Review: Broken Bonds
| Author | Mihailo Crnobrnja |
| Published date | 01 December 1994 |
| Date | 01 December 1994 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1177/002070209404900416 |
| Subject Matter | Review |
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INTERNATIONAL
JOURNAL
tory
of
Bosnia),
nor
does
it
provide
a
from-the-trenches
portrait
of
the
war
(as
do
works
by
Mark
Thompson
and others),
nor
does
it
present
an
insider's
view
of
the
failure
of
the
Yugoslav
political
system.
More-
over,
since
the
author
continually
hedges
his
bets
in
terms
of both
the
origins
of
the
Yugoslav
crisis
and
the
possible
scenarios
for
its
resolu-
tion,
the
specialist
reader
is
left
wondering
what
conclusions are
to
be
drawn
from
Crnobrnja's
story.
As
Yugoslav
ambassador
to
the
European
Community
during
the
early stages
of
the
conflict,
Crnobrnja
was
well-placed to
observe
Eur-
ope's
response
to
its
first post-Maastricht
international
crisis.
One
would
hope
that,
in
his
next
book, the
author
will
take
full
advantage
of
his
own
personal experiences
to
shed
some
light
on the
European
response
to
Yugoslavia's
demise.
Crnobrnja
might
then
be
able
to
illus-
trate
more
forcefully
to
what
extent
the
Yugoslav
drama
is
also a
Euro-
pean
one.
Charles
King/New
College,
Oxford
BROKEN
BONDS
The
disintegration
of
Yugoslavia
Lenard
J.
Cohen
Boulder
co:
Westview,
1993,
xviii,
299pp,
US$
4 9.9 5
cloth,
US$16.
95
paper
As
in
his
two
previous
books
on the
subject
(Political
Cohesion
in
a
Fragile
Mosaic
and
The
Socialist
Pyramid)
Lenard
Cohen
has
once
again
dem-
onstrated
his
most
impressive
knowledge
of
Yugoslavia
and
his
master-
ful
understanding
of
the
complexities
and
intricacies
of
this tragic
country's
duration
and
demise.
After
a
brief introductory chapter
in
which
the history
of
the
Yugos-
lav
idea
and the
history
of
the
seventy-three
years
of
existence
of
the
Yugoslav
state
are
briefly
sketched,
the
author's
immediate
objective
is
to
describe
the
political
4lite
of
post-Tito
Yugoslavia
and
the
ways
in
which
it
fell
apart
and
took
the
country
to
pieces
with
it.
This
he does
with
remarkable
discernment.
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