The Death of Yugoslavia

Author: Laura Silber
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN:
Category : Bosnia and Hercegovina
Languages : en
Pages : 416

Book Description
"The Death of Yugoslavia is the first account to go behind the public face of battle and into the closed worlds of the key players in the war. Laura Silber, Balkans correspondent for the Financial Times, and Allan Little, award-winning BBC journalist, plot the road to war and the war itself. They pinpoint the key events that occurred in the capitals of Belgrade and Zagreb, and in villages ravaged by 'ethnic cleansing', and draw on eye-witness testimony, scrupulous research and hundreds of interviews to give unprecedented access to the facts behind the media stories. Challenging the received wisdom that the war occurred as a spontaneous and inevitable eruption of ethnic hatreds, the authors expose, step-by-step, a plan to divide the country by force of arms." "Could anything have been done to prevent this terrible tragedy? What will be its lasting effects? The authors consider these questions and assess the present situation and its implications for future international relations."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Ethnic Nationalism

Author: Bogdan Denis Denitch
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9780816629473
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276

Book Description
This essential resource provides a cogent, comprehensive historical analysis of Yugoslavia's demise, one that clearly identifies events and trends that urgently demand the world's attention.

Balkan Babel

Author: Sabrina Petra Ramet
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429975031
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 451

Book Description
The fourth edition of this critically acclaimed work includes a new chapter, a new epilogue, and revisions throughout the book. Sabrina Ramet, a veteran observer of the Yugoslav scene, traces the steady deterioration of Yugoslavia's political and social fabric in the years since 1980, arguing that, while the federal system and multiethnic fabric laid down fault lines, the final crisis was sown in the failure to resolve the legitimacy question, triggered by economic deterioration, and pushed forward toward war by Serbian politicians bent on power - either within a centralized Yugoslavia or within an 'ethnically cleansed' Greater Serbia. With her detailed knowledge of the area and extensive fieldwork, Ramet paints a strikingly original picture of Yugoslavia's demise and the emergence of the Yugoslav successor states.

Yugoslavia

Author: Laura Silber
Publisher: Penguin Books
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 420

Book Description
Yugoslavia: Death of a Nation draws on hundreds of interviews with politicians, soldiers, and citizens to bring readers behind the scenes of Europe's bloodiest conflict since World War II. Published as the companion to the critically acclaimed BBC documentary broadcast on the Discovery Channel.of photos.

Slobodan Milosevic and the Destruction of Yugoslavia

Author: Louis Sell
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822385252
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 451

Book Description
In Slobodan Milosevic and the Destruction of Yugoslavia former U.S. foreign service officer Louis Sell fills a gap in the literature on the Yugoslav conflicts by covering both the domestic Yugoslav side of the collapse and the history and consequences of international interventions in the wars in Slovenia and Croatia in 1991, Bosnia in 1992–1995, and Kosovo from 1998–1999. Sell focuses on the life and career of Milosevic, from the perspective of both a diplomatic insider intimately familiar with the region and a scholar who has researched all the available English and Serbo-Croatian sources. Sell spent much of his diplomatic career in Eastern Europe and Russia, including eight years in Yugoslavia between 1974 and 2000, and witnessed the events that contributed to the dissolution and ultimate destruction of Yugoslavia. In Slobodan Milosevic and the Destruction of Yugoslavia he provides first-hand observations of Milosevic from the heady days of his rise to power and, later, in the endgame of the Bosnian war, including the Dayton Peace Conference. Drawing on a wide range of published material as well as interviews with Yugoslav and foreign participants, Sell covers such areas as Milosevic’s relationship to the military, his responsibility for war crimes, his methods of persuasion and negotiation, and his notoriously explosive personality.

From the Death of Tito to the Death of Yugoslavia

Author: Raif Dizdarević
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Yugoslavia
Languages : en
Pages : 578

Book Description
Marshal Tito's illness and death -- The first post-Tito years: political differences and the first clashes -- Economic crisis and powerless institutions: the first serious split in the party leadership -- The international standing and foreign policy of post-Tito Yugoslavia -- The months of Yugoslavia's destabilization -- The virus of separatism in Slovenia -- Gloomy prognostications at the end of 1988 -- The January crisis -- Kosovo: the country's most challenging political issue -- Role of the armed forces in the Yugoslav crisis -- The world begins to wonder if Yugoslavia can survive -- Finally: the question of all questions.

From the Death of Tito to the Death of Yugoslavia

Author: Raif Dizdarević
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789532820294
Category : Yugoslavia
Languages : en
Pages : 508

Book Description

The Collapse of Yugoslavia 1991–1999

Author: Alastair Finlan
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472810279
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 121

Book Description
In 1991, an ethnically diverse region that had enjoyed decades of peaceful coexistence descended into bitter hatred and chaos, almost overnight. Communities fractured along lines of ethnic and religious affiliation and the ensuing fighting was deeply personal, resulting in brutality, rape and torture, and ultimately the deaths of thousands of people. This book examines the internal upheavals of the former Yugoslavia and their international implications, including the failure of the Vance-Owen plan; the first use of NATO in a combat role and in peace enforcement; and the war in Kosovo, unsanctioned by the UN but prosecuted by NATO forces to prevent the ethnic cleansing of the region.

Yugoslavia: A History of Its Demise

Author: Viktor Meier
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134665113
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 294

Book Description
Victor Meier presents a history of the disintegration and collapse of the former Yugoslavia, drawing on federal and republican archives, and sources which are not yet officially open for scholarly use.

Balkan Babel

Author: Sabrina P. Ramet
Publisher: Westview Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 392

Book Description
Deals with the major strategic issues confronting the US in the post- Cold War era, with an emphasis on the future role of aerospace power, and outlines current political and economic trends as factors in a US grand strategy for the new era. Assesses geopolitical trends in various regions of the world and discusses alternative strategies and their implications for global stability and the preservation of the current US position of preeminence. Of interest to readers in politics, economy, political science, and military studies. No index. c. Book News Inc.