Thinking about Yugoslavia : Scholarly Debates about the Yugoslav Breakup and the Wars in Bosnia and Kosovo

Thinking about Yugoslavia offers an ambitious overview of the debates on the causes of the Yugoslav break-up and the conflicts that followed during the 1990s. This unique survey by eminent scholar Sabrina Ramet reviews and analyses more than 130 books on all the key areas of debate.

The Yugoslav break up and conflict have given rise to a considerable literature offering dramatically different interpretations of what happened. But just how do the various interpretations relate to each other? This ambitious new book by Sabrina Ramet, an eminent commentator on recent Balkan politics and history, reviews and analyses more than 130 books about the troubled region and compares their accounts, theories, and interpretations of events. Ramet surveys the major debates which divide the field, alternative accounts of the causes of Yugoslavia's violent collapse, and the scholarly debates concerning humanitarian intervention. Rival accounts are presented side by side for easy comparison. Thinking about Yugoslavia examines books on Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Macedonia, Montenegro, and Kosovo which were published in English, German, Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian, and Italian, thus offering the English-speaking reader a unique insight into the controversies.