The Death of YugoslaviaPenguin, 1996 - 400 pages This is a survey of the pressures and events that contributed to the break-up of former Yugoslavia - considered from a historical rather than a political or sociological point of view. The book accompanies a six-part series on BBC2, screened in 1995. This edition has one extra chapter that takes the narrative up to the Dayton Accord. |
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Page 73
... hand - in - hand with democracy , but in this climate , where perceived national interests dominated individual ones , it would have guaranteed , for example , that the numerically - superior Serbs could always outvote the Slovenes ...
... hand - in - hand with democracy , but in this climate , where perceived national interests dominated individual ones , it would have guaranteed , for example , that the numerically - superior Serbs could always outvote the Slovenes ...
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... hands . It connected Bosnia with the rest of the world , " said Armin Pohara , a journalist who established the Brod ... hand - grenades , which was funny . We got a couple of thousand bullets . For us it was a lot . The war started in ...
... hands . It connected Bosnia with the rest of the world , " said Armin Pohara , a journalist who established the Brod ... hand - grenades , which was funny . We got a couple of thousand bullets . For us it was a lot . The war started in ...
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... hands of the Serb forces ; most had been through the detention camps . In Travnik they formed the Seventeenth ... hand - wringing declarations of sym- pathy from abroad . Muslims , they argued , had learned that patient negotia ...
... hands of the Serb forces ; most had been through the detention camps . In Travnik they formed the Seventeenth ... hand - wringing declarations of sym- pathy from abroad . Muslims , they argued , had learned that patient negotia ...
Contents
LAYING THE CHARGE | 31 |
No One Should Dare to Beat You 377 | 37 |
No Way Back | 48 |
Copyright | |
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