Yugoslavia - Dismantled And Plundered

After 1991, numerous explanations of Yugoslavia s
violent dissolution appeared. Most named nationalism
as the driving force fueling the Yugoslav inferno.
However, countless events from the 1991-1995 period
offer alternative point of view. While acknowledging
the complexity of Yugoslavia s demise, this book
shows that nationalism was used above all as a cover
under which a thorough criminalization of the
post-Yugoslav states was hidden. To successfully
dismantle and plunder Yugoslavia, the criminal
partnership (political class, security sector and
organized crime) exploited the social-economic
collapse, the power of mass media and the fatal
attraction of historic myths to reconstruct the
national identities of the Yugoslav nations. This
book should be of interest to all people with
professional or personal interest in the former
Yugoslavia and especially to those among them who
still search for a rational explanation of
Yugoslavia s irrational collapse.

Autorentext
BA in Southeast European Studies, American University in Bulgaria, MA in Nationalism Studies, Central European University, Hungary. Researcher and Project Coordinator at the International Center for Minority Studies and Intercultural Relations, Bulgaria. Co-editor of Forced Ethnic Migrations on the Balkans (Sofia: IMIR, 2006).

Klappentext
After 1991, numerous explanations of Yugoslavia's violent dissolution appeared. Most named nationalism as the driving force fueling the Yugoslav inferno. However, countless events from the 1991-1995 period offer alternative point of view. While acknowledging the complexity of Yugoslavia's demise, this book shows that nationalism was used above all as a cover under which a thorough criminalization of the post-Yugoslav states was hidden. To successfully dismantle and plunder Yugoslavia, the criminal partnership (political class, security sector and organized crime) exploited the social-economic collapse, the power of mass media and the fatal attraction of historic myths to reconstruct the national identities of the Yugoslav nations. This book should be of interest to all people with professional or personal interest in the former Yugoslavia and especially to those among them who still search for a rational explanation of Yugoslavia's irrational collapse.