Out of Place? Making Sense of the Mismatch between the Post-Cold War Transition and the Yugoslav State Crisis

Abstract

Throughout 1990, an attempt at federal transition in Yugoslavia was intended to keep up with global and regional transformations based on the establishment of liberal democracies and the geographical expansion of US influence and neoliberalism in Central and Eastern Europe. Paradoxically, republican and interrepublican developments in Yugoslavia, which deepened the country’s crisis and halted the transition process, were adapted in a more effective way to the new international order,...