Serbia Since 1989

Sabrina P. Ramet is professor of political science at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim; a senior associate of the Peace Research Institute, Oslo; and a research associate at the Science and Research Center of the Republic of Slovenia, Koper. She is the author of many books including Balkan Babel and Social Currents in Eastern Europe. Vjeran Pavlakovic is a doctoral candidate in history at the University of Washington and former Fulbright fellow at the University of Zagreb in Croatia. He is a coauthor of Sovereign Law vs. Sovereign Nation: The Cases of Kosovo and Montenegro.

Preface1. Introduction: Serbia as a Dysfunctional State / Vjeran PavlakovicPart I. The Center2. Serbia Transformed? Political Dynamics in the Milosevic Era and After / Vjeran Pavlakovic3. From the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia to the Union of Serbia and Montenegro / Reneo Lukic4. An Airplane with Eighteen Pilots: Serbia after Milosevic / Obrad KesicPart II. The Legacy of the War5. Under the Holy Lime Tree: The Inculcation of Neurotic and Psychotic Syndromes as a Serbian Wartime Strategy, 1986-95 / Sabrina P. Ramet6. The Impact of the War on Serbia: Spoiled Appetites and Progressive Decay / James Gow and Milena Michalski7. Postwar Guilt and Responsibility in Serbia: The Effort to Confront It and the Effort to Avoid It / Eric D. Gordy8. Crime and the Economy under Milosevic and His Successors / Maja Miljkovic and Marko Attila Hoare9. The Trial of Slobodan Milosevic / Kari M. OslandPart III. Culture and Values10. The Politics of the Serbian Orthodox Church / Sabrina P. Ramet11. Nationalism, Motherhood, and the Reordering of Women's Power / Biljana BijelicPart IV. Peripheries12. Kosovar Albanians between a Rock and a Hard Place / Frances Trix13. Vojvodina since 1988 / Emil Kerenji14. The Yugoslav Roma under Slobodan Milosevic and After / Dennis ReinhartzPart V. Conclusion15. The Sirens and the Guslar: An Afterword / Sabrina P. RametGlossaryContributorsIndex