ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|144 pages
The State of the Debate
chapter Chapter 2|16 pages
Yugoslavia's Dissolution: Between the Scylla of Facts and the Charybdis of Interpretation
chapter Chapter 4|12 pages
Political Science and the Yugoslav Dissolution: The Evolution of a Discipline
chapter Chapter 6|16 pages
The Dissolution of Yugoslavia as Reflected Upon by Post-Yugoslav Sociologists
part II|102 pages
New Directions in Research