Table of Contents

* The Evolution of the Yugoslav Idea: 18301980 * Socialist Reform in Crisis: The Post-Tito Debate * Toward Postsocialism: The Emergence of Party Pluralism * Sovereignty Asunder: The Fragmentation of State Authority * Pluralism in the Southeast: Nationalism Triumphant * Drifting Apart: New Elites and a Delegitimated Federation * The Politics of Intransigence: Prelude to Civil War * The Dissolution of the Second Yugoslavia: Balkan Violence and the International Response * The Bosnian Cauldron: An Endless Endgame * Yugoslavisms Failure and the Changing Balkan Mosaic

About the Author

Lenard J. Cohen is Professor of Political Science at Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada. He lives in Langley, British Columbia.