Dismembering the State: The Death of Yugoslavia and Why It Matters

This volume challenges numerous assumptions about the disintegration of Yugoslavia. Using an ecological or holistic perspective, the book addresses interwoven questions such as the role of military intervention as coercive diplomacy, the use of chaos as a strategy against America’s and NATO’s technological military predominance, and the influence of post-Cold War European democratic and economic reforms. It considers how a host of factors, from 1991 to 1999, combined to contribute significantly to both the disintegration of the nation-state and to the continued instability of the present states of the former Yugoslavia.