Serbia Since 1989: Politics and Society under Milosevic and After

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CONTENTS PREFACE ix 1 Introduction: Serbia as a Dysfunctional State 3 VJERAN PAVLAKOVI– PART I. THE CENTER 2 Serbia Transformed? Political Dynamics in the Milopevi_ Era and After 13 VJERAN PAVLAKOVI– 3 From the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia to the Union of Serbia and Montenegro 55 RENEO LUKI– 4 An Airplane with Eighteen Pilots: Serbia after Milopevi_ 95 OBRAD KESI– PART II. THE LEGACY OF THE WAR 5 Under the Holy Lime Tree: The Inculcation of Neurotic and Psychotic Syndromes as a Serbian Wartime Strategy, 1986–95 125 SABRINA P. RAMET 6 The Impact of the War on Serbia: Spoiled Appetites and Progressive Decay 143 JAMES GOW AND MILENA MICHALSKI 7 Postwar Guilt and Responsibility in Serbia: The Eªort to Confront It and the Eªort to Avoid It 166 ERIC D. GORDY 8 Crime and the Economy under Milopevi_ and His Successors 192 MAJA MILJKOVI– AND MARKO ATTILA HOARE 9 The Trial of Slobodan Milopevi_ 227 KARI M. OSLAND PART III. CULTURE AND VALUES 10 The Politics of the Serbian Orthodox Church 255 SABRINA P. RAMET 11 Nationalism, Motherhood, and the Reordering of Women’s Power 286 BILJANA BIJELI– PART IV. PERIPHERIES 12 Kosovar Albanians between a Rock and a Hard Place 309 FRANCES TRIX 13 Vojvodina since 1988 350 EMIL KERENJI 14 The Yugoslav Roma under Slobodan Milopevi_ and After 381 DENNIS REINHARTZ PART V. CONCLUSION 15 The Sirens and the Guslar: An Afterword 395 SABRINA P. RAMET 16 Epilogue: Serbia after the Death of Milopevi_ 414 JAMES B. LYONS GLOSSARY 421 CONTRIBUTORS 425 INDEX 431 ...