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The Disintegration of Yugoslavia: The Role of Political Elites*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Vladimir Goati
Vladimir Goati*
Affiliation:
Institute of Social Sciences, University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia
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Extract

The outbreak of civil war and the disintegration of the “second Yugoslavia” was caused by many factors; however the impact of the debilitating conflict within the Yugoslav political elite, into which the ordinary citizens also were “drawn,” was crucial. This article will seek to support this hypothesis.

Type
Part II: The Politics of Disintegration
Information
Nationalities Papers , Volume 25 , Issue 3: The Disintegration of Yugoslavia: Inevitable or Avoidable? , September 1997 , pp. 455 - 467
Copyright
Copyright © 1997 Association for the Study of Nationalities 

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