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2009.
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| Summary/Abstract |
Militant transborder identity movements are common agents of regional crises in the post-Cold War world. In their sustained pursuit of identity-centered political objectives these movements incite violent transborder mobilization. This article examines the actors and circumstances of regionalized crises using as an example the Albanian transborder ethnoterritorial separatist movement and its role in the 2001 Macedonian crisis. I argue that, where opportunities are ripe, two factors contribute to the outbreak of regional crisis. The key short-term "endogenous factor" is common ethnic identity, whereas the major long-term "exogenous factor" consists of leaders' cost/benefit calculations made in view of the local and regional institutional context.
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