Bosnia and Herzegovina: A Polity on the Brink

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This book traces the development of the Bosnian territory over the last hundred years. It begins with Bosnia's existence as an autonomous entity within the Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian Empires at the beginning of the century, take you though its Yugoslav Kingdom/Communist state manifestations and culminates with Bosnia's emergence as a nation-state at the end of the century.


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This volume assesses current conditions in Bosnia, as well as the prospects for stability in a country torn between nationalistic elites on the one hand and the desires of important regional actors for control of Bosnia on the other, with a fractious international community overseeing the matter. Friedman controversially denies that the wars of Yugoslavia's dissolution are a necessary product of ancient ethnic hatreds, contending that Bosnia and Herzegovina was once the quintessential multiethnic, multireligious community and could be again.


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