Balkan Tragedy: Chaos and Dissolution After the Cold War |
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Susan L. Woodward
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Pages: 556 (Paperback)
ISBN: 0815795130
Pub: The Brookings Institution
Pub date: 1994-08-01
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 281256
Reader Reviews:
Excellent analysis of causes of war in former Yugoslavia (3/7 people found this helpful)
Woodward writes an interesting book full of facts, quotes and statistics which back up her argument.
Instead of just talking vaguely about ancient hatreds of world war two she asks why Yugoslavia split up when it did - i.e in the 90s , a decade after Tito died.
It was not Tito's death but free market economic policies imposed on Yugoslavia by the IMF after the end of the Cold War that led to the inequality and rapid rise in unemployment in Serbia that allowed opportunists like Milosevic to ride a wave of nationalism to power.
This in turn led to civil war.
This book is long and not written in an especially exciting style but it is full of solid information and subtle analysis.
Excellent (7/9 people found this helpful)
Most comprehensive analysis of political, ecomnomic and social disintergration of Yugoslavia during the last 20 years. Woodward's vast knowledge and posession of data is breath taking. Real page turner.
No Thesis (1/12 people found this helpful)
A book with no thesis that fails to offer any new insight into the Balkan War.
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