The Making and Unmaking of Yugoslavia

  • Jürgen Dinkel

Abstract

Sabrina P. Ramet analyses the history of the "three Yugoslavias": the interwar kingdom (1918–41), socialist Yugoslavia (1945–91), and the Yugoslav state created in 1992, consisting of Serbia and Montenegro. She examines the successes and failures of the state-building process in the three Yugoslavias. Therefore Ramet focuses in particular on the themes of political legitimacy, political development, and nationalism. The basic thesis Ramet pursues is that, in all three Yugoslavias, there was a permanent crisis of legitimacy, rooted in its elites' failure to resolve the dual challenges of state-building and legitimation.

Published
2013-04-15
How to Cite
Dinkel, Jürgen. 2013. “The Making and Unmaking of Yugoslavia”. KULT_online, no. 35 (April). https://doi.org/10.22029/ko.2013.772.
Section
KULT_reviews