Balkan Babel
Subtitle: the Disintegration Of Yugoslavia From The Death Of Tito To The Fall Of Milosevic, Fourth Edition
By: Sabrina Petra Ramet
Edition: Fourth edition.
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2018
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780429495403
Subjects: National security; World politics; Politique mondiale
Description: "Yugoslavias would-be system-builders failed three times over to build a workable system. The underlying problem was their failure to resolve the problem of legitimacy. In the 1980s, economic deterioration pushed people to despair and, under the pressure of Serbias ambitious political establishment, the country broke up along ethnic fault lines. This volume, now in its fourth expanded edition, tells the story of socialist Yugoslavias troubles and the challenges facing its successor states from May 1980 to July 2001. }The fourth edition of this critically acclaimed work includes a new chapter, a new epilogue, and revisions throughout the book. Sabrina Ramet, a veteran observer of the Yugoslav scene, traces the steady deterioration of Yugoslavias political and social fabric in the years since 1980, arguing that, while the federal system and multiethnic fabric laid down fault lines, the final crisis was sown in the failure to resolve the legitimacy question, triggered by economic deterioration, and pushed forward toward war by Serbian politicians bent on powereither within a centralized Yugoslavia or within an ethnically cleansed Greater Serbia. With her detailed knowledge of the area and extensive fieldwork, Ramet paints a strikingly original picture of Yugoslavias demise and the emergence of the Yugoslav successor states. }"--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Part, I Disintegration, 1980-1991 --; title: chapter One Political Debate, 1980-1986  -- Sabrina P. Ramet; title: chapter Two The Gathering Storm, 1987-1989  -- Sabrina P. Ramet; title: chapter Three Brotherhood and Disunity, 1989-1991  -- Sabrina P. Ramet; title: part, II Religion and Culture --; title: chapter Four The Catholic Church  -- Sabrina P. Ramet; title: chapter Five The Serbian Orthodox Church  -- Sabrina P. Ramet; title: chapter Six Islam  -- Sabrina P. Ramet; title: chapter Seven Rock Music  -- Sabrina P. Ramet; title: part, III War and Transition --; title: chapter Eight Serbia and Croatia at War Again  -- Sabrina P. Ramet; title: chapter Nine On Their Own: Slovenia and Macedonia Since 1991  -- Sabrina P. Ramet; title: chapter 10 The Struggle for Bosnia  -- Sabrina P. Ramet; title: chapter Eleven Repercussions of the War in Religion, Gender Relations, and Culture  -- Sabrina P. Ramet; title: part, IV Peace Without Rights? --; title: chapter 12 A Peace of Dayton  -- Sabrina P. Ramet; title: chapter Thirteen Milošević, Kosovo, and the Principle of Legitimacy  -- Sabrina P. Ramet; title: chapter Fourteen Serbia's Unending Crisis  -- Sabrina P. Ramet; title: chapter Epilogue: The Legitimacy Problem -- Sabrina P. Ramet.