Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s

Catherine Baker is Lecturer in Twentieth-Century History at the University of Hull, UK.

• Editors' Preface1. Introduction2. Yugoslavia and its Origins3. The Break-Up of the Yugoslav Federation4. From Crisis to War in Slovenia and Croatia5. The War in Bosnia-Herzegovina6. The Kosovo War and its Aftermath7. Peacebuilding, Reconciliation and Reconstruction8. The Past on Trial9. Culture and Language During and After the Wars10. ConclusionTimeline (1980-2000)BibliographyIndex.

The Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s is a well-structured and balanced volume that provides the reader with a critically written “state of the debate” on what The Economist once called the “Yugomess”. Among its biggest strengths and novelties, if compared with other introductory accounts, is the author’s insistence on not only what has been written about particular events, but also how it has been written.