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The task of building a viable and unified state has been complicated not only by Yugoslavia's diverse cultural composition, but also by the pressures which the evolution of international society have placed on the modern state. In this truly international history of Yugoslavia, Ann Lane exposes fully the role played by other nations in the rise and fall of the nation.Lane's argument is that the world's most powerful countries exacerbated the tensions in what is now the former Yugoslavia, manipulating domestic difficulties for the purpose of power politics.
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A comparative analysis of the dominant ideologies and modes of legitimization in communist Yugoslavia and post-Communist Serbia and Croatia. The aim of the book is to identify and explain dominant normative and operative ideologies and principal modes of legitimization in these three case studies. ... Read more

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Extract from �Books on Bosnia�, London 1999
Perhaps the best English-language textbook history of Titoist Yugoslavia. In the first edition published in 1984, Ramet highlighted the importance of inter-republican contradictions within the Yugoslav Federation and thetrend towards confederalization. A somewhat rigid theoretical frameworkgives the added chapters on the road to war a tacked-on feel ... Read more

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Based on Dejan Djokic's original research in Croatian, Serbian, British, and American archives,Elusive Compromise is a unique history of the original, interwar Yugoslavia of 1918-1941. Unlike other scholars, Djokic argues that this period can be best understood by analyzing political attempts to reach a Serb-Croat compromise. Historians have long recognized the Croats' rejection of state centralism, but Djokic shows that, by the mid-1930s, many Serbs had accepted federalism as well. During this period, it is commonly believed that Serbs and non-Serbs were engaged in constant conflict; however, Djokic argues that the radicalization leading to the war years of 1941-45 and the subsequent communist takeover was instead a response to the political mismanagement of the country.Elusive Compromise places Yugoslavia in the context of a Europe-wide struggle between democracy and dictatorship and provides a thorough understanding of the dissolution of Yugoslavia and other multinational states.

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Simply excellent!
I gulped this book down in just two evenings. Now I am reading it again, much more carefully, as the wealth of material is simply amazing for a book of this size. And then the footnotes: these are a story in themselves, I would say. It is really very good that finally there is a well researched publication which not only dispels some myths but also factually shows what really happened. I love this period in history and for anybody interested in1920's and 1930's in Europe (the consequences of things happening in Yugoslavia were felt elsewhere too...) this book is simply indispensable. I can only hope that he goes on and publishes more really soon!

Elusive Compromise: A History of Interwar Yugoslavia
A scholarly, balanced and thoroughly researched study, based on archival previously non published documents in the United States, Great Britain, Croatia and Serbia.The author dealth with a complicated, difficult, and complex subject necessary for understanding Yugoslavia in its first two decades prior to the World War Two, the Communist rule and Yugoslavia's disintegration.A minutely documented study with dispassioned conclusions. ... Read more

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Doing Business And Investing in Yugoslavia (World Business, Investment and Government Library) ... Read more

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The study of international relations revolves around the question, "why war?" The Social Construction of Man, State, and War seek to answer this question by examining the practice of warfare and its dehumanizing effects in the context of the former Yugoslavia. However, Franke Wilmer also dares to pose more difficult questions beyond those normally asked.Why war now? And why here? Why so much brutality? Conventional arguments provide little or no answers.
Ethnic conflict is the phrase most often invoked, but with little regard to how identity is constructed or deployed.To answer these questions, Wilmer combines effective theoretical analysis with her powerful interviews with the local war-weary population.By adding this psychoanalytic element, Wilmer assembles an explanation that could not be built with normal international relations tools alone.Studies of war with this critical force, combined with this deep sense of humanity, are rare, making The Social Construction of Man, State, and War a fundamental addition to our understanding of man's inhumanity to man. ... Read more

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Expectation gap
I bought this book by Franke Wilmer for the following reasons:

1. The title refers directly to Kenneth Waltz' Man, the state and War, which means the author is not hiding her ambitions with this book. That's the same thing Alex Wendt did with his Social Theory of International Politics whichcountered Waltz' book Theory of International Politics.

2. I'm extremely symphatetic to social construcitivism - I think it's the right way to think about International Relations.

3. I wanted to know more about the Balkans.

To me, the book was a big disappointment. While Wilmer and Wendt both are constructivists, Wendt is a realist while Wilmer seems to be an interpretivist in epistemological terms. The book has no clear problem or research question, but rather presents a minimum of ten questions for each chapter that are never properly answered. Clearly, Wilmer is a critical theorist who seeks to deconstruct some common perceptions about the Yugoslavia conflict.

