Balkan babel - 4th ed

Ramet traces the steady deterioration of Yugoslavia's political and social fabric in the years since 1980, arguing that, while the federal system and multiethnic fabric laid down fault lines, the final crisis was sown in the failure to resolve the legitimacy question, triggered by economic deterioration.

List of contents

Credits -- Foreword: The Politics of Cultural Diversity in Former Yugoslavia -- Preface -- Disintegration, 1980-1991 -- Political Debate, 1980-1986 -- The Gathering Storm, 1987-1989 -- Brotherhood and Disunity, 1989-1991 -- Religion and Culture -- The Catholic Church -- The Serbian Orthodox Church -- Islam -- Rock Music -- War and Transition -- Serbia and Croatia at War Again -- On Their Own: Slovenia and Macedonia Since 1991 -- The Struggle for Bosnia -- Repercussions of the War in Religion, Gender Relations, and Culture -- Peace Without Rights? -- A Peace of Dayton -- Miloševi¿, Kosovo, and the Principle of Legitimacy -- Serbia's Unending Crisis -- Epilogue: The Legitimacy Problem -- Anti-bibliography: Reviewing the Reviews

About the author

Sabrina P. Ramet is professor of political science at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway. She is the author of over eleven books, including Whose Democracy? Nationalism, Religion, and the Doctrine of Collective Rights in Post-1989 Eastern Europe and Nihil Obstat: Religion, Politics, and Social Change in East-Central Europe and Russia. She is also the editor or coeditor of more than two dozen books, mostly about Eastern Europe and Russia.

Summary

Ramet traces the steady deterioration of Yugoslavia's political and social fabric in the years since 1980, arguing that, while the federal system and multiethnic fabric laid down fault lines, the final crisis was sown in the failure to resolve the legitimacy question, triggered by economic deterioration.

Product details

• Authors: Sabrina P Ramet, Sabrina P. Ramet, Sabrina Petra Ramet
• Publisher: Westview Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.1999
• EAN: 9780813339054
• ISBN: 978-0-8133-3905-4
• No. of pages: 374
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 230 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Ethnic Studies, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, European History, HISTORY / Europe / Eastern, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Yugoslavia, Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Left-of-centre democratic ideologies, c 1990 to c 2000, c 1990 to c 1999, C 1980 To C 1990, c 1980 to c 1989, Yugoslavia & Former Yugoslavia, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General