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Book SynopsisDuring thirteen years in power, Slobodan Milosvevic and his cohorts plunged Yugoslavia into wars of ethnic cleansing, leading to the murder of thousands of civilians. This collection of essays examines the Milosevic era, power struggles, the legacy of Serbia's recent wars, Serbia's Roma, and other topics.
Trade Review"This book is a key collection in the study of Serbia and succeeds in discussing topics which have been neglected by many other texts."
* European History Quarterly *
"It is difficult to do justice to such a superbly edited and carefully conceived book as Serbia Since 1989. Despite the considerable literature on the Yugoslav break-up, few authors have managed to capture so consistently and with such attention to detail the political mood and social dynamics of Serbia as the contributors to this collection."
* Canadian Slavonic Papers *
Table of ContentsPreface
1. Introduction: Serbia as a Dysfunctional State / Vjeran Pavlakovic
Part I. The Center
2. Serbia Transformed? Political Dynamics in the Milosevic Era and After / Vjeran Pavlakovic
3. From the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia to the Union of Serbia and Montenegro / Reneo Lukic
4. An Airplane with Eighteen Pilots: Serbia after Milosevic / Obrad Kesic
Part II. The Legacy of the War
5. Under the Holy Lime Tree: The Inculcation of Neurotic and Psychotic Syndromes as a Serbian Wartime Strategy, 1986-95 / Sabrina P. Ramet
6. The Impact of the War on Serbia: Spoiled Appetites and Progressive Decay / James Gow and Milena Michalski
7. Postwar Guilt and Responsibility in Serbia: The Effort to Confront It and the Effort to Avoid It / Eric D. Gordy
8. Crime and the Economy under Milosevic and His Successors / Maja Miljkovic and Marko Attila Hoare
9. The Trial of Slobodan Milosevic / Kari M. Osland
Part III. Culture and Values
10. The Politics of the Serbian Orthodox Church / Sabrina P. Ramet
11. Nationalism, Motherhood, and the Reordering of Women's Power / Biljana Bijelic
Part IV. Peripheries
12. Kosovar Albanians between a Rock and a Hard Place / Frances Trix
13. Vojvodina since 1988 / Emil Kerenji
14. The Yugoslav Roma under Slobodan Milosevic and After / Dennis Reinhartz
Part V. Conclusion
15. The Sirens and the Guslar: An Afterword / Sabrina P. Ramet
Glossary
Contributors
Index
