Ethnic Cleavages and Conflict : The Sources of National Cohesion and Disintegration - The Case of Yugoslavia

First published in 1997, this volume explores ethnic conflict alongside the creation and disintegration of the short-lived Yugoslav state, 17 years after the death of Tito. Processes of democratization tend to elicit differences within the population along deep-seated ethnic, religious and cultural differences. Dr. Gojko Vuekovic argues that the situation is no different in post-Cold War Yugoslavia. By setting out Yugoslavia’s worst-case scenario of ethnic tensions, Dr. Vuekovic hopes to inform responses to ethnic conflict in the wider modern world. An examiniation of the relationship between ethnic violence and the different forces and concepts which affect the social, political and administrative context within multiethnic nation-states and among the community of nation-states. This volume looks particularly at Yugoslavia.