Social Distance in Bosnia-Herzegovina and the North Caucasus Region of Russia: Inter and Intra-Ethnic Attitudes and Identities

Acknowledgements: Our biggest thanks are to the respondents in Bosnia and the North Caucasus region who graciously answered our questions. We also are grateful to Marina Francic and Dino Djipa of Prism Research in Sarajevo, as well as Alexei Grazhdankin of the Levada Center in Moscow for organizing and successfully carrying out the large and complex surveys in Bosnia and the North Caucasus; Vladimir Kolossov of the Russian Academy of Sciences for his insights and fieldwork leadership, his contribution to the design and wording of the questionnaire, and his continuing friendship and collegiality; Gerard Toal of Virginia Tech University for his contribution to the survey instrument design, insights into Bosnia’s political and social life, fieldwork comradeship in both places, and for his pursuit of Stakhanovite principles of research output. This research was supported by the US National Science Foundation (grant number 0433927), via its Cross Directorate Initiative in Human and Social Dynamics. We have been aided by the support and encouragement of our program officers at NSF, including Tom Baerwald, Rachelle Hollander, Pat White, and Frank Scioli. Despite all of this advice and help, some errors or missteps may remain. For these, we take full credit