For anyone who wants to understand how Yugoslavia a country that once punched above its weight unravelled with such disastrous results, this book provides a clear and detailed analysis.

The South Slav Journal

Yet another addition to the bookcases of volumes on the latest Balkan wars, you ask? But this collection of essays assembled by Raju G.C. Thomas, and complemented by his own, is something different. Drawing on his personal background, Thomas ventures, credibly, that what is described in Yugoslavia Unraveled could have happened to his native India, too, if it had been a small country and lacked nuclear weapons. He and the other authors go on to explore the tragedies of self-determination gone amok, of 'morality as a product of power' on the part of big interventionist countries, of the destructive role that 'advocacy scholarship' and the new 'government-media-academia-complex' played in tearing Yugoslavia apart during the 1990s. In short, a valuable work.

David Binder, New York Times

Yugoslavia Unraveled should be required reading for the enthusiasts of humanitarian U.S. interventionism and for the policy-makers who have prematurely declared the Balkan tragedy a 'success story.' The contributors to this compendium offer solid evidence that highlights the inherent dangers of using ethnic stereotyping as a substitute for the rule of law.

Nikolaos A. Stavrou, Editor of Mediterranean Quarterly

This volume is a necessary corrective to the way the history of the breakup of Yugoslavia has been constructed for the public. Never has it been so important to counter the big lie of 'humanitarian intervention' that was undertaken by noble Western nations to 'save' the Balkans. This book collects incisive works by top scholars in a range of disciplines, delivering a clear and compelling analysis uncommon for edited collections.

Robert Jensen, Director of the Senior Fellows Honors Program of the College of Communication, University of Texas at Austin

This book makes two contributions one theoretical and one historical. The human tragedies of the last decade?s civil wars precipitated an emerging view among many statesmen, international lawyers, human rights activists, and analysts that the sovereigntyprinciple should be eroded. States that are hard on their people should lose their customary international legal right to be free from foreign intervention. Instead, outside powers can and should intervene to put things right when governments fighting fortheir survival fail to conform to others? principles and norms. This book traces how the attack on sovereignty emerged during Yugoslavia?s dissolution, and how it contributed to that dissolution. It directs attention to the negative consequences that didarise, and will arise, once the sovereignty principle is compromised. Yugoslavia?s dissolution produced a body of historical, autobiographical, and analytic publications much of it impressive, but much of which also succumbed to the temptation of attributing evil outcomes to evil men mostly evil Serbian men, and good outcomes to good men and women, mostly U.S. and western European. This book marks the beginning of a new approach to the understanding of these important and tragic events, a more historica

Barry Posen, M.I.T.

Yugoslavia Unraveled presents a comprehensive account of a subject many wish to forget, with all its failures and successes, heroes and villains. It deserves a wide readership. No student or scholar in political science should be without it

Damjan de Krnjevic-Miskovic, The National Interest