The book's structure is a big mess. Theory mixed with empirical evidence (based on interviews with former citizens) in every chapter is a great strategy for confusing the reader. Worse is it that the same quotes from other theorists appear multiple times, making some of the theoretical parts sound like a broken record.

Relying extensively on interviews with former Yugoslavia citizens she tries to show that we cannot think of war only as a product of structural/materialistic factors. For that I agree, and the book may be fairly successful if the aim is to convince the reader that there is more to conflict than the international environment/internal economic problems. I just wish this was written in a more elegant way, maybe employing a realist epistemology to show how identities were constructed/changed before/during the conflict. She certainlytouches upon these questions, but tries to deconstruct so many other things at the same time that it is impossible to get hold of what happened.

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This digital document is an article from Siempre!, published by Edicional Siempre on July 29, 1999. The length of the article is 1545 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: ¡Dios, salva a Yugoslavia!(movimientos separatistas; política y gobierno)(TT: May God save Yugoslavia!)(TA: separatist movements; government and politics)
Author: Alexander Serikov
Publication: Siempre! (Refereed)
Date: July 29, 1999
Publisher: Edicional Siempre
Volume: 46Issue: 2406Page: 58

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Liberal Forces in Twentieth Century Yugoslavia: Memoirs of Ladislav Bevc spans 80 years of his professional and political life: from the early years of his childhood in the large family of a civil servant, to his studies in Vienna and the interruption of his professional career by military service at the Eastern and Western front under the detested Austrian flag, to a flourishing career in the liberated homeland of Yugoslavia. Born in Škocijan, Slovenia, he graduated as a civil engineer from the Technical University in Vienna. In World War I, he served on the front in Russia and France. Following the war, Ladislav Bevc focused his life on politics, civic organizations, and the engineering profession. In Ljubljana, he served as a city councilman and was active in civic and academic affairs. He helped establish a new University and resisted Communist subversion in the Sokol Patriotic Gymnast Association. Following the German invasion in World War II,he joined the resistance movement of General Dragoljub Mihajlovich, which led to encounters with the Gestapo and eventual political emigration. In 1949, he immigrated to California, where he remained active in the efforts to liberate Yugoslavia from the Communists and rescued his family, who had been held hostage. In the free world, he organized the Slovenian liberal émigrés in the Slovenian Democratic Party and was instrumental in rebuilding the Yugoslav Sokol in the Free World. He practiced civil engineering in the United States, where he was elected Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers. He died on November 29, 1988. ... Read more

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In Transacting Transition, scholars and practitioners with firsthand knowledge of foreign assistance programs, recount what happens when democracy goes local, and principles like transparency, gender equality, interethnic tolerance and cooperation, run up against particular realities-political agendas, self-interest and memories of conflict.
Focused on the former Yugoslavia, where the 1990s saw an unprecedented investment of time and energy by a host of international organizations in processes of reconstruction and democracy assistance, the contributors offer description and analysis of diagnostic cases of international intervention to explore how the mission and vision of "democracy promotion" is enacted on the ground.
Each case is described by a participant and put in wider context by a short editorial introduction. The book is intended to be broadly accessible to readers and students interested in understanding what is entailed in making grand visions of democratization work. ... Read more

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This is a collection of the author's essays and articles over a 16-year period. They cover topics such as: the death of Tito; the Serb-Croat conflict; Yugoslavia's trap of ethnic confrontation; anti-Yugoslavism and its sources; and the Bosnian tragedy and the West. ... Read more

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This volume comprises several important studies and commentaries on historic Serbia and contemporary Yugoslavia. The book offers new insight into Serbia's role as the unifying force of post World War I Yugoslavia. This information is essential to understanding the current Bosnian crisis within the context of Yugoslavia's formation and eventual disintegration. ... Read more

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This study examines the Yugoslav government s policy on the rapidly escalating Yugoslav worker emigration from 1963-1973 through the coverage of that emigration in the major Yugoslav news media during these same years. Because the Yugoslav press contained a degree of contrasting opinion that was high relative to other Communist states during the same period, while at the same time allowing no questioning of settled policy, its coverage of this subject provides a useful window into the shifting attitudes toward worker emigration of the government and especially of President Tito.Using as sources the major Yugoslav newspapers and other periodicals, as well as dispatches from Tanjug, the Yugoslav government s official news agency, and translations of radio broadcasts, the picture comes clearly into focus of a government struggling to manage the effects of this exodus, but unable to affect the outflow in a substantive way because it was unavoidable given the external labor markets and the policy of self-management itself. ... Read more

