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Book SynopsisOver the last ten years, many commentators have tried to explain the bloody conflicts that tore Yugoslavia apart. But in all these attempts to make sense of the wars and ethnic violence, one crucial factor has been overlooked—the fundamental roles...
Trade ReviewAlthough the Balkan wars of the 1990s were homegrown, diasporas from Australia to North America played more than a cameo role. Hockenos is the first person with enough curiosity and drive to unravel systematically the connections between the Croat, Serb, and Albanian emigre populations and Franjo Tudjman, Slobodan Milosevic, and others who presided over the Balkan calamity.
-- Robert Legvold * Foreign Affairs *
For almost twenty years Hockenos has reported extensively on Eastern European life and times, including the bloody breakup of the former Yugoslavia. He also works for a European think tank focused on the future of the Balkans. Homeland Calling... documents the impact of exile activists on their homelands of Croatia, Serbia, and Albania. Tracking how the émigr's raised large amounts of money for weapons, political campaigns, and the lobbying of Western governments, Hockenos concludes that exile leaders didn't cause the wars, but they effectively turbocharged them by supporting radically nationalistic policies and actions.
-- Barbara A. Melville * Skidmore Scope *
