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, hehas 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.

As the successor states enter their fourth decade, it is tempting to dismiss the legacies of the four decades of a single Yugoslavia that preceded them. This welcome volume addresses the continuing connections of the one with the many, from the strengths and weakness of the former Yugoslavia to its continuities and discontinuities in the seven successor states. Drawn from a recent Oxford conference, its editors have assembled nine instructive chapters primarily from regional scholars. They cover a range of relevant subjects that would daunt any single author. The political chapters examine continuing ambiguities in the role of liberal ideology, civil society and a once common popular culture. Chapters on international affairs consider the legacies of non-alignment, territorial disputes and relations with Russia and Turkey. The final chapters move from two critical appraisals of the Yugoslav economic model that debate its recent relevance to the EU's market model and to a third surveying the struggles over its adoption in business practice and public opinion.

• Introduction (Othon Anastasakis, Adam Bennett, David Madden, Adis Merdzanovic)Part I. Politics and Society1. Adis Merdzanovic (St Antony's College, Oxford): Liberalism in Yugoslavia: before and after the disintegration2. 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 Affairs4. Ljubica Spaskovska (Exeter University): Transformations of global citizenship in the former Yugoslavia: The legacies of Yugoslav non-aligned multilateralism5. James Ker-Lindsay (LSE):Between a Borderless Yugoslavia and a Europe without Borders: The Legacy of Territorial Disputes in the Western Balkans6. Othon Anastasakis (St Antony's College, Oxford):Parallel trajectories and legacies of the past: Russia and Turkey in the Western BalkansPart III: Economics7. Adam Bennett (St Antony's College, Oxford):Macroeconomic Stability and Enterprise Self-Management in Yugoslavia: An Impossible Marriage8. 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