Balkan babel
Subtitle: the disintegration of Yugoslavia from the death of Tito to the war for Kosovo
By: Sabrina P. Ramet ; with a foreword by Ivo Banac.
Edition: 3rd ed.
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Boulder, CO
Language: eng
Number of pages: 374
Subjects: Nationalism -- Yugoslavia -- History -- 20th century.; Yugoslavia -- History -- 1980-1992.; Yugoslavia -- History -- 1992-2003; Yugoslavia -- Ethnic relations.
Description: "Sabrina Ramet, a veteran observer of the Yugoslav scene, traces the steady deterioration of Yugoslavia's political and social fabric in the years since 1980, arguing that, whatever the complications entailed in the national question, the final crisis was triggered by economic deterioration, shaped by the federal system itself, and pushed forward toward war by Serbian politicans bent on power - either within a centralized Yugoslavia or within an "ethnically cleansed" greater Serbia."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.