Thinking about Yugoslavia
Scholarly Debates about the Yugoslav Breakup and the Wars in Bosnia and Kosovo

A unique survey of the evidence and academic debates surrounding the break-up of Yugoslavia.

Sabrina P. Ramet (Author)

9780521616904, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 8 December 2005

348 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm, 0.47 kg

'… the obvious first pick for people interested in reading on these topics.' East Central Europe Journal

The Yugoslav break up and conflict have given rise to a considerable literature offering dramatically different interpretations of what happened. But just how do the various interpretations relate to each other? This ambitious new book by Sabrina Ramet, an eminent commentator on recent Balkan politics and history, reviews and analyses more than 130 books about the troubled region and compares their accounts, theories, and interpretations of events. Ramet surveys the major debates which divide the field, alternative accounts of the causes of Yugoslavia's violent collapse, and the scholarly debates concerning humanitarian intervention. Rival accounts are presented side by side for easy comparison. Thinking about Yugoslavia examines books on Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Macedonia, Montenegro, and Kosovo which were published in English, German, Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian, and Italian, thus offering the English-speaking reader a unique insight into the controversies.

Preface
List of books reviewed
1. Debates about the war
2. The collapse of Eastern European communism
3. The roots of the Yugoslav collapse
4. Who's to blame? Rival accounts of the war
5. Memoirs and autobiographies
6. The scourge of nationalism and the quest for harmony
7. Milo?evic's place in history
8. Dilemmas in post-Dayton Bosnia
9. Crisis in Kosovo/a
10. Debates about intervention
11. Lands and peoples: Bosnia, Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia
12. Southern Republics: Macedonia and Montenegro in contemporary history
Conclusion: Controversies, methodological disputes and suggested reading.

Subject Areas: Comparative politics [JPB], Politics & government [JP]