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Many attempts have been made to explain the conflicts that tore apart the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s. Serbia and the Serbs1 have been the centre of attention here, given the role of Belgrade in sparking off four conflicts in succession — with Slovenia (1991), with Croatia (1991–5), with the Croats and Muslims of Bosnia-Hercegovina (1992–5), and with the Kosovo Albanians (1998–9).2 No explanation necessarily covers all four situations, and later we shall be looking in detail at each conflict, but first we shall present a few general, overarching theories.
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Fowkes, B. (2002). The 1990s in Central and Eastern Europe. In: Ethnicity and Ethnic Conflict in the Post-Communist World. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403914309_5
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