ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book proposes an analytical framework for the study of citizenship governance and practices in states that have emerged from multinational federations. It offers a contribution to the understanding of the complex post-communist, post-partition and post-conflict societies. The book looks at the citizenship regimes in these countries as a product of the competing streams of state and nation-building processes, thus merging the most significant domestic and external political issues. It explains that the transformation of the post-Yugoslav citizenship regimes of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia or Montenegro was a result of elite competition, societal dynamics, and external pressures. The book highlights the lack of citizen's solidarity is most manifest in the attitudes of the people from Macedonia, especially ethnic Albanians, towards state symbols which they see representative of only the ethnic Macedonian community.
