Integrative Problems: Interwar Yugoslavia and the Major National Ideologies

Integrative Problems: Interwar Yugoslavia and the Major National Ideologies
One prevalent explanation for the eventual demise of the Yugoslav state is that it never succeeded in constituting itself as a political community, as a nation-state whose identity conceptually and structurally transcended the various nations that it comprised. While the special function and purpose of the Yugoslav [...]

Serbian Nationalism and the Origins of the Yugoslav Crisis

The Role of Serbian Ressentiment
Thus far, this study has attempted to explain the fragility of the Yugoslav state in terms of both the dominant national ideologies that shook its foundations from its very creation and the institutional frameworks within which national conflicts evolved.
Tito’s principal strategy in maintaining national peace sought to curb the power of [...]