ABSTRACT
The American Political Science Review, the journal of the American Political Science Association, from the mid 1990s until the current year, published no articles specifically or mainly on Yugoslavia, much less on the wars of the 1990s. This chapter focuses on a few political scientists who treat aspects of the Yugoslav dissolution as 'normal' political phenomena and in a comparative context, but who are also committed to doing primary source research, and/or who have spent significant time doing field research in the ex-Yugoslav region. The IR journals actually paid more attention to the Yugoslav breakup than did the comparative politics ones. Here we find, in the top journal International Security (IS), a number of articles that specifically referred to the Yugoslav wars, usually as examples of nationalism and ethnic conflict and in comparison with other such cases.
