What are the consequences of Yugoslavia's existence - and breakup - for the present? This book reflects on this very question, identifying and analysing the political legacies left behind by Yugoslavia through the prism of continuities and ruptures between the past and present of the area. After the collapse of Yugoslavia, it's former states adopted a nation-building process which opted to eradicate the past as such an approach seemed more convenient for the new national projects. The new states adopted new institutions, new market-oriented economic paradigms and new national symbols. Yugoslavia existed for 70 years and to consider the current political situation in post-Yugoslav states such as Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Kosovo without taking into account the legacy and remnants of Yugoslavia is to discount a vital part of their political history.This volume takes a multi-disciplinary and multi-faceted approach to examining the legacy of Yugoslavia, covering politics, society, international relations and economics. Focusing on distinctive features of Yugoslavia including worker self-management, the combination of liberalism and communism and the Cold War policy of Non-Alignment, The Legacy of Yugoslavia places Yugoslavia in historical perspective and connects the region's past with its contemporary political situation.

Introduction (Othon Anastasakis, Adam Bennett, David Madden, Adis Merdzanovic)Part I. Politics and Society1. Adis Merdzanovic (St Antony's College, Oxford): Liberalism in Yugoslavia: before and after the disintegration2. Denisa Kostovicova (LSE), Adam Fagan (Queen Mary University, London), and Ivor Sokolic¿ (LSE):Civil society in post-Yugoslav space: The test of discontinuity and democratisation.3. Catherine Baker (Hull University):Music, media and culture one generation after Yugoslavia: do we still need "nostalgia"?Part II: International Affairs4. Ljubica Spaskovska (Exeter University): Transformations of global citizenship in the former Yugoslavia: The legacies of Yugoslav non-aligned multilateralism5. James Ker-Lindsay (LSE):Between a Borderless Yugoslavia and a Europe without Borders: The Legacy of Territorial Disputes in the Western Balkans6. Othon Anastasakis (St Antony's College, Oxford):Parallel trajectories and legacies of the past: Russia and Turkey in the Western BalkansPart III: Economics7. Adam Bennett (St Antony's College, Oxford):Macroeconomic Stability and Enterprise Self-Management in Yugoslavia: An Impossible Marriage8. Milica Uvalic (University of Perugia): What happened to the Yugoslav economic model?9. Jakov Milatovic and Peter Sanfey (European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, EBRD): Are Yugoslav successor states on the path to sustainable market economies?Conclusion (Othon Anastasakis, Adis Merdzanovic, Adam Bennett and David Madden)Index