Research Catalog

Title

Serpent in the bosom : the rise and fall of Slobodan Milošević / Lenard J. Cohen.

Author

Cohen, Lenard J.

Publication

Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, ©2001.

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Details

Description

xviii, 438 p., [32] p. of plates : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

An insightful analysis of Serb leader Slobodan Milosevic's rise to power focuses on the period between 1987 and 1999, from the disintegration of Yugoslavia to the war in Kosovo.

Subjects

• Yugoslavia
• 1980-2003
• Milošević, Slobodan (Politiker)
• Milošević, Slobodan, 1941-2006
• Milošević, Slobodan 1941-2006
• Yugoslavia > Politics and government > 1992-2003
• Yugoslavia > Politics and government > 1980-1992
• Biographies, memoirs and correspondance
• Desintegratie
• Etnische conflicten
• Autoritarisme
• Politics and government
• 15.70 history of Europe
• Authoritarianism > Yugoslavia

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

The Kosovo Factor and the Rise of a Serb 'Hero' -- Nationalism and Political Power in Kosovo: From the Sultanate to Slobodan Milosevic (1912-1986) -- The Rise of Slobodan Milosevic -- Power and the Manipulation of Tradition -- Politics in a 'Soft Dictatorship': The Methodology and Mechanisms of Control -- Governing a Garrison State: The Early '90s -- Twilight of the Milosevic Regime -- The Politics of Hope and Despair: 1995-1998 -- 'War Against the Whole World': Serbian Nationalism vs. NATO -- Postwar Politics in Yugoslavia: Kosovo and Serbia-Montenegro -- Political Transition in a Decomposing Dictatorship: The Future of Serbia and Concluding Reflections -- Yugoslavia's Current and Future Political Evolution -- Unraveling the Balkan Conundrum: The History--Policy Nexus -- Dictatorship Defeated: The Kostunica Phenomenon and the Meltdown of the Milosevic Regime.

ISBN

• 0813329027
• 9780813329024

LCCN

• 00049965
• 9780813329024

OCLC

• ocm45115826
• 45115826
• SCSB-1200321

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library