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12 - Serbia and Montenegro since 1989

from Part Four - Yugoslav Successor States

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 September 2019

By
Sabrina P. Ramet
Edited by
Sabrina P. Ramet  and
Christine M. Hassenstab
Sabrina P. Ramet
Affiliation:
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim
Christine M. Hassenstab
Affiliation:
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim
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Summary

The transition of Serbia and Montenegro may be said to have begun in 1987, when Slobodan Miloševic, a banker-turned-politician, seized power in Serbia. Miloševic subsequently put his own people in charge in Montenegro. Although there were other players, Miloševic was the key player in igniting war in Croatia (1991–1995) and Bosnia-Herzegovina (1992–1995), supplying local Serb insurgents with weapons and training. By 1992, Serbia (including Kosovo) and Montenegro were united in a common state. But after the war, both Montenegro and Kosovo sought independence. Montenegro achieved independence in 2006, while Kosovo obtained its independence in 2008. Serbia continues to wrestle with history, with some Serbs refusing to acknowledge that, as a collaborator with Adolf Hitler, Serbia’s leader during World War Two, Milan Nedic, was complicit in war crimes. Both states wrestle with unemployment, while the European Values Study for 2008 found that Serbs were well below the European average for confidence in their parliament.

Keywords

nationalismwarcorruptionpovertymediasecularism
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Central and Southeast European Politics since 1989 , pp. 309 - 341
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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Further Reading

Bieber, Florian (ed.). Montenegro in Transition: Problems of identity and statehood (Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 2003).Google Scholar
Bieber, Florian, Galijaš, Armina, and Archer, Rory (eds.). Debating the End of Yugoslavia (Farnham: Ashgate, 2014).Google Scholar
Glaurdić, Josip. The Hour of Europe: Western powers and the breakup of Yugoslavia (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2011).Google Scholar
Judah, Tim. The Serbs: History, myth and the destruction of Yugoslavia, 3rd edn. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2009).Google Scholar
Le Bor, Adam. Milošević: A biography (Polmont, Stirlingshire: Bloomsbury, 2002).Google Scholar
Listhaug, Ola, Ramet, Sabrina P., and Dulić, Dragana (eds.). Civic and Uncivic Values in Serbia: The post-Milošević era (Budapest and New York: Central European University Press, 2011).Google Scholar
Ramet, Sabrina P. The Three Yugoslavias: State-building and legitimation, 1918–2005 (Washington, DC and Bloomington, IN: Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Indiana University Press, 2006).Google Scholar
Ramet, Sabrina P., Hassenstab, Christine M., and Listhaug, Ola (ed.). Building Democracy in the Yugoslav Successor States: Accomplishments, setbacks, and challenges since 1990 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017).Google Scholar
Ramet, Sabrina P. and Pavlaković, Vjeran (eds.). Serbia since 1989: Politics and society under Milošević and after (Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 2005).Google Scholar
Sell, Louis. Slobodan Milošević and the destruction of Yugoslavia (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002).Google Scholar
Spoerri, Marlene. Engineering Revolution: The paradox of democracy promotion in Serbia (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Živković, Marko. Serbian Dreambook: National imaginary in the time of Milošević (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2011).Google Scholar

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