Serbia since 1989 politics and society under Milosevic and after

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Serbia as a dysfunctional state -- The center -- Serbia transformed? Political dynamics in the Milos̆ević era and after / Vjeran Pavlaković -- From the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia to the union of Serbia and Montenegro / Reneo Lukić -- An airplane with eighteen pilots: Serbia after Milos̆ević / Obrad Kesić -- The legacy of the war -- Under the holy lime tree: the inculcation of neurotic and psychotic syndromes as a Serbian wartime strategy, 1986-95 / Sabrina P. Ramet -- The impact of the war on Serbia: spoiled appetites and progressive decay / James Gow and Milena Michalski -- Postwar guilt and responsibility in Serbia: the effort to confront it and the effort to avoid it / Eric D. Gordy -- Crime and the economy under Milos̆ević and his successors / Maja Miljković and Marko Attila Hoare -- The trial of Slobodan Milos̆ević / Kari M. Osland -- Culture and values -- The politics of the Serbian Orthodox Church / Sabrina P. Ramet -- Nationalism, motherhood, and the reordering of women's power / Biljana Bijelić -- Peripheries -- Kosovar Albanians between a rock and a hard place / Frances Trix -- Vojvodina since 1988 / Emil Kerenji -- The Yugoslav Roma under Slobodan Milos̆ević and after / Dennis Reinhartz -- Conclusion -- The sirens and the guslar: an afterword / Sabrina P. Ramet.