Vladimir Petrović, BECOMING INEVITABLE: YUGOSLAV DESCENT TO WAR REVISITED

DOI 10.29362/2589.pet.215-242

This contribution aims to revisit key events of the disastrous collapse of Yugoslavia, in an attempt to outline the main stages of this process and identify its points of no return. To that end, it considers the dissolution of the country and the emergence of the armed conflict separately, posits that those separate but interlinked processes were not unavoidable, and identifies the structural elements and key personalities which gradually turned both processes from barely imaginable to almost inevitable.