforcership
Under what conditions does the international community support the mission of global justice? Our article engages this question by examining the role played by international actors in the International Criminal Court (ICC) judicial intervention in Libya. While the international community and western states initially perceived the ICC as an effective diplomatic tool to delegitimize the Muammar Qadhafi regime, ensuing political developments during …
Iraq’s Year of Rage
Iraqis of all ethnic and sectarian groups are fed up with the ineptitude and corruption of their political leaders and the institutions they control. Since 2015, they have turned out in record numbers to protest against their political elite. The protests that unfolded in 2015 and 2016 have highlighted two failings of Iraq’s post-2003 "democratic" order: 1) the entrenchment of a corrupt “partyocracy” that has captured the state and deepened secta…
Unfinished Revolutions
Ibrahim Fraihat has written an important book that is at once a plea for transitional justice in the wake of the Arab Spring and an analysis of why it is so hard to achieve. He focuses on Tunisia, Libya, and Yemen, all countries that underwent regime changes as a result of the 2010–11 uprisings, but have since experienced high levels of social polarization. In Fraihat's view, Arab societies that have undergone “leaderless” revolutions can best de…
Cultures of Victory and the Political Consequences of Foundational Legitimacy in Croatia and Kosovo
What are the consequences of a culture of victory in countries undergoing new state formation and democratic transition? In this article, we examine 'foundational legitimacy,' or a hegemonic narrative about the way in which a new state was created, and the role particular groups played in its creation. We argue that the way in which victory is institutionalized can pose a grave threat to the democratic project. If reconciliation and democratizati…
Political science (10 works) · Political economy (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Global Peace and Security Dynamics (4 works) · Balkans: History, Politics, Society (3 works) · Democracy (3 works) · Post-Soviet Geopolitical Dynamics (3 works)