The Three Yugoslavias: State-Building And Legitimation, 1918-2005 (Woodrow Wilson Center Press)

Yugoslavia exploded onto the front pages of world newspapers in the early 1990s. The War of Yugoslav Succession of 1991–1995 convinced many that interethnic violence was endemic to politics in Yugoslavia and that the Yugoslav meltdown had occurred because of ancient hatreds. In this thematic history of Yugoslavia in the 20th century, Sabrina P. Ramet demonstrates that, on the contrary, the instability of the three 20th-century Yugoslav states—the interwar kingdom (1918–41), socialist Yugoslavia (1945–91), and the rump Yugoslav state created in 1992, consisting of Serbia and Montenegro—can be attributed to the failure of succeeding governments to establish the rule of law and political legitimacy. Ramet places emphasis on the failure of the state-building project and the absence of political legitimation, rather than on ineluctable or abstract historical forces. Based on extensive archival research and fieldwork and the culmination of more than two decades of study, The Three Yugoslavias is a major contribution to an understanding of Yugoslavia and its successor states. Frontmatter List of Maps (page x) List of Tables (page xi) Preface and Acknowledgments (page xiii) Abbreviations and Acronyms Used in the Text (page xviii) Glossary (page xxi) Introduction (page 1) 1. A Theory of System Legitimacy (page 13) 2. The First Yugoslavia, Part 1: The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes, 1918‒1929 (page 35) 3. The First Yugoslavia, Part 2: The Kingdom of Yugoslavia, 1929‒1941 (page 79) 4. World War Two and the Partisan Struggle, 1941‒1945 (page 113) 5. Happy Comrades? Tito, Stalin, and the Birth of the Second Yugoslavia, 1945‒1951 (page 163) 6. Dreaming a New Dream, 1950‒1962 (page 185) 7. The Reform Crisis, 1962‒1970 (page 207) 8. The Rise and Fall of Yugoslav Liberalism, 1967‒1973 (page 227) 9. Controversies in the Economic Sector, 1965‒1990 (page 263) 10. Nationalist Tensions, 1968‒1990 (page 285) 11. A Crisis of Legitimacy, 1974‒1989 (page 325) 12. Hail Caesar! The Rise of Slobodan Milošević (page 341) 13. The Road to War (page 363) 14. The War of Yugoslav Succession, Phase 1 (1991) (page 381) 15. The War of Yugoslav Succession, Phase 2 (1992‒1995) (page 413) 16. A Flawed Peace: Post‐Dayton Bosnia (page 471) 17. The Third Yugoslavia and After, 1992‒2005 (page 495) 18. UNMIK, KFOR, and the Future of Kosovo (page 537) 19. Separate Paths: Slovenia, Macedonia, Croatia (page 553) 20. Conclusion (page 597) Abbreviations and Acronyms Used in the Notes and Bibliography (page 607) Notes (page 609) Selected Bibliography (page 747) Index (page 775) About the Author (page 819) Printbegrænsninger: Der kan printes 1 side ad gangen