Mihailo crnobrnja biography samples
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The Yugoslav drama 9780773514294, 9780773566156
Table of contents :
Frontmatter
Maps (page ix)
Preface (page xi)
Preface to the Second Edition (page xv)
Introduction (page 3)
PART ONE | THE STAGE
1. A Country of Diversity (page 15)
2. Origins of the Idea and the State (page 35)
3. Inter-War Instability (page 51)
4. The Tito Years (page 65)
PART TWO | THE ACTORS
5. Tito's Successors (page 81)
6. The New Wave of Serbian Nationalism (page 93)
7. Slovenia and Croatia: The Drive to Independence (page 107)
8. The Supporting Cast (page 115)
PART THREE | THE PLOT
9. Changes in Europe (page 131)
10. The Crisis (page 141)
11. The War in Slovenia and Croatia (page 160)
12. The War in Bosnia and Herzegovina (page 174)
13. The European Community Steps In (page 189)
14. A Call for Blue Helmets (page 205)
PART FOUR | THE FINAL CURTAIN
15. Drawing the Threads Together (page 223)
16. The Balkan Endgame (page 239)
17. Is There a Solution? (page 250)
18. A Chance for Peace at Last (page 266)
Notes (page 285)
Further Readings (page 295)
Index (page 297)
Citation preview
The Yugoslav Drama
Mihailo Crnobrnja, official of the former Yugoslav government and former Yugoslavian ambassador to the European Communities, addresses the unfolding drama in Yugoslavia and its possible resolut
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March 24 marks the tenth anniversary of the start of the bombing of Yugoslavia by a U.S.-led NATO force. The bombing continued until June 10, 1999.
But the Wars of the Yugoslav Succession had begun almost a decade earlier, and lasted throughout the 1990s. It was a perfect example to illustrate Samuel Huntington’s “clash of civilizations” thesis, where local ethnic quarrels attracted international backing, and ended with the complete dismemberment of Yugoslavia.
It was also ironic that at the very time when South Africa was abandoning apartheid as evil and unworkable, Europe was adopting it with a bloodthirsty enthusiasm. And it was the second time in fifty years that Yugoslavia had been torn apart. For Yugoslavia the Second World War was also a civil war, but after the war there was no truth and reconciliation commission, no attempt to exorcise the demons of ethnic and ideological violence. Instead there were just idealistic slogans, and it was said that Yugoslavia had seven neighbours, six republics, five nations, four languages, three religions, two scripts and one goal – to live in brotherhood and unity (Crnobrnja 1994:15).
The last tattered remnants of the dream of brotherhood and unity were destroyed, if not forever, then for at least a generati