Balkan Babel: The Disintegration Of Yugoslavia From The Death Of Tito To The Fall Of Milosevic - Softcover

Ramet, Sabrina Petra; Ramet, Sabrina P.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0813339057 ISBN 13: 9780813339054

Publisher: Routledge, 2002

Synopsis

The fourth edition of this critically acclaimed work includes a new chapter, a new epilogue, and revisions throughout the book. Sabrina Ramet, a veteran observer of the Yugoslav scene, 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, and pushed forward toward war by Serbian politicians bent on power - either within a centralized Yugoslavia or within an 'ethnically cleansed' Greater Serbia. With her detailed knowledge of the area and extensive fieldwork, Ramet paints a strikingly original picture of Yugoslavia's demise and the emergence of the Yugoslav successor states.

About this title

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.

Review:

"An excellent introduction to the recent history of the South Slavs' descent into the inferno." -- -Mark Almond, author of Religion, State, and Society

"Balkan Babel has no peer in the literature about Yugoslavia's terminal crisis, dissolution and serial wars....Indispensable!" -- -Mark Thompson, author of A Paper House: The Ending of Yugoslavia

"Highly recommended." -- -Choice

"The product of meticulous research and fine writing... Worth reading. A fascinating look at Yugoslav society." -- -Nationalities Papers

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0813339057
• ISBN 13: 9780813339054
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 440