Milošević dominates discussions of both socialist Yugoslavia's last years and the wars of 1991–5 and 1998–9. As already noted, Milošević has typically been viewed as the prime mover in developments during these years, though local propaganda has painted him variously as saviour or demon. Milošević continues to absorb scholarly attention in a way that neither Tudjman nor Izetbegović nor Karadžić can rival. At least five studies of the Milošević era in Serbia, 1987–2000, have been published in English to date. The new studies by Cohen, LeBor, and Sell join earlier studies by Dusko Doder and Louise Branson, and Slavoljub Djukić, in endeavouring to trace Milošević's rise and fall and to answer some basic questions about his impact on socialist Yugoslavia and on the rump Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (created in April 1992 with Serbia and Montenegro as constituent republics). Like the Doder/Branson book, the volume by Adam LeBor is unmistakably aimed, in the first place, at reaching a broader, educated public, while the volumes by Cohen and Sell are aimed at the scholarly community. Jack Snyder's monograph about the relationship between democratization and the eruption of nationalist violence discusses a wide array of cases, ranging from England to Germany to Japan to the Caucasus to the developing world. But insofar as it includes a discussion of the breakup of Yugoslavia and the war which followed, and offers its own analysis of what went wrong, Snyder's book may profitably be discussed in this context.