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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814680503321

Autore

Glaurdić Josip <1979->

Titolo

The hour of Europe : Western powers and the breakup of Yugoslavia / / Josip Glaurdić

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven : , : Yale University Press, , 2011

©2011

ISBN

1-283-34471-8

9786613344717

0-300-16645-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 418 pages) : maps

Disciplina

949.703

Soggetti

Cold War

Yugoslav War, 1991-1995 - Causes

Yugoslav War, 1991-1995

Yugoslavia Politics and government 1980-1992

Yugoslavia History 1980-1992

Yugoslavia Foreign relations 1980-1992

Europe, Western Relations Yugoslavia

Yugoslavia Relations Europe, Western

Europe, Western Politics and government 1989-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-405) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Map of SFR Yugoslavia -- Introduction -- Taming the Balkan Gorbachev, 1987-1989 -- Yugoslavia's Cold War, 1988-1989 -- Challenges of democracy, 1990 -- To the brink and back, October 1990-April 1991 -- Descent to dissolution, March-June 1991 -- Summer of violence and divisions, June-September 1991 -- Diplomacy on the edge, September-November 1991 -- The end and the beginning, November 1991-April 1992 -- Conclusions.

Sommario/riassunto

By looking through the prism of the West's involvement in the breakup of Yugoslavia, this book presents a new examination of the end of the Cold War in Europe. Incorporating declassified documents from the CIA, the administration of George H.W. Bush, and the British Foreign Office;



evidence generated by The Hague Tribunal; and more than forty personal interviews with former diplomats and policy makers, Glaurdić exposes how the realist policies of the Western powers failed to prop up Yugoslavia's continuing existence as intended, and instead encouraged the Yugoslav Army and the Serbian regime of Slobodan Milošević to pursue violent means.The book also sheds light on the dramatic clash of opinions within the Western alliance regarding how to respond to the crisis. Glaurdić traces the origins of this clash in the Western powers' different preferences regarding the roles of Germany, Eastern Europe, and foreign and security policy in the future of European integration. With subtlety and acute insight, The Hour of Europe provides a fresh understanding of events that continue to influence the shape of the post-Cold War Balkans and the whole of Europe.