The Legacy of Yugoslavia

Adam Bennett is Deputy Director of the Political Economy of Financial Markets (PEFM) program and an Associate of SEESOX at the European Studies Centre, UK. He also lectures (on a part-time external basis) at Cardiff University. Prior to joining St. Antony’s College, Bennett worked for the International Monetary Fund (IMF), from which he retired in 2011. Adis Merdzanovic is a postdoctoral Junior Research Fellow at South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX) at the European Studies Centre of St Antony’s College, University of Oxford, UK. David Madden is the Chair of the SEESOX Steering Committee and Distinguished Friend of St Antony’s College, University of Oxford, UK. A member of the UK Diplomatic Service for 34 years, he has extensive experience of working in and with countries and places on the brink of break-up, those seriously divided, and those where regional tensions run high. He was successively British High Commissioner in Cyprus, and Ambassador in Athens before retiring in 2004. Othon Anastasakis is the Director of South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX) and Senior Research Fellow at St Antony’s College, UK. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada. He is the Principal Investigator of the SEESOX Greek Diaspora Project.

Introduction (Othon Anastasakis, Adam Bennett, David Madden, Adis Merdzanovic)
Part I. Politics and Society
1. Adis Merdzanovic (St Antony’s College, Oxford): Liberalism in Yugoslavia: before and after the disintegration
2. Denisa Kostovicova (LSE), Adam Fagan (Queen Mary University, London), and Ivor Sokolic´ (LSE):
Civil society in post-Yugoslav space: The test of discontinuity and democratisation.
3. Catherine Baker (Hull University):Music, media and culture one generation after Yugoslavia: do we still need “nostalgia”?
Part II: International Affairs
4. Ljubica Spaskovska (Exeter University): Transformations of global citizenship in the former Yugoslavia: The legacies of Yugoslav non-aligned multilateralism
5. James Ker-Lindsay (LSE):Between a Borderless Yugoslavia and a Europe without Borders: The Legacy of Territorial Disputes in the Western Balkans
6. Othon Anastasakis (St Antony’s College, Oxford):Parallel trajectories and legacies of the past: Russia and Turkey in the Western Balkans
Part III: Economics
7. Adam Bennett (St Antony’s College, Oxford):Macroeconomic Stability and Enterprise Self-Management in Yugoslavia: An Impossible Marriage
8. Milica Uvalic (University of Perugia): What happened to the Yugoslav economic model?
9. Jakov Milatovic and Peter Sanfey (European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, EBRD): Are Yugoslav successor states on the path to sustainable market economies?
Conclusion (Othon Anastasakis, Adis Merdzanovic, Adam Bennett and David Madden)
Index