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

Acknowledgments ix Series Editor's Foreword x Preface xii Why did Yugoslavia Disintegrate? An Overview of Contending Explanations 1 Jasna Dragovic-Soso THE HISTORICAL LEGACY The Historical Legacy: The Evolution of Interwar Yugoslav Politics, 1918-1941 43 Mark Biondich The Legacy of Two World Wars: A Historical Essay 75 Stevan K. Pavlowitch THE SOCIALIST LEGACY Nation/People/Republic: Self-Determination in Socialist Yugoslavia 91 Audrey Helfant Budding Reopening of the "National Question" in the 1960s 131 Dennison Rusinow The Croatian Spring and the Dissolution of Yugoslavia 149 Jill Irvine Return Engagement: Intellectuals and Nationalism in Tito's Yugoslavia 179 Nick Miller THE BREAKDOWN:THE 1980's A Last Attempt at Educational Integration: The Failure of Common Educational Cores in Yugoslavia in the early 1980's 203 Andrew Wachtel and Predrag J. Markovic The Inter Regional Struggle for Resources and the Fall of Yugoslavia 221 Michael Palairet The Slovenian-Croatian Confederal Proposal: A Tactical Move or an Ultimate Solution? 249 Dejan Jovic Destruction of the Yugoslav Federation: Policy or Confluence of Tactics? 281 Eric Gordy The Role of the Yugoslav People's Army in the Dissolution of Yugoslavia: The Army without a State? 301 Florian Bieber The Disintegration of Yugoslavia and Western Foreign Policy in the 1980's 333 Paul Shoup Disintegrative Synergies and the Dissolution of Socialist Federations: Yugoslavia in Comparative Perspective 365 Lenard J. Cohen Contributors 397 Index 401