Debating the End of Yugoslavia

Countries rarely disappear off the map. In the 20th century, only a few countries shared this fate with Yugoslavia. The dissolution of Yugoslavia led to the largest war in Europe since 1945, massive human rights violations and over 100,000 victims.

Debating the End of Yugoslavia is less an attempt to re-write the dissolution of Yugoslavia, or to provide a different narrative, than to take stock and reflect on the scholarship to date. New sources and data offer fresh avenues of research avoiding the passion of the moment that often characterized research published during the wars and provide contemporary perspectives on the dissolution.

The book outlines the state of the debate rather than focusing on controversies alone and maps how different scholarly communities have reflected on the dissolution of the country, what arguments remain open in scholarly discourse and highlights new, innovative paths to study the period.

Contents:
Part I The State of the Debate:
+ On the current and future research agenda for Southeast Europe, Eric Gordy
+ Yugoslavia’s dissolution: between the Scylla of facts and the Charybdis of interpretation, Josip Glaurdić
+ Disputes about the dissolution of Yugoslavia and its wake, Sabrina P. Ramet
+ Political science and the Yugoslav dissolution: the evolution of a discipline, V.P. (Chip) Gagnon, Jr.
+ Does scholarly literature on the breakup of Yugoslavia travel well?, Nebojša Vladisavljević
+ The dissolution of Yugoslavia as reflected upon by post-Yugoslav sociologists, Sergej Flere
+ Studying ‘reality’ as ‘it is’, Reana Senjković
+ Debating the end of Yugoslavia in post-Milošević Serbia, Hilde Katrine Haug
+ Social inequalities and the study of Yugoslavia’s dissolution, Rory Archer

Part II New Directions in Research:
+ What do we know about the Lebenswelt of Yugoslavs?, Armina Galijaš
+ Milošević posing as saviour of the communist regime: a reassessment, Christian Costamagna
+ Serbian political elites and the Vance-Owen Peace Plan: ICTY documents as historical sources, Vladimir Petrović
+ Before the storm: Croatian efforts to integrate Republic of Serb Krajina from early 1992 to August 1995, Nikica Barić
+ Revisiting nationalism in Yugoslavia: an inside-out view of the Nationalist Movement in Kosovo, Gëzim Krasniqi
+ The Yugoslav chronotope: histories, memories and the future of Yugoslav studies, Ljubica Spaskovska.