Volume 42, Number 5 · March 23, 1995
Yugoslavia: The Great Fall
By Misha Glenny
BOOKS REVIEWED IN THIS ARTICLE
Broken Bonds: Yugoslavia's Disintegration and Balkan Politics in Transition, second edition
by Lenard J. Cohen
Westview Press, 386 pp., $19.95 (paper)
The Yugoslav Drama
by Mihailo Crnobrnja
McGill-Queen's University Press, 281 pp., $42.95; $15.95 (paper)
Izmedju Slave i Anateme: Politicka Biografia Slobodana Milosevica (Between Glory and Anathema: A Political Biography of Slobodan Milosevic)
by Slavoljub Djukic
Belgrade: Filip Visnic, 288 pp., 10 Dinars
Bosnia and Hercegovina: A Tradition Betrayed
by Robert J. Donia, by John V.A. Fine Jr., with maps by John C. Hamer
Columbia University Press, 318 pp., $24.95
Joegoslavische Kroniek: Juli 1991–Augustus 1992
by Henry Wijnaendts
Amsterdam: Rap, 206 pp., Dfl47.50 (paper)
Slaughterhouse: Bosnia and the Failure of the West
by David Rieff
Simon and Schuster, 240 pp., $22.00
The Volatile Powder Keg: Balkan Security After the Cold War
edited by F. Stephen Larrabee
American University Press/A Rand Study, 320 pp., $61.00; $26.50 (paper)
On June 21, 1991, Secretary of State James Baker spent a busy day in Belgrade talking to the presidents of Yugo-slavia's six constituent republics, the federal prime minister, Ante Markovic, and the leaders of the Kosovo Albanians. He told the assembled group of malcontents, thugs, and unfortunates that the United States was committed to the continued existence of a unified Yugoslav federation. In doing so, he echoed the position outlined by Jacques Delors, then president of the European Commission, and Jacques Santer, Delors's eventual successor, when they had visited Belgrade a little earlier. Unfortunately, Baker and Delors failed to spot one central fact—the patient was about to die. On June 25, three days after Baker's visit, the parliaments in Ljubljana and Zagreb promulgated the independence of Slovenia and Croatia. Within hours, the Slovene weasel, the Croat marten, and the Serbian jackal were scratching one another's eyes out as they attempted to chew off the best bits of the carcass.
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