Yugoslavia (former)

29/10/2007
Determinants of Social Attitudes in the Western Balkans

Three CSCW researchers in the Values and Violence working group - Al Simkus, Kristen Ringdal and Ola Listhaug - have published in a special issue of International Journal of Sociology (Vol. 37, No. 3, Fall 2007).

05/08/2006
The Three Yugoslavias: State-Building and Legitimation, 1918-2005

The War of Yugoslav Succession of 1991-95 convinced many that interethnic violence was endemic to politics in Yugoslavia and that the meltdown had occured because of ancient hatreds.

Sabrina P. Ramet's new book The Three Yugoslavias demonstrates that, on the contrary, the instability of the three twentieth century Yugoslav states can be attributed to the failure of succeeding governments to establish the rule of law and political legitimacy.

10/10/2005
New book by Sabrina Ramet

The Yugoslav breakup and conflict have given rise to a considerable literature offering dramatically different interpretations of what happened. This ambitious book by Sabrina Ramet, an eminent commentator on recent Balkan politics and history, reviews and analyses more than 130 books about the troubled region and compares their accounts, theories, and interpretations of events.