Hour of Europe : Western powers and the breakup of Yugoslavia

433 Pages·2011·2.629 MB·English

by  Glaurdic, Josip

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Published with assistance from the Louis Stern Memorial Fund.
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7 Copyright © 2011 by Josip Glaurdic´.
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8 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
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Glaurdic´, Josip, 1979–
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The hour of Europe : Western powers and the breakup of Yugoslavia / Josip Glaurdic´.
1 p. cm.
2 Includes bibliographical references and index.
3 ISBN 978-0-300-16629-3 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Yugoslavia—Politics and
4 government—1980–1992. 2. Yugoslavia—History—1980–1992. 3. Yugoslavia—
Foreign relations—1980–1992. 4. Cold War. 5. Europe, Western—Relations—
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Yugoslavia. 6. Yugoslavia—Relations—Europe, Western. 7. Yugoslav War,
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1991–1995—Causes. 8. Yugoslav War, 1991–1995. 9. Europe, Western—Politics and
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government—1989– I. Title.
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DR1309.G55 2011
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Acknowledgments ix
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List of Abbreviations xi 6
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Map of SFR Yugoslavia xiv
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1 Introduction 1 20
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2 Taming the Balkan Gorbachev, 1987–1989 11 2
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3 Yugoslavia’s Cold War, 1988–1989 46
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4 Challenges of Democracy, 1990 75 5
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5 To the Brink and Back, October 1990–April 1991 119
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6 Descent to Dissolution, March–June 1991 148
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7 Summer of Violence and Divisions, June–September 1991 173 30
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This book was written in five great cities in five different countries. Leaving
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such a long trail behind, I have accrued a lot of debts. These few lines of
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acknowledgment will do little to express just how grateful I am to all who helped
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me along the way. Naturally, it goes without saying that all mistakes—and there
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are surely many—are solely my own.
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First and foremost, my sincerest thanks go to my dissertation advisors, David
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Cameron, Ivo Banac, and Jolyon Howorth. Without their patience, understand-
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ing, and faith in my abilities, this project would never have seen the light of day.
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In retrospect, my scholarly pursuits seem to me a sort of mix of their interests
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and academic personalities. This is not only a testament to how lucky I have
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been to have them as advisors, but also to how much respect and admiration I
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have for them as researchers, teachers, and mentors. Before they had an oppor-
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tunity to influence what kind of a political scientist I would turn into, however,
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someone else made sure I became one in the first place. Without Kathleen
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Montgomery, who was my undergraduate advisor at Illinois Wesleyan University,
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I never would have found my calling. For that I owe her eternal gratitude.
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As for those five great cities in five different countries—they make for a long
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list of people and institutions to whom I owe my gratitude. In New Haven and
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the United States, I must thank Yale University’s Macmillan Center for
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International and Area Studies, its European Union Studies Program, the Fox
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International Fellowship, and the Open Society Institute for their support. My
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stay in Vienna at the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen would have
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been impossible without the help of the Robert Bosch Stiftung. In Split, Croatia,
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I must thank the staffs of the libraries of the University of Split and its Department
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of Economics. In Cambridge I have been fortunate to experience the life of
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both a graduate student and a college fellow. Both of these experiences have
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