State Collapse in South-Eastern Europe: New Perspectives on Yugoslavia's Disintegration

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Lenard J. Cohen, Jasna Dragović-Soso
Purdue University Press, 2008 - History - 413 pages
This multidisciplinary approach explores the historical antecedents and the dynamic process of Yugoslavia's violent dissolution. The volume, a compilation by distinguished scholars, examines issues broadening the understanding of the Yugoslav case, and also sheds light on how to deal with future episodes of state fragility and failure. Moreover, fifteen years after the Yugoslav crisis, the volume fills in the "blank spots" in the historical record.
 

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Why did Yugoslavia Disintegrate? an Overview of Contending Explanations
1
THE HISTORICAL LEGACY
41
The Evolution of Interwar Yugoslav Politics 19181941
43
A Historical Essay
75
THE SOCIALIST LEGACY
89
SelfDetermination in Socialist Yugoslavia1
91
Reopening of the National Question in the 1960s
112
The Croatian Spring and the Dissolution of Yugoslavia
129
The Failure of Common Educational Cores in Yugoslavia in the early 1980s
183
The InterRegional Struggle for Resources and the Fall of Yugoslavia
201
A Tactical Move or an Ultimate Solution?
229
Policy or Confluence of Tactics?
261
The Army without a State?
281
The Disintegration of Yugoslavia and Western Foreign Policy in the 1980s
313
Yugoslavia in Comparative Perspective
345
Contributors
377

Intellectuals and Nationalism in Titos Yugoslavia
159
THE 1980s
181
Index
381
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