num_pages: 217
description: Yugoslavia in the late 1980s was, in V. P. Gagnon's view, on the verge of large-scale sociopolitical and economic change. He shows that political and economic elites in Belgrade and Zagreb first created and then manipulated violent conflict along ethnic lines as a way to short-circuit the dynamics of political change. This strategy of violence was thus a means for these threatened elites to demobilize the population. Gagnon's noteworthy and rather controversial argument provides us with a substantially new way of understanding the politics of ethnicity.
language: English
title: The Myth Of Ethnic War: Serbia And Croatia In The 1990s
titlecomplete: The Myth Of Ethnic War: Serbia And Croatia In The 1990s
genres: Grad School, Nonfiction, History, Politics
ratings_count: 59
publisher: Cornell University Press