Twenty Years Later: Was Ethnic War Just a Myth?
Twenty Years Later: Was Ethnic War Just a Myth?

Summary/Abstract: Abstract. While public opinion has often perceived the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s as ethnic wars, the majority of academic circles in the West has opposed this view. Advocating a more nuanced approach to the ethnic dimensions of the Yugoslav wars, the author reexamines three major and interrelated issues: the centrality of the state as a stakeholder and as an actor, the evolution of ethno-nationalist mobilization, and the crisis of komšiluk understood as a system of interethnic coexistence.

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