Volume 54, Number 19 · December 6, 2007
The New Montenegro: The State That Was Not a State
By Noel Malcolm
Realm of the Black Mountain: A History of Montenegro
by Elizabeth Roberts
Cornell University Press, 521 pp., $37.50
When is a state not a state? More than once in modern history, a possible answer to this question has been: when it is Montenegro. The academic industry that studies 'state formation' has examined all kinds of examples, from Anglo-Saxon England to postcolonial Africa. But it has paid curiously little attention to this tiny Balkan country, which has demonstrated more than once an extraordinary skill—the art of becoming a state by simply behaving as if it were one already.
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