The fruit of a landmark international collaboration, this book focuses on the final years of socialist Yugoslavia and on the beginning of the country's breakup.

Preface -- Introduction -- Adumbrations of the Breakup -- The Avoidable Catastrophe -- The Dissolution of Yugoslav Historiography -- The Armed Forces of Yugoslavia: Sliding into War -- Media: The Extension of Politics by Other Means -- The Republics -- The Serbian Church and the Serbian Nation -- Democracy and Nationalism in Croatia: The First Three Years -- The Bosnian Crisis in 1992 -- Slovenia's Road to Democracy -- The Macedonian Enigma -- Politics in Montenegro -- Economics -- Economic Transformation in Former Yugoslavia, with Special Regard to Privatization -- Foreign Economic Relations -- Environmental Issues and Policies, with Special Attention to Montenegro -- Foreign Relations -- Relations with the Superpowers -- Yugoslavia's Relations with European States -- Culture and Society -- The New Democracy-With Women or Without Them? -- "Only Crooks Can Get Ahead": Post-Yugoslav Cinema/TV/Video in the 1990s -- The Catholic Church in a Time of Crisis -- Conclusion -- The Yugoslav Crisis and the West