Yugoslavia was well positioned at the end of the cold war to make a successful transition to a market economy and westernization. Yet two years later, the country had ceased to exist, and devastating local wars were being waged to create new states. Between the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 19...

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Main Author:	Woodward, Susan L. 1944- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Washington, DC Brookings Inst. 1995
Subjects:	Etnische conflicten Nationalisme Jugoslawienkriege Nationalismus Yugoslav War, 1991-1995 > Causes Nationalism > Yugoslavia Bosnienkrieg Auflösung Bürgerkrieg Jugoslawien
Summary:	Yugoslavia was well positioned at the end of the cold war to make a successful transition to a market economy and westernization. Yet two years later, the country had ceased to exist, and devastating local wars were being waged to create new states. Between the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 and the start of the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina in March 1992, the country moved toward disintegration at astonishing speed. In this book, Susan Woodward explains what happened to Yugoslavia and what can be learned from the response of outsiders to its crisis. Woodward's analysis is based on her first-hand experience before the country's collapse and then during the later stages of the Bosnian war as a member of the UN operation sent to monitor cease-fires and provide humanitarian assistance.
Physical Description:	XII, 536 S. graph. Darst., Kt.
ISBN:	0815795149 0815795130