Review: The Former Yugoslavia: Between Serb and Albanian
| Published date | 01 December 1998 |
| DOI | 10.1177/002070209805300417 |
| Author | John M. Fraser |
| Date | 01 December 1998 |
| Subject Matter | Review |
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able.
Thus,
Cooper
notes
that
the
final
Blair
House
Accord
on
agricul-
ture
at
the
GATF
Uruguay
Round
was
very
much
a
United
States-Euro-
pean
Union
affair
(p
211);
and
Robert
Wolfe argues
that
the
agricul-
tural
agreement
was
far
more
effective
in
promoting
a
United
States-
European
Union
truce
than
in
bringing
about
a
significant
degree
of
liberalization.
In
sum,
the
two
books
contribute
to
the
study
of
international
rela-
tions.
In
an
age
of
rapid communications
and
high
technology,
both
authors
demonstrate
that
the study
of
more
traditional
areas
such
as
agriculture
can greatly
contribute
to
our
knowledge
of
the
interaction
between
domestic
and
international
politics.
Theodore
Cohn/Simon
Fraser
University
THE
FORMER
YUGOSLAVIA
by
John
M.
Fraser,
Ottawa
BETWEEN
SERB
AND
ALBANIAN
A
History
of
Kosovo
Miranda
Vickers
New
York:
Columbia
University
Press,
1998,
xix,
328
pp, US$47.50
cloth,
US$18.50
paper
M
iranda
Vickers
is
extremely
fortunate
in
her
timing. There
has
probably
never been
a
time when
a
history
of
Kosovo
would
be
of
as
much
general
interest
as
now.
Her
book
carries
the
story
up
to
December
1997,
when,
in
a
scene
reminiscent
of
Northern
Ireland,
three
masked
members
of
the
Kosovo
Liberation
Army
turned
up
at
the funeral
of
a
teacher
killed
by
Serbian security
forces.
Balkan
analysts
had
been
warning
for
some
time
that
the
situation
in
Kosovo
was
'volatile'
or
'explosive'
or
'a
ticking
time bomb.'
Some
of
them
were
beginning
to
worry
that
they
sounded
all
too
much
like
the
little
boy
who
cried
'wolff'
as
Kosovo
kept
on
not
blowing
up
-partly
because
of
the
consistently
heavy
Yugoslav/Serbian
security
presence.
(Kosovo
is
a
province
of
Serbia,
one
of
the
two
constituent
republics
of
the
Federal
Republic
of
Yugoslavia.)
Although
there
was
talk
of
the war in
Bosnia
'spilling
over'
into
Kosovo,
the
two
situations
are
not
the
same
and
have
had
very
little
influence
on
each
other.
It
could
be
argued
that
it
was
Belgrade's
treat-
ment
of
Kosovo
that
made
Slovenia
and
Croatia, later
and
reluctantly
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1998
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