Serbia
(see also Serbia: Kosovo, Yugoslavia, Croatia, Macedonia & Bosnia-Herzegovina)
CIA World Factbook. Includes map.
UN Development Program, Human Development Indicators
World Guide (Montevideo)
Depleted uranium & other consequences of NATO bombing in Yugoslavia.
On the Web: Specialized Sites
Coalition for International Justice.
Institute for War & Peace Reporting.
International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.
In the Library: Articles
Borden, Anthony. "Milosevic at the bar," Nation (4/1/02):6-7.
Doder, Dusko. "How we made the Balkans," Nation (6/12/00):31-38. Review essay on Glenny, The Balkans.
__________. "Balkans breakdown," Nation (4/30/01):6-7.
Hayden, Robert M. "Imagined communities and real victims: Self-determination & ethnic cleansing in Yugoslavia," American Ethnologist 23,4 (1996):783-802.
Herman, Edward S. & David Peterson. "The dismantling of Yugoslavia: a study in inhumanitarian -- & a Western liberal-left intellectual & moral collapse," special issue of Monthly Review 59,5 (10/07):1-62.
Hitchens, Christopher. "Belgrade degraded," Nation (5/17/99):8.
Johnstone, Diana. "Privatizing politics in Serbia," Nation (3/24/97):20-24.
__________. "Selective justice in The Hague," Nation (9/22/97):16-21.
Judah, Tim. "The fog of justice," NY Review (1/15/04):23-25. Milosevic trial as seen from ex-Yugoslavia.
Lesser, Guy. "War crime & punishment," Harper's (1/04):37-52. On Milosevic trial in The Hague.
Mandebaum, Michael. "A perfect failure: NATO’s war against Yugoslavia," Foreign Affairs (sep-oct 1999)
Meron, Theodor. "The case for war crimes trials in Yugoslavia," Foreign Affairs 72 (1993):122-35.
Mojzes, Paul. "The impact of the Eastern European churches upon their own societies," in R. Rubinstein (ed.) Spirit Matters (NY, 1987), pp. 258-79.
Scahill, Jeremy. "Milosevic is history," In These Times (11/13/00):4-5.
Schaeffer-Duffy, Claire. "Reporting in post-war Balkans," National Catholic Reporter (2/4/00):10-11.
Sidaway, J.D. "Iraq/Yugoslavia: banal geopolitics," Antipode 33,4 (9/01):601-9.
Vejvoda, Ivan. "Not our war," New Internationalist (6/94). Internal opposition to nationalist irredentism.
Whitmore, Brian. "Letter from Belgrade," Nation (5/3/03):20-23. On assassanation of Zoran Djindjic & its consequences.
Zajovic, Stasa. "Birth, nationalism & war," Dossier 14/15 (1995).
In the Library: Non-Fiction Books
Bujosevic, Dragan & Ivan Radovanovic. The Fall of Milosevic: The October 5th Revolution (NY: Palgrave, 2002).
Carmichael, Cathie. Ethnic Cleansing in the Balkans: Nationalism & the Destruction of Tradition (NY: Routledge, 2002).
Clark, Ramsey et al. NATO in the Balkans: Voices of Opposition (NY: International Action Center, 1999).
Collin, Matthew. Guerrilla Radio: Rock 'n' Roll Radio & Serbia's Underground Resistance (NY: Thunder's Mouth, 2002).
Denitch, Bogdan. Ethnic Nationalism. The Tragic Death of Yugoslavia (Minneapolis, 1994).
Doder, Dusko with Louise Branson. Milosevic: Portrait of a Tyrant (NY: Free Press, 2000).
Gallagher, Tom. Outcast Europe: The Balkans, 1789-1989, from the Ottomans to Milosevic (NY: Routledge, 2001).
Glenny, Mischa. The Balkans: Nationalism, War & the Great Powers, 1804-1999 (NY: Viking, 2000). Attributes troubles of the region primarily to foreign intervention since the late 19th c.
Gordy, Eric D. The Culture of Power in Serbia: Nationalism & the Destruction of Alternatives (University Park: Pennsylvania State U., 1999).
Hawkesworth, Celia. Voices in the Shadows: Women & Verbal Art in Serbia & Bosnia (NY: Central European U, 2000).
Judah, Tim. The Serbs: History, Myth, & the Destruction of Yugoslavia (2nd ed.; New Haven: Yale, 2000).
Lees, Michael. The Rape of Serbia: The British Role in Tito's Grab for
Power, 1943-1944 (San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1990).
Lilly, Carol S. Power & Persuasion. Ideology & Rhetoric in Communist
Yugoslavia, 1944-1953 (Boulder, 2000).
Mojzes, Paul. Yugslavian Inferno. Ethnoreligious Warfare in the Balkans (NY, 1994).
Pridham, Geoffrey & Tom Gallagher (eds.) Experimenting with Democracy: Regime Change in the Balkans (NY: Routledge, 2000).
Sell, Louis. Slobodan Milosevic & the Destruction of Yugoslavia (Durham NC: Duke, 2002).
Shaw, Martin. The New Western Way of War: Risk-Transfer War & its Crisis in Iraq (London: Polity, 2005). New way of war, transfering risk to civilians as "collateral damage, is intrinsically counterproductive.
Silber, Laura & Alan Little. Yugoslavia: Death of a Nation (NY, 1995).
In the Library: Fiction
Andric, Ivo. The Bridge on the Drina (London, 1959). Historical background on Christian-Muslim conflict in Bosnia.
Poderegin, Milka Bajic. The Dawning: A Novel [1987] (trans. Nadja Poderegin; NY: Interlink, 1995). Women of Serbian community on confines of Bosnia & Herzegovina emerge from five centuries of Ottoman rule during World War I.
Film & Video
"Bringing Down a Dictator" (2002), dir. Steve York. From PBS. Otpor, the Serbian opposition movement to Milosevic
"Twilight Time" dir. Goran Paskaljevic, 102m.
"Underground" [1995], dir. Emir Kusturica, 194m. In video stores. Surrealist satire of Yugoslav (Serbian) history from World War II to the Balkan War.
"The Yellow Wasps: Anatomy of a War Crime" [1995], dir. Ilan Ziv & Rory O'Conner, 69m. From Teocally Entertainment. Documentary on Serbian irregulars who crossed Drina to initiate "ethnic cleansing" in Bosnia in 1992.