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vii Preface to the second edition When the first edition of this book appeared in January 2009 we stressed that the findings of our eleven research teams hardly represented the final word on the subject, but merely a first installment in a process that we hoped to continue by incorporating newly uncovered material and responses to constructive criticism . The publication of Suočavanje s jugoslovenskim kontroverzama (Sarajevo: Buybook, 2010) advanced that process by including substantial revisions and data updates in chapters 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 9 that had been made over the ensuing eighteen months. This second American edition goes considerably further. In addition to the changes and updates that first appeared in the BCS edition, this volume incorporates newly uncovered material documenting the Milošević regime’s close direction of military operations in the Bosnian conflict (chapter 4), further evidence of U.S. complicity in the failure to arrest ICTY indictees (chapter 5), the latest tabulations by the International Commission for Missing Persons (ICMP) (chapter 6), and a wholly new twelfth chapter on Montenegro’s role in the Yugoslav conflicts. Needless to say, we could not have advanced this process without the sustained support of the Scholars’ Initiative’s principal donors. We are grateful to Rodger Potocki for inviting us to approach the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) for a substantial grant to publish the BCS edition; his colleague Ivana Howard worked tirelessly to negotiate a contract that ensured the distribution of complimentary copies to libraries in Bosnia, Croatia, and Serbia. The German Marshall Fund’s Balkan Trust for Democracy (BTD) and the U.S. Institute for Peace (USIP) authorized follow-up grants that have sustained the ongoing public outreach in the Yugoslav successor states for the past three years; both were instrumental in funding a two-day workshop that EUROCLIO and the Association of History Teachers and Professors of Bosnia and Herzegovina organized in Sarajevo in September 2010; their support complemented the efforts of Nenad Šebek and Costa Carras to promote collaboration between the Scholars’Initiative and the Center for Democracy and Reconciliation in Southeastern Europe’s Joint History Project. We are no less indebted to Marie-Janine Calic, James Gow, Matjaz Klemenčič, Gale Stokes, Ozren Žunec and their respective research teams for their continuing commitment in the task of updating their chapters for this edition. John Treadway’s singular achievement in establishing the wholly new research viii team for Montenegro is evident in the chapter authored by Kenneth Morrison. Nor can we omit a word of thanks to Mirsad Tokača, who selflessly furnished the latest tabulations prior to the appearance of his Research and Documentation Center’s Bosnian Book of the Dead. Once again we feel compelled to remind the reader that this new edition represents only the latest installment in a process that we expect to continue as new research and documentary evidence surfaces. Whereas it is impossible to anticipate fully what new revelations the immediate future will bring, we are currently following the Hague Tribunal’s investigation of alleged organ harvesting by members of the Kosovo Liberation Army, the appeals of judgment against Croatian Generals Ante Gotovina and Mladen Markac, the trials of Bosnian Serb leaders Radovan Karadžić and Ratko Mladić, as well as the authentication of the latter’s wartime diary. While we await these developments, we will continue to address constructive criticism by continuing to revise and update the findings contained in this edition. And in the process of doing so, we invite scholars who have not participated in this enterprise—and especially those who feel they can improve on the product presented here—to join in this effort. Charles Ingrao Thomas A. Emmert ...

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