Table of Contents

List of Maps Preface to the Second Edition Guide to Pronunciation PART I: A COMMON HOMELAND OF THE SOUTH SLAVS Yugoslavia at the Crossroads of the South Slavs The First Yugoslavia World War II The Second Yugoslavia PART II: THE HOMELAND FRAGMENTED From a Centralised State to a Semiconfederation The Loss of Legitimacy 1980-9 The Rise of Nationalism: From Dissidence to Power 1980-90 The Rise of New National Elites 1987-90 On the Road to War: 1990-1 Wars for Independence: Slovenia and Croatia 1991-1995 Bosnia-Hercegovina: An Unfinished National Liberation? Kosovo: National Liberation through Foreign Intervention Epilogue: National Liberations: Is there an end to them? Further Reading Notes and References Index

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ALEKSANDAR PAVKOVIC is Associate Professor in Politics at Macquarie University, Sydney. He is the author of Slobodan Jovanovic: An Unsentimental Approach to Politics and an editor of Nationalism and Postcommunism and Contemporary Yugoslav Philosophy: The Analytic Approach.