From: mwbookrevw@aol.com (MWBOOKREVW)
Newsgroups: alt.books.reviews
Subject: Midwest Book Review: Yugoslavia, the Former and Future
Date: 17 Aug 1995 10:26:02 -0400

Yugoslavia, the Former and Future
Payam Akhavan & Robert Howse, eds.
The Brookings Institution
1775 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20036
0-8157-0253-1   $12.95 (pb)
0-8157-0254-X  $32.95 (hc)

Yugoslavia, the Former and Future contains a unique collection of essays
by scholars from the former Yugoslavia, exploring the events that led to
the devastating disintegration of their homelands. The scholars, from the
ethnic groups in conflict, offer insightful, multicultural perspectives.
The essays lead readers to reconsider the assumptions behind the
predominant western views of the post-cold war order and the place ethnic
conflict and nationalism. Most of the authors point to causes of the
federal breakup and the war that are specific to the social, political,
and economic situation of Yugoslavia after Tito. These causes, largely
ignored in western analyses, question the view that conflicting or
overlapping claims of ethnic groups must result in nationalism and
conflict. Vital reading for a truer understanding of today's tragic
headlines from the balkans.