ABSTRACT
The break-up of the Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia in the 1990s has attracted a plethora of historical, political and legal analyses. This volume of studies reflects the reality that the importance of this event extends well beyond its importance to those most directly affected by it, namely, the peoples of the former Yugoslavia. The wider significance of Yugoslavia’s break-up lies in what it tells us about the causes of secession and how individual states and the wider international community should deal with such a potentially destabilising occurrence.
