The Disintegration of Yugoslavia
| Author | John Fraser |
| DOI | 10.1177/002070200005500111 |
| Date | 01 March 2000 |
| Published date | 01 March 2000 |
| Subject Matter | Review Article |
JOHN
FRASER
The
disintegration
of
Yugoslavia
The
Politics
of
Serbia in
the
1990s
by
Robert
Thomas
(New
York:
Columbia
University
Press,
1999,
xx,
44
3pp,
us$47.50
cloth,
us$18.50
paper)
The
War
in
Bosnia-Herzegovina:
Ethnic
Conflict
and
International
Intervention
by
Steven
L.
Burg
and
Paul
S.
Shoup
(Amonk
NY:
M.E.
Sharpe,
1999,
xviii,
501pp,
US$49.95,
ISBN
1-56324-308-3)
Heavenly
Serbia:
From Myth
to
Genocide by
Branimir
Anzulovic
(New
York:
New
York
University
Press,
1999,
2
33pp,
us$24.95
cloth,
ISBN
0814706711)
'Of
making
more
books there
is
no
end...'
writes
Ecclesiastes
(Chapter
12,
Verse
12).
Certainly
the
torrent
of
books
on
the
disintegration
of
Yugoslavia
and
the
wars
that
followed
seems
in
no
danger
of
drying
up.
One
reason
may
be
that
most
people
still
find
it
hard
to
understand
how
a
reasonably
prosperous,
liberal
(albeit
communist
-
after
a
fashion
-
but
no
Stalinist
dictatorship),
tolerant, modern
European
state
could
suddenly
tear
itself
apart
with
appalling
bloodshed
and
cruelty.
Branimir
Anzulovic
offers
one
answer: it was
Serbian
national myths
that
predisposed
Serbs
to
aggression
and
genocide,
although
he does
note
at
the
beginning
of
his
Conclusion
that
'many
Serbs
want
to
live
in
peace
with
their
neighbors
and
build
an
orderly
and
tolerant
society.'
Canadian
Ambassador
to
the
former
Yugoslavia
from
1983
to
1987
INTERNATIONAL
JOURNAL
Winter
1999-2000
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