Balkan Babel; the disintegration of Yugoslavia from the death of Tito to the warof Kosovo

This edition includes three new chapters and a new epilogue, as well as revisions throughout the book. The author traces the steady deterioration of Yugoslavia's political and social fabric in the years since 1980, arguing that, whatever the complications entailed in the national question, the final crisis was triggered by economic deterioration, shaped by the federal system itself, and pushed forward towar war by Servian politicians bent on power either within a centralized Yugoslavia or within an "etnically cleansed" Greater Serbia. The book sheds light on the contributions made by Croatian naivete and Western diplomatic bungling to the tradegy in Bosnia, discusses the course of the Serbian Insurrectionary War in both Croatia Bosnia, and devotes a chapter to examining the separate paths of Slovenia and Macedonia, before turning to an assessmentof the record in post-Dayton Bosnia and Serb Albanian frictions in Kosovo during 1989-1998. Chapters on the primary religious associations and on the rock scene help to set the political developments in perspective. The author paints a original picture of Yugoslavia's demise and the emergence of the Yugoslav successor states.