Yugoslavia and After presents contributions by leading authorities on the origins of the Balkans crisis, the reasons for the decay and dissolution of the old Yugoslavia, the nature of the new regimes, and the prospects for the building of viable successor states and societies.
The book is divided into three main sections:
Anatomy of the collapse - surveys the reasons for the fall of post-Titoist Yugoslavia and takes as its central theme the degeneration of the communist party
In the eye of the storm - looks at key regions and actors which continue to provide focal points of instability
The successor states - examines each emerging independent state in terms of the stability of their governments and relationships with each other and the outside world.
Distinguishing features:
· a uniquely distinguished and balanced author team, from Britain, France, US, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia/Montenegro and Macedonia
· the text is highly analytical with minimal ¿specialist¿ jargon
· balanced analysis of how historical events have shaped the Balkans crisis
· unique richness of bibliographical base
This book will be essential reading for Students on Master¿s programmes in European Studies and Eastern European Studies, and well as History, Politics and International Relations MAs.
The Editors: David Dyker is Senior Lecturer in Economics at the School of European Studies, University of Sussex. He has published extensively on the economies of the former Soviet bloc. He has recently been Visiting Fellow at the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, and at the Bundesinstitut fur ostwissenschaftliche und international Studien, Cologne. Ivan Vejvoda is based at the Belgrade Institute of European Studies and has been a Research Fellow at the Sussex European Institute sine 1993.
Contributors: Franjo Adam, Vesna Bojicic, Xavier Bougarel, Chris Cviic, Slavo Radosevic, Slobodan Samrdzic, Cornelia Sorabji, Milos Vasic.