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This book explores the leadership of Slobodan Milosevic, president of Yugoslavia from 1997 to 2000. In 2001 he stood trial at the international war crimes tribunal (court) in The Hague, Netherlands, charged with crimes against humanity, violating the laws or customs of war, grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions and genocide for his role during the wars of the 1990s in Croatia, Bosnia, and Kosovo. Milosevic conducted his own defense. He died after five years in prison with just fifty hours of testimony left before the conclusion of the trial. The legacy left behind by Slobodan Milosevic is controversial. There are many people who despise him and call him a brutal dictator who did not hesitate to slaughter his own citizens. Others feel he was a strong leader who was faced with handling civil strife while the former Yugoslavia was being ripped apart from the inside. The Dictatorships series explores the history and personality of this leader, as well as examining the ways in which he exerted control over the people. ... Read more

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NEW GOVERNMENTS OF CENTRAL EUROPF BY MALBONE W. GRAJIAM, JR., PH. D. ADJUNCT PROFESSOR OF GOVERNMENT, UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS Assisted by ROBERT C. BINKLEY, M. A., REFERENCE LIBRARIAN HOOVER WAR LIBRARY, STANFORD UNIVERSITY LONDON SIR ISAAC PITMAN SONS, LTD. PARKER STREET, KINGSWAV, W. C. a. 1924 PRINTED IN tLNlTED STATES OF AMERICA. PEEPACB THIS book is the product of necessity. It is designed to fill a very obvious lacuna in the literature on comparative govern ment. It is, in part, the product of a course of lectures which the author gave at the University of Missouri in 1922, in part, the result of research in the Hoover War Library at Stanford University. It has been thought necessary to treat the new states in Eu rope, with their new governments, new policies, new institutions, in accordance with the geographjpStt area which they occupy, and in relation to the empires of which they are the successors. Obviously, a full treatment of the new governments involves a discussion of the Succession States of the German, Austro-Gungarian, Russian and Ottoman Empires. In this volume, however, only the successors of the first two ti Ve been dealt with. The Baltic States, Poland, the Ukraine, and the Caucasus demand a separate treatment, one wholly inseparable from a study of the territorial policies of the Russian Soviet Govern ment. The revival of a nationalist Turkey, its rehabilitation in the eyes of the world, its attempts to formulate policies and devise institutions compatible with the religious and political aspirations of Moslem peoples likewise furnish an entirely new and separate development. For these reasons it has been thought advisable to deal with the governments of Central Europe en bloc. The method of approach adopted embraces an understanding of the preexisting scheme of government and a study of the progressive breakdown of empire and the realization of na tionality. Only the historical background deemed necessary to an understanding of the actual forces at work in the various states has been included. The constitutional organization of the German and Austro-Hungarian Empires has therefore been sketched with the object of outlining the various political ten dencies and forces at work rather than in any endeavor to ac vi PREFACE quaint the student or reader with the more intimate details of now extinct political organizations. With this background complete, the study of the actual processes of revolution and reorganization has been attempted. No finality can be claimed for any governmental structure it is, however, necessary to understand the structure as it now exists, and more particularly, to grasp the forces, military, economic, racial, psychological, that are at work attempting to modify, amend, adapt, restore, the constitutional mechanism. These the author has attempted to evaluate and interpret. The sources utilized in the preparation of this work have been many, and exceedingly varied. Whenever possible, the primary sources have been those officially sponsored by one government or another. Particularly is the author indebted to the unrivaled facilities afforded by the Hoover War Library at Stanford Uni versity. The chief sources for the political history of the vari ous countries covered have been the British Enemy Press Sup plement to the Daily Review of the Foreign Press for the period ending August 31, 1919, the French Bulletin Periodique de la Presse Allemande and the similar bulletins dealing with the po litical developments in Austria-Hungary and in Austria and Hungary following the breakup of the Dual Monarchy. For Czechoslovakia, the Gazette de Prague, a semi-official publica tion, has been freely consulted for the period 1919-1922, as well as the files of the Prager TagUatt for the latter part of 1918... ... Read more