ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the theory of defunct federalism elicited that the experience of Yugoslav federalism was underwritten by a number of contradictions, weaknesses and tensions. Back in 1991, as the war in Slovenia was drawing to a close, a high-ranking Serbian official remarked that the coming conflict in Croatia would make what had happened in Slovenia look like Disneyland. The Yugoslav dissolution marked the return of war to the European stage after the nearly half-a-century-long peace of the Cold War. Historically, the debates over the identity politics of former Yugoslavia tend to be positioned in the context of the ideology of narodno jedinstvo of the interwar Kingdom of Yugoslavia. The demand for a revolutionary transformation of society, which required the League of Communists of Yugoslavia (LCY) to maintain its monopoly on power. The rejection of the norms and values of liberal democracy was informed by an idiosyncratic understanding of the role of the individual.
