Serbia since 1989 : politics and society under Milosevic and after / edited by Sabrina P. Ramet and Vjeran Pavlakovic ; with a new epilogue by James B. Lyon.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ramet, Sabrina P., 1949-

Pavlaković, Vjeran.

Series:

Jackson School publications in international studies.

Jackson School publications in international studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Milošević, Slobodan, 1941-2006.

Milošević, Slobodan.

Yugoslav War, 1991-1995--Serbia.

Yugoslav War, 1991-1995.

Serbia--History--1992-.

Serbia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 440 pages)

Edition:

1st paperback ed.

Place of Publication:

Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2007, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

During their thirteen years in power, Slobodan Milosevic and his cohorts plunged Yugoslavia into wars of ethnic cleansing, leading to the murder of thousands of civilians. The Milosevic regime also subverted the nation's culture, twisted the political mainstream into a virulent nationalist mold, sapped the economy through war and the criminalization of a free market, returned to gender relations of a bygone era, and left the state so dysfunctional that its peripheries--Kosovo, Vojvodina, and Montenegro--have been struggling to maximize their distance from Belgrade, through far-reaching autonomy or through outright independence.In this valuable collection of essays, Vjeran Pavlakovic, Reneo Lukic, and Obrad Kesic examine elements of continuity and discontinuity from the Milosevic era to the twenty-first century, the struggle at the center of power, and relations between Serbia and Montenegro. Contributions by Sabrina Ramet, James Gow, and Milena Michalski explore the role of Serbian wartime propaganda and the impact of the war on Serbian society. Essays by Eric Gordy, Maja Miljovic, Marko Hoare, and Kari Osland look at the legacy of Serbia's recent wars-issues of guilt and responsibility, the economy, and the trial of Slobodan Milosevic in The Hague. Sabrina Ramet and Biljana Bijelic address the themes of culture and values. Frances Trix, Emil Kerenji, and Dennis Reinhartz explore the peripheries in the politics of Kosovo/a, Vojvodina, and Serbia's Roma.Serbia Since 1989 reveals a Serbia that is still traumatized from Milosevic's rule and groping toward redefining its place in the world.

Contents:

Serbia as a dysfunctional state

The center

Serbia transformed? Political dynamics in the Milos̆ević era and after / Vjeran Pavlaković

From the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia to the union of Serbia and Montenegro / Reneo Lukić

An airplane with eighteen pilots: Serbia after Milos̆ević / Obrad Kesić

The legacy of the war

Under the holy lime tree: the inculcation of neurotic and psychotic syndromes as a Serbian wartime strategy, 1986-95 / Sabrina P. Ramet

The impact of the war on Serbia: spoiled appetites and progressive decay / James Gow and Milena Michalski

Postwar guilt and responsibility in Serbia: the effort to confront it and the effort to avoid it / Eric D. Gordy

Crime and the economy under Milos̆ević and his successors / Maja Miljković and Marko Attila Hoare

The trial of Slobodan Milos̆ević / Kari M. Osland

Culture and values

The politics of the Serbian Orthodox Church / Sabrina P. Ramet

Nationalism, motherhood, and the reordering of women's power / Biljana Bijelić

Peripheries

Kosovar Albanians between a rock and a hard place / Frances Trix

Vojvodina since 1988 / Emil Kerenji

The Yugoslav Roma under Slobodan Milos̆ević and after / Dennis Reinhartz

Conclusion

The sirens and the guslar: an afterword / Sabrina P. Ramet.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9780295802077

0295802073

OCLC:

794927